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Kral Ubu (1996)
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Kral Ubu (1996)
Original name: Král Ubu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet black humor. Using a human touch, the film- makers were able to transform the original into a film aimed at a contemporary audience while remaining faithful to the vision of Father Ubu and Mother Ubu venturing everything in their efforts to seize power and mammon.
Style: psychotronic, allegory, dark comedy, urban fantasy, campy
Plot: prison escape, dark humor, king, politics, kingdom, nobleman, corruption, royal family, coup d'etat, absurd humor, manipulative woman, surrealism, husband wife relationship, satire, fictional country, political satire, psychological manipulation, absurdism, assassination, fictitious kingdom, abuse of power, manipulative behavior, sexual manipulation, political manipulation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, humorous, semi serious and black comedy films with plots about satire, dark humor, husband wife relationship, politics, surrealism, political satire and family relations mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Kral Ubu: Leaving (2011), The Beggar's Opera (1991), The Queen and I (2018), The Firemen's Ball (1967), Conspirators of Pleasure (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Leaving (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation ...
Style: allegory
Plot: butler, garden, journalist, husband wife relationship, absurdism, secretary, politician, retirement, chancellor, satire, politics
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Plot: renaissance, opera, gang, politics, criminal as protagonist, criminal, psychological manipulation, manipulative person, manipulative woman, scheme, manipulative behavior, male female relationship ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Queen and I (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
Style: psychological, semi serious, thrilling, political, captivating ...
Plot: satire, british royal family, british history, politics, money, royal family, political satire, money problems, british, queen
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, allegory ...
Plot: satire, firefighter, political satire, theft, corruption, bureaucracy, small town, confusion, fire, husband wife relationship, farce, cancer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to ...
Style: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, erotica, masturbation, fetish, dark humor, satire, food, sexual relations, stop motion, sex scene, forbidden love, sexual content ...
Time: year 1996
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, sisters, renaissance, holocaust, modernism, totalitarian regime, spirituality, sister, picnic, hound dog, symbolism ...
Time: year 1966
Place: eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Teacher (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style: touching, melancholic, captivating, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: teacher, communism, psychological manipulation, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Witness (1969)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Known as the best satire about communism, banned for over a decade in Hungary. 'The Witness' has become a cult classic, well received by critics and general audiences when it was finally released outside of Hungary. 'The Witness' ...
Style: satirical, black comedy, parody, cult classic, dark comedy ...
Plot: satire, communism, society, political satire, dark humor, corruption, world war two, totalitarian regime, bureaucracy, social criticism, corrupt, meat ...
Time: year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: hungary, budapest, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The King of the Candle (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from ...
Style: allegory, avant garde
Plot: economist, insanity, dictatorship, gay interest, rural setting, protest, anarchy, political satire, carnival, theater, transvestite, harassment ...
Place: rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
End of the Road (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: psychotronic, disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot: counterculture, therapy, age-gap relationship, mad doctor, insanity, abortion, satire, eccentricity, unfaithful, marijuana, weirdo, dark humor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Insect (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect ...
Style: allegory, psychotronic, stylized, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: beetle, insect, cockroach, hallucination, baby, newborn baby, dog, pregnancy, murder, actor, surrealism, director ...
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38%
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To Dust (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, satirical, dark comedy
Plot: grief, judaism, jewish man, loss of wife, adult humor, religious faith, jewish family, absurd humor, faith, dark humor, satire, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Balkan Spy (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Balkanski špijun is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy/drama. Ilija Čvorović, a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević, a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, funny, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: spy, communism, espionage, cold war, secret mission, hitman, mental health, communist, conspiracy, badass, josef stalin, satire ...
Time: year 1984, 50s
Place: balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe, belgrade serbia ...
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36%
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 13K
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
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Brak (2002)
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Tiger Theory (2016)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Red Monarch (1983)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Four Suns (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
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31%
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The Waterfall (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Night, the Prowler (1978)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Duration: 140 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Guantanamera (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Germany
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 143 min.
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Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: manipulation, political intrigue, journalism, media, media satire, political corruption, corrupt politician, state affairs, dishonesty, campaign, blackmail, governor ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.9
 4K
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 105 min.
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Time: year 1992, 80s
Place: romania, balkan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.0
 2K
Rubin and Ed (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed'd ...
Style: dark comedy, road movie, cult classic, psychotronic, surreal ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Northerners (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
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Time: 60s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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