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A Thousand Fools (2011)
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Original name: Mil cretins
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.
Style:
tragicomedy, anthology, dark comedy, bleak, melancholic, existential, grim
Plot:
death, mature, satire, love, old age, everyday life, absurdism, sarcasm, mortality, bittersweet, tragedy, moral ambiguity, social realism, intimate, apache, gays and lesbians, urban, provincial, school, student, prince, writers, court, archer, suicide ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to A Thousand Fools
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, dark comedy, existential and tragicomedy films with plots about bittersweet, satire, urban, character study, intimate, slice of life and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like A Thousand Fools: Think of Me (2016), Movie box-ing (2004), Nothing Funny (1995), Lawrence & Holloman (2013), White Pill (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It is Dr. Borlai's job to tell the patients that they just have a few days left. But one day his colleauge tells him this story. So the sample husband the best father and doctor comes up with a devilish plan. To ruin every relationship that he ...
Style:
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Plot:
relationships, mortality, death, terminal illness, ethical dilemma, character study, bittersweet, loss, deception, grief, marriage, acceptance ...
Time:
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
2004 film
Style:
anthology, art house, reflective, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
omnibus, japanese culture, everyday life, thoughtful, small town, summer, social realism, intimate, slice of life, minimalism, bittersweet, rehearsal ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, existential, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, film industry, regret, satire, loneliness, anti hero, midlife crisis, bittersweet, alienation, social commentary, absurd humor, deadpan ...
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76%
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:
73%
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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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71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film tells the tragicomic story of three interconnected characters. The first is a doctor who prescribes happiness pills to anyone who comes his way, and the troubles that befall him as a result. The second is a girl who is normally introverted ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, ironic, melancholic ...
Plot:
social media, youth culture, young adult, moral ambiguity, loneliness, ambition, social satire, satire, bittersweet, obsession, isolation, mental health ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
An anthology of New Yorkers at their wit's end.
Style:
anthology, dark comedy, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, life is a bitch, city life, loneliness, desperation, slice of life, existential crisis, intimate, working class, survival, resilience, bittersweet ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Style:
thought provoking, anthology, reflective, surreal, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
satire, irony, frustration, absurdism, social commentary, paradox, deception, bittersweet, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, mental disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the ...
Style:
anthology, existential, tense, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
hotel room, loneliness, character study, urban, cross dressing, intimate, identity crisis, prostitution, suicide, sexuality, voyeurism, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Cyprus, Qatar
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close relationship with his neighbor (a small-time crook) with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
depression, friendship, dream, character study, loneliness, writer's life, relationship problems, satire, depressed man, friends, social problems, writers ...
Place:
israel
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.
Style:
entertaining, dark comedy, captivating, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
poverty, economic crisis, woman, mother daughter relationship, daughter, poor family, poor, crisis, mother and daughter, desire, single mother, satire ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
Style:
tragicomedy, black comedy, absurd, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
communism, post war, irony, political satire, dark humor, small town life, bittersweet, bureaucracy, everyday life, humanism, moral ambiguity, social realism ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Similarity:
56%
370
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Style:
surreal, absurd, bleak, art house, black comedy ...
Plot:
blindness, absurdism, isolation, mortality, waiting, minimalism, existentialism, loneliness, dark humor, hopelessness, entrapment, mature ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
56%
597
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, reflective, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
polish history, satire, secret, politics, social commentary, character study, biopic, bureaucracy, regret, bittersweet, nostalgia, intimate ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, Slovenia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
60 year old woman leaves urban life and goes to live in a village to take care of her grandchildren whose parents now live in America. There she faces lots of financial hardships as the family doesn't send any money, and tries her best to ...
Style:
black comedy, existential, tragicomedy, dark comedy, absurd ...
Plot:
village life, elderly man, character study, moral ambiguity, satire, grandmother, post war, identity crisis, resilience, bittersweet, emigration, poverty ...
Place:
eastern europe, serbia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants everything to stay the way that it is. Unfortunately for Randall, his friends and family have other ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, mortality, bittersweet, friendship, slice of life, deadpan, intimate, overprotective mother, small town, satire, urban, bureaucracy ...
Place:
oklahoma
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, character study, secrets, realism, husband wife relationship, marital problem, satire, lifestyle, secret, relationship problems, couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
612
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, death, household, grief, compassion, loss, empathy, character study, symbolism, pets, mortality, absurdism ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tragicomedy, dark comedy, existential, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
loneliness, relationships, sisters, grief, love, empathy, intimate, slice of life, bittersweet, introspection, realism, everyday life ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
47%
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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:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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252
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada, USA, Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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