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The Cake General (2018)
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Original name: Tårtgeneralen
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:
suspense, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, crying, exciting
Plot:
party, wedding, rivalry, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, kama sutra, football, basketball, ship, junkie, police officer, violence, depression, female nudity, journalist, photographer, alcoholic, rich man, divorce, addiction, coach, priest, hotel, hospital, book ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, year 2009
Place:
eastern europe
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Most similar movies to The Cake General
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, humorous, captivating and freeze frame films with plots about bare chested male, photograph, family relations, barefoot male, telephone call, male objectification and father son relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like The Cake General: Mug (2018), Quality Time (2013), Panic Attack (2017), Viva Erotica (1996), Couples Therapy (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, uplifting, compassionate, ironic, social ...
Plot:
identity crisis, family relations, disfigured face, social misfits, adaptation, heavy metal, broken heart, hopes, christianity, life is a bitch, religion, nationalism ...
Place:
poland, central europe
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
family problems, family life, parents and children, disorder, aging, elderly, three generations, masseur, sexual frustration, domineering husband, caught masturbating, monkey ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, central europe, berlin germany
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86%
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, dark comedy, non-linear, neurotic, light ...
Plot:
group of friends, husband wife relationship, passive aggressive woman, passive aggressive man, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, comedy of manners, multiple storylines, wedding, dark humor, party, failed expectations, wedding day ...
Place:
central europe, poland, warsaw poland
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85%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sing's last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won't do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, raunchy comedy, hot
Plot:
male nudity, football team, bare chested male, female nudity, filmmaking, porn actor, porn industry, taxi, sexual humor, fight, police officer, obese man ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basement out to family therapist Ulrik. Very soon, Ulrik has put their marriage to a severe test.
Style:
low brow humor, freeze frame, neurotic, f word
Plot:
bare chested male, lack of privacy, singer, unfaithful husband, fat man, unfaithfulness, best friend, old woman, woman dressed as man, hysterical outburst, buying a house, construction worker ...
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84%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...
Style:
ambiguous ending, light, touching, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, group of friends, gay slur, father son relationship, murder, mayor, suicide, loss of father, dark humor, friendship between men, mentor, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
prague, central europe
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Inseparable best friends AJ & Moose decide to run the local pool's snack shack after their plan to sell home-brewed beer goes down the drain. Things take a turn when they meet Brooke, an effortlessly cool lifeguard who puts their big plans, ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, buddy comedy, crying, teen comedy, f word ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
summer job, girl next door, teen romance, friendship, love triangle, lifeguard, swimming pool, summer, jealous friend, jealousy, teenage protagonist, seductive girl ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
nebraska, iowa
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games ...
Style:
sincere, feel good, captivating, light, crying ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtq, gay athlete, male nudity, gay slur, gay bashing, rivalry, friendship, society, youth, escapades ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
europe, paris france
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Style:
sentimental, philosophical, realistic, touching, existential ...
Plot:
coming of age, children, boy, tomboy, nude model, female nudity, boxing, childhood, terminal illness, small town, young boy, adolescence ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
80%
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, kidnapper, age-gap relationship, motorcycle, mine, family relations, dysfunctional family, missing person, buddies, youth, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's ...
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, midlife crisis, breakup, male objectification, friendship between men, group of friends, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
central europe, paris france, budapest
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Marcos' life turns upside down after he loses the same day his girlfriend and his job. Marcos' life turns wild after to meet Raquel.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, humorous, funny, romantic comedy
Plot:
dating, vulgar language, exhibitionist, lifestyle change, guru, loneliness, lonely man, relationships, changing lives, lifestyle, humour, sex talk ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
europe, catalonia, barcelona
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an ...
Style:
period piece, non-linear, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
male nudity, mental disorder, disability, arrogance, working class, factory owner, abusive boss, greed, man child, capitalist, brother sister relationship, vandalism ...
Time:
future, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A ...
Style:
inspirational, captivating, semi serious, satirical, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
naked in public, consumerism, friendship between men, best friend, childhood friend, social satire, friendship, escapades, dispute, addiction, love story, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, central europe
Similarity:
79%
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:
dark comedy, crying, tragicomedy
Plot:
failed expectations, minefield, card playing, millionaire, gambling, class differences, poverty, old woman, doctor, dead body, cooking, rivals ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
78%
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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, ego clash, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz, film producer, director, medication, film set, cinema, man in a wheelchair, television reporter, reading a newspaper aloud ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The comedy about men and their struggles in life and love.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, not serious ...
Plot:
couple relations, buddies, friends, introspection, lifestyle, couples, city life, singleness, looking for love, love and romance, battle of the sexes, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
78%
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:
sexy, sensual, sexual, light, ironic ...
Plot:
oral sex, infidelity, sex scene, voyeurism, orgy, true love, outdoor sex, coitus, unhappy marriage, sexual attraction, desire, sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, north africa, miami
Similarity:
77%
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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, serious, humorous, captivating, intellectual ...
Plot:
adultery, rise and fall, money, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, real estate agent, mountain, oral sex, dysfunctional family, false identity, criminal, drug dealer ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
berlin germany, central europe
Similarity:
77%
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:
satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing, crying ...
Plot:
marital crisis, family relations, depressed man, learning the truth, relationships, satire, asian, photography, striptease, bare chested male, car crash, trauma ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging ...
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
egoism, renaissance, metaphor, tea, hairy chested man, complaint, frustration, agony, bare chested male, shakespeare, coworker relationship, woman hits a man ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
puberty, sex therapist, orgasm, coming of age, love, youth, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
77%
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:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, partner, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, unlikely couple, hopes, small town life, unlikely partners, couple relations, interviewer ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A group of high school students who dream of making films set out to make a short film based on the life of a classmate. However, they discover a secret that could change their vision of filmmaking forever.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, lifestyle, life, satire, teenage life, adolescence, homoerotic friendship, friendship between boys, bare chested male, school, friendship, filmmaking ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
asia
Similarity:
77%
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, sentimental ...
Plot:
blindness, longing, blind character, paramedic, female sexual predator, disability, coworker relationship, visual impairment, ambition, friendship, hidden truth, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
munich germany, germany, central europe
Similarity:
77%
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:
nordic, avalanche, cowardice, ski resort, marital strife, passive aggressive behavior, nervous breakdown, family vacation, family holiday, tourism, mountain, vacation gone wrong ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014
Place:
alps, scandinavia, europe
Similarity:
76%
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, realistic, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
road trip, cold war, brother brother relationship, fight, father son relationship, family relations, arrested, doctor, politics, death of father, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair and, despite being in his fifties, simply “refuses to grow up”. He forgets he has a wife. The only things he ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, crying ...
Plot:
marital crisis, man child, male objectification, husband wife relationship, family relations, unfaithful husband, delusion, strong female character, teenage girl, mental illness, jealous wife, hallucination ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
czech republic, central europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Álvaro is a poor man obsessed with the idea of writing 'high literature'. He starts provoking conflicts to write about them.
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, novela ...
Plot:
aspiring writer, neighbor, ambition, husband wife relationship, lie, extramarital affair, writers, adultery, rivalry, employer employee relationship, fired from the job, chess ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Kevin must go to Hawaii to attend the wedding of his big sister. The day before the wedding he goes on a misadventure with his future brother in law and his crazy groomsmen that changes his life.
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
wedding, wedding ceremony, vacation, teenager, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, group of friends, flash forward, beach, priest, kidnapping, teenage boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
Similarity:
76%
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