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The Big Mess (1971)
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Original name: Der große Verhau
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.
Style:
black comedy, buddy comedy, experimental, independent film, bizarre, cult film
Plot:
dystopia, smuggling, satire, monopoly, bureaucracy, piracy, social commentary, surrealism, theft, class struggle, anti establishment, anti hero, farce, moral ambiguity, distopia, ufo, space opera, odd couple, outer space, cyberpunk, politics, economics, salvation, utopia, astronaut ...
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Most similar movies to The Big Mess
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out black comedy, surreal, absurd and satirical films with plots about satire, social commentary, dystopia, dark humor, surrealism, political satire and moral ambiguity mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Some movies like The Big Mess: Fascists on Mars (2006), Punch the Clock (2016), Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986), The Sex Machine (1975), Gaganachari (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1938 a group of fascists led by the general Gaetano Maria Barbagli decides to invade the planet of Mars.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, black comedy, surreal, parody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mars, fascism, satire, surrealism, martian, political satire, outer space, dictatorship, irreverent, ridicule, authoritarianism, absurdism ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a forgotten corner of the vast Brazilian bureaucracy, a psychotic boss uses a time machine to enslave his lazy employees and increase productivity.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, surreal, slapstick, black humor
Plot:
travel, satire, social commentary, office politics, political satire, absurdism, enslavement, irreverent, mad scientist, moral ambiguity, dystopia, claustrophobia ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the 21st century, prisoners aboard penitentiary space ships explore unknown worlds. Scope, one of the prisoners is sent on a planet though to be lifeless, until he found "Humans" on it.
Style:
bleak, futuristic, black comedy, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, exploitation, dystopia, public execution, space exploration, space station, surrealism, social commentary, satire, psychological torment ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, futuristic, black comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
orgasm, erotica, invention, nudity, satire, sexuality, sexually liberated, social commentary, laboratory, mad scientist, dystopia, camp ...
Time:
near future, 2030s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A dystopian comedy that takes place in the 2040's, where an apartment inhabited by three problematic bachelors soon becomes a haven for an extra-terrestrial female fugitive.
Style:
humorous, absurd, buddy comedy, fast paced, slapstick ...
Plot:
dystopia, extraterrestrial, satire, confined, social commentary, dark humor, roommate, bachelor, irreverent, female alien, culture clash, unhappiness ...
Time:
2040s, near future
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, satirical, dark comedy, light hearted ...
Plot:
satire, political satire, greek, farce, island life, national identity, weapon of mass destruction, bureaucracy, plane crash, irreverent, social commentary, absurdism ...
Time:
year 1967
Place:
greece
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle ...
Style:
experimental, independent film, bizarre
Plot:
conspiracy, alien, satire, flying saucer, betrayal, space, astronaut, love letter, invasion, ufo, college, experimental music ...
Place:
latin america, america, usa
Similarity:
64%
257K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy ...
Style:
parody, dark comedy, absurd, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
ufo, mars, alien invasion, flying saucer, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, dark humor, disaster, catastrophe, alien abduction, outer space ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place:
washington d.c., usa, kentucky, kansas, taj mahal ...
Similarity:
62%
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30K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and ...
Style:
parody, spoof, futuristic, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
space travel, satire, deep space, artificial intelligence, space opera, alien, philosophy, space exploration, alien invasion, imagination, moon, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 22nd century
Place:
malibu california
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, absurd
Plot:
male nudity, social experiment, privacy invasion, television, satire, media manipulation, dystopia, surrealism, propaganda, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, consumerism ...
Time:
70s, future
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war...
Style:
futuristic, dark, tense, bleak, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space opera, star wars, space, political intrigue, civil war, galaxy, moral ambiguity, survival, dystopian future, anti hero, existential crisis, character study ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and ...
Style:
dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, post apocalyptic, absurdism, nuclear holocaust, distopia, satire, epidemic, apocalypse, nuclear bomb, bombing ...
Time:
year 1969, future
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An alien from the planet Antoria lands on Earth and is promptly assaulted by the porn producer Gerhard Hornbacher, who steals his "form changer". Hornbacher sees this as a way to make money and founds the spiritual TV channel ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, independent film
Plot:
alien, scam, greed, satire, social commentary, exploitation, fraud, con artists, media manipulation, manipulation, identity theft, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
buddy comedy, atmospheric, dark comedy, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
theft, ransom, religion, misadventure, heist, satire, escape, moral ambiguity, blue collar, moral dilemma, crisis of faith, odd couple ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Questioning the world we live in. An outrageous Los Angeles producer sets out to make the most extreme and controversial Reality Television show ever, but gets more than he bargained for.
