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Surviving the 70's (2015)
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Original name: Mecánica popular
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After devoting his life to publish philosophy, history and psychoanalysis, the editor Mario Zavadikner, discontented with the social and intellectual reality, decides to shoot himself at the office of his publishing house. An unexpected presence stops his attempt: Silvia Beltran, aspiring writer who threatens to commit suicide if Zavadikner refuses to publish her novel.
Style:
thought provoking, dark, tension, dark comedy, psychological, intellectual, bleak, intense, art house, black comedy ...
Plot:
writers, suicide, suicide attempt, book editor, literary, existential crisis, desperation, publishing house, character study, office, philosophy, isolation, power struggle, male protagonist, satire, moral dilemma, obsession, minimalism, claustrophobia, psychoanalysis, female protagonist, urban, suicidal, female writer, threat ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, dark comedy and existential films with plots about character study, satire, isolation, urban, obsession, intimate and claustrophobia mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Surviving the 70's: Lawrence & Holloman (2013), Zebras in Wyoming (2017), According to Ben Adams (2016), Întregalde (2021), Houses (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lawrence is an optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right-until he takes the suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go wrong. Very wrong.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, suicidal thoughts, odd couple, dark humor, misfit, male female relationship, mishap, relationships, problem, accountant, opposites attract, bittersweet ...
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A prisoner soon has his guard questioning his own world-view.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, tension, intense, existential ...
Plot:
prisoner, security guard, prison, character study, power, confined, power struggle, claustrophobia, moral dilemma, isolation, identity, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
wyoming
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bored with his usual routine, the devil gets arrested just to see what will happen.
Style:
thought provoking, existential, allegory, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
religious, belief, supernatural, identity crisis, character study, moral dilemma, deception, psychiatric hospital, hospital, intimate, confined, satire ...
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70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The suspense story follows three humanitarians whose mission in a remote village called Întregalde, in the Apuseni Mountains, in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
problem, night, lost, teamwork, satire, moral dilemma, remote village, isolation, moral ambiguity, character study, minimalism, realism ...
Place:
romania, transylvania
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity.
Style:
independent film, art house, experimental, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
creative process, character study, self doubt, ambition, theater, minimalism, realism, obsession, regret, urban, director
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away ...
Style:
psychological, meta, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, bipolar disorder, creative process, creative block, character study, paranoia, mental illness, filmmaking, family relations, social problems, family problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A firsthand experience about bureaucracy's stark-naked truth, inside the microcosmic reality of an office where a lot of unexpected things may happen long before the coffee break.
Style:
captivating, realistic, funny, light, psychological ...
Plot:
nudism, workplace, office, truth, bureaucracy, new job, office worker, workplace situations, clerk, job, coworker, social problems ...
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61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, twist ending, tension, independent film ...
Plot:
chef, dinner party, women, mystery woman, relationships, male female relationship, surprise, psychological manipulation, deception, manipulation, dangerous women, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man emerges from a pandemic slump with a new job at a quiet hotel, until some eccentric guests turn his first night into a wild adventure.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, indie film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hotel, satire, hotel receptionist, pandemic, workplace, loss of job, new job, waiter, loneliness, nightshift, unemployment, anxiety ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son when his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a minor.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, semi serious, controversial, dark ...
Plot:
family problems, under the surface, parents and children, life is a bitch, dark humor, babies and infants, marital crisis, infidelity, domestic drama, self destructing, shame, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, semi serious, intense, satirical ...
Plot:
university, university professor, professor, rivalry, philosophy, professional rivalry, satire, teacher, competitor, ambition, power struggle, jealousy ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Matt, a well known writer and director, suffers a traumatic experience, that leads to him being deathly afraid to go outside. Therefore he decides to attempt to write, direct, and star in a feature film, all from his apartment.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, satirical, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, traumatic memory, confined space, psychological trauma, agoraphobia, filmmaking, social isolation, traumatic experience, satire, post traumatic stress, director, isolated place ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, tension ...
Plot:
satire, theatre play, theater, screenwriter, playwright, character study, wartime, bureaucracy, literary, ethical dilemma, collaboration, performance art ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, dark comedy ...
Plot:
relationship problems, satire, husband wife relationship, japanese wife, marriage, eccentric family, married couple, male female relationship, wife, family relations, lifestyle, marital problem ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jack, an easygoing grad student, posts on a campus bulletin board: 'Driving to San Francisco for Spring Break. Anyone Want a Ride? Split Gas.' The ad is answered by Oliver, a suicidal freshman, who secretly just wants a ride to the cliffs ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, indie film, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, suicide, mental health, college student, isolation, loneliness, character study, driving, confession, self discovery, intimate, redemption ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman grapples with the meaning of love and commitment over the course of her “non-wedding” day.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous, tension ...
