Movies like The Adding Machine

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The Adding Machine (1969)
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The Adding Machine (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Style: independent film, cult film
Plot: electric chair, accountant, employment, murder, job, afterlife
Time: year 1969

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Most similar movies to The Adding Machine

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, humorous and semi serious films with plots about murder, love and romance, couples, dishonesty, job, fall in love and disorder mostly in Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Adding Machine: Otley (1969), Strike It Rich (1990), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981), Generation (1969), Ealing Comedy (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Otley (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Style: independent film, spy comedy, eurospy
Plot: spy, intelligence, house, party, pistol, escape, chase, car chase, murder, airport, golf club, running ...
Time: year 1969
Place: london
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95%
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Strike It Rich (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
Style: independent film
Plot: accountant, gambling, money, honeymoon, yacht, debt
Place: london, monte carlo
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in ...
Plot: shakespeare, mistaken identity, unhappiness, magic realism, costume
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86%
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Generation (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter ...
Style: independent film
Plot: counterculture, hippie, pregnant bride, childbirth, father, daughter, baby born, pregnancy, home birth, pregnant wife, expectant father, generation gap ...
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Ealing Comedy (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Alfie Singh, accountant turned film producer, has a great idea for a film. It's called Ealing Comedy and it's about an accountant turned film producer called Alfie Singh. Alfie will play himself and his real son, Paul, will play his son in ...
Plot: family relations, filmmaking, rugby, accountant, teenage boy, film producer, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, celebrity guests
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
They All Died Laughing (1964)
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, extramarital affair, university professor, lab rat, dead woman, older man younger woman relationship, world, woman smoking cigarette
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Hotel (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary prima donna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the ...
Style: psychological, serious, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: murder, hotel, filmmaking, psychopath, obsession, couple relations, lifestyle, male nudity, male pubic hair, prostitute, cannibalism, satire ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, venice, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders ...
Plot: shakespeare, mistaken identity, abbey, twins, shakespeare play, costume, slapping, kicked in the butt
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet ...
Style: psychedelic, dark comedy
Plot: counterculture, machine, swing, hippie, eccentricity, fiance fiancee relationship, surrealism, underground, technology, mushroom, employment, factory ...
Time: future
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Zeroes (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When best friends, Ray and Kenneth, drunkenly foil a robbery, Philadelphia becomes abuzz with the antics of these local heroes.
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: nudity, comic book, halloween party, halloween, training, vigilante, violence, death, killing spree, kidnapping, blood, murder ...
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Bottom Live The Stage Show (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream.
Style: independent film, live comedy, alternative comedy
Plot: cabaret, sexual humor, fight, inflation, newspaper, poison, television, electric chair, attempted murder, stand up, fighting, eyeglasses ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 1969, the first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague: 13-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land as though on a completely different planet in the German economic wonderland.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating
Plot: family relations, life, parents, emigration, young
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Mystics (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: elderly, cons and scams, partner, buddies, nothing goes right, dark humor, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangster, con artists, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Three on a Spree (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: fortune, couples, love and romance, youth, inheritance, colonel, millionaire
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: murder, movie business, vatican, filmmaking, film industry, satire
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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In the Spirit (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is ...
Style: independent film
Plot: prostitution, odd couple, murder, murderer, female protagonist, husband, apartment
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Best House in London (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Style: sex comedy, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, brothel, victorian england, vengeance, dishonesty, gender bending, working undercover, sex scene, slut, farce, female nudity
Time: year 1969, 19th century
Place: london, india, europe, asia, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Unemployment of Danny London (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 8 min.
TV show
Story: When Danny London, a star PR guy, finds himself without a job due to layoffs, he struggles to adapt to his new life and those around him that just don't understand.
Plot: racial relations, coworker, unemployment, employment, job, race, friendship, husband wife relationship, interracial relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Ritz (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued ...
Style: funny, not serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, mistaken identity, lgbtq, trippy, advocate, farce, gay stereotype, pretending to be gay, gay subtext, mafia, disorder ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: mafia, conspiracy, gangster, violent content, unlikely criminals, assassination, dishonesty, criminal heroes, breakup, down on your luck, murder, job ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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45%
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A housewife, bored with her bra-manufacturer husband, who spends most of his time obsessed with classical music, strikes up an affair with one of his employees whom she hides in the attic--something both she and the lover find quite a suitable ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: factory, infidelity, love affair, workplace romance, bored housewife, adultery, swing, love triangle, unfaithfulness, wedding, dangerous attraction, danger ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including ...
Plot: backstage, drug, restaurant, television
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Fake (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Story: Set amongst a tapestry of fairy tale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by an African American maid, Annie Mae. Michael is caught in a triangle of lies and deception by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends.
Plot: circus, murder, farce, wealth, rich
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43%
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PBC (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: After finally quitting her job at a major public firm, Sarah finds herself as the Senior Accountant for SUNRYZER A.I., a fast-track to IPO tech start-up that is preparing for their annual year-end audit. While she's trying to make a good ...
Plot: accountant
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41%
Almost Hollywood (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this tasty blend of sleaze and thriller, a producer of exploitation and sex videos finds himself accused of killing his own mistress and the boyfriend of one of his most promising stars.
Style: independent film
Plot: hollywood, scam, murder, filmmaker, film within a film
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, sexual ...
Plot: baby, psychiatrist, power relations, disorder, couples, doctors and patients, fall in love, love and romance, pregnancy, mental illness, shakespeare, hypnosis ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england
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39%
What's Good for the Goose (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the ...
Style: sex comedy, psychedelic, independent film
Plot: voyeurism, pop music, swing, nude girl, nude, skinny dipping, voyeur, female nudity, bare breasts, blonde, nudity, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 1969
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39%
Le Graphique de Boscop (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Saint-Rupert, Basse Lozère, the son of a family of garbage collectors, Pissenlit, who has played the mentally deficient since childhood so as not to be forced to go to school, is in fact a prodigy in mathematics: by reading a book found in a ...
Plot: vulgar, book, mathematics, loss of wife, computer, song, midnight
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Flakes (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: coming of age, hippie, love and romance, musician's life, workplace situations, food, cliche, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, restaurant owner, rock band, job, employment ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
But who killed Pamela Rose? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, light, feel good ...
Plot: investigation, murder, friendship, partners against crime, law enforcement, odd couple, disorder, partner, misunderstanding, detective inspector, dna, fbi ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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35%
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