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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie is under pressure from his boss to make sure the contract is completed.
Style: dark comedy, ironic, light, feel good, absurd, cynical, black comedy, action comedy
Plot: death wish, writers, hitman, suicide attempt, psychological manipulation, kidnapping, criminal, chase, saving a life, dark humor, murder, rivalry, manipulative woman, russian abroad, husband wife relationship, accidental killing, death of father, little boy, old woman, paramedic, fired from the job, disposing of a dead body, rivals, employer employee relationship, suicidal tendency ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, humorous, dark comedy and realistic films with plots about husband wife relationship, photograph, man with glasses, family relations, telephone call, father son relationship and police officer mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back): Insect (2018), The Full Monty (1997), What We Did on Our Holiday (2014), The Scopone Game (1972), Panic Attack (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Insect (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect ...
Style: allegory, psychotronic, stylized, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: beetle, insect, cockroach, hallucination, baby, newborn baby, dog, pregnancy, murder, actor, surrealism, director ...
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
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The Full Monty (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working class, unemployment, stripper, striptease, male stripper, gay, friendship, lgbtq, dance, loser, father, small town ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: northern england, england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire
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100%
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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100%
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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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
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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
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Denmark (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
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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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What a Man Wants (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two couples' windy comedy movie that is more dangerous than typhoons in Jeju Islands.
Style: disturbing, captivating, satirical, psychological, crying ...
Plot: marital crisis, family relations, learning the truth, depressed man, relationships, satire, asian, photography, striptease, car crash, bare chested male, trauma ...
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Dismissal (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell…
Style: humorous, feel good, light, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: rivalry, co worker co worker relationship, father son relationship, greedy man, malice, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, manipulation, adultery, failed expectations, comedy of manners, coworker relationship ...
Place: buenos aires argentina
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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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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style: retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, motorcycle, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, mine, family relations, missing person, dysfunctional family, kidnapper, friends, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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S.F.W. (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: cult classic, clever, independent film, philosophical, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, slacker, reporter, satire, stoner, social commentary, greed, violence ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot: clown, circus, rivalry, performer's life, uninhibited rivalry, life is a bitch, evil clown, killer clown, dark humor, sadism, graphic violence, violent content ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
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Style: dark comedy, suspenseful, suspense, tense, humorous ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 101 min.
Story: Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female ...
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
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Country: Germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: feel good, dark comedy, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
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Style: non-linear, sincere, humorous, captivating, tense ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: feel good, romantic, funny, witty, light ...
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Style: surreal, anthology, humorous, ironic, dark comedy ...
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Rick (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
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The Cake General (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, captivating, crying
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Meantime (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Teddy (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: France, Pyrénées. Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that ...
Style: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, bleak, scary ...
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Time: 21st century
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