Plot:
wedding, female protagonist, relationships, parents, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, anxiety, marriage, family relations, love affair, couple relations, couples ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, grim, dark ...
Plot:
hitler, world war two, third reich, nazism, wartime, dictatorship, collapse, claustrophobia, german history, confined, biopic, character study ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Calvin, an alcoholic wastrel, is forced to find a new job after he is fired from his grounds-keeping job at a golf course. After scaring away other potential applicants, he is hired to tend the grounds of a beautiful hillside mansion by Julie, the ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcoholic, suicidal, suicidal tendency, alcoholism, loneliness, drunkenness, suicide, character study, substance abuse, self destructing, friends ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A pandemic strikes the world. What does quarantine do to a lonely woman's mind? Follow her from sense to insanity. No filters. Just you, her, and her more and more twisted mind.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, satirical, absurd, dramatic ...
Plot:
depression, isolation, loneliness, female protagonist, mental breakdown, quarantine, driven mad, character study, anxiety, boredom, social isolation, woman ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
212
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakable desire; a psychologist haunted by a tow truck... In each segment, a normal person suffers ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
satire, problem, bonding, lifestyle, paradox, multiple storylines, nightmare, surrealism, moral ambiguity, obsession, trauma, isolation ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Andrey is a young and successful executive at a creative advertising agency in Moscow. That day he smokes a whole pack of cigarettes. Each cigarette is the beginning of a storm of circumstances and conflicts around him increasingly fiercer. His ...
Style:
satirical, disturbing, semi serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life, smoking, businessman, threat, satire, urban, escalation, danger, advertising, corporate world, boss ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
40%
28
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
This poignant and darkly comedic debut feature from Sean Gillane focuses on Nolan, an aspiring writer who feels stuck. He is frustrated with his career, his relationships, the world and ultimately with himself. Unable to keep from displaying his ...
Style:
existential, dark comedy, psychological, melancholic
Plot:
character study, self discovery, identity crisis, loneliness, alienation, obsession, isolation, bittersweet, mental breakdown, modern life, personal growth, realism ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
Manical portrait of a small businessman.
Style:
melancholic, intense, existential, art house, grim ...
Plot:
small business, character study, portrait, manic, isolation, introspection, male protagonist, loneliness, social realism, identity crisis, midlife crisis, mishap ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Bruno is a young film editor who has just broke up his marriage with Regina, and returned living in his mother's house. Drowned in deep sorrow, something very weird happens in his life: people around him are gradually disappearing. But only for ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
blindness and impaired vision, failed marriage, loneliness, isolation, loss, grief, character study, relationship problems, satire, blindness, director, family problems ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, dark comedy ...
Plot:
found footage, suicide, satire, death, videotaping, corpse, neighbor, hidden camera, indifference, privacy invasion, loneliness, forensics ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
belgrade, balkan, serbia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An adaptation of "Recursos Humanos".
Gabriel Lynch (Pedro de Tavira), a somber supervisor of the printing division has just applied for the manager's position, but his dreams will be dashed when the position he thought was his is ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, workplace, nepotism, secret, power struggle, male protagonist, betrayal, ambition, working class, class conflict, character study, injustice ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A plotting Duke leaves his kingdom in the hands of a prudish soldier, who evokes an arcane law making fornication punishable by death - but who then abuses his power when he becomes obsessed with an even more chaste young man.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, intense ...
Plot:
abuse of power, political intrigue, shakespeare, power, ruler, political unrest, political conspiracy, politician, politics, social satire, conspiracy, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, semi serious, indie film ...
Plot:
hitchhiking, novelist, bankruptcy, female protagonist, writers, writer's life, female writer, road trip, satire, hitchhiker, problem, self discovery ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
310
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On his 25th birthday, following the death of his brother, Max and his best friend Peter wander the wintry streets of Manhattan, contemplating life, livelihood, and what it means to be adult.
Style:
witty, entertaining, humorous, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, house, grownups, suicidal, friend, loss of brother, adulthood, brothers, brother, friends, life, suicide ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A film by Jari Halonen
Style:
melancholic, tragicomedy, dark comedy, political drama
Plot:
communism, suicide attempt, social commentary, isolation, social outcast, loneliness, character study, satire, existential crisis, small town life, desperation, identity crisis ...
Time:
90s
Place:
eastern europe
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