Movies like Quiet as a Mouse

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Quiet as a Mouse (2004)
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Quiet as a Mouse (2004)
Original name: Muxmäuschenstill
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.
Style: realistic, cynical, not serious, captivating, disturbing, humorous, mockumentary, black comedy, dark comedy, grotesque ...
Plot: vigilantism, idealism, society, social decay, dark humor, misfit, ambition, fighting crime, life is a bitch, farce, buddies, murder, arrogance, found footage, friends, profanity, deadend life, urban, satire, disorder, breaking point, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, violent content, rape ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, rome italy
Keyword: vulgarity, child pornography

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about society, disorder, friends, life is a bitch, buddies, satire and dark humor mostly in Comedy, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Quiet as a Mouse: Slumming (2006), Justi&Cia (2014), Punk's Not Dead (2011), Louise hires a contract killer (2008), Free Rainer (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Slumming (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences.
Style: semi serious, bleak, realistic, humorous, cynical
Plot: life is a bitch, prank, buddies, misfit, power relations, disorder, love and romance, society, fall in love, social misfits, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, indonesia, europe, czech republic
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Justi&Cia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: murderous pair, unlikely criminals, satire, escapades, nothing to lose, vigilantism, social decay, society, life is a bitch, disorder, partner, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: punk, music band, counterculture, dark humor, friends, society, disorder, rivalry, club, punk rock, rock, punk band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: macedonia, europe, serbia, bosnia
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92%
Louise hires a contract killer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, captivating, light ...
Plot: partner, hitman, factory worker, unemployment, disorder, assassination attempt, nothing goes right, obnoxious boss, rivalry, satire, workplace, danger ...
Time: year 2008, september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Free Rainer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, controversial, melancholic ...
Plot: power of media, starting over, media satire, misfit, society, media, unemployment, assassination, hacker, irresponsible, redemption, social misfits ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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The New Age (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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88%
Red Light Revolution (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A luckless Beijinger opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparking a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: society, rebellion, fighting the system, family relations, against the rules, workplace, life is a bitch, parents and children, workplace situations, farce, store, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Mistress (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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Bed Bugs (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Burned out and lonely Rocky is almost 50 years old and has seen better times as a womanizer. One day, Thorben shows up at his door claiming to be his son. He is trying to get advice on how to be successful with women.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, semi serious
Plot: sexuality, father son relationship, father and son, family problems, relationship problems, lifestyle, relationships, male female relationship, father child relationship, family relations, love, loneliness ...
Time: year 2017
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The Man Cave (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cons and scams, buddies, rivalry, silly humor, nothing goes right, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, family problems, monkey, manipulation, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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The Comedy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
Style: cynical, realistic, mumblecore, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: introspection, estrangement, satire, social decay, shallowness, society, hipster, life is a bitch, dull life, bare breasts, female nudity, nude dance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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86%
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Our Women (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, moral dilemma, friends, disorder, dark humor, life turned upside down, murder, police, cover up, escapades, buddies, hair salon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bubbles and the other boys get a letter from a TPB fan club president in Minneapolis, Minnesota to do a live show at the State Theatre for Christmas. Ricky goes along with it to make nice with Santa Jesus God after a rough-up the previous year, ...
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot: friends, buddies, disorder, misfit, society, trailer park boys, christmas, life is a bitch, social misfits, show
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
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Recep Ivedik 2 (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When his grandmother takes ill, foolish brute Recep tries to satisfy her wishes by getting a job and attempting to find a suitable wife.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: goofy hero, love and romance, disorder, workplace, social misfits, unemployment, misfit, fish out of water, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, boss and employee, job seeking ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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Life is All You Get (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, clever, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police, existential crisis, escape, new love, street riots, couples, friends, buddies, society, politics, fall in love, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s
Place: berlin germany, europe, germany
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A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
Style: humorous, cynical, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, family relations, buddies, friends, unfulfillment, society, latina, friendship, machismo, party, elevator, sex talk ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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84%
The Chosen One (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left him, and his mother and gay, Buddhist-monk brother constantly remind him of his shortcomings. Although Paul doesn't know it yet, his life is ...
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: chosen one, self discovery, brother brother relationship, suicide attempt, family relations, society, oracle, life turned upside down, farce, destiny, deadend life, vegetarian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south america, colombia, los angeles, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, kidnapping, youth, suburbs, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mistaken identity, high school, teenager, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Whiteboyz (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, slang, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, small town, friendship, follow your dream, fish out of water, urban, culture clash, teenage life, gangster, youth, misfit, high school life ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: iowa, chicago, usa
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A Wonderful World (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Style: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, social, captivating ...
Plot: satire, rich and poor, mistaken identity, social decay, society, politics, political conspiracy, disorder, suicide, ambition, immigrant, suburbs ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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84%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
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84%
Protect and Serve (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting
Plot: partner, odd couple, fish out of water, misfit, police investigation, heroic mission, partners against crime, fighting crime, culture clash, society, law enforcement, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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God Is on Air (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two Spanish pan-handlers soon find themselves in over their heads when they stumble upon an opportunity to redeem themselves and perhaps the entire planet. The world appears to suffer from rampant poverty, violence and spiritual desperation and the ...
Style: cynical, clever, suspense, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: sect, murder, social decay, friendship, society, dishonesty, rising to stardom, criminal heroes, cons and scams, buddies, life is a bitch, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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My Führer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: world war two, dark humor, hitler, farce, head of state, politics, war, downfall, state affairs, political conspiracy, wartime life, satire ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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Bread and Chocolate (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: immigrant, food, restaurant, culture clash, bittersweet, racism, female nudity, anti capitalism, migration, erotica, social injustice, gourmet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe
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83%
The Foot Fist Way (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, harsh, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, obsession, disorder, life is a bitch, buddies, ambition, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, infidelity, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style: humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, addiction, satire, nothing goes right, self discovery, disorder, family problems, family life, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Dikkenek (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, offbeat, hot
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, friendship between men, goofy hero, dark humor, escapades, womanizer, farce, buddies, wannabe, promiscuity, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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Pardon (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on a true event, Pardon tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization. Ibrahim's fear of uniforms makes him runaway whenever he sees one. Because of this, ...
Style: cynical, sentimental, touching, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: prison, friendship, confined, mistaken identity, prison life, false accusation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, disorder, dark humor, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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