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The National Shotgun (1978)
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Original name: La escopeta nacional
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 shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
Style:
satirical, cynical, black comedy, witty, period piece, parody
Plot:
corruption, hunting, absurdism, hunter, irony, political satire, social satire, class conflict, social climbing, female nudity, satire, farce, middle class, greed, character study, machine, nude girl, francisco franco, family drama, bureaucracy, business, politics, high society, surrealism, sex ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, year 1972
Place:
madrid, catalonia, spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, black comedy, period piece and dark comedy films with plots about satire, corruption, political satire, social satire, farce, bureaucracy and urban mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The National Shotgun: Attenti a quei P2 (1982), Poltroon (1989), The Beasts (1971), Mastergate (1992), The Twelve Chairs (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
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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
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A film made for Italian television. A series of eight episodes put together in which Lando Buzzanca plays a variety of weird characters. Episode 1: Il Salvatore (The Saviour) A reporter tries to stop a man from killing himself, only to get the TV ...
Style:
anthology, satirical, black comedy, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
hypocrisy, dark humor, moral ambiguity, corruption, satire, class conflict, prostitution, family drama, greed, character study, sexploitation, absurdism ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Style:
satirical, cynical, ironic, black comedy, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, satire, ambition, dark humor, clinic, greed, ethical dilemma, corruption, social satire, manipulation, character study, office politics ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
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
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death ...
Style:
satirical, road movie, fast paced, dark comedy, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
socialism, satire, treasure hunt, political satire, social commentary, irony, quest, greed, class conflict, farce, bureaucracy, inheritance ...
Place:
cuba, havana cuba
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hypocrisy, satire, social satire, political satire, dinner party, office politics, irony, socially awkward, social climbing, character study, family drama, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Ruinasa is a holding company dedicated to leisure and, why not say, to vice. But these businesses are about to go bankrupt. To avoid this, sincehis prestige is at stake, a company dedicated to protecting various groups of gangsters takes over the ...
Style:
parody, satirical, black comedy, fast paced
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, gangster, satire, greed, farce, social commentary, organized crime, power struggle, moral ambiguity, underworld, dark humor, economist ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever ...
Style:
funny, satirical, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, deception, male female relationship, money, humour, absurd humor, eccentric family, con trick, silly humor, family relations, inheritance, wealth ...
Place:
cuba, spain
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, romantic relationship, couples, male female relationship, love and romance, love interest, couple relations, relationships, relationship problems, deception, greed, inheritance ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, ...
Style:
satirical, period piece, cynical, black comedy, costume drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, corruption, satire, hypocrisy, mistaken identity, political satire, farce, small town, bureaucracy, authoritarianism, dark humor, ss ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
Comedian and Trump lip-synching sensation Sarah Cooper tackles politics, race and other light topics in a sketch special packed with celebrity guests.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, semi serious, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
satire, political satire, female comedian, sketch, social commentary, social satire, stand up comedian, politics, humour, comedian, political humor, gender ...
Similarity:
43%
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 ...
Style:
black comedy, family saga, tragicomedy, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
social commentary, dark humor, cold war, irony, satire, political satire, generation gap, autobiography, bureaucracy, slice of life, domestic drama, nostalgia ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, absurd, cynical, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social satire, bourgeoisie, hypocrisy, political satire, infidelity, corruption, male protagonist, character study, love triangle, urban, favela, female nudity ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
friendship, living together, escapades, stealing money, road trip, neighbor neighbor relationship, wedding, economic crisis, social commentary, social satire, satire, unemployment ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
42%
267
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her ...
Style:
black comedy, ironic, cynical, dark comedy, dark ...
Plot:
corruption, high society, hypocrisy, bourgeoisie, social satire, satire, aristocracy, scandal, moral ambiguity, class conflict, urban, political satire ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
Style:
sexy, anthology, sex comedy, light hearted, black comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, satire, social satire, marriage, middle class, farce, adult humor, infidelity, naked woman, bureaucracy, film industry, provincial life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Hot Property is an (un)romantic comedy about love, greed and estate agents. Melody Munro is a corporate spy with a big problem - she’s spending everything she has and a few things she hasn't on her lavish lifestyle. But when she gets caught ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, rebel, social satire, greedy woman, real estate agent, hipster, love, love interest, disturbed individual, irony, greed, mentally unstable ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, funny, entertaining, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, corruption, prison, politics, satire, political corruption, stupidity, society, rivalry, disorder, police officer, buddies ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Félix rebolledo es un proxeneta dueño de un cabaret, dos bingos y tres casas de citas. Ahora se propone abrir una sala de fiestas, y para ello cuenta -como siempre lo ha hecho- con el apoyo del Obispo, al cual tiene sobornado con frecuentes ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, period drama
Plot:
pimp, bishop, prostitution, cabaret, mayor, corruption, religious hypocrisy, satire, power struggle, political satire, scandal, nepotism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
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:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In 'Live Action', young psychiatrist Henry Carstairs moves into an apartment building filled with lonely, sex starved women. This soap is interrupted several times by sexy ads.
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, satirical, black comedy, lighthearted ...
Plot:
sexual frustration, voyeurism, sexual obsession, dark humor, sexually liberated, sleaze, sketch, urban, character study, intimate, sex, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all ...
Style:
dark comedy, period piece, parody, surprise ending
Plot:
inheritance, satire, deception, manipulation, scheming, greed, social satire, irony, farce, blackmail, betrayal, corruption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Filthy Rich Filthy Uncle Phil is the tale of Pierce Pierson, the Eternal Izod Ingrate (an acrid sneer, frozen in the yuppie bilge of circa 1987), who disrespects his house-proud spouse and pays excessive lip service to his ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, queer cinema
Plot:
materialism, greed, corruption, satire, inheritance, consumerism, ethical dilemma, misogyny, decadence, exploitation, ambition, social satire ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
For Raquel and Peter Jacobs, getting their little boy George into the prestigious Le Chance Academy is going to be a lot harder than they expected.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
elitism, parenting, social satire, moral dilemma, social climbing, satire, moral ambiguity, cover up, family drama, class conflict, guilt, humiliation ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Style:
satirical, parody, dark comedy, comedy drama, black comedy ...
Plot:
nun, convent, abbess, corruption, power struggle, political satire, catholic church, manipulation, intrigue, scandal, scheming, female rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome ...
Style:
sex comedy, lighthearted, parody, slapstick, black comedy
Plot:
hospital, nepotism, corruption, professional rivalry, bureaucracy, irreverent, scandal, political satire, fraud, social commentary, farce, satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
35%
149
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film is Álex Montoya's first feature film: an interesting adaptation of the play La gente by Juli Disla and Jaume Pérez, also screenwriters of the film. The emergence of assembly groups after the political movements after 2011 served ...
Style:
satirical, thought provoking, witty, social, mockumentary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
democracy, satire, single, character study, irony, intimate, moral ambiguity, bureaucracy, urban, slow burn, claustrophobia, portrait ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Style:
funny, parody, witty, clever, satirical ...
Plot:
culture clash, satire, politics, nothing goes right, stand up comedian, sarcasm, farce, society, actor's life, islam, business, simulated reality ...
Place:
india, middle east, new delhi, asia, pakistan ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Tucci family discovers that they have not really lost all their money and, refusing to pay Italian taxes, decides to turn Torresecca into a tax haven, relying on a post-Italian unification bureaucratic oversight.
Style:
feel good, lighthearted, family comedy, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, tax evasion, small town, family problems, eccentric family, money problems, humour, political humor, escapades, family life, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
34%
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