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Rising High (2020)
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Rising High (2020)
Original name: Betonrausch
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
Style: suspenseful, humorous, serious, captivating, intellectual, crying, detective, freeze frame, gaming
Plot: adultery, rise and fall, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, real estate agent, con men, money, fraud, oral sex, friendship, criminal, drug dealer, friendship between men, dysfunctional family, manipulation, husband wife relationship, false identity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle change, swindle, debt, bribery, greed, gambling, apocalypse ...
Time: 2020s
Place: berlin germany, central europe
Keyword: visit, outburst

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, crying, realistic and captivating films with plots about husband wife relationship, telephone call, photograph, man with glasses, bare chested male, father son relationship and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Rising High: Golden Balls (1993), The Scopone Game (1972), That Trip We Took with Dad (2016), The Cake General (2018), Mug (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Golden Balls (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let ...
Style: erotic, captivating, light, ironic, humorous ...
Plot: oral sex, infidelity, orgy, prostitute, dream, architect, skyscraper, corruption, coitus, unhappy marriage, sex scene, lesbian sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, north africa, miami
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95%
The Scopone Game (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Style: crying, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot: millionaire, failed expectations, class differences, gambling, old woman, poverty, doctor, dead body, cooking, sick woman, rivals, passive aggressive girl ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
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93%
That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: road trip, cold war, arrested, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, fight, doctor, death of father, politics, life, lifestyle change ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The Cake General (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, captivating, crying
Plot: party, husband wife relationship, wedding, rivalry, father son relationship, bare chested male, nudity, photography, male pubic hair, voice over narration, young boy, female pubic hair ...
Time: 80s, year 2009, year 1985
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Mug (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his ...
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, uplifting, compassionate, social ...
Plot: identity crisis, disfigured face, family relations, social misfits, adaptation, heavy metal, life is a bitch, broken heart, christianity, hopes, religion, existentialism ...
Place: poland, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Simple (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three. This also gave him the nickname "Simpel". ...
Style: road movie
Plot: gay, stealing a police car, mental disorder, mentally challenged, loss of mother, paramedic, shoplifting, punched in the face, brother brother relationship, redheaded woman, estranged father, prostitute ...
Place: northern germany, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Clash of Egos (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with his two children. They celebrate the reunion by going to the movies to see a new film by the famous, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot: filmmaking, ego clash, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz, film producer, medication, director, manuscript, film set, cinema, bare chested male, shootout ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Happy New Year (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized, clever ...
Plot: caper, robbery, new year, jewel theft, couples, unlikely couple, love and romance, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1973, year 1968, year 1972 ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Jealousy, Italian Style (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile ...
Style: tragicomedy, biting, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: grieving, rivalry, politics, love triangle, working class, worker, older woman younger man relationship, psychiatric patient, adulterous husband, jealous man, jealous woman, jealous wife ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Under the Tree (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, tree, marital separation, revenge, adultery, unhappy marriage, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, husband wife conflict, missing person, small town, delusion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Historias lamentables (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 126 min.
Story: This satirical anthology tells the surreal stories of a gift for Don Horacio, a trip to the beach for Bermejo, a life-changing relationship between Tina and the young immigrant Ayoub, and a new client for a company that specializes in excuses.
Style: surreal, anthology, humorous, ironic, dark comedy ...
Plot: bully, bullying, misfit, plan gone wrong, loneliness, fraud, group of friends, mother daughter relationship, single woman, father son relationship, celebration, adultery ...
Place: madrid
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89%
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, adolescence, teenager, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, sex, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills
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88%
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Panic Attack (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Style: tragicomedy, non-linear, neurotic, dark comedy, feel good ...
Plot: group of friends, husband wife relationship, passive aggressive man, wedding party, dark humor, passive aggressive woman, wedding, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, comedy of manners, multiple storylines, party, friend ...
Place: central europe, poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Force Majeure (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style: dark comedy, tense, art house, neurotic, emotional ...
Plot: avalanche, passive aggressive behavior, marital strife, family vacation, ski resort, nervous breakdown, marriage, introspection, cowardice, ski, tourism, family holiday ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
Place: alps, scandinavia
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88%
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Coming In (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.
