Movies like A Tight Spot
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A Tight Spot (1982)
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Original name: Tesna koža
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Style:
humorous, family comedy, black comedy, period piece, light hearted, cult classic, nostalgic, cult film
Plot:
social satire, social commentary, fatherhood, satire, everyday life, family conflict, frustration, middle class, slice of life, lottery, male protagonist, bureaucracy, city life, midlife crisis, farce, absurdism, office politics, bittersweet, clerk, economist, gambling, sports betting, corruption, overpopulation, football ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, belgrade, yugoslavia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, black comedy, humorous and slapstick films with plots about satire, social commentary, bureaucracy, farce, slice of life, bittersweet and social satire mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like A Tight Spot: Tit for Tat (1978), Tight Skin 2 (1987), A Great Guy at Heart (1981), Poltroon (1989), Opportunity Knocks (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new ...
Style:
period piece, slapstick, black and white
Plot:
teacher student relationship, education, high school life, social commentary, satire, discipline, moral dilemma, bureaucracy, misunderstanding, character study, everyday life, media satire ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he ...
Style:
tragicomedy, satirical, dark comedy, cult classic, slapstick ...
Plot:
clerk, satire, social commentary, bureaucracy, working class, midlife crisis, mistaken identity, rumor, sexuality, farce, absurd humor, car crash ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, belgrade
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50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After confronting his professor, a student of medicine loses his illegal bed in student housing and finds a job as a housemaid at Sava Mitrovic house. The family happiness soon turns into a chaos, falling apart like a Robert Hall suit.
Style:
satirical, black comedy, lighthearted
Plot:
social satire, satire, class differences, medical student, student life, farce, gender roles, personal growth, coming of age, youth, bureaucracy, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
47%
430
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
Style:
satirical, comedy drama, period piece, tragicomedy
Plot:
satire, office politics, bureaucracy, irony, social commentary, conformity, corruption, ethical dilemma, character study, political satire, everyday life, social realism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A modern remake of the classic movie where our main characters meets unforeseen troubles and bureaucracy when they build a new house. A hopeless and hilarious meet with the system.
Style:
situational comedy, humorous, sitcom, family comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
bureaucracy, husband wife relationship, social satire, mother son relationship, satire, social commentary, family conflict, chaos, farce, escape, real estate, small town
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Style:
satirical, parody, black comedy, controversial, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political corruption, satire, conspiracy, corruption, secret society, political satire, scandal, cover up, social satire, social commentary, dark humor, political intrigue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbours before getting into his normal car and drives the usual way to his ordinary work at an ordinary bank. But ...
Style:
comedy drama, satirical, reflective, dark comedy
Plot:
everyday life, routine, loss of job, slice of life, character study, domestic drama, suburban life, middle class, midlife crisis, social commentary, desperation, identity crisis ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Style:
anthology, ironic, witty, sex comedy, colorful ...
Plot:
satire, social commentary, corruption, farce, social issues, political satire, bureaucracy, everyday life, political corruption, city life, irreverent, middle class ...
Time:
80s
Place:
greece, athens greece
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido ...
Style:
black comedy, family saga, tragicomedy, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
social commentary, dark humor, cold war, irony, satire, political satire, generation gap, autobiography, bureaucracy, slice of life, domestic drama, nostalgia ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm ...
Style:
satirical, cynical, black comedy, period piece, witty ...
Plot:
corruption, hunting, absurdism, irony, social satire, political satire, social climbing, hunter, class conflict, female nudity, farce, satire ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, year 1972
Place:
madrid, catalonia, spain
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, not serious, realistic, family comedy ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, misfit, parents and children, fish out of water, unemployment, disorder, family relations, society, supportive parent, coming of age, rich and poor, road trip ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, ironic, satirical, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
school, elementary school, satire, office politics, social commentary, intimate, hypocrisy, slice of life, bureaucracy, bittersweet, social realism, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Misa is already a teenager but with little interest in girls and much for his violin. Two granddads, Zika and Milan, are worried for their grandson who may 'deviate' like Steven from "Dynasty", the show they like to watch. ...
Style:
humorous, light hearted, family comedy, romantic comedy, cult classic ...
Plot:
older woman younger man, grandfather grandson relationship, violin, female nudity, coming of age, family values, matchmaking, personal growth, nude girl, older woman younger man relationship, small town, satire ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, aging, midlife crisis, loneliness, retirement, career, life, family relations, relationships, job, humour, lifestyle ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, absurd, dark comedy, situational comedy, sitcom ...
Plot:
hospital, road accident, chaos, escape, misadventure, sexual obsession, toilet humor, bureaucracy, nurse, satire, friendship, male bonding ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
light hearted, slapstick, realistic
Plot:
traffic jam, highway, summer, satire, road trip, summer vacation, transportation, social commentary, frustration, everyday life, farce, families ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, art house
Plot:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
Style:
sexy, anthology, sex comedy, light hearted, black comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, satire, social satire, marriage, middle class, farce, adult humor, infidelity, naked woman, bureaucracy, film industry, provincial life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, hilarious, period piece
Plot:
male friendship, friendship, prank, farce, hospital, aging, male camaraderie, irreverent, absurd humor, satire, bittersweet, social satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, tuscany, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, entertaining, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, school, poverty, social satire, social commentary, village life, medieval, con trick, school teacher, problem, high school life, satire ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.
Style:
humorous, romantic comedy, light hearted
Plot:
matchmaking, satire, dating, social commentary, awkwardness, technology, coaching, wooing, communication, computer, workplace, identity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, switzerland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, dark comedy, twisted, psychotronic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, underdog, financial ruin, bureaucracy, middle class, social commentary, political satire, family conflict, small business owner, revenge, scheming, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome ...
Style:
sex comedy, lighthearted, parody, slapstick, black comedy
Plot:
hospital, nepotism, corruption, professional rivalry, bureaucracy, irreverent, scandal, political satire, fraud, social commentary, farce, satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
486
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Style:
situational comedy, sitcom, light hearted, independent film, rom com ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, social satire, slice of life, everyday life, relocation, house, urban, neighborhood, couples, family relations, society, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
Style:
melancholic, black comedy, humorous, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, social commentary, loneliness, character study, banking, bureaucracy, slice of life, social realism, survival ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
19%
423
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) in early 2000.
Style:
anthology, semi serious, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, joke, society, social issues, lifestyle, humour, social problems, everyday life, social commentary, city life, slice of life, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
Style:
light hearted, romantic comedy, slapstick, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, aspiring actor, male protagonist, urban, satire, cohabitation, slice of life, class differences, hospitality, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, biker ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
friendship, living together, escapades, stealing money, road trip, neighbor neighbor relationship, wedding, economic crisis, social commentary, social satire, satire, unemployment ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town ...
Style:
humorous, slapstick, lighthearted, period piece, family comedy ...
Plot:
newspaper, reporter, corruption, satire, journalism, beauty pageant, fish out of water, farce, small town, chaos, political satire, seaside town ...
Time:
60s, year 1966
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
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