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The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
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Original name: Nejkrásnější věk
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
Style:
satirical, slapstick, period piece, lighthearted, absurd, black comedy, black and white, nostalgic
Plot:
student, satire, bureaucracy, art school, humanism, sculpture, misunderstanding, social commentary, jealousy, sexuality, professor, class differences, slice of life, renaissance, painting, family drama, small town, female nudity, model, old man, repression, sculptor, irony, retirement, nudity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, dark comedy, black comedy and period piece films with plots about satire, social commentary, small town, slice of life, bittersweet, dark humor and family drama mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The Most Beautiful Age: The Firemen's Ball (1967), Tit for Tat (1978), All That Jack's (1980), Homolka and Pocketbook (1972), The Toth Family (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
satire, firefighter, political satire, corruption, bureaucracy, fire, husband wife relationship, confusion, fire brigade, small town, renaissance, farce ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new ...
Style:
period piece, slapstick, black and white
Plot:
teacher student relationship, education, high school life, social commentary, satire, discipline, moral dilemma, bureaucracy, misunderstanding, character study, everyday life, media satire ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, ironic, satirical, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
school, elementary school, satire, office politics, social commentary, intimate, hypocrisy, slice of life, bureaucracy, bittersweet, social realism, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - the granny and grandpa - arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for a holiday. They promise to each other that they will not spoil the quite ...
Style:
family comedy, lighthearted, feel good, slapstick, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
snow, unhappiness, ski resort, slice of life, family tradition, holiday romance, family relations, elderly, father son relationship, dancing, husband wife relationship, mountain ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the ...
Style:
dark comedy, sitcom, situational comedy, satirical, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, family home, military, satire, irony, social satire, awkwardness, social climbing, family drama, provincial life, class conflict, bureaucracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Fitter Hu Jianlin was transferred to the headquarters by accident when the group was laying off employees. He is full of jokes because he is incompatible with the environment of the big factory. Human resources manager Ma Jie, who was caught up in ...
Style:
satirical, lighthearted, feel good
Plot:
office, fish out of water, office politics, bureaucracy, social commentary, adaptation, factory, class differences, resilience, ambition, promotion, slice of life
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Style:
black comedy, allegory, period piece, philosophical
Plot:
renaissance, criminal underworld, opera, social commentary, gangster, satire, corruption, poverty, class struggle, moral ambiguity, literary, political satire ...
Time:
18th century, 1920s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, period piece, sitcom, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
death, car race, family drama, working class, social satire, social commentary, chaos, satire, mortality, grief, character study, realism ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place:
mexico city, south america
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick ...
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, trumpet player, family drama, border crossing, reconciliation, slice of life, dark humor, grandfather, midlife crisis, bittersweet, humanism ...
Place:
budapest, transylvania, hungary, eastern europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
Style:
realistic, humorous, thought provoking, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
railway, murder, train engineer, ordinary person, silly humor, disorder, old man, elderly, on the road, accident, cross country, socially awkward ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
serbia, eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Style:
satirical
Plot:
renaissance, road trip, communism, surrealism, robbery, female friendship, old woman, indigenous people, friend, friendship, suffering, male female relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lacchi, a happy-go-lucky mall-business man's proposed marriage with his lover Mounica gets into trouble when father of his first wife Baby, who happens to be a dog files a case in court against Lacchi demanding alimony.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, offbeat, satirical, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
divorce, alimony, social commentary, marriage, satire, class conflict, bigamy, irreverent, poverty, misunderstanding, slum, courtroom drama ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer ...
Style:
lighthearted, humorous, period piece, black and white, melancholic ...
Plot:
soldier, youth, barracks, male bonding, military, basic training, friendship, coming of age, slice of life, character study, sexual tension, boys and girls ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Johanna, the hostess of the parish house, does her utmost to ensure that everything goes according to plan. There is no room for error. The last thing Johanna needs is a busload of uninvited guests knocking on the door of the parish house on the eve ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
wedding, mother daughter relationship, wedding planning, workplace situations, workplace, female protagonist, satire, wedding preparations and rituals, family relations, relationships, culture clash, hospitality ...
Place:
finland, eastern europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who ...
Style:
period piece, slapstick
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, social commentary, children, political corruption, class conflict, high school life, social injustice, mentor, humanism, resilience, resistance, oppression ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
45%
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, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A Punjabi bus conductor falls in love with a Haryanvi girl, and then the comedy sets up when these different cultures get mingled up for marriage.
Style:
thrilling, semi serious, satirical, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
punjabi, marriage, male female relationship, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, love story, culture clash, satire, love interest, small town, matchmaking ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style:
art house, cynical, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, one night stand, factory worker, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, renaissance, small town, youth, satire ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czechoslovakia ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, black humor, tragic
Plot:
sexual intercourse, aids, promiscuity, male friendship, satire, social commentary, branding iron, sexually liberated, casual sex, mortality, existential crisis, infidelity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, prague
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, period piece
Plot:
women, escape, female empowerment, solidarity, poverty, empowerment, friendship, working conditions, determination, working class, village life, resilience ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
jealousy, funeral, mourning, grief, obsession, anxiety, irony, depression, guilt, domestic drama, family conflict, shame ...
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, when meat sale is prohibited nationwide, an 11-year-old girl goes on a quirky adventure in pursuit of a forbidden chicken curry.
Style:
lighthearted
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
child protagonist, small town, curiosity, slice of life, coming of age, social commentary, moral dilemma, determination, bittersweet, heartwarming, nostalgia, political satire ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with ...
Style:
comedy drama, satirical, period piece, educational, political ...
Plot:
women's liberation, feminism, equality, gender roles, women's rights, sisterhood, sexism, female empowerment, female reporter, mother daughter relationship, social satire, social commentary ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, tragic
Plot:
aids, branding iron, social commentary, secrets, family drama, family secret, diagnosis, prejudice, sexuality, taboo, misunderstanding, lgbtq ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A modern remake of the classic movie where our main characters meets unforeseen troubles and bureaucracy when they build a new house. A hopeless and hilarious meet with the system.
Style:
situational comedy, humorous, sitcom, family comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
bureaucracy, husband wife relationship, social satire, mother son relationship, satire, social commentary, family conflict, chaos, farce, escape, real estate, small town
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse ...
Plot:
argument, father in law daughter in law relationship, quarrel, overweight woman, grandparents, family life, one day, smoking, father son relationship, anger, husband wife relationship, female nudity ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style:
thought provoking, avant garde, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy girl relationship, renaissance, adolescence, parent child relationship, youth, shoplifting, smoking, teenage boy, teenager in love, daydreamer, boys and girls ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why ...
Style:
satirical, thought provoking, art house, intellectual, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, evolution, anthropology, vietnam war, college student, social commentary, sleaze, coming of age, satire, museum, college, student ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities by having her ex-boyfriend kidnap her 11-year-old daughter for a month.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, satire, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, desire for fame, ex boyfriend, lifestyle, ambitious woman, ambition, celebrity, family life, aspiration, escapades ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Onur is sacked from his job as manager of a pharmaceutical company. He’s not too bothered about being unemployed, but the same cannot be said of his wife Bahar. Onur doesn’t listen to her and becomes indifferent not only to her anxieties but ...
Style:
absurd, melancholic, satirical
Plot:
marital crisis, character study, indifference, family conflict, unemployment, slice of life, intimate, alienation, midlife crisis, deadpan, existentialism, dark humor ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
33%
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