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The Couples (1970)
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The Couples (1970)
Original name: Le coppie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Three episodes. The refrigerator. A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their familiar balance sheet. To earn some money they decide to go for prostitution. The wife is not so unhappy to the perspective. The room. To celebrate ten years of marriage a couple decides to spend a quick holiday in top luxury hotels in Sardegna. But the fashion luxury VIP world is too hard to enter; they soon will end in prison. The Lion. Two adulterous, Antonio and Giulia, are blocked by a lion, staying on the exit in the place they met. They both have to come back home, but couldn't move because of the lion presence. The critic situation soon drive them to their limit peak, showing their real essence.
Style: anthology, italian comedy
Plot: prostitution, hotel, lion, unfaithful wife, unfaithful husband, cheating wife, refrigerator
Time: 70s
Place: italy, turin italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anthology, realistic, dark comedy and humorous films with plots about female nudity, family relations, husband wife relationship, prostitute, priest, unfaithful wife and sex mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Couples: A Common Sense of Modesty (1976), While There's War There's Hope (1974), Police Chief Pepe (1969), The Queens (1966), Everybody in Jail (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
Style: anthology, sexy
Plot: sex, priest, female nudity, seduction, lesbian, male full rear nudity, lesbianism, porn magazine, film within a film
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
While There's War There's Hope (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: children, arms dealer
Time: 70s
Place: italy, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: woman with a gun, police officer, dual identity, female nudity, prostitution, doctor, police, prostitute, politics, corruption
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Queens (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses ...
Style: anthology, sex comedy
Plot: sexploitation, female nudity, car, love, joke, scotch whiskey, red wine, champagne
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Everybody in Jail (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take ...
Plot: carabinieri, bribe, investigation, jail, police, corruption, court, judge
Place: italy, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, surprise ending
Plot: father son relationship, surrealism, school, extramarital affair, prostitute, teacher, humiliation, entrepreneurship, taxes, retiring, nightmare, loss of wife ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The New Monsters (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever ...
Style: anthology, black comedy, dark comedy, grotesque
Plot: police officer, satire, homelessness, restaurant, police, hospital, priest, hitchhiking, funeral, kidnapping, mafia, homeless ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Scopone Game (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Style: crying, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot: millionaire, failed expectations, class differences, gambling, old woman, poverty, doctor, dead body, cooking, sick woman, rivals, passive aggressive girl ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All My Friends Part 2 (Italian: Amici miei Atto II) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is the sequel to Amici miei of 1975. The movie features Paolo Stoppa in one of his last roles. ...
Style: hilarious
Plot: joke, friendship between men, female nudity, friend, female full frontal nudity
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
Style: slapstick comedy, slapstick, sex comedy
Plot: unfaithful wife, female nudity, extramarital affair, adultery, bank clerk, male full rear nudity, clothed female naked male
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Oldest Profession (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) "The Prehistoric Era": A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face. And she can earn more seashells that way. 2) "Roman ...
Style: anthology, sex comedy
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, sex, erotica, exploitation, semi nudity, eroticism, dignity, male female relationship, female nudity, con game, marriage ...
Time: year 1967, 1890s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Movie box-ing (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: 2004 film
Style: anthology
Plot: omnibus
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Why (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man WHY?
Plot: bureaucracy, prison, nazi, police officer, gulag, injustice, victimization, innocence, satire, vacation gone wrong, psychiatric hospital, immigrant ...
Time: 60s
Place: stockholm sweden, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Three episodes, three funny couples and many great italians actors.
Style: anthology, sex comedy
Plot: female nudity, holiday, female full frontal nudity
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meets a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose ...
Style: anthology
Plot: circus, unrequited love, father son relationship, hippie, zoo, abusive boyfriend, topless
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With the intention of building a future in show business, Paco and Lisa flee to Barcelona in a stolen car. After unsuccessfully looking for work, The two youngsters will be immersed in crime
Plot: shakespeare, aspiring actress, hotel, stealing a car, casting, prostitution, model, sauna, world, young, photo shoot
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Tales of Paris (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her ...
Style: anthology
Plot: male female relationship, film producer, husband wife relationship, taxi, marriage, audition, sex, party, hollywood, actress
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Traffic Jam (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
Style: deep, road movie, weird
Plot: traffic jam, on the road, deception, stress, satire, traffic, male female relationship, smoking, dark humor, automobile, rape, claustrophobia ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Mimi is a Sicilian dockworker who loses his job when he votes against the Mafia candidate in what he thinks is a secret ballot. He leaves his wife behind and goes to Turin, where he meets and moves in with Fiore, a street vendor and Communist ...
Style: black comedy, political, cult classic, sexy, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, communist party, female nudity, affair, anarchist, age-gap relationship, women, woman, mafia, working class, satire, seduction ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: sicily, italy, europe, turin italy, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom ...
Style: black and white, sexy, hot
Plot: cuckold, adultery, bourgeoisie, jealousy, infidelity, husband wife relationship, flirting, sex scene, new house, antique shop, house party, stalking ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 3K
Tickets (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, anthology ...
Plot: train, self discovery, couple relations, on the road, society, couples, social differences, railway, soccer, migration, multiple storylines, football ...
Time: 90s, year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, dark, realistic ...
Plot: sexual promiscuity, family relations, poverty, greed, insanity, satire, social problems, incest, social injustice, lgbt, old age, badass ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, sexy, humorous ...
Plot: lgbt, woman with a gun, sexual content, fall in love, vengeance, love and romance, society, sex addict, couples, village, countryside, male rape victim ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, sicily, italy, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Kryptonite! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, family relations, imaginary friend, older sister, escape from reality, bittersweet, superhero, little boy, young boy, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Scent of a Woman (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: blind man, blindness, blind character, bitterness, road trip, disability, soldier, female nudity, suicide, twins, woman with a gun, circus ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Great! (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
Style: semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot: rivalry, friendship, actress, motorcycle, beach, motorcycle gang, young, pinball machine
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Girl in Australia (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Style: surprise ending, epic, crying
Plot: summer, hotel room, italian history, prostitute, bare chested male, sex for money, immigrant, barber, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, car wash, lifestyle change ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
Plot: female nudity, sanity, public health, physician, nun, ambulance, envy, nurse, doctor, map, husband wife relationship, career ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Sunday Lovers (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
Style: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, hot
Plot: 007, weekend, omnibus, castle, female nudity, affair, sex, love, psychiatric patient, disco, sex scene, suitcase ...
Time: year 1980
Place: italy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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My Friends (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Like in many other Monicelli movies, the main theme of Amici miei is friendship, seen from a rather bitter point of view. It tells the story of four middle-aged friends in Florence who organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy ...
Style: light, cult classic, hilarious, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: group of friends, female nudity, joke, dream, affair, prank, friendship, prankster, friendship between men, disorder, social relations, screwball ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, florence, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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