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Wonderful Years That Sucked (1997)
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Original name: Báječná léta pod psa
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 from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
Style:
family saga, black comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, period piece, historical drama, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
dark humor, social commentary, cold war, satire, irony, political satire, nostalgia, bureaucracy, autobiography, slice of life, bittersweet, generation gap, domestic drama, political repression, resilience, absurdism, german shepherd, small town life, dog, pregnancy, female nudity, boy, male nudity, family relations, pregnant woman ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 90s, 1960s, 1990s
Place:
prague, europe, czechoslovakia, central europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, black comedy, tragicomedy and period piece films with plots about satire, social commentary, bittersweet, dark humor, political satire, farce and bureaucracy mostly in Comedy, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Wonderful Years That Sucked: The Black Barons (1992), Hostage (2014), Buttoners (1997), Poltroon (1989), Let's All Sing Around (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Komedie vás přesvědčí o tom, že i na chmurné stránky naší historie je možné se dívat s nadhledem a humorem. Čo bolo, to bolo... Major Terazky vede svůj šik pétépáků od průšvihu k průšvihu vstříc světlým zítřkům. ...
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satirical, period piece, tragicomedy, black comedy, historical drama ...
Plot:
army life, social commentary, political satire, authoritarianism, absurdism, cold war, outsider, camaraderie, political repression, dark humor, humiliation, farce ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the ...
Style:
emotional, tragicomedy, period piece, historical drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
communism, grownups, friendship, coming of age, occupation, loss of innocence, innocence lost, children, social commentary, bittersweet, realism, family tragedy ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, europe, central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Je to film sestávající ze šesti povídek, které většinou černě humornou, ironickou, mnohdy i trpce hořkou formou vyprávějí o jednom dávném prokletí, lidské nevěře, podivných úchylkách, nečekaném zázraku i pokryteckém ...
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Plot:
dark humor, irony, absurdism, satire, sarcasm, bittersweet, infidelity, city life, fate, urban, moral ambiguity, flashback ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s, year 1945, year 1995
Place:
prague, japan, eastern europe, europe, asia ...
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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
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer ...
Style:
satirical, period piece, ironic, dark comedy, light hearted ...
Plot:
summer, youth, teenage girl, satire, youth culture, summer camp, friendship, nostalgia, coming of age, slice of life, bittersweet, political satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia
Similarity:
47%
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:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from ...
Style:
road movie, tragicomedy, satirical, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
social commentary, migration, friendship, escape, social satire, misadventure, cultural conflict, working class, homecoming, getting home, exploitation, mafia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1969, the first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague: 13-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land as though on a completely different planet in the German economic wonderland.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, light, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
family drama, family relations, life, teenage protagonist, coming of age, immigration, rite of passage, identity crisis, nostalgia, alienation, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen.
Style:
folk tale, satirical, sarcastic, dark comedy, melancholic ...
Plot:
satire, village, social commentary, post soviet, perestroika, jealousy, irony, communism, unrequited love, kolkhoz, political satire, love triangle ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Licenziato dai padroni della miniera presso cui lavora come responsabile dei servizi culturali, Luciano Bianchi decide di vendicarsi, anche per scuotere l'opinione pubblica sulla morte di alcuni minatori avvenuta in una grave sciagura sul ...
Style:
satirical, existential, melancholic, art house, black comedy ...
Plot:
working class, social commentary, frustration, class conflict, everyday life, bitterness, social realism, alienation, bittersweet, bureaucracy, family life, town ...
Time:
60s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turkey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film Sunday League is set just before the beginning of the TV series Okresni prebor (2010)). The film's story takes us back in time to Houslice and everything is once again centered around the local Slavoj football club, its players, ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, feel good, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot:
football, football team, satire, coach, football player, soccer, professional sports, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, sport team, sporting event, heart attack ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family's home for the Christmas holidays. But this time, the old folks have a surprise, a good surprise for them. They have decided to go living with one of their children and make him or ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy
Plot:
christmas, family drama, satire, greed, family secret, hypocrisy, social commentary, moral ambiguity, manipulation, absurdism, bittersweet, bourgeoisie ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
Style:
tragicomedy, art house, romantic drama, black comedy, offbeat ...
Plot:
communism, love triangle, post war, satire, fanaticism, political conflict, female antagonist, power struggle, political satire, obsession, moral ambiguity, sexual tension ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, balkan, europe, central europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, dark comedy, tragicomedy, romantic comedy, black humor
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
stasi, berlin wall, coming of age, secret police, satire, father son relationship, social commentary, irony, cold war, teenage love, political satire, forbidden romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
german democratic republic, east germany, east berlin
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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
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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:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Style:
anthology, black comedy, parody, period piece, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, obsession, social commentary, marital infidelity, lust, jealousy, farce, dark humor, political satire, gender roles, office politics, road trip ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
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 ...
Style:
humorous, family comedy, black comedy, period piece, light hearted ...
Plot:
social commentary, social satire, satire, slice of life, frustration, middle class, everyday life, fatherhood, family conflict, city life, male protagonist, lottery ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, belgrade
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, ...
Style:
black comedy, sex comedy, period piece, romantic comedy, intellectual ...
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, dark humor, scandal, wit, sexual jealousy, social satire, betrayal, satire, psychotherapy, awkwardness ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
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Place:
sicily
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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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:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic comedy, period piece, witty, medical drama, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, ethical dilemma, irony, satire, personal growth, relationships, small town, slice of life, coming of age, hometown, bittersweet, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Estonia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
tragicomedy, comedy drama, satirical, melancholic, period drama ...
Plot:
literature, idealism, nationalism, bittersweet, irony, patriotism, satire, social commentary, arrogance, ambition, aspiration, struggle ...
Place:
estonia
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30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a young diplomat manages to get the Austrian government to return the Plume of Moctezuma to Mexico for an exhibition, his life quickly falls apart.
Style:
satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, humour, escapades, diplomacy, international relations, political satire, bureaucracy, social commentary, nationalism, identity crisis, urban, family drama ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico, austria, mexico city
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
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
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Maroso Golfetto is a firm manager from Veneto who is always yelling at his employees, all either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel where he keeps denouncing the evils of immigration and is very popular ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, allegory ...
Plot:
satire, immigration, xenophobia, prejudice, irony, racism, social satire, social commentary, immigrant, lifestyle change, working class, social issues ...
Place:
italy
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29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, black comedy, spoof, cynical, parody
Plot:
satire, political satire, government corruption, political scandal, irony, conspiracy, farce, bureaucracy, pun, dark humor, media satire, cold war era ...
Time:
70s
Place:
washington d.c., central america
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29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tragicomedy, absurd, offbeat, surreal, tragic
Plot:
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Place:
cyprus
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