Movies like Watermelon Man
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Watermelon Man (1970)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white man, taunted and harassed.
Style:
surreal, humorous, disturbing, biting, funny, light, enigmatic, sweet, bad ending, political ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, racism, suspense, satire, culture clash, african american, transformation, racial issues, nude, catastrophe, race, gangsters, business, twists and turns, distopia, artist, art, hotel, hip hop, justice, lone hero, fantasy world, brutality, corruption, runaway ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
africa, new jersey, england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, melancholic, weird and talky films with plots about mentor, catastrophe, adaptation, runaway, culture clash, dialogue and brutality mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Watermelon Man: Carbon Copy (1981), All the Rage (1999), Girl 6 (1996), Gray's Anatomy (1996), Heart Condition (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
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Plot:
farce, illegitimate son, justice, lawyer, chase, catastrophe, brutality, adaptation, fight scenes, life & death, stereotypes, shopping ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style:
sexy, talky, surreal, melancholic, humorous ...
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Time:
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Place:
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86%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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culture clash, macabre, life & death, runaway, imagination, creativity, suspense, distopia, redemption, betrayal, art, melancholy ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bigoted policeman is given the heart of a slain black defense lawyer,who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him
Style:
humorous, sexy, romantic, melancholic, satirical ...
Plot:
ghost, lawyer, law enforcement, supernatural, afterlife, racism, fight scenes, fantasy world, redemption, runaway, suspense, transformation ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, talky, light, artsy ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Time:
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69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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67%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On Christmas eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Style:
enigmatic, atmospheric, surreal, humorous, sexy ...
Plot:
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66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Henderson Dores (Daniel Day Lewis), a New York based art dealer from England, travels to Georgia to persuade patriarch, Harry Dean Stanton, to sell a Monet previously thought lost.
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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