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Shakespeare In... And Out (1999)
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Shakespeare In... And Out (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the 1980s, a filmmaker begins a project to record the life of an average kid. In Perry, Ohio, he picks Rich Longfellow, a shy lad, and begins filming. Soon after, he dies in Mozambique. Sixteen years later, his son continues the project, finding Rich, now 23, in L.A., with dreams of being a Shakespearean actor, getting experience in porn films. We meet Betsy, Rich's sensible girlfriend, Lee, the impatient producer, and Carmichael, a director with artistic pretensions who inspires Rich. Problems with Besty and tension on the set bring Rich to a crisis; when his boyhood friend starts a Shakespeare company that tours nursing homes in the San Fernando Valley, Rich sees a way out.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, spoof, black comedy, mockumentary, dark comedy, parody, fake documentary, cult film
Plot: aspiring actor, movie business, sex, dark humor, jealousy, shakespeare, backstage, retirement home, groupie, filmmaking, satire, twenty something, sexual humor, sex talk, sex spoof, amateur theater, pornography, film making, cult

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, humorous, independent film and black comedy films with plots about satire, filmmaking, female nudity, dark humor, profanity, artists and showbiz and showbiz mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Shakespeare In... And Out: Cookies & Cream (2008), That's Adequate (1989), Portraits of Women (1970), Living in Oblivion (1995), What Just Happened (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cookies & Cream (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A racially mixed single mother accepts an amateur porn gig to take care of her daughter and herself.
Style: sexy, erotic, independent film
Plot: porn industry, trust, hidden camera, billiards, single mother, dating, smoking, mother, daughter, porn, pornography, webcam ...
Place: new york
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That's Adequate (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to ...
Style: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, fake documentary
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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: murder, movie business, vatican, filmmaking, film industry, satire
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Portraits of Women (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s ...
Style: parody, sex comedy
Plot: nudity, sex spoof, porn industry, erection, movie business, society, filmmaking, irony, social criticism, women, criticism, male nudity ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: finland
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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What Just Happened (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, hollywood, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, workplace, disagreement, workplace situations, satire, father daughter relationship ...
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Place: los angeles, usa, cannes
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynthia accidentally overdoses and with deadlines looming they decide to use her corpse to continue ...
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Quiet as a Mouse (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.
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27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 59 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
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Style: mockumentary, independent film, aesthetic, cult classic, experimental ...
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Time: year 1967, 60s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
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Country: Australia, USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
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Style: surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, erotic, mind bending ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Style: black and white, philosophical, cult classic, postmodern, talky ...
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21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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