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Haiku Tunnel (2001)
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Haiku Tunnel (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Josh is the consummate temp employee, avoiding all long-term connections and responsibilities, both at work and in his personal life. However, by the time his agency places him at the Schuyler & Mitchell law firm, Josh is tired of his temporary life and agrees to take a permanent position at the firm. Josh has difficulty adapting to his new lifestyle, which manifests in his inability to complete his simple initial task: mailing seventeen important letters.
Style: humorous, funny, satirical, absurd, stylized, witty, semi serious, talky, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, adaptation, sarcasm, law firm, relationships, creativity, fighting the system, introspection, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, boss and employee, workplace situations, misfit, down on your luck, obnoxious boss, thirtysomething life, lawyer, office, legal, law, stoner, power relations, computer, job ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century, contemporary
Place: san francisco, usa, california
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about disorder, workplace, workplace situations, boss and employee, nothing goes right, power relations and misfit mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Haiku Tunnel: Smiley Face (2007), One Fine Day (2006), Demoted (2011), Cedar Rapids (2011), 13 Moons (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Smiley Face (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jane (Anna Faris), a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats ...
Style: surreal, humorous, stylized, talky, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: stoner, marijuana, goofy hero, escapades, roommate, youth, drug, comedy of errors, actor's life, weed, road trip, paranoid ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, venice california
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One Fine Day (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.
Style: semi serious, sincere, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: life turned upside down, overnight success, nothing goes right, boss and employee, crumbling marriage, human nature, breakup, misfit, obnoxious boss, workplace, disorder, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Demoted (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: What go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen (Astin and Vartan) who find themselves placed in secretarial jobs by their put-upon boss (Cross)
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot: prank, workplace, silly humor, partner, rebelliousness, obnoxious boss, rivalry, boss and employee, buddies, rebellion, workplace intrigue, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Cedar Rapids (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Style: funny, light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: insurance, friendship, justice, adultery, adaptation, dysfunctional family, greed, happy ending, life philosophy, road trip, friends, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa, minnesota, wisconsin
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13 Moons (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, absurd, independent film ...
Plot: obsessive quest, performer's life, nothing goes right, profanity, life is a bitch, escapades, comedy of errors, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, disorder, estrangement, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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Kabluey (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, Salman, who is less than prepared to care for the couple's two preadolescent boys. When Leslie ...
Style: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, light, black comedy ...
Plot: life, dark humor, small town, single parent, parenthood, loneliness, workplace, family relations, family life, insanity, existentialism, greed ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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Dumbbells (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dumbbells is a light-hearted buddy comedy set amongst a group of misfit employees that work in a struggling fitness center in Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, workplace situations, buddies, basketball player, gym, ambition, recovery, society, social misfits, boss and employee, misfit, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: disorder, couples, friends, unlikely couple, introspection, lifestyle, nothing goes right, odd couple, youth, small town, eccentric family, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, los angeles
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34%
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The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, not serious ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking and food, farce, mentor, food, boss and employee, workplace, power relations, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, obnoxious boss ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: miami, usa
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Martin & Orloff (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This is the story of a marketing man and his shrink. A suicide attempt and a softball game; A PHD-toting stripper and a deranged Desert Storm vet; A giant sparerib costume and the world's largest peenis; John Woo-style violence and Steel ...
Style: realistic, clever, independent film, not serious, witty ...
Plot: disorder, dark humor, self discovery, workplace, boss and employee, nothing goes right, hitman, power relations, media, unfulfillment, down on your luck, workplace situations ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Some Kind of a Nut (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard. Directed by Garson Kanin, this 1969 comedy stars Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Rosemary Forsyth, Zohra ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, humorous ...
Plot: bank teller, anti hero, satire, dishonesty, supportive spouse, rebellion, obnoxious boss, society, workplace, nothing goes right, fighting the system, misfit ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york
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Pink Lemonade (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ever have one of those nights where nothing seems to be going right? Ever have a job that made you ponder "this place would be fun if it didn't suck so much"? Welcome to food-service hell. Natalie, the waitress, is on the verge of a ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever ...
