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It's a Hard Life (1964)
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It's a Hard Life (1964)
Original name: La vita agra
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Licenziato dai padroni della miniera presso cui lavora come responsabile dei servizi culturali, Luciano Bianchi decide di vendicarsi, anche per scuotere l'opinione pubblica sulla morte di alcuni minatori avvenuta in una grave sciagura sul lavoro. Raggiunge perciò Milano, con l'intento di far saltare con la dinamite la sede centrale della miniera. In città conosce Anna, giovane corrispondente di un giornale di sinistra, della quale s'innamora. Per poter sopravvivere nella metropoli, senza lavoro, Luciano si arrangia a fare il traduttore per una casa editrice; ma, dopo un pò, trova la sua ispirazione nel produrre e realizzare spot pubblicitari. Questo lavoro, che egli disprezza, farà venir fuori tutta la sua genialità e gli consentirà, addirittura, di ottenere un'ottimo lavoro presso la stessa società che lo aveva licenziato. La vendetta sembra ormai dimenticata e con essa la moglie ed il figlio lasciati in provincia. Vorrebbe costruire una vita "tranquilla" con Anna, ma l'amore ...
Plot: revenge, terrorist, cheating wife, police officer, police, advertising, mine, wife, director, bomb, working class, satire, strike, son, unfaithful wife, town, broken dream, unfaithful husband
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: italy, turkey, milan italy
Keyword: swiss

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, entertaining and captivating films with plots about female nudity, satire, police, police officer, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship and disorder mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like It's a Hard Life: The New Monsters (1977), Police Chief Pepe (1969), Evil Thoughts (1976), 15 from Rome (1963), We Want the Colonels (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The New Monsters (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever ...
Style: anthology, black comedy, dark comedy, grotesque
Plot: police officer, satire, homelessness, restaurant, police, hospital, priest, hitchhiking, funeral, kidnapping, mafia, homeless ...
Place: italy, rome italy
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: woman with a gun, police officer, dual identity, female nudity, prostitution, doctor, police, prostitute, politics, corruption
Time: 70s
Place: italy
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94%
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Evil Thoughts (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milano. He and his wonderful wife Francesca have an intense high social life. But Mario has a problem. He is obsessed by bad thoughts (cattivi pensieri); he is always concerned about his wife, ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sex comedy
Plot: female nudity, erotica, jealousy, adultery, sex scene, female pubic hair, terrorist, sex, cuckold, male nudity, cuckolded husband, jealous husband ...
Time: 70s
Place: milan italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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15 from Rome (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Style: anthology, crying, detective, dark comedy, freeze frame
Plot: satire, television, lgbt, cheating wife, anton chekhov, dead body, bare chested male, reading the bible, cycling, flexing muscles, photography, shakespeare's othello ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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We Want the Colonels (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup ...
Plot: fascism, coup d'etat, military coup, satire, politics, right wing, democracy, fascist, italian army, curfew, military officer, italian soldier ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
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89%
The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
Style: slapstick comedy, slapstick, sex comedy
Plot: unfaithful wife, female nudity, extramarital affair, adultery, bank clerk, male full rear nudity, clothed female naked male
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Three episodes, three funny couples and many great italians actors.
Style: anthology, sex comedy
Plot: female nudity, holiday, female full frontal nudity
Place: italy
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87%
Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the ...
Plot: soldier, war for independence, italian history, vatican, italian army, italian soldier
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: italy, rome italy
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86%
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Appena un minuto (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba".
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: social problems, family problems, divorced man, slice of life, midlife crisis, lifestyle, satire, male protagonist, husband wife relationship, wife
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti ...
Style: hilarious
Plot: basement, joke, friendship between men, friend, clinic
Time: 80s
Place: italy, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
Plot: female nudity, sanity, public health, physician, nun, ambulance, envy, nurse, doctor, map, husband wife relationship, career ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the ...
Plot: politics, secret service, car, minister, carabinieri, auto mechanic, mother daughter relationship, female nudity, farce, unfaithful husband
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
A Beautiful Wife (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Miranda is a beautiful Italian girl, she is married to Mariano. They live in a village called Anghiari
Style: funny, feel good, sincere, satirical, light ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, family relations, male female relationship, family life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, love and romance, humour, satire, relationships ...
Place: italy
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The 1000-Euro Generation (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond ...
