Movies like Work is a 4-Letter Word

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Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
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Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
Original name: Work Is a 4-Letter Word
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 horticultural (fungal) project.
Style: psychedelic, dark comedy
Plot: counterculture, machine, hippie, swing, technology, job, underground, fiancee, mushroom, factory, surrealism, weirdo, fiance fiancee relationship, eccentricity, employment, cult
Time: future
Place: england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out offbeat, humorous, independent film and semi serious films with plots about surrealism, satire, swing, hippie, counterculture, eccentricity and female nudity mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like Work is a 4-Letter Word: Morgan! (1966), Jungle Freaks (1969), Asylum Seekers (2009), Head (1968), The Adding Machine (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Morgan! (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, ...
Style: independent film, cynical, biting, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: gorilla, divorce, skeleton, political satire, class differences, marxism, disguise, marriage, obsession, satire, swing, eccentricity ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, wales
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95%
Jungle Freaks (1969)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love ...
Style: psychedelic, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, dark humor, erotica, cannibalism, cannibal, racist, nudity, satire, elitism, racism, terrorist ...
Time: year 1969
Place: brazil
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78%
Asylum Seekers (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
Style: semi serious, realistic, surreal, humorous, surprise ending ...
Plot: dark humor, contests and competitions, mental institution, surrealism, art, eccentricity, mental breakdown, contest, alternate reality
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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62%
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Head (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, grindhouse, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rock and roll, surrealism, anti war, desert, vietnam war, television, trippy, hippie, marijuana, music, counterculture, lsd ...
Time: 60s
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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
Plot: electric chair, employment, accountant, murder, job, afterlife
Time: year 1969
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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
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50%
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The Committee (1968)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story: The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique document of Britain in the 1960s. After a very successful run in London’s West End in 1968, viewings of this controversial movie have been few and far between. Stunning black ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, allegory, experimental ...
Plot: counterculture, pink floyd, hippie, investigation, businessman, hitchhiker, musician, murder, party, corruption, committee, band
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Throg (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Believing he's destined for greatness, an unlikely hero named Throg (Dana Lee) embarks on a wild adventure filled with Greek gods, Arthurian knights, certified loonies, nasty harpies, talking pigs, garbage collectors and one twisted forest ...
Style: slapstick, dark comedy, slapstick comedy
Plot: time travel, excalibur, surrealism, sword and sorcery
Time: medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Virgin's Bed (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: counterculture, underground, mercenary, director, fire, parable, pregnant woman, civil unrest, cross, bleeding, stone
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46%
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Hogfather (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 189 min.
Story: It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has ...
Style: dark fantasy, humorous, christmas horror, semi serious, enigmatic ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, kids, discworld
Plot: christmas, death, fantasy world, children, boar, magic, holiday, heroic mission, disguise, escapades, grim reaper, psychopath ...
Time: future
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The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they ...
Style: manga, semi serious, surreal, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: time travel, surrealism, orphan, satire, extraterrestrial, family relations, family life, alien encounter, eccentric family, dwarf, factory, adoption
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, road movie, controversial ...
Plot: surrealism, philosophy, breast feeding, social satire, satire, traveling salesman, coffee, sex show, psychology, hotel, mad scientist, police corruption ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland, europe, east end london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A typically Beatlesque film originally produced for television, this short film was intended to be an off-the-wall road movie with the Beatles and three dozen or so friends on a psychedelic bus.
Style: road movie, psychedelic, cult classic, art film, semi serious ...
Plot: the beatles, music, rock, musician, surrealism, rock music, swing, hippie, trippy, phd, magic realism, dancing ...
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the ...
Style: sex comedy, psychedelic, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: swing, swinger, underground, obsession, virgin, loss of virginity, youth, gender, lifestyle, womanizer, nothing goes right, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Milky Life (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.
Style: bizarre
Plot: weirdo, miraculous event, senior citizen, fall in love, nanny, birthday, female nudity, burglary, rejuvenation, billionaire, burglar, role playing ...
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37%
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 ⇓
36%
The Acid Eaters (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
Style: grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, spoof, independent film
Plot: counterculture, drug, sexploitation, hippie, lsd, exploitation, nudity, group, devil, motorcycle, surrealism, sex ...
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36%
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Style: satirical, dark comedy, ironic, cynical, enigmatic ...
Plot: advertising, workplace, business, satire, creativity, advertising agency, obsession, introspection, mental illness, body horror, anxiety, psychiatrist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: paris france, jerusalem, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton.
Style: psychotronic, minimal cast, dark comedy, allegory, urban fantasy
Plot: hedonism, fantasizing, consumerism, manipulative person, manipulative woman, sensuality, manipulative behavior, single woman, breaking the fourth wall, failed expectations, egocentric man, strong female character ...
Place: central europe
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33%
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Getting Wasted (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around them. When a few students decide to bring the more liberal, artsy side of the revolution onto campus, ...
Style: independent film
Plot: military academy, counterculture, hippie, cadet, stoner, marijuana, cannabis, revolt, drug, student, anti authority
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Bedazzled (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock ...
Style: witty, funny, surreal, dark comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: satire, deal with the devil, wish come true, devil, unrequited love, fantasy world, hopes, love and romance, heaven, transformation, religion, god ...
Place: london, europe, england
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style: gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: afterlife, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, monster, seance, attic ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: america, usa, new england, connecticut
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32%
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Jubilee (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Style: offbeat, mind bending, grindhouse, dark, touching ...
Plot: punk rock, time travel, rock and roll, distopia, rock, surrealism, murder, dystopian future, post apocalypse, counterculture, dystopia, girl gang ...
Time: distant future, future, 17th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, london, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Destiny to Order (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A writer starts running into the characters he's created in real life. Alberta is his fantasy woman, who starts out as a sexy rock singer. However, when the bad guy in his novel (played by Michael Ironside) gets his hands on the manuscript and ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: violent content, couples, imaginary, artists and showbiz, misfit, rock, profanity, voice over narration, nudity, sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada
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30%
The Mighty Boosh (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and others. The Mighty Boosh is a comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in ...
Style: surreal, sitcom, humorous, exciting, not serious ...
Plot: absurdism, absurd humor, surrealism, obsessive quest, eccentricity, music, best friend, comedy team, fictional band, improv, magical, sketch ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: england, london
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Romeo & Julio (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
Style: parody
Plot: lgbt, underground, breakdance, narration, white trash, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, surrealism, gay, shakespeare, storyteller
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An aimless college graduate drives a taxi while rebelling against his parents, the Establishment and whatever else he happens to loathe on any given day (including pigeons). Then he meets a girl.
Style: political, psychedelic, independent film
Plot: driver, taxi, rags to riches, eccentricity, riches to rags, weirdo, arrested development, college graduate, taxi driver, pigeon
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Story: Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives ...
Plot: shakespeare, live performance, stage
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, psychological ...
Plot: surrealism, infidelity, art, spiritualism, hermaphrodite, insanity, memory, medium, eccentricity, female protagonist, extramarital affair, mistress ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is a 1980 British film based on the eponymous character created by Vivian Stanshall. It starred Trevor Howard as Sir Henry and Stanshall himself as Henry's brother Hubert. Unusually, the film was released in sepia ...
Style: offbeat, independent film
Plot: british pub, weirdo, eccentricity, brother, family relations, dead brother, drunkenness, ghost, surrealism, english countryside, pow, aristocrat ...
Time: year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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