Movies like Irresistible

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Irresistible (2020)
 6.3
 23K
Irresistible (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
Style: political, funny, twist ending, parody, humorous, ironic, satirical, absurd, feel good, cult classic ...
Plot: election campaign, american politics, political campaign, political satire, politician, mayor, small town, usa politics, politics, debate, political candidate, campaigning, democrat, veteran, media, political corruption, farce, twists and turns, rivalry, ambition, silly humor, sarcasm, election, social satire, social criticism ...
Time: 2020s, year 2016, contemporary
Place: wisconsin, usa, washington d.c., new york, united states of america
Keyword: french, youtube

Most similar movies to Irresistible

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, political, humorous and satirical films with plots about satire, politics, politician, political campaign, media, society and state affairs mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Irresistible: Primary Colors (1998), Bob Roberts (1992), Swing Vote (2008), The Candidate (1972), The Campaign (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.7
 30K
Primary Colors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the ...
Style: political, intense, witty, talky, semi serious ...
Plot: politics, scandal, satire, president, adultery, presidential election, idealism, election, media, political corruption, u.s. president, political satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, washington d.c., florida, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 16K
Bob Roberts (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style: mockumentary, political, cynical, witty, talky ...
Plot: political satire, election campaign, politics, journalism, satire, manipulation, political campaign, conspiracy, republican, senator, society, ambition ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 19K
Swing Vote (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
Style: humorous, political, touching, satirical, light ...
Plot: politics, election, presidential election, small town, u.s. president, single father, president, idealism, political campaign, parents and children, state affairs, american football ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.0
 12K
The Candidate (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Style: political, witty, realistic, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot: politics, election, american politics, father son relationship, campaign, satire, candidate, idealism, political campaign, underdog, political rally, president ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: california, usa, san francisco, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 137K
The Campaign (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Style: parody, funny, political, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: congressman, politics, election, campaign, farce, campaigning, twists and turns, profanity, satire, election campaign, mentor, political corruption ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.1
 88K
Wag the Dog (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
Style: black comedy, political, talky, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: politics, conspiracy, political corruption, journalism, cia, election, satire, government, political conspiracy, president, secret service, senator ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., albania, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
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 ...
Style: black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, political, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: marketing, advertising, business, social satire, lobbyist, satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, journalism, society, politics ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., vermont, usa, north carolina, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.7
 699
Running Mates (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, political, biting
Plot: campaign, rise to the top, lifestyle, ambition, fighting the system, democrat, love affair, political intrigue, workplace, society, head of state, legal ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 6.8
 27K
Bulworth (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Style: political, humorous, witty, funny, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, political satire, hip hop, political corruption, election, interracial romance, fighting the system, senator, insurance, satire, campaign, media satire ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, america, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.3
 1K
Grassroots (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, political ...
Plot: politics, ambition, satire, against the odds, society, campaign, friends, unemployment, election campaign, political campaign, campaigning, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.2
 161K
Vice (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House ...
Style: political, serious, realistic, captivating, cynical ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: politics, u.s. president, usa politics, u.s. vice president, u.s. government, american politics, iraq war, war on terror, politician, heart attack, vice president, political campaign ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2010s, year 1963, 80s, 70s ...
Place: washington d.c., wyoming, cambodia, usa, pentagon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.0
 4K
Silver City (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
Style: clever, political, satirical, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, politics, murder mystery, campaign, private detective, political corruption, election, political intrigue, dishonesty, society, love affair, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Man of the Year (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch ...
Style: humorous, political, stylized, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: politics, comedian, conspiracy theory, presidential election, twists and turns, election, adaptation, world politics, media, campaign, president, head of state ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 3K
Power (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, clever, political ...
Plot: politics, political corruption, campaign, manipulation, fighting the system, society, state affairs, political intrigue, dishonesty, legal, media, ambition ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
Style: political, clever, satirical, harsh, comedy drama ...
Plot: conspiracy, manipulation, election, idealism, propaganda, world politics, business, political campaign, presidential campaign, rivals, politician, presidential candidate ...
Time: year 2002
Place: south america, bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 119K
Instant Family (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, parents and children, family relations, court hearing, children, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.5
 21K
Head of State (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam (Rock) as his replacement .
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, absurd ...
Plot: politics, president, usa president, farce, presidential election, stereotypes, black, hip hop, state affairs, ambition, republican, head of state ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, washington d.c., chicago, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 3K
Match (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is ...
Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, dancer's life, aging, teachers and students, couples, homosexual, couple relations, power relations, gay, dancing, lgbt, friendship ...
Time: 60s, year 1972, year 1986, year 1989, year 1967 ...
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.9
 77K
Being There (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style: political, thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, clever ...
Plot: politics, comedy of errors, lawyer, impotence, satire, president, fish out of water, wealth, secret service, innocence, television, eviction ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.7
 202K
Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Spinning Boris (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Style: clever, realistic, political, talky, witty ...
Plot: politics, campaign, head of state, ambition, idealism, leadership, rise to the top, political unrest, culture clash, political intrigue, political conspiracy, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 594K
Don't Look Up (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style: apocalyptic, feel good, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: disaster, end of the world, asteroid, social satire, meteorite, apocalypse, danger, save the world, astronaut, chaos, comet, politics ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, london, america, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 6.2
 22K
Butter (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: adoption, small town, contests and competitions, mentor, family relations, ambition, infidelity, social relations, championship, blind ambition, dysfunctional family, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 32K
Red Rocket (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: small town, porn star, getting home, ex husband ex wife relationship, car crash, dating, relationship problems, seduction, male female relationship, satire, ex boyfriend, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2016, 2020s, 2010s, year 2001, year 2008
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 14K
The Meddler (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Style: romantic, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: wedding, loss of father, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, friend, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead ...
Time: year 1969
Place: los angeles, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 6K
True Colors (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
Style: talky, political, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: politics, friendship, political corruption, betrayal, manipulation, legal action, college, corruption, society, political intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, florida, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 19K
Thunder Road (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Officer Arnaud raises his daughter as a love letter to his late Mom.
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father daughter relationship, judge, police, lawyer, school, divorce, family relations, friendship, child custody, love and romance, couples, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Together Together (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: surrogate mother, couple relations, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wanting a baby, new love, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, love story, love interest, relationship vs career ...
Place: hawaii, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 318
K Street (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: K Street is a 2003 HBO television series about lobbyists and politicians in Washington, D.C. It was named for a street that is home to many lobbying and legal firms.
Style: political, realistic, serious, cynical, clever ...
Plot: politics, lobbyist, american politics, political satire, state affairs, dishonesty, ambition, workplace, rivalry, realism, campaign, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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