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, humorous
Plot: youth, friendship, infidelity, sex scene, love triangle, love and romance, female nudity, cheating girlfriend
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Everything Everything Nothing Nothing (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other ...
Style: funny, entertaining, political, humorous, idiotic
Plot: politics, satire, political satire, law enforcement, corruption, rivalry, society, disorder, dishonesty, silly humor, stupidity, buddies ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Countersex (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An anthology of sex themed stories
Style: anthology, sex comedy
Plot: bare chested male, professor, love, musician, student, husband wife relationship, cocaine, businesswoman, grandmother, married couple, sunday
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Birds of a Feather 2 (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as ...
Style: funny, sex comedy, surreal, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: transvestism, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, spy, transsexual, transvestite, transgender, farce, drag queen, gay subtext ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: italy, saint tropez, europe, sicily, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
White Collar Blues (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on Paolo Villaggio's books "Fantozzi" and "Il secondo, tragico Fantozzi", which are popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year, shown in a variety ...
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, slapstick
Plot: nothing goes right, disorder, satire, acid, workplace, goofy hero, boss and employee, power relations, workplace situations, down on your luck, bad luck, new year's eve ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Boss and the Worker (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.
Style: sex comedy
Plot: mansion, womanizer, factory, farm, working class, manager, imitation, psychiatrist, female nudity, sex, father in law, management ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Fascist (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to ...
Style: road movie, historical drama
Plot: fascism, italian fascism, nazi, resistance, ss, world war two, mission, enemy, prisoner, truce, italian history, civil war
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Anni ruggenti (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: fascism, ss, resistance, italian fascism, broker, fake identity, switching roles, unfaithful wife, carabinieri, fascist, cabaret, anti fascism ...
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the ...
Plot: religious, liberation theology, priest, politics, communism, cold war era, church, marriage, bolshevik, winner, insult, river ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Bodyguards - Guardie del corpo (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two former carabinieri find themselves doing the bodyguards to VIPs and starlet
Style: satirical, semi serious, ironic, captivating, entertaining
Plot: photo model, vulgar, nude model, irony, satire, humour, police partner, partners against crime, escapades, police officer, coworker, police ...
Place: rome italy
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82%
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My best enemy (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a man fires a hotel maid for stealing, the woman's son gets his revenge.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: friendship, fall in love, rivalry, love and romance, social differences, dishonesty, vengeance, working class, danger, blackmail, wedding, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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82%
Dragon Loaded 2003 (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cantonese pop star Ronald Cheng stars as spoiled rich kid Dragon Lung, who spends his days idly loafing with his fellow teenaged trust-fund brats, Sue-hei (Sam Lee) and Gold (Tat-ming Cheung). When the trio's frustrated fathers force their sons ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating, feel good
Plot: inheritance, police officer, police, friends, wealthy family, friendship, money, satire, rich man, police inspector, wealth
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Meet My Friend (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Marco Ferretti is an Italian manager who is young and beautiful, but he cannot stand the presence of women after a difficult affair. When Marco goes to London for an appointment, he meets four beautiful girls who disrupt his life with love.
Style: psychological, feel good, semi serious, satirical, captivating
Plot: promotion, male female relationship, satire, businessman, couple relations, relationships, changing lives, relationship vs career, lifestyle change, naked breasts, pretty woman, female nudity ...
Place: italy, milan italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Birds of a Feather (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her ...
Style: funny, cult classic, sex comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male to female cross dressing, transvestite, father son relationship, farce, drag queen, lgbtq, transvestism, gay parent, visitor, comedy of manners, gay couple ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, provence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Escort in love (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 35 year old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she finds to earn money in ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, light ...
Plot: unlikely couple, hidden identity, life turned upside down, prostitute, disorder, working class, couples, rich and poor, prostitution, sexual humor, relationships, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
I Made a Splash (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three girls share a flat in Milano in the '80s. Luisa is a beginner actress dreaming about a career in the show business, Angela is university student and Carlina a part-time teacher. One day Maurizio go to visit them. Maurizio is fallen asleep ...
Plot: aspiring actress, female student, female artist, theatre play, silent man, child, female teacher, magic realism, culture shock, waking up from a coma, shakespeare, nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Holy Tongue (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: theft, on the road, saint, church, surrealism, ransom, robbery, police
Time: 90s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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