Movies like Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)
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Original name: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A faded TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry during the Helter Skelter reign of terror in 1969 Los Angeles.
Style:
twist ending, entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, exciting, funny, sexy, intellectual, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hippie, actor, nagging wife, friendship between men, cinema, sexy woman, struggling actor, knocked up, hollywood, violence, pig, celebrity, home invasion, filmmaking, chinaman, fame, friendship, movie business, agent, graphic violence, neighbor, multiple storylines, self doubt, fired from the job, pet owner relationship ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
los angeles, california, italy, usa, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, talky, clever and visually appealing films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, brutality, runaway, pornography, mentor and drinking alcohol mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), Calendar Girl (1993), Entourage (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style:
clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
corruption, money, business, wall street, wealth, greed, stock market, rise and fall, stock broker, rags to riches, addiction, american dream ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1983
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, usa, manhattan new york city, italy ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. ...
Style:
tense, absurd, atmospheric, captivating, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, vengeance, war, revenge, nazi, nazism, dark humor, brutality, violence, violent, working undercover, suspense ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, germany, europe
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62%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Style:
talky, captivating, brutal, rough, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racism, revenge, slavery, violent, vengeance, bounty hunter, african american, gunfight, dark humor, suspense, society, old west ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
usa, tennessee, austin texas, texas, mississippi
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Like many adolescent boys, Roy Darpinian had the hots for movie divas, and one in particular was his wet dream as half of America's in the 1950s: Marilyn Monroe. The difference is, one summer holiday he actually decided to enlist his spineless ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, road movie, satirical, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night
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beach, nude, chase, hollywood, coming of age, obsession, death, love, high school, gangsters, vampire human love, bad father ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
california, new jersey, usa, los angeles
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50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, entertaining, humorous, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
hollywood, friendship, showbiz, filmmaking, rivalry, celebrity, relationship vs career, movie star, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, aspiring actor ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, london, italy ...
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50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Plot:
film history, hedonism, gambling, orgy, animals, cocaine, art, hollywood, city, elephant, snake, female nudity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1932, 1930s, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
los angeles, new york
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48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style:
neo noir, witty, exciting, clever, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drugs, dark humor, gunfight, organized crime, violent, violence, overdose, hitman, gangsters, killings, multiple storylines, cocaine ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style:
humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, adolescence, family relations, eccentric family, teenage life, self discovery, single parent, sex aid, social differences, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, tokyo, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Style:
surreal, stylized, disturbing, cynical, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hollywood, mental illness, aspiring actor, child star, obsession, actress, mother daughter relationship, satire, threesome, haunted by the past, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, canada, usa, beverly hills
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style:
funny, sexy, cynical, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, nervous breakdown, doctor, tantrum, funeral ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive ...
Style:
melancholic, stylized, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
movie business, filmmaking, hollywood, midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, showbiz, workplace, workplace situations, disagreement, satire, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, cannes
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44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, hollywood, showbiz, murder, screenwriter, dark humor, neighbor, surrealism, serial killer, insanity, new job, film industry ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style:
clever, talky, satirical, cynical, neo noir ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, suspense, murder, police investigation, blackmail, writers, satire, manipulation, murder mystery, showbiz, crime gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, pasadena california
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43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, thought provoking, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
hollywood, ambition, showbiz, actor, love and romance, filmmaking, movie star, actor's life, actress, love, art, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, thought provoking, twist ending, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, plot twist, fight, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, against the rules, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
delaware, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Style:
humorous, clever, thought provoking, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, male nudity, reporter, slacker, teenager, satire, violence, greed ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
117K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
african american, weed, marijuana, hip hop, ghetto, rap, rapper, friendship, gang, friends, hip hop culture, drugs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey, usa, south central los angeles
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
Style:
witty, humorous, atmospheric, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, disaster, pig, bomb, relationships, existentialism, isolation, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dark humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
xian, usa, new orleans, california, los angeles
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42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, stylized, biting, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
adultery, hairdresser, womanizer, infidelity, sex, mistress, motorcycle, nude, love triangle, satire, suspense, politics ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, egypt
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary ...
Style:
talky, philosophical, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, infidelity, suicide, destruction of property, waitress, loss of loved one, life philosophy, character study, fishing, family relations, party ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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42%
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Movies similar to The Truman Show
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style:
controversial, talky, realistic, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
police brutality, pizzeria, hip hop, racism, pizza, prejudice, african american, gangsters, culture clash, racial slur, summer, urban ghetto life ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
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42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
addiction, alcohol abuse, bartender, writers, homeless, poet, misfit, drugs, mentally unstable, human nature, social misfits, alcoholic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, texas
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42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style:
touching, humorous, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drugs, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, humorous, witty, touching ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, mentor, job interview, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Place:
los angeles, california, tokyo, usa
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42%
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Films like Focus
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
Style:
talky, captivating, cynical, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
hollywood, drug abuse, addiction, insanity, drugs, marijuana, showbiz, buddies, love triangle, friendship, destiny, sarcasm ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new jersey, california
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
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humorous, teen sex comedy, feel good, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, adult
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high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, shopping mall, female nudity, females talking about sex, loss of virginity, abortion ...
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california, usa, los angeles, southern california
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42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
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Plot:
satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, artists and showbiz, ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, celebrity culture, showbiz, spectacle ...
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20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Style:
intense, exciting, stylized, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug addiction, drugs, addiction, junkie, blackmail, heroin, old friends reunited, friendship, sex scene, theft, female nudity, redemption ...
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Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, china, slovenia, london ...
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two ...
Style:
sentimental, sexy, melancholic, witty, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, friendship, suburban life, mother daughter relationship, neighbor, suspense, parenthood, family relations, couples, starting over, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, california, detroit
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42%
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