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An Average Little Man (1977)
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An Average Little Man (1977)
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: dark comedy, black comedy, controversial, tragicomedy, ambiguous ending, crying, freeze frame, italian comedy
Plot: revenge, accountant, police officer, freemason, kidnapping, torture, justice, vigilante, worker, bureaucracy, european, years of lead, freemasonry, secret society, ritual, vendetta, cruelty, family tragedy, heist, loss, football, bank robbery, terrorist, dark humor, assassin ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, crying, black comedy and suspenseful films with plots about murder, death, police officer, shooting, police, blood and violence mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like An Average Little Man: The Scopone Game (1972), Black Journal (1977), Terrorist (2019), In Order of Disappearance (2014), Flic Story (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
 6.3
 520
Black Journal (1977)
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: freeze frame, entertaining, dark comedy, black comedy, crying ...
Plot: true crime, serial killer, female villain, biopic, mother issues, mute character, suspicious man, delusional woman, serial killer as protagonist, puritanism, dual role, predicting the future ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.4
 475
Terrorist (2019)
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, allegory, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: rural setting, murderer, woods, mobster, cycling, vigilante justice, immigrant, rich woman, killing a pet, unpunished crime, hunting, forest ranger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
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, dark comedy, noir, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, gangster, revenge, kidnapping, vigilantism, murder, snow, betrayal, justice, loss of son, kidnapped boy, winter ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Flic Story (1975)
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: serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, gangster, robbery, prison, law enforcement, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Mafioso (1962)
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: neorealism, dark comedy, poliziottesco, art house, hood ...
Plot: italian mafia, factory, gangster, mafia, police, cosa nostra, ghetto, city, gang, family relations, culture clash, immigrant ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: italy, usa, new york, sicily, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
56%
Something to Hide (1972)
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, independent film
Plot: xmas, hitchhiker, murder, small town, gas station, shooting, drunken woman, manipulative behavior, female criminal, investigation, manipulative person, chase ...
Time: year 1972
Place: england, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, melancholic, satirical, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, vigilante, loneliness, mental illness, violence, twists and turns, eccentricity, thief, police, vigilantism, neighbor, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2017
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
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: poliziottesco, detective, crying, psychotronic
Plot: vigilante, police, police officer, revenge, kidnapping, ransom, father, murder, massacre, betrayal, righteous rage, boy ...
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.8
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Vendeta (2011)
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, suspense, captivating, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Plot: vigilantism, loss of daughter, father daughter relationship, fight, revenge, violence, teenage girl, death of daughter, murder, hitman, photography, vigilante justice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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 ⇓
41%
Wave of Crimes (2018)
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, captivating, light, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: teenager, murder, business, family relations, police, mother, lawyer, cover up, corruption, money, love, grandmother ...
Place: basque country, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Under the Tree (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, tree, marital separation, revenge, adultery, unhappy marriage, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, husband wife conflict, missing person, small town, delusion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Last Supper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, intense, disturbing ...
Plot: politics, sexism, death, dinner, culture clash, vigilante, serial killer, murder, assassination, brainwashing, justice, propaganda ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Stressed to Kill (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After suffering a heart attack, Bill (Bill Oberst) takes his doctor's advice literally to eliminate the stresses from his life. The plan is working until his killings attract the attention of a psychotic cop (Armand Assante) who isn't sure ...
Style: intense, humorous, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Plot: karma, vigilante, justice, rudeness, murderer, death, poison, revenge, vengeance, retribution, stress, loss of wife ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
At the End of the Tunnel (2016)
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: suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, captivating, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tunnel, introvert, heist, surveillance, trap, investigation, police investigation, gang of outlaws, criminal, thief, robbery, police detective ...
Time: year 2016
Place: buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Strangler vs Strangler (1984)
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: dark comedy, horror musical, cult classic, horror comedy, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, female nudity, strangulation, killing spree, police investigation, anonymous letter, telepathy, rock concert, opera, badass, love letter, serial killer as protagonist ...
Time: 80s
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, europe, former yugoslavia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
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: poliziottesco, psychotronic, surprise ending
Plot: police, sex crime, police officer, organized crime, murder, robbery, sadism, sexual abuse, nudity, sex, female nudity, girlfriend ...
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.7
 15K
The Paramedic (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Unable to face his new reality in a wheelchair, Ángel develops a deadly obsession with the woman who left him and unleashes a sinister revenge plot.
Style: tense, suspense, emotional, intense, disturbing ...
Plot: violence against women, mental disorder, hidden identity, paraplegic, physical abuse, stalking, obsession, jealousy, murder, trauma, planned murder, macabre ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.2
 78K
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Norway, China, Canada, USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nels Coxman's quiet life comes crashing down when his beloved son dies under mysterious circumstances. His search for the truth soon becomes a quest for revenge as he seeks coldblooded justice against a drug lord and his inner circle.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, harsh, action comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, snow, winter, one man army, snowstorm, vigilante justice, vigilante, vigilantism, skiing, drug cartel, final showdown, life turned upside down ...
Time: 2010s
Place: colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, bloody, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, gory, violent, suicide, transplant, vigilante, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, ransom ...
Time: 2000s, y2k, year 2003, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
33%
10 to Midnight (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, male nudity, murder, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, red light district, serial rape, criminal, vigilantism, psychopath, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Freeway (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, suspenseful, bloody, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, little red riding hood, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, drug addiction, psychopath, brutality, prison, dysfunctional family, hitchhiker, murder, police investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
 7.7
 54K
Adam's Apples (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, humorous, black comedy, psychological ...
Plot: church, priest, religion, funeral, skinhead, racial slur, belief, cynic, prejudice, disability, existentialism, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, saudi arabia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
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 ...
Style: dark comedy, crying
Plot: female nudity, lawyer, courtroom, castle, disguise, retirement, mute character, prosecutor, learning the truth, traffic, manipulative person, horse ...
Time: 70s
Place: switzerland, italy, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, bleak, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, violence, murder, home invasion, vietnam war, revenge, exploitation, macabre, complex characters, vietnam veteran, homecoming, gunfight ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: texas, el paso texas, vietnam, asia, san antonio texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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