Movies like They All Died Laughing
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They All Died Laughing (1964)
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Original name: A Jolly Bad Fellow
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film
Plot:
murder, poison, gas, older man younger woman relationship, extramarital affair, dead woman, university professor, lab rat, world, woman smoking cigarette
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, black comedy, independent film and humorous films with plots about murder, dark humor, female nudity, murderer, disorder, satire and bare breasts mostly in Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like They All Died Laughing: Cheap Shots (1988), Getting Away with Murder (1996), Lady of the Evening (1975), The French Guy (2005), A Severed Head (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 92 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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