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La avispita Ruinasa (1983)
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La avispita Ruinasa (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Ruinasa is a holding company dedicated to leisure and, why not say, to vice. But these businesses are about to go bankrupt. To avoid this, sincehis prestige is at stake, a company dedicated to protecting various groups of gangsters takes over the holding. However, as they are not specialists in these matters, the company is going even worse and they get together to try to find solutions
Style: parody
Plot: corporation, blackmail, casino, political satire, economist, business, prostitution, corruption, manager, prostitute, football player, businessman, horse race, accountant, corrupt businessman, ex prostitute, crooked businessman, gangster, submachine gun, asian stereotype
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, parody and semi serious films with plots about satire, prostitute, female nudity, business, prostitution, corruption and disorder mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like La avispita Ruinasa: Los chulos (1981), Wait for Me in Heaven (1988), The National Shotgun (1978), Tax Season (1989), Lady of the Evening (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Los chulos (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Félix rebolledo es un proxeneta dueño de un cabaret, dos bingos y tres casas de citas. Ahora se propone abrir una sala de fiestas, y para ello cuenta -como siempre lo ha hecho- con el apoyo del Obispo, al cual tiene sobornado con frecuentes ...
Plot: bishop, pimp, pretending to be gay, cabaret, prostitution, mayor, vice, gay stereotype, striptease, loss of virginity, blackmail, prostitute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Wait for Me in Heaven (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, ...
Style: biting, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: francisco franco, spanish civil war, satire, politics, kidnapping, disorder, society, hidden identity, switching roles, state affairs, dishonesty, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The National Shotgun (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm ...
Style: parody
Plot: female nudity, corruption, francisco franco, machine, hunting, business, high society, politics, surrealism, absurdism, killing an animal, sex ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1972
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 3.0
 37
Tax Season (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man in a three-piece-suit from Cleveland buys the Hollywood tax service for cheap. His first big client accidentally gives him his account ledger with details of his cocaine trafficking. The pair then run around a country club before opening ...
Style: independent film
Plot: bookies, horse race, finance, secretary, prostitute, taxes, scam, drug dealer, actress, prostitution, cocaine, call girl ...
Time: 80s
Place: cleveland ohio, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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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 ⇓
63%
En busca del polvo perdido (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A man is a famous sexologist and in his office, helped by a wonderful black nurse, he attends to his clientele.
Style: erotic, anthology
Plot: sex scene, making love, impotence, shyness, sex addict, dominatrix, satire, prostitution, impotent husband, oral sex, lesbianism, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: gambling, bookies, casino, gangster, forces of nature, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, ambition, dishonesty, contests and competitions ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Head for Business (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: embezzlement, bank, cons and scams, unlikely criminals, programmer, embezzler, filmmaking, greed, business, satire, stock broker, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, new york, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Vorne ist verdammt weit weg (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: businessman, manager, cash, rumor, employee, industrialist, speculation, son, sexual perversion, social criticism, limousine driver, replacement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Spanish Movie (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Grandes dosis de humor, ingeniosos guiños a nuestro cine patrio más reciente, un elenco artístico altamente ligado a la comedia y una elevada reserva de sorpresas constituyen los ingredientes de esta disparatada comedia: Spanish Movie.
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: silly humor, maid, haunted house, disorder, artists and showbiz, servant, supernatural power, farce, nanny, profanity, chambermaid, transvestite ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Juana C. The Movie (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman from a far off province is sent to study in a prestigious Manila university. But she gets caught up in the wrong crowd and ends up becoming a high class prostitute. Her surprising skill gives her access to the most powerful figures in ...
Plot: satire, billboard, scientist, corruption, politician, prostitute
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Fantozzi Strikse Back (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
Style: cult classic
Plot: satire, hooligan, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, filmmaking, pride, accountant, bourgeoisie, redemption, theft, thief, clumsiness ...
Time: year 1990
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.5
 165K
Trading Places (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style: funny, hilarious, feel good, laugh out loud, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stock market, prostitute, switching roles, fish out of water, beggar, wrongful arrest, social satire, wager, rags to riches, poverty, investor, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, arizona, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.1
 357
The Gigolo 2 (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Fung, aka “King of the Gigolos”, is now ‘retired’ and running a nightspot in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong entertainment district. He takes on a rare new client, Monica, who has reluctantly turned to prostitution to pay her mother’s medical ...
