Movies like In the Spirit

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In the Spirit (1990)
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In the Spirit (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers.
Style: independent film
Plot: murder, prostitution, odd couple, murderer, female protagonist, husband, apartment
Place: new york
Keyword: new age

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about murder, couples, disorder, friendship, love and romance, prostitution and odd couple mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like In the Spirit: Lesbo Killer Dolls (2014), Night Shift (1982), Grace Quigley (1984), Hollywood Palms (2001), Lady of the Evening (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lesbo Killer Dolls (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Gina and Alicia are prostitutes. But in reality they are killer. Her boss instructs them killing a pastor and sadomasochistic drug dealer, her lover, among other works. They enjoy their work and sexual lust.
Style: erotic, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy
Plot: murder, prostitute, voyeurism, priest, lesbianism, murderer, sex, erotica, prostitution, sexual fantasy, erotic fantasy, sexual abuse ...
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95%
 6.5
 18K
Night Shift (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: pimp, prostitution, friendship, sex club, nightlife, cons and scams, misfit, nightclub, anger, elevator, argument, gangster ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: insecurity, dating, single, family relations, family problems, couples, friends, thirtysomething life, religions or cults, gender, single parent, social misfits ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: new york, pennsylvania, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 5.7
 899
Grace Quigley (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. One day she witnesses a murder being committed by top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She decides to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends he ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: cannon, aging, euthanasia, killer, hitman, elderly, dishonesty, forgery, dark humor, murder, cons and scams, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Hollywood Palms (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, biting, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: dark humor, betrayal, introspection, lifestyle, buddies, human nature, friendship, showbiz, hollywood, murder, partner, thirtysomething life ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Lady of the Evening (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
Plot: prostitute, murder, dead woman, sex, gangster, redhead, planting evidence, prostitution, bare chested male, male objectification, off screen murder, dead woman on floor ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 4.5
 324
Baby on Board (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: taxi, driver, chase, gangster, hitman, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, chases and races, babies and infants ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Style: surreal, humorous, black and white, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, vigilante, vigilantism, investigation, false accusation, circus, disorder, danger, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, adultery ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, central europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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For Pete's Sake (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Style: hilarious, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Plot: money, loan shark, dishonesty, race against time, fall in love, love and romance, prostitute, nothing goes right, couple relations, screwball, couples, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 9.0
 13
Fake (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Story: Set amongst a tapestry of fairy tale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by an African American maid, Annie Mae. Michael is caught in a triangle of lies and deception by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends.
Plot: circus, murder, farce, wealth, rich
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62%
 7.3
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A New Leaf (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, funny, light, comedy drama ...
Plot: murder, love and romance, camping, woman, lawyer, nerd, acid, hidden treasure, writers, female protagonist, villain, bankruptcy ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.0
 279
Teen Lust (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kirsten Baker and Leslie Cedarquist are the Girls Next Door in this buoyant sexploitationer. The ladies move in bag and baggage into a sleepy suburban community. Before long, every husband in the vicinity has fallen for their charms. A few trousers ...
Style: grindhouse, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film
Audience: adult
Plot: teenage sex, teenager, prostitution, exploitation, women, female nudity, undercover, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Almost Hollywood (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this tasty blend of sleaze and thriller, a producer of exploitation and sex videos finds himself accused of killing his own mistress and the boyfriend of one of his most promising stars.
Style: independent film
Plot: hollywood, scam, murder, filmmaker, film within a film
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Unfinished Works Of Sean Weathers (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the early-2000s filmmaker Sean Weathers took 3 projects into production which he would not finish (Gangz vs. Cults, The Erotic Adventures of Samson & Delilah and Escape from Bloodbath Island).
Style: independent film, grindhouse
Plot: drug, blaxploitation, bare chested male, nudity, male nudity, lust, female nudity, sexploitation, bare breasts, exploitation, sex, death ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the ...