Style:
thought provoking, black comedy, absurd, independent film, mockumentary ...
Plot:
satire, manipulation, social commentary, political satire, terrorism, controversy, dark humor, entrapment, corporate greed, anti establishment, propaganda, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Aliens return to earth after 10 million years to see what has become of the human experiment they have created only to be disappointed by what they find. After landing they come upon Vernon a homeless bum and decide that earthlings are untidy and ...
Style:
sex comedy, absurd, cult classic, surreal, black comedy ...
Plot:
camp, dark humor, toilet humor, satire, monster, killer, urban, body horror, alien invasion, romantic obsession, social commentary, homelessness ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
48%
46K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Style:
futuristic, funny, surreal, slapstick, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
satire, dystopia, robot, cryogenics, distopia, time travel, cloning, resistance movement, food, surrealism, dystopian future, imagination ...
Time:
future, 70s, 22nd century, year 1973, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alekos is a young writer, who faces a creative block, can not find any meaning and redemption in his reality, wasting himself among adventurous romances and dangerous friendships.
Style:
black comedy, tragicomedy, moody
Plot:
infidelity, surrealism, creative block, dark humor, existentialism, loneliness, anti hero, travel, desperation, nihilism, bittersweet, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises ...
Style:
avant garde, black comedy, transgressive, surreal, bleak ...
Plot:
dystopia, junkyard, surrealism, post apocalypse, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, punk rock, post apocalyptic, absurdism, anti establishment, christ allegory, counterculture ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Enrico has a troubled relationship with his wife, daughter and lover. For this reason he decide to download all of them and to dedicate himself to peace. In fact he has been attracted by the waiter-robot of a friend, and so Enrico asks him to sell ...
Style:
period piece, psychological thriller, black comedy
Plot:
jealousy, robot, gender roles, male chauvinism, machismo, sexism, satire, social commentary, androids, male protagonist, artificial intelligence, infidelity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, rome italy, new york
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. ...
Style:
atmospheric, mysterious, surreal, melancholic, mystical ...
Plot:
alien, innocence, childhood, friendship, boy, village, coming of age, symbolism, respect, misunderstanding, extraterrestrial, magic realism ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.
Style:
psychological, anthology, thought provoking, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
feminist, women, satire, feminism, lifestyle, female protagonist, social satire, society, social problems, multiple storylines, social commentary, women's rights ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Z-grade horror flick "The Hideous Sun Demon" re-dubbed and re-edited into a monster-movie spoof about a suntan lotion that works from the inside out (it also has a certain side effect).
Style:
spoof, parody, ironic, absurd, black comedy ...
Plot:
mutation, satire, monster, body horror, small town, farce, cult, midnight
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
Style:
experimental, mockumentary, art house, not serious, humorous ...
Plot:
disaster, surrealism, immortality, bird, cinema, dialogue, underground, alternate history, found footage, worldwide chaos, chaos, disorder ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A long time ago, the so-called "Google Wars" engulfed the whole world in a deadly chain reaction. Civilization came to a grinding halt. But there is still hope. This is the story of a new beginning...
Style:
cyber, absurd, dark comedy, surreal, black comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, cyberpunk, post apocalyptic, satire, quest, journey, mutant, small town, monster, odd couple, epidemic ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
friendship, living together, escapades, stealing money, road trip, neighbor neighbor relationship, wedding, economic crisis, social commentary, social satire, satire, unemployment ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
40%
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 ...
Style:
satirical, road movie, fast paced, dark comedy, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
socialism, satire, treasure hunt, political satire, social commentary, irony, quest, greed, class conflict, farce, bureaucracy, inheritance ...
Place:
cuba, havana cuba
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted ...
Style:
retro, surreal, satirical, offbeat, black comedy ...
Plot:
ufo, suicide, private investigator, celebrity culture, private detective, media satire, experimental narrative, glory, space opera, nostalgia, underground, cross dressing ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. 'Plan 10 from Outer Space' is an eccentric comedy involving a ...
Style:
parody, independent film, absurd, surreal, offbeat ...
Plot:
alien, satire, camp, world domination, bee, prophecy, underground, conspiracy, female protagonist, prophet, small town, ambiguity ...
Place:
utah
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Style:
satirical, philosophical, light, clever, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
space travel, outer space, alien, space and aliens, fantasy world, sarcasm, robot, benign alien, spacecraft, friends, buddies, space opera ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 2000s
Place:
himalaya, madagascar, england, london
Similarity:
36%
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