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The Color of the Chameleon (2012)
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Original name: Цветът на Хамелеона
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In Emil Christov's über-stylish spy-movie pastiche, a charismatic schemer in an authoritarian police state, fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters. (TIFF)
Style:
humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, dark comedy, suspense
Plot:
snitch, politics, fighting the system, satire, dark humor, society, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, cons and scams, secret police, communism, informant, sting operation, police station, con artists, masturbation, secret, police informant
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
bulgaria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and biting films with plots about satire, society, dark humor, dishonesty, politics, state affairs and cons and scams mostly in Comedy, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Color of the Chameleon: Shut Up and Shoot! (2006), A Wonderful World (2006), Your Excellency (1967), Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012), Boppin' at the Glue Factory (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
Style:
realistic, cynical, humorous, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, satire, actor's life, dishonesty, politics, artists and showbiz, dark humor, cons and scams, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, pirate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, social, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
satire, social decay, rich and poor, society, mistaken identity, politics, political conspiracy, disorder, suicide, ambition, immigrant, political corruption ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical, offbeat ...
Plot:
politics, satire, corruption, ideology, power struggle, true love, humanism, diplomacy, leader, ambassador, military coup, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, independent film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, murder, dishonesty, workplace, cons and scams, working class, workplace situations, dark humor, down on your luck, loser, rapper, store ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, independent film, realistic
Plot:
satire, workplace, dark humor, against the rules, dishonesty, life is a bitch, drug abuse, workplace situations, addiction, cons and scams, retirement home, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A talentless teen will do anything to get on TV's "The Voice." Meanwhile, her father, a municipal worker, creates an uproar when a video of his rants at City Hall goes viral.
Style:
cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
fame, talent, delusion, dark humor, society, celebrity culture, media satire, computers and web, teenager, suburbs, art, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A dark, comedic thriller about fraud, bank robbers and a search for love.
Style:
independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
psychopath, estrangement, disorder, dark humor, vengeance, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, dishonesty, on the run, parents and children, on the road, store ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Known as the best satire about communism, banned for over a decade in Hungary. 'The Witness' has become a cult classic, well received by critics and general audiences when it was finally released outside of Hungary. 'The Witness' ...
Style:
black comedy, parody, cult classic, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, communism, political satire, dark humor, society, corruption, priest, socialism, meat, rehabilitation, hunting, amusement park ...
Time:
year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, budapest, europe
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot:
pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, satire, mediterranean, religions or cults, clergy, village life, social relations, disorder, dishonesty, society, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, croatia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
manipulation, journalism, corrupt politician, media, political corruption, campaign, state affairs, dishonesty, blackmail, television, mafia, politics ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Angola, Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, cynical, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
rebellion, forbidden love, revolution, fighting the system, state affairs, love and romance, against the rules, interracial relations, political unrest, dishonesty, society, colonialism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
angola, portugal, africa
Similarity:
43%
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:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, political ...
Plot:
politics, ambition, satire, society, campaign, unemployment, friends, against the odds, political campaign, election campaign, campaigning, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
In front of a live audience at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Emmy-nominated host of Real Time with Bill Maher performs an all-new hour of stand-up comedy. ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
politics, comedian, artists and showbiz, state affairs, society, democrat, atheism, one-man show, profanity, religions or cults, liberal, barack obama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting, suspense
Plot:
life turned upside down, fighting the system, life is a bitch, injustice, society, wrongfully committed, satire, husband wife relationship, loss of job, taxi driver, disorder, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Embedded is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire about the madness surrounding brave men and women on the front lines of a Middle East conflict. It skewers lapdog embedded journalists, scheming government officials and the media's insatiable ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, controversial, disturbing, cynical ...
Plot:
satire, military, rebelliousness, political unrest, anti war, soldier, politics, society, state affairs, iraq war, american politics, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Balkanski špijun is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy/drama. Ilija Čvorović, a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević, a ...
Style:
funny, dark comedy, black comedy, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
spy, communism, espionage, cold war, amateur detective, secret mission, conspiracy, cold war era, communist, badass, hitman, mental health ...
Time:
year 1984, 50s
Place:
balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia, europe, belgrade serbia ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
Style:
dark comedy, grindhouse, independent film, grim, talky ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, black man white woman sex, hostage, exploitation, female nudity, home invasion, african, black, african american, racial issues, couples, interracial relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
beverly hills, usa, los angeles, africa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, cynical, independent film ...
Plot:
campaign, politics, ambition, satire, political corruption, dishonesty, private vs public, society, state affairs, scoop, election, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two Spanish pan-handlers soon find themselves in over their heads when they stumble upon an opportunity to redeem themselves and perhaps the entire planet. The world appears to suffer from rampant poverty, violence and spiritual desperation and the ...
Style:
cynical, clever, suspense, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot:
sect, murder, social decay, cons and scams, society, friendship, life is a bitch, dark humor, injustice, criminal heroes, dishonesty, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A satirical drama revealing the consequences of the Danish government's "New Copenhagen Criteria", a new policy aiming at securing the nation's survival. Citizens who fail to meet the criteria - those who have received more from ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, thought provoking
Plot:
against the rules, political corruption, confined, fighting the system, law enforcement, prison, captivity, dark humor, social decay, injustice, disorder, human nature ...
Time:
year 2007
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, exciting
Plot:
loss of husband, dishonesty, cons and scams, parents and children, dark humor, mother daughter relationship, money, funeral, female protagonist, death of husband, marijuana, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Brilliantly funny comedy finds humor in what was otherwise a terrifying time, the outbreak of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.
Style:
biting, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspense
Plot:
dark humor, heroes, society, undercover, moral dilemma, politics, government agency, state affairs, labor union, working class, working undercover, anti hero ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
8pm in a rundown prison. A prisoner on death row will be executed. He has the right to make a final declaration. But the law doesn't stipulate how long he can talk. So, as long as he talks the execution is postponed…
Style:
semi serious, realistic, suspense, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
last wish, confined, legislation, death row, prison, ambition, dark humor, legal, lethal injection, politics, rising to stardom, state affairs ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Cuba
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
Style:
humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, conspiracy, assassination, dishonesty, danger, murder, society, couples, road not taken, friend, business, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, havana cuba
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain ...
Style:
dark comedy, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
satire, dull life, family relations, dark humor, dealing with death, race against time, introspection, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, doctor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This Is Not A Test is a comedy/drama directed by Christopher Angel. The film is based around a man called Carl (Hill Harper) who's living his everyday life whilst trying to cope with his fear of terrorist nuclear attacks. However, with the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, satire, terrorism, society, friends, buddies, urban, eccentric family, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, private investigator, infidelity, male nudity, halloween, partner, private detective, frame up, murder, hunting, frozen body, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million ...
Style:
black comedy, cynical, humorous, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
medical, hospital, medicine, dark humor, satire, law, business, half sister, nun, family relations, power relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 70s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina (Yelena Panova) is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
prostitute, dishonesty, immigrant, workplace, politics, state affairs, social decay, injustice, love and romance, friendship, sexual obsession, bdsm ...
Time:
90s
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynthia accidentally overdoses and with deadlines looming they decide to use her corpse to continue ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot:
dishonesty, dark humor, cons and scams, fashion industry, satire, photographer, corpse, death, drug overdose, naked female corpse, nudity, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
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