Plot: workplace romance, love and romance, workplace, obnoxious boss, betrayal, couples, workplace situations, boss and employee, cooking and food, heist, love, rodeo ...
Time: 21st century
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Ground Floor (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Brody, a young hot-shot banker at Whitestone Trust, thought he was just having a one-night stand with Jennifer, a beautiful woman he met at a bar. But when he discovers that she works in maintenance for the building where he works, their worlds ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: boss, workplace romance, office, employer employee relationship, employment, love and romance, workplace situations, coincidence, workplace, boss and employee, power relations, workplace humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, neo western
Plot: beer, working class, hillbilly, truck, trucker, revolution, power relations, workplace romance, unemployment, workplace situations, nothing goes right, self discovery ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: iowa, usa
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Hijacking Hollywood (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
Style: independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: filmmaking, job, satire, hollywood, disorder, workplace situations, cons and scams, showbiz, hijacking, workplace, vengeance, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
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The Boss of It All (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Germany, Iceland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
Style: surreal, talky, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, office, dishonesty, boss and employee, comedy of errors, fish out of water, actor's life, workplace situations, actor, dark humor, employer employee relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
Style: humorous, absurd, satirical, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: filmmaking, death, actor's life, showbiz, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, cons and scams, stupidity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, europe, france, paris france, california ...
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Carpool Guy (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Joel Goodman is a hotshot advertising executive angling for a promotion, but he feels stuck - not least of all in traffic. A seeming answer to his prayers comes in the form of a homeless man whom Joel pays to sit in his passenger seat so he can use ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: office, rivalry, odd couple, workplace, workplace intrigue, power relations, traffic jam, ambition, rich and poor, lifestyle change, friendship, advertising executive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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The Promotion (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
Style: humorous, light, satirical, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: rivalry, promotion, supermarket, justice, greed, workplace, ambition, boss and employee, corporate world, husband wife relationship, dancing, business ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: chicago, canada, usa, illinois, quebec
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Brain Donors (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
Plot: idiot, stupidity, chase, firefly, crazy, dumb, police corruption, buddy, ballet, dishonesty, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
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Stella Street (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot: misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, social decay, culture clash, showbiz, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, society, buddies ...
Time: 60s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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The Smell of Success (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary, a high-class- cosmetics ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, realistic ...
Plot: family business, rivalry, workplace intrigue, family relations, workplace, boss and employee, society, disorder, fish out of water, salesman, save the day, eccentric family ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963
Place: usa
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30%
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Family Plan (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sitcom, witty ...
Plot: hidden identity, eccentric family, family problems, couples, workplace, actor's life, boss and employee, couple relations, love and romance, cons and scams, workplace situations, best friend ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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The Impostors (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stow away on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, feel good, witty ...
Plot: farce, eccentricity, deadpan, cruise, hidden identity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, satire, ship, screwball ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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30%
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style: humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: salesman, workplace, dumb, business, hotshot hero, stupidity, blind ambition, disorder, rise to the top, boss and employee, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Results (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
Style: intense, romantic, talky, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: gym, love and romance, personal trainer, transformation, relationships, obsession, mentor, adaptation, culture clash, life philosophy, eccentricity, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas, austin texas, new york
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30%
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Caffeine (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
Style: talky, semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, twentysomething life, couple relations, disorder, couples, family relations ...
Place: europe, london, england
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30%
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The Boss' Wife (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love ...
Style: sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: love, pretty girl, business, stock broker, temptation, power relations, disorder, couples, nothing goes right, ambition, love and romance, boss and employee ...
Time: year 1986, future
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White Collar Blues (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on Paolo Villaggio's books "Fantozzi" and "Il secondo, tragico Fantozzi", which are popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year, shown in a variety ...
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, slapstick
Plot: nothing goes right, disorder, satire, acid, workplace, goofy hero, boss and employee, power relations, workplace situations, down on your luck, bad luck, new year's eve ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Style: funny, absurd, humorous, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, eccentricity, dark humor, filmmaking, nothing goes right, disorder, school, gangster, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, betrayal, chase ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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30%
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