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The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (2011)
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Genre: Comedy, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A Victorian comedy adventure in the style of Charles Dickens following shop owner Jedrington Secret-Past. Jedrington teams up with a seemingly charming new business partner, Harmswell Grimstone. As the Secret-Past family's fortunes rise, it looks like they are built on crumbling foundations indeed, especially when it is revealed that Conceptiva too has a secret that turns out to be even darker than Jedrington's own.
Style:
parody, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, not serious, campy, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, family life, escapades, disorder, silly humor, christmas, holiday, confined, secret, victorian england, debt, owner, british history, charles dickens
Time:
victorian era, victorian
Place:
england, london, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, not serious, realistic and parody films and TV series with plots about disorder, silly humor, satire, british humour, family relations, family life and joke mostly in Comedy, History and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff: Katy Brand's Big Ass Show (2007), Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy (2012), House of Fools (2014), Goodness Gracious Me (1998), Big Train (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Katy Brand's Big Ass Show is a British comedy programme on ITV2.
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Duration: 30 min.
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Country: UK
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 45 min.
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68%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Duration: 138 min.
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 25 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Duration: 30 min.
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Place:
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