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Turk 182! (1985)
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Turk 182! (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Terry begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.
Style: grim, exciting, sincere, serious, realistic, detective, political, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mayor, politics, subway, hip hop, street art, emergency, firefight, graffiti, fire, conspiracy, rescue, politician, injustice, vigilante, social worker, brother brother relationship, falling from height, child in peril, frustration, police, news, scandal, drinking, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan, new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, hopes, rivalry, politics and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Turk 182!: Harry's War (1981), Heavens Fall (2006), Everything's Jake (2000), Noise (2007), Money Kings (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Harry's War (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: state affairs, life is a bitch, rivalry, fighting the system, rebellion, legal, politics, ambition, vengeance, society, courtroom, injustice ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
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Heavens Fall (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style: serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom, false accusation, interracial relations, racism, discrimination, injustice, journalism, dedicated lawyer, human spirit, legal action, life is a bitch, power relations ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, alabama, new york
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Everything's Jake (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, independent film
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, survival, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world, society, social misfits, injustice, homelessness, street life, homeless, black ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Noise (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, freeze frame ...
Plot: vandalism, vigilante, vigilantism, anger, society, satire, rivalry, losing-it hero, love and romance, fighting the system, heroic mission, city life ...
Time: year 2007
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Money Kings (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a ...
Style: serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, bookies, loser, bet, life is a bitch, dishonesty, down on your luck, disorder, moral dilemma, unlikely partners, unlikely criminals, gangster ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, florida, brooklyn new york city
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Article 99 (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, disability, politics, medicine, psychiatrist, medical, surgery, patient, die hard, intern, war veteran ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: kansas, usa
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59%
Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: righting the wronged, rivalry, save the day, fighting the system, culture clash, screwball, heroes, society, good versus evil, buddies, friendship, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
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59%
First Monday in October (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
Style: light, entertaining, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: supreme court, courtroom drama, legal, justice, judiciary, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, fighting the system, politics, rivalry, workplace romance, state affairs ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: washington d.c., usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: homeless, heroic mission, righting the wronged, power relations, campaign, injustice, state affairs, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, politics, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c.
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51%
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style: realistic, talky, hood, stylized, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: heat wave, hip hop, police brutality, pizzeria, urban ghetto life, racism, pizza, ghetto, prejudice, african american, black, social commentary ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
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46%
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I'm Bout It (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: I'm Bout It is a 1997 film by rapper Master P. The plot details his life in a New Orleans uptown ghetto. Master P wrote, directed and acted in the film.
Style: hood, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hip hop, urban, ghetto, discrimination, rapper, hip hop culture, profanity, friends, urban ghetto, gang, criminal heroes, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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46%
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
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45%
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Turning Green (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, hopes, love and romance, society, youth, getting home, fall in love, family relations, overnight success, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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44%
The Navigators (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, social, gloomy ...
Plot: working class, unemployment, friendship, workplace, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, human spirit, workplace intrigue, corporate crime, small town, realism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: europe, england
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Burnzy's Last Call (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A downtown Manahattan gin mill plays host to a series of comic vignettes.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: introspection, aging, human nature, elderly, bookies, alcohol abuse, rock, drag queen, gambler, smoking, drunkenness, beer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Story of Qiu Ju is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role. The screenplay is an adaption of Chen Yuanbin's novella The Wan Family's Lawsuit. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, clever, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, satire, revolution, politics, peasant, social commentary, justice, lawyer, social injustice, professional, asian history, women ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
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43%
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara Quinn is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, breakup, lifestyle, obsessive quest, obsession, human nature, couple relations, couples, gender, womanizer, battle of the sexes, father son relationship ...
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Rick (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, curse, office, wall street, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenage life, workplace intrigue, parents and children, forbidden love, workplace, dishonesty ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
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Audience: date night
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The F Word (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A frustrated radio DJ takes to the streets of Manhattan during the Republican National Convention after the FCC has slapped his station with $1 million in indecency fines, and popular radio personality Joe Pace (Josh Hamilton) isn't going down ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, political
Plot: politics, radio dj, fighting the system, republican, injustice, hopes, idealism, chaos, state affairs, protest, campaign, media ...
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Place: new york, usa
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The War Within (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense, poignant ...
Plot: terrorism, injustice, introspection, danger, society, couple relations, rivalry, life is a bitch, vengeance, false accusation, politics, terrorist plot ...
Time: year 2005
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40%
The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with a bunch of kids after being conned into taking over a youth center.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: competition, high school life, gymnasium, bouncer, gangster, power relations, urban ghetto, aging, society, fighting the system, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
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Free the Nipple (2013)
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Story: An army of passionate women launch a revolution to "Free the Nipple" and decriminalize the female body. Based on a true story, this mass movement of topless women, armed with First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations and national ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: society, battle of the sexes, fighting the system, rebellion, rebelliousness, against the rules, female protagonist, journalist, art, lgbt, journalism, social issues ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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37%
Slaves of New York (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style: ironic, sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: adaptation, artist, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, society, bittersweet, ambition, love, loneliness, art, fashion ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa
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Gung Ho (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and ...
Style: humorous, light, funny, captivating, cult classic ...
Plot: culture clash, business, workplace, worker, friendship, factory, labor union, society, buddies, unemployment, deception, car ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Style: humorous, contemplative, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: kidnapping, obnoxious boss, vengeful fired employee, social misfits, mentally unstable, restaurant, friends, misfit, friendship, introspection, disorder, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Girlfriend's Day (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: In a city where greeting card writers are celebrated like movie stars, Romance writer Ray used to be the king. In trying to recapture the feelings that once made him the greatest, he gets entangled in a web of murder and deceit as writers vie to ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, surprise ending
Plot: murder, conspiracy, holiday, police, writers, lie, escapades, deception, society, popularity, male protagonist, rise and fall ...
Place: usa
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36%
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, family comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Very Well, Thank You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife BĂ©atrice, a taxi driver.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting
Plot: life turned upside down, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, society, wrongfully committed, satire, loss of job, husband wife relationship, taxi driver, disorder, mental institution ...
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