Style: homoerotic, lgbt cinema, light, humorous, crying ...
Plot: hairdresser, gay, gay interest, soccer fan, 30 year old, homoeroticism, gay lead character, lgbt, fall in love, love and romance, love, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, central europe, berlin germany, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
My Blind Date with Life (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
Style: uplifting, tragicomedy, compassionate, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, disability, female sexual predator, paramedic, friendship, ambition, coworker relationship, hidden truth, ambitious man, trust, deception ...
Time: year 2017
Place: munich germany, germany, central europe
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86%
The Snake Brothers (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, humorous, serious, entertaining
Plot: brother brother relationship, drug addict, emotional blackmail, lie, fight, betrayal, police, male pubic hair, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, jail, manipulative woman ...
Time: year 2015
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86%
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Denmark (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Herb’s life is a mess. He’s lost his welfare, can’t hold a job, can’t talk to his son, has a neighbour who won’t shut up and a diet that consists mainly of cheap beer and mushy peas. It’s no way to live and he knows it. Then he learns ...
Style: sentimental, touching, melancholic, sincere, light ...
Plot: criminal, arrest, little girl, lonely man, father son relationship, heist, bank robbery, teenage boy, bare chested male, overweight man, old woman, girl ...
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86%
Waiter, Scarper! (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So ...
Style: cult classic
Plot: restaurant, high school reunion, unfaithful wife, neighbor neighbor relationship, sexual fantasy, false identity, sex, manhunt, women, bare chested male, bookseller, newspaper ...
Place: balkan, prague, central europe
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86%
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The Farewell (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: lie, masseuse, grief, wedding, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, dialogue, life, grandmother granddaughter relationship, lovers, disability ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: china, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, japan
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Dead Bodies (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, dangerous attraction, couples, murder, suspect, employer employee relationship, missing person, violence, secret, zombie, vigilante ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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85%
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Sexual Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, looking for sex, friendship, sex, sexual relations, singleness, love affair, dishonesty, womanizer, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
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85%
Awkward Thanksgiving (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Thanksgiving is a time when families get together to eat good food and share in the spirit of thankfulness. That's of course, a best case scenario. Some families are so tangled in a web of drama from financial issues, relationships, and so on ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: thanksgiving, holiday, dysfunctional family, family relations, drug use, criminal, sister sister relationship, father son relationship, compulsive gambler, money, family problems, eccentric family ...
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Tiger Theory (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the funeral. Jan is sure that he and his wife Olga are on ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, social ...
Plot: female antagonist, husband wife relationship, death of father, brother sister relationship, dark humor, father son relationship, psychiatrist, university, father daughter relationship, adventurer, selfish woman, manipulative woman ...
Place: prague, central europe
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85%
What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are ...
Style: feel good, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, children, vacation, family drama, breakup, family problems, parents and children, coming of age, death, dysfunctional marriage, nothing goes right, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, scotland, london
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The Bunker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.
Style: surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, horror comedy, underground film ...
Plot: isolation, father son relationship, teacher student relationship, dark humor, abused child, eccentric family, dysfunctional family, family problems, female sexual predator, parents and children, prodigy, bunker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Barefoot (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, boy, social outcast, family relations, husband wife relationship, end of war, child protagonist, death, countryside, wartime life, abusive father, stuttering ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: central europe, prague
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84%
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The D Train (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his ...
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, light, funny ...
Plot: friendship, high school reunion, gay, lgbt, high school, teenage boy, obsession, party, employer employee relationship, low self esteem, midlife crisis, eavesdropping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Perfect Strangers (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever text message or phone call they will receive during the evening - and all hell breaks loose.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, thought provoking, clever, captivating ...
Plot: psychology, game, secrets, dinner party, friendship, infidelity, existentialism, family problems, dialogue, gay, relationships, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Taking Chances (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a small town's rather meager place in American history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, partner, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, couple relations, unlikely couple, unlikely partners, hopes, small town life, couples, interviewer ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa
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84%
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