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Hot Dogs (1980)
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Original name: Les chiens chauds
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mr. Clean (Harry Reems) is a police detective who heads a special task force of the vice squad. Clean's by-the-book attitude makes him none too popular with his underlings, so they try to fake a sex scandal that will cause him to be fired from the force.
Style:
satirical, black comedy, retro
Plot:
vice squad, corruption, frame up, police procedural, investigation, conspiracy, power struggle, satire, social commentary, dark humor, humiliation, urban, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, character study, prostitute, female nudity, hand job, revenge, honor, nightlife, canuxploitation, boy scout, exhibitionist, vice ...
Time:
80s
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Most similar movies to Hot Dogs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, black comedy, dark comedy and tense films with plots about corruption, urban, satire, investigation, social commentary, moral ambiguity and dark humor mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Hot Dogs: Carom Shots (1963), Los chulos (1981), Attenti a quei P2 (1982), Paarijathaparvam (2024), The Honest One (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he ...
Style:
satirical, cynical, black comedy, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, murder, social climbing, office politics, dark humor, greed, power struggle, manipulation, debt, scheming, deception, satire ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
95%
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:
88%
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:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Two different gangs, one with Chaitanya, an aspiring filmmaker and his friend Harsha and another gang with Bar Seenu and his partner Parvathy, try to kidnap the same person which unfolds a big conspiracy.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, twisted, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, conspiracy, criminal underworld, ambition, investigation, morality, power struggle, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban, friendship ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
Style:
melancholic, tragicomedy, period drama
Plot:
money, turk, corruption, integrity, moral dilemma, social commentary, false accusation, bureaucracy, reputation, honor, character study, misunderstanding ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
64%
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:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Hammer, a well dressed well mannered young detective finds out the hard way that everything he know a has been a lie. After his partners suicide, via soup that was much much too hot. Hammer starts to notice a pattern in his crime scene that lead him ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, crime thriller, twisted, dark comedy ...
Plot:
investigation, corruption, murder, satire, conspiracy, betrayal, revenge, deception, police procedural, whodunit, friendship, suicide ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Black comedy "What's Your Emergency?" is a mockumentary style story about the police headquarters. Redundancy intimidate officials are working diligently as ever, but the call-outs this month will not give them a break. Moreover, one ...
Style:
black comedy, tension, mockumentary, dark comedy
Plot:
corruption, drug, police procedural, dark humor, cover up, satire, moral ambiguity, scandal, investigation, chaos, urban, office politics ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
friendship, society, chase, stranded, criminal gang, unlikely criminals, escapades, travel, gangster, mafia, criminal underworld, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
56%
417
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase.
Style:
action comedy, lighthearted, fast paced, slapstick, absurd
Audience:
adult
Plot:
car chase, satire, investigative reporter, social commentary, stolen goods, investigation, incest, gas, conspiracy, small town, crime investigation, political satire ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the ...
Style:
satirical, situational comedy, sitcom, absurd, black comedy ...
Plot:
farce, political satire, social commentary, cover up, absurdism, political corruption, scandal, chaos, dark humor, power struggle, rivalry, ridicule ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal of homosexuals.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, dark, political thriller ...
Plot:
covert operation, deception, double life, secret police, investigation, moral ambiguity, police procedural, sting operation, ethical dilemma, gay slur, paranoia, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, belgrade
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Story:
A small-time idol frame seller, hitches a robbery for quick money and this swirls into a big-time money hunt changing his life and others life forever and it's a divine decision which exemplifies the fact "what goes around comes ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, twist ending, suspense ...
Plot:
karma, moral dilemma, life changing, heist, fate, greed, robbery, redemption, social commentary, street life, small town, poverty ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Bulut and Müjde, who are forced to work together to get rid of a murder crime they did not commit, and find themselves in the middle of an adventure they never expected.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, twist ending
Plot:
nightclub, cover up, false accusation, murder mystery, secrets, scandal, male protagonist, betrayal, dark humor, danger, odd couple, nightlife ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In the shadows of the outskirts of Oslo, every criminal has their place until the economical meltdown. The luxury prostitute Wendy might have the key to the problem, or at least to the heart of the bank, the criminals and even the police.
