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Too Afraid of Life or Splat (1988)
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Too Afraid of Life or Splat (1988)
Original name: Demasiado miedo a la vida o Plaff
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A superstitious middle-aged woman falls in love with a taxi driver, while trying to learn the identity of the unseen person tossing eggs at her.
Plot: taxi driver, satire, newlywed, mother-in-law, love, woman, egg, mother in law
Place: cuba

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about satire, love, relationships, love interest, male female relationship, relationship problems and woman mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Too Afraid of Life or Splat: Nada+ (2001), Death of a Bureaucrat (1966), Ryaba My Chicken (1994), Chilangolandia (2021), A Whole New Life (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nada+ (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Cuba, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens ...
Style: slapstick comedy
Plot: father daughter relationship, love, mother daughter relationship, boss, post office, green card, lottery, immigration, boredom, bureaucracy, happiness, letter ...
Place: cuba, miami, havana cuba
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95%
Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
Style: experimental, mondo, manga, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Plot: social satire, lawyer, anarchist, funeral, bureaucracy, nightmare, grave, satire, death, cemetery, bureaucrat, exhumation ...
Place: cuba, latin america
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53%
Ryaba My Chicken (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen.
Style: folk tale
Plot: satire, rural setting, talking animal, village, fire, money, egg, chicken, giant animal, soviet, toilet
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46%
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Chilangolandia (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mexico City, or "Chilangolandia," is a chaotic metropolis where millions of stories take place every day. Some of them are part of this fun comedy full of familiar characters and others that defy stereotypes. Ramiro is a taxi driver who ...
Style: satirical, funny, captivating, feel good, semi serious
Plot: relationships, money, escapades, love affair, taxi driver, money problems, love interest, satire, money falling through the air
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Whole New Life (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gianni is a taxi driver dissatisfied with his life. One day by chance he gets the opportunity to take possession of the villa and life of a billionaire on holiday.
Style: funny, feel good, light, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot: lifestyle change, mistaken identity, humour, comedy of errors, satire, fish out of water, taxi driver, changing lives, rich man, billionaire, wealth, taxi
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Guantanamera (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a ...
Style: road movie, manga, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: dark humor, on the road, love, feminist, philosophy, reflection, communism, satire, couples, friends, family relations, obsessive quest ...
Time: 90s
Place: cuba, caribbean, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Twelve Chairs (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death ...
Plot: cultural revolution, socialism, lion tamer, cuban revolution, jewelry, clown, circus, auction, fortune teller, priest, narration, chair ...
Place: cuba, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Love and Marriage (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
Style: anthology
Plot: male female relationship, satire, infidelity, vacation, husband wife relationship, farce, love, money, marriage, aristocrat, groom, sicilian ...
Place: italy
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What a Beautiful Surprise (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: What a lovely surprise tells the story of Guido (Claudio Bisio), romantic dreamer and a professor of literature in high school, whose life falls apart when buy the HIS girlfriend, with whom he lives for years, it leaves for another man. Paul (Frank ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, entertaining, satirical
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30%
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Old Fashioned (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting ...
Style: feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical, detective
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30%
Peter Cook & Co. (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A TV Special consisting of various sketches with the titular comedian and fellow comics in guest appearances.
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Un paraíso bajo las estrellas (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Like her mother before her, beautiful Sissy wants to be a dancer at the Tropicana, Havana's famous cabaret. But her father, Candido, forbids her to do so because of his ongoing grudge against Armando, his former rival and choreographer at the ...
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Place: cuba, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Niyazi Gul, the Galloping Vet (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Niyazi Gul, a veterinary surgeon leads what he considers a quiet life. He divides his time between teaching university students in the veterinary department and with his assistant Hediye's help, searching for the missing ingredient in a magic ...
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28%
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Bombs Away (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A cab driver becomes involved in a chase for a misplaced atomic bomb.
Style: independent film
Plot: atomic bomb, taxi driver
Place: seattle
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28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: romantic, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, satirical
Audience: date night
Plot: dating, looking for love, self discovery, love and romance, lifestyle change, introspection, relationships, satire, female protagonist, love triangle, in love, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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26%
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26%
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26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
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25%
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Duration: 98 min.
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25%
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Duration: 101 min.
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25%
My Mother-in-law Hates Me (2022)
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Country: Mexico, Chile
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Genre: Comedy
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Style: dark comedy, captivating, satirical, psychological, iconic
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25%
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