Style: talky, humorous, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, glbt, friendship, mistaken identity, lgbtq, farce, odd couple, gay interest, lgbt teen, gay straight relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The French Guy (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French artist struggling to put the finishing touches on his masterpiece finds his concentration repeatedly broken by the unusual sounds emanating from his neighbor's apartment in this black comedy from Ann Marie Fleming. Immediately ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: murderer, piano, frenchman, cannibalism, blood, violence, painter, murder, gay, young, string quartet, brain surgery ...
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51%
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Moving On (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
Style: semi serious, humorous, satirical, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: funeral, friendship, revenge, widower, murder, best friend, friends, murder investigation, troubled past, female protagonist, satire, problem ...
Place: ohio, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Trashology (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: College student Tracy (Laura Lee Black) has just received an assignment to write a report on her favorite film genre. In her research she discovers a book, now Tracy is taken into three interlocking tales of the unexpected. First in THE VAT, two ...
Style: anthology
Plot: satire, bad taste humour, gross out humor, murder, toilet humor
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 2.4
 38
Joker's Wild (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A jealous mobster chases a screenwriter, who likes his friend, from New York to the Caribbean.
Style: independent film
Plot: mafia, screenwriter, shark, femme fatale, mobster, jeopardy, mob
Place: miami, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.5
 45
The Sublet (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: lifestyle, misfit, life turned upside down, dull life, disorder, social misfits, money, goth, hitman, unlikely partners, friendship, murder
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Doctor Detroit (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, cult classic, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medical, prostitution, college professor, pimp, prostitute, teenager, voyeur, female nudity, voyeurism, nude, nude girl, blonde ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: chicago, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.4
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: disorder, couples, friends, unlikely couple, introspection, lifestyle, nothing goes right, odd couple, youth, small town, eccentric family, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Sing Sing (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is ...
Plot: prison, police detective, auto mechanic, murder, death in childbirth, piranha, chinese restaurant, maniac, assassination attempt, odd couple, mother, death ...
Place: buckingham palace, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Sleeping with the Fishes (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family. Alexis Fish is left broke and broken-hearted after the death of her cheating husband, working as a phone sex operator and a walking meatball hero. As she returns to her ...
Style: exciting, light, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: woman, female protagonist, relationships, love, couple relations, family problems, relatives, sister sister relationship, two sisters, male female relationship, love affair, husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.4
 32
Cheap Shots (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The owner of a sleazy hotel, along with his friend, decides to videotape a room that is rented by a sexually active couple. Inadvertently recording their murders, the men are soon faced with a dilemma as the killers come looking for the tape.
Style: dark comedy, independent film
Plot: hotel owner, hotel, gangster, peeping tom, murder, voyeur, buddy, video cassette, camera
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.6
 160
Gas (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Upon returning to Los Angeles to attend his father's funeral, Damon (Alexander) soon learns that in order to claim his share of the family inheritance he must work alongside his brother, Mookie (Kain) — a former drug-dealer who had previously ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: gas station, college, family relations, family business, odd couple, dealing with death, brother brother relationship, black, siblings relations, drug dealing, black cast, garage
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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41%
Mister America (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Heidecker beats a murder charge for selling faulty e-cigarettes at an EDM festival, and mounts a campaign to unseat the San Bernardino District Attorney. His effort to win voters tries to overcome a lack of experience and funding by leaning into the ...
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, cult classic
Plot: murder, revenge, politician, ambition, satire, politics, problem, political intrigue, political activism, political candidate, political satire, assassination ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.
Style: psychological, feel good, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, female protagonist, african american protagonist, dating, black, coming of age, friendship, society, youth, love, adaptation, escapades ...
Place: new york, ohio, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
 937
EGG (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.
Style: funny, captivating, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot: motherhood, surrogate mother, pregnancy, dispute, relationship problems, parents and children, women, pregnant woman, satire, conflict, parenthood, female protagonist ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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