Movies like An Average Little Man
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An Average Little Man (1977)
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Original name: Un borghese piccolo piccolo
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. For this, Giovanni will stop at nothing...
Style:
controversial, tragicomedy, ambiguous ending, italian comedy
Plot:
revenge, accountant, police officer, freemason, kidnapping, torture, bureaucracy, years of lead, freemasonry, secret society, ritual, vendetta, cruelty, family tragedy, heist, justice, loss, football, bank robbery, terrorist, dark humor, assassin, fishing, prisoner, burglar ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, suspenseful, neo noir and realistic films with plots about murder, shooting, shot to death, police officer, death, blood and gun mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like An Average Little Man: The Scopone Game (1972), Black Journal (1977), Flic Story (1975), Something to Hide (1972), Vendeta (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
tragicomedy
Plot:
millionaire, card playing, failed expectations, old woman, poverty, gambling, class differences, doctor, strangulation, burglar, visit, child murderess ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
Style:
pre war
Plot:
true crime, serial killer, female villain, dual role, girl fight, villain as protagonist, reading a newspaper aloud, nude, mental patient, mother issues, mute character, serial killer as protagonist ...
Time:
year 1938, 1930s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, serial killer, police detective, robbery, prison, heist, gangsters, mind game, police corruption, psychopath, track down, investigation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, 50s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
Style:
offbeat
Plot:
hitchhiker, small town, murder, manipulative girl, traumatized man, martyr syndrome, elderly man, car accident, dead child, rainstorm, police officer, psychological trauma ...
Place:
england, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Vendetta is an uncompromising thriller, an exciting story about revenge and the clash between two characters. Over the course of a few hours in a single day revenge intertwines the fates of a number of people. Which of them is the murderer, and who ...
Style:
non-linear, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, exciting ...
Plot:
loss of daughter, vigilantism, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, fight, death of daughter, hitman, revenge, murder, violence, suspense, underage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, grotesque
Plot:
police officer, homelessness, satire, restaurant, priest, funeral, kidnapping, hitchhiking, police, mafia, hospital, terrorism ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).
Style:
psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
police, vigilante, police officer, revenge, kidnapping, chase, boy, righteous rage, murder, ransom, betrayal, father ...
Place:
italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Style:
art house, semi serious, realistic, gloomy, humorous ...
Plot:
gangsters, factory, mafia, police, italian mafia, gang, city, family relations, immigrants, culture clash, sicilian mafia, disorder ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, new york, sicily, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An elderly woman decides to act on her own with a rifle as she gets fed up with injustice.
Style:
tragicomedy, psychotronic, allegory
Plot:
rich woman, czech village, killing a pet, justice, hunting, teamwork, death of dog, money, rich man, following someone, hunter, wheelchair bound ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, twisted, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
suspense, tunnel, heist, brother brother relationship, stolen money, gang, trap, robbery, criminal, gang of outlaws, thief, police detective ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts ...
Style:
psychotronic, surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
police, police officer, organized crime, sex crime, robbery, sexual abuse, sadism, murder, girlfriend, sex, female nudity, nude ...
Place:
italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes ...
Style:
slasher, surreal, campy, parody, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, female nudity, killing spree, telepathy, strangulation, rock concert, opera, police investigation, anonymous letter, abusive mother, serial killer as protagonist, dominant woman ...
Time:
80s
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, europe, belgrade, serbia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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, police officer, victimization, innocence, injustice, satire, husband wife relationship, prisoner, humiliation, immigrants, tragic event ...
Time:
60s
Place:
stockholm sweden, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, twisted, road movie, scary ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sexual abuse, exploitation, gang, rape, police, suspense, robbery, cult, violent, erotica, sex crime ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, neo noir, factual
Plot:
mafia, corruption, politics, prostitute, revenge, female nudity, drug overdose, church, murder, threesome, political corruption, gangsters ...
Time:
year 2011
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
David gets released from prison after long 22 years and he reaches the church to confess. He says to the priest that, he would kill 3 people. The priest informs this to the police. David starts his revenge by killing the DSP and escapes fooling ...
Plot:
revenge, rape, police officer, injustice, miscarriage of justice, church, loss of wife, framed for murder, pregnancy, imprisonment, kidnapping, christian ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
teenager, murder, business, family relations, money, corruption, mother, cover up, lawyer, police, love, teenage murderer ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform ...
Style:
realistic, tragicomedy
Plot:
theft, robbery, clown, kidnapping, youth, teenager, teenage boy, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, family relations, friendship, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico city, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
gang, revenge, kidnapping, vigilantism, murder, betrayal, justice, loss of son, vigilante, kidnapped boy, snow, fighting the system ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
norway, berlin germany, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge ...
Style:
serious, sad, exciting, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, prejudice, boy, black american, racism, fear, police, riot, funeral, satire, father son relationship, scam ...
Time:
50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, dark, breathtaking ...
Plot:
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Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
Style:
neo noir, campy, silent film, cult film, cult movie cast
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, central europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Terror reigns when Mimi, the son of a deported Don, along with his associate Jolly Rizzo wage a bloody war for control of the West Coast underworld, battling hordes of hard-boiled mobsters and deadly black pimps on their rise to the top!
Style:
cult film
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a ...
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
serial killer, prison, mental illness, killing spree, prison escape, crime spree, murder, male objectification, jail, teenager, newspaper, armed robbery ...
Place:
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31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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