Style: erotic, entertaining, captivating, sex comedy, humorous ...
Plot: prostitution, sex, sexual attraction, humour, sexuality, seductive woman, seductress, attempted seduction, erotic dream, erotic fantasy, seduction, training ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.2
 59
Sushi Sushi (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found
Plot: food, restaurant, college, satire, delivery man, capitalism, corporation, business, professor, success, motorcycle, buddy ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.3
 314
El periscopio (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Gemser plays one of a pair of sexy bisexual nurses living in an apartment building one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is only too happy to have the randy rug-munchers in the apartment above: whilst gorgeous Gemser is ...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: erotica, older younger relationship, female pubic hair, exploitation, erotic dream, sex, neighbor, voyeurism, hand job, coming of age, cheating wife, sexy nurse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Corporate Affairs (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A family man (Meyer) recent promoted to middle management at work immerses himself in a world of questionable personal and professional ethics by a colleague (Scott).
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: workplace romance, lifestyle, workplace, redemption, introspection, ambition, couples, workplace situations, love and romance, journalism, boss and employee, blind ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Style: funny, parody, satirical, witty, clever ...
Plot: culture clash, satire, politics, sarcasm, stand up comedian, farce, nothing goes right, islam, society, actor's life, business, political satire ...
Place: india, middle east, new delhi, asia, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.0
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Peruchazhi (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Jagannathan, a political advisor, is hired to help John, a politician in California. He employs various shrewd tactics to help John's party win the elections.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, spoof
Plot: political satire, election campaign, politics, rise to the top, advisor, prostitute, single mother, widow, proposal, indian lead, malayalam
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Shankar Dada Zindabad (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local dada and ATM (Any Time Murder) (Srikanth) is like his brother. Shankar is in love with Jahnavi (Karishma Kotak) who works at a radio station. She also owns the second innings house. The only problem is that she ...
Plot: social satire, political satire, thug, crooked businessman, delusion, library, lie, friend, sidekick, house, radio station, protest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.8
 109
Sex Crazy (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Nono is a young schizophrenic who believes himself destined to stop the global arms race. He has always lived alone with his overwhelming mother, now he meets crazy Ramon.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, erotic ...
Plot: mental institution, lust, misogynist, mental illness, sexual abuse, sexual relations, fish out of water, chaos and mayhem, paranoia, hallucination, accidental killing, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 8.2
 4K
A Tight Spot (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he ...
Style: cult classic
Plot: clerk, economist, overpopulation, corruption, economics, father son relationship, teacher, brother sister relationship, motorcycle, lawyer, father daughter relationship, slacker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 5.4
 49K
The Boss (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Style: humorous, absurd, parody, hilarious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing
Plot: business, foul language, betrayal, women, stereotypes, redemption, greed, stupidity, fired from the job, entrepreneur, prison, mentor ...
Time: year 2016
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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 ⇓
38%
Welcome to Gomorrahland (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After an irreverent TV show makes people less afraid of the Camorra, the actors begin receiving threats from the criminal organization.
Style: parody, semi serious, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: gang, gang member, criminal gang, satire, unlikely criminals, bandit, gangster, escapades, camorra
Place: naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Rotwang Must Go! (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
Style: parody
Plot: raf, satire, female nudity, stasi, terrorism, assassination, blackmail, terrorist, german reunification, buggy, tennis racket, studio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Midas Touch (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A debt collector takes over the management of a group of starlets after their talent agent defaults on a loan, but soon finds he's in over his head.
Style: funny, humorous, satirical, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: entertainment, showbiz, business, satire, businessman, escapades, pop star
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Young Doctors in Love (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An "Airplane!"-style spoof of hospital soap operas: a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; there's a mafioso on the loose disguised ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, sexy, medical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical, hospital, gangster, satire, medicine, love and romance, christmas, nudity, business, humour, hitman, nurse ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.6
 77
Mastergate (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
Style: parody
Plot: satire, theatre play, political satire, right wing, u.s. congress, politics, congressman, hearing, government, politician, movie studio, president ...
Place: washington d.c., central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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