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Mr. Sadman (2009)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 1990, before the First Gulf War, Mounir, an impressionable and sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double, loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start. But once the real Saddam invades Kuwait and makes international headlines, Mounir learns the truth about the Iraqi dictator and vows to shed his Saddam persona forever. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to be anyone else.
Style:
captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, tragicomedy, dark comedy, political thriller, independent film
Plot:
body double, saddam hussein, identity crisis, criminal, lookalikes, changing lives, problem, satire, lifestyle, lifestyle change, political unrest, pretending to be someone else, loneliness, self discovery, gulf war, impostor, alienation, political satire, culture clash, character study, social commentary, survival, american dream, immigration, fish out of water ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, iraq
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and psychological films with plots about satire, lifestyle, identity crisis, lifestyle change, character study, changing lives and urban mostly in Comedy, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Mr. Sadman: Land of Dreams (2021), Hot Air (2018), Suedi (2021), All Hail (2022), Eat Wheaties! (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control its citizens, has begun a program to record their dreams. Unaware of this devious plot, Simin is ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi serious, captivating, satirical, psychological ...
Plot:
dream, satire, female protagonist, privacy, american dream, social commentary, immigration, freedom, political satire, identity, social problems, social satire ...
Time:
future, near future
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
talk show host, uncle niece relationship, political intrigue, radio announcer, niece, satire, politics, teenage girl, relationships, changing lives, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
What would you do if you found 30 million that no one was missing? Mahmut decides to do what he has always dreamt of: to be seen as a Swede. He changes his name to Sebastian, rents a nice house, buys a Volvo and starts wearing socks with patterns. ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigration, satire, identity, money, lifestyle change, changing lives, national identity, lifestyle, social satire, culture clash, aspiration, nordic ...
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, dark comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, famous, homecoming, hometown, rainstorm, weatherman, social problems, changing lives, social misfits, social issues, lifestyle change ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sid Straw leads a dull life until he accidentally stalks famous college friend, Elizabeth Banks, on social media. With each failed attempt to prove he knows her, he rediscovers more of himself and the true meaning of friendship.
Style:
satirical, funny, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, celebrity, evidence, problem, friends, high school friend, humour, celebrity culture, self discovery, loneliness, male protagonist ...
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60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Lake, a young theater actor with no respect for the elderly, is forced to make himself look old, in order to land a part in a Broadway-bound play. His ego drives his girlfriend away, and when research for the play requires him to spend a week in a ...
Style:
disturbing, satirical, semi serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
retirement home, actor, theater, personal growth, character change, elderly, elderly man, changing lives, retired, satire, old man, social issues ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities by having her ex-boyfriend kidnap her 11-year-old daughter for a month.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, satire, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, desire for fame, ex boyfriend, lifestyle, ambitious woman, ambition, celebrity, family life, aspiration, escapades ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, art, female friendship, friendship, needing money, money problems, lifestyle, financial problem, female protagonist, escapades, friends, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york, los angeles
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57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
culture clash, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, small town, fish out of water, socially awkward, relationships, introspection, social issues, friends, satire ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, captivating, satirical, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
satire, italian abroad, road trip, friends, travel, lifestyle change, escapades, friendship, changing lives, group of friends, cold war, fish out of water ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
810
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
"Frat Star" explores the alluring, superficial, manipulative, and dark world of Ivy League fraternity culture. An insecure, poor, and broken-hearted Nick enters freshman year with no interest in fraternities. This all changes when his old ...
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, satirical, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
fraternity, college, satire, social problems, college roommate, lifestyle change, changing lives, brotherhood, self doubt, college student, roommate, student ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, art house, tense ...
Plot:
character study, identity crisis, identity, lifestyle, lookalikes, problem, lifestyle change, changing lives, introspection, existential crisis, self discovery, loneliness ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A small-town janitor / motivational speaker, stumbles along through life, until he has a personal revelation and begins 'un-motivating' the town, turning everything upside down in the process.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, social, semi serious ...
Plot:
motivational speaker, janitor, small town, satire, small town life, changing lives, social problems, lifestyle, town, social issues, lifestyle change, character study ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, disturbing ...
Plot:
couples, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love affair, male female relationship, changing lives, lifestyle, couple relations, relationships, love story, ex couple relations, love interest, satire ...
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43%
543
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
enigmatic, psychological, disturbing, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
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40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, psychological, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family drama, character study, post war, loneliness, kids and family, changing lives, male female relationship, family life, family relations, lifestyle, satire, lifestyle change ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
Style:
absurd, thrilling, psychological, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
life, satire, life is a bitch, problem, social commentary, irony, political satire, national identity, political corruption, confined, existential crisis, jail cell ...
Place:
croatia, balkan
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Darren goes to Hollywood to tackle his dream of becoming an A-list movie star. However, once he gets there his dreams are crushed once he realizes the life of an actor isn't all of the glitz and glamour he had hoped. When Darren is mistaken for ...
Style:
comedy drama, satirical, cynical
Plot:
celebrity culture, aspiring actor, hollywood, mistaken identity, showbiz, paparazzi, ambition, satire, behind the scenes, bittersweet, identity crisis, fame ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
radio announcer, radio station, radio, problem, relationship vs career, relationship problems, radio dj, satire, survival, moral dilemma, risk, danger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Working as a prostitute since she was 16, Kam has witnessed the highs and lows of Hong Kong over the decades. Kamis now a “madam” who manages a stable of high-end prostitutes, entertaining and hosting parties for rich men. She has seen it all. ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, disturbing, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, prostitute, sex work, prostitution, ex husband ex wife relationship, lifestyle, male female relationship, couple relations, changing lives, ex convict, social satire, social problems ...
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, captivating, entertaining, light, tension ...
Plot:
fraud, betrayal, modeling, immigration, desperation, fake identity, con artists, lifestyle, career change, life is a bitch, career, female protagonist ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, disturbing, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An upper middle class married couple find their lives spiraling out of control when they decide to take justice into their own hands and seek retribution against their neighbor.
Style:
tense, thrilling, satirical, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
satire, marriage, problem, forensics, criminal, fight for justice, married couple, secret, murder mystery, neighbor, moral ambiguity, character study ...
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological, political ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The movie tells a story of a journey of two start-up entrepreneurs from their "garage" to Silicon Valley.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, town, mishap, startup, entrepreneurship, silicon valley, road trip, lifestyle, journey, small town, fish out of water, ambition ...
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man eager to serve his country but rejected by the Marines pairs up with a young runaway to form an unlikely team on a misguided adventure.
Style:
entertaining, satirical, disturbing, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.
Style:
satirical, sex comedy, disturbing, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
school, relationships, satire, teenage life, schoolgirl, high school life, disposing of a dead body, deception, teenager, high school, dark humor, awkwardness ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky ...
Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
panic attack, mental illness, anxiety, female protagonist, panic, lifestyle, social problems, satire, male female relationship, problem, relationships, intimate ...
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27%
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