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Natural Born Filmmakers (2015)
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A rift between two filmmakers and their distributors spirals out of control, involving a threatening Mob boss, zombies running amok and guns ablaze. Both a cautionary tale as well as a spoof, "Natural Born Filmmakers" reveals what happens when you mix naive producers, shady investors and carefully calculated contracts. And it does it all with a wry sense of self-awareness. It's the Hollywood dream gone nightmare.
Style:
spoof, dark comedy, independent film, parody, satirical, meta, horror comedy, black comedy, campy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, satire, zombie, behind the scenes, self awareness, corruption, ambition, mob boss, power struggle, adult humor, sarcasm, cautionary tale, violence, betrayal, organized crime, gun, guns
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, dark comedy, parody and black comedy films with plots about satire, corruption, ambition, filmmaking, moral ambiguity, behind the scenes and revenge mostly in Comedy, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Natural Born Filmmakers: Humble Politician Nograj (2018), The Good, the Bad, the Corny (2017), The Agent (2008), The Extendables (2014), Valmiki (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 105 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s
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58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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53%
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Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
meta, comedy drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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42%
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Audience:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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1K
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
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