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, crime drama, neo noir ...
Plot:
prostitute, corruption, criminal underworld, manipulation, greed, police, moral ambiguity, underground, investigation, betrayal, financial crisis, urban ...
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When his mistress threatens to expose the secret of their affair, a respected insurance broker seeks the help of his underworld brother to save his reputation.
Style:
tension, crime drama, suspenseful, noir, intense ...
Plot:
blackmail, secrets, reputation, infidelity, underworld, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, cover up, double life, betrayal, siblings, urban ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins ...
Style:
crime thriller, captivating, satirical, semi serious, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, police station, police procedural, satire, crime investigation, uncover truth, investigation, crime solving, teamwork, murder investigation, police investigation ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Nader saif eldeen and Afet elsherbiny are two competing Egyptians newspaper reporters who expose the truth but the Channel Manager rejects that for fear of government.
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, political satire, satire, humour, reporter, news reporter, female journalist, journalist, investigation, social commentary, corruption, urban ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A corrupt red oil kingpin enlists the aid of a female police officer to help find his son.
Style:
satirical, captivating, detective, psychological, fast paced ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, teamwork, cop, police, sleuth, female police detective, policewoman, female detective, police investigation, satire, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
Style:
black comedy, dark, absurd, dark comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
raf, satire, stasi, murder mystery, multiple suspects, business tycoon, flashback, social commentary, conspiracy, corruption, moral ambiguity, whodunit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Aaron Foley, a police officer on the rise, tries to escape from under the shadow of his father's legacy in Detroit by busting the rich and famous of Beverly Hills.
Style:
detective, lighthearted, action comedy, teen, neo noir
Plot:
fish out of water, police procedural, cop, class conflict, luxury, investigation, celebrity culture, glamour, high society, buddy cop, corruption, identity ...
Place:
beverly hills, detroit
Similarity:
39%
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:
melancholic, black comedy, humorous, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, social commentary, loneliness, character study, banking, bureaucracy, slice of life, social realism, survival ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When her son who lives in a single room is given an outrageous $1,000 water bill, a mother decides to become a detective and find out what is behind it.
Style:
satirical, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective ...
Plot:
mother, mother son relationship, investigation, satire, female protagonist, family relations, lawyer, female student, money, law student, uncover truth, student ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
dark comedy, twisted
Plot:
police, ambush, surveillance, nightshift, investigation, buddy cop, wiretap, eavesdropping, covert operation, urban, surprise twist, bartender ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brian Torro (Sean Dennison) has built his career -- and his sizable fortune -- on his ability to make people believe anything. When a client (Joe Reed) uncovers his ruse by chance and tries to blackmail him for 50 million euros, Torro's only ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, cynical, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
blackmail, greed, scam, con artists, deception, irreverent, arrogance, satire, british, social satire, corruption, forgery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
england
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Nepal
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Nirvaya Singh is currently the head of one of Nepal's most influential political parties, while his son Dik Vijay is deeply involved in criminal operations. When a political election is going to take place, Nirvaya becomes paralyzed, and Dik ...
Style:
masala, crime drama, satirical, black comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
corruption, political manipulation, corrupt politician, social commentary, father son relationship, rise to power, power struggle, satire, organized crime, family drama, urban, celebrity cameo
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A maverick cop and a meticulous detective join forces with a charming ex-hacker to solve an officer's disappearance and save Nice from disaster.
Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, tense, detective, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, partnership, danger, police procedural, maverick cop, conspiracy, corruption, cat and mouse, collaboration, urban, undercover, revenge ...
Place:
france, germany, hamburg germany, riviera
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
satire, friendship, social commentary, nepotism, favoritism, problem, social problems, friends, old friends reunited, investigation, reunited friends, humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florence
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wim and Kevin work at a laundromat. By day, things are boring, but when the sun sets they party in their clients’ clothes. During a party, they discover a chopped-off finger in a client’s suit’s jacket. The underhanded owner of the finger, his ...
Style:
suspense, black comedy, intense, dark comedy, tense ...
Plot:
danger, secrets, criminal underworld, urban, chase, moral ambiguity, dark humor, murder, betrayal, macabre, nightlife, violent ...
Similarity:
33%
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