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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who thinks he's an American despite being Canadian; representing Serbia is his brother, Gavrilo the Great, who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son; and representing Canada is their father, a pathetic drunkard. As the competition builds toward its climax, these estranged characters are brought together to express their deep feelings of pain and ultimately give in to treachery.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, breathtaking, lyrical, light, talky, humorous, emotional, sexy, experimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
beer, surrealism, music, dysfunctional family, musician, love triangle, great depression, contest, jazz, rivalry, family problems, tragic hero, couple relations, baroness, prohibition, ambition, contests and competitions, siblings relations, business venture, artists and showbiz, satire, mother son relationship, catastrophe, women, art ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 30s
Place:
canada, africa, alaska, italy, new york, india, scotland ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, visually appealing, melancholic and humorous films with plots about dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, storytelling, pornography, brutality and runaway mostly in Comedy, Musical and Drama genres. Some movies like The Saddest Music in the World: Careful (1992), True Stories (1986), The American Astronaut (2001), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Shock Treatment (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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surreal, experimental, stylized, atmospheric, disturbing ...
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incest, surrealism, family problems, erotica, creativity, cult, survival, magic realism, hallucination, love story, melancholy, transformation ...
Time:
1920s, 90s, 19th century
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Style:
surreal, absurd, clever, bad ending, lyrical ...
Plot:
cheerleader, suburbs, surrealism, hotel, parallel universe, male nudity, creativity, crime gone awry, breaking the fourth wall, melancholy, nude, postmodernism ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Musical, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of ...
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san francisco
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79%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
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surrealism, monk, satire, chaos, society, greed, mistaken identity, visceral, religion, estrangement, social decay, courtroom ...
Time:
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Place:
france, spain, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?
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71%
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Duration: 102 min.
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66%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
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Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Plot:
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53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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47%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
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date night
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Japan, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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36%
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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