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The Good Boss (2021)
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Original name: El buen patrón
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Academy Award Winner Javier Bardem stars as Blanco, proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.
Style:
black comedy, captivating, social, tragicomedy, dark comedy, black humor
Plot:
social satire, big business, boss, male protagonist, problem solving, employer employee relationship, social commentary, ambition, power struggle, family affairs, urban, economist, cheating wife, police, motorcycle, sex scene, death, murder, bird, fire, adultery, advertising, security guard, astrology, cuckold ...
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, black comedy, captivating and satirical films with plots about satire, social satire, urban, social commentary, husband wife relationship, infidelity and dark humor mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Good Boss: Mondays in the Sun (2002), Humble Politician Nograj (2018), Men Suddenly in Black (2003), The Weasel's Tale (2019), Commissioner Shakespeare (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Nograj, a narcissistic crazy politician who exploits a city and its resources. The film is about Nograj's aspirations to becoming the MLA in the upcoming elections and the opposition he faces.
Style:
satirical, black comedy, spoof, parody, political comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, satire, political satire, ambition, social commentary, greed, irreverent, power struggle, campaigning, power hungry, scheming, anti hero ...
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Four men attempt to fool around as much as they can before their wives return from a 14-hour Buddhism trip to Thailand.
Style:
black comedy, disturbing, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, adultery, marital problem, husband wife relationship, marital infidelity, relationship problems, friends, male bonding, infidelity, revenge, mistaken identity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, friendship between men, satire, dark humor, rivalry, society, actress, dishonesty, escapades, writers, friendship, family relations ...
Similarity:
85%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After fainting in a school rehearsal, little Su is diagnosed with leukemia. As a result she is forced to give up the Snow White role she wanted so badly. Police Chief Cemil decides to stage the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at his ...
Style:
black comedy, tragicomedy, dark comedy, melancholic, absurd ...
Plot:
child illness, leukemia, police station, bittersweet, social commentary, urban, homelessness, satire, drug addiction, claustrophobia, switching roles, mistaken identity ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating, dark comedy
Plot:
satire, couples, social satire, staff, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, problem, butler, husband wife relationship, couple relations, workplace ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three married couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion herself, but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. Thus, to the sound of a horn ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, tension, comedy drama ...
Plot:
group therapy, couples therapy, couples, satire, marriage, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationship problems, psychotherapy, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients greed. They have ...
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, satirical ...
Plot:
greed, money, business, satire, office politics, businessman, counselor, corporate greed, job, power struggle, ambition, absurdism ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying ...
Style:
black comedy, ironic, cynical, satirical, period piece ...
Plot:
advertising, female nudity, satire, midlife crisis, social satire, character study, identity crisis, male protagonist, career change, frustration, escape, infidelity ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Baasha dies just few days before the assembly by-Election for Mylapore constituency while the election campaign by the political parties are in full swing. Various obstacles faced to bury the deceased are revealed.
Style:
tense, political drama
Plot:
social commentary, election, funeral, corruption, social satire, bureaucracy, realism, power struggle, political intrigue, justice, satire, grief ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
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 ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, surreal, stylized, mind bending ...
Plot:
dark humor, dysfunctional family, male pubic hair, prostitute, grandmother grandson relationship, elevator, exhibitionist, pedophilia, dressmaker, male nudity, domestic abuse, heroin ...
Time:
year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place:
spain, madrid, germany, iberian peninsula, europe ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, existential, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, film industry, regret, satire, loneliness, anti hero, midlife crisis, bittersweet, alienation, social commentary, absurd humor, deadpan ...
Similarity:
82%
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:
82%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Style:
dark comedy, social, realistic, semi serious, tense ...
Plot:
death penalty, retirement, death row, marriage proposal, death, bureaucracy, employment, labor, machine, genocide, spanish civil war, exploitation ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, mallorca, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Style:
sexy, humorous, talky, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
farce, infidelity, female protagonist, twists and turns, satire, adultery, mental health, suicide attempt, frustration, couple relations, women, actress ...
Time:
80s, year 1998, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, latin america
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82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to ...
Style:
erotic, humorous, sentimental, sexual, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, hidden identity, disorder, couples, obsession, sex, love, fetish, health, architecture, eroticism, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, melancholic, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
business, social satire, couple relations, life is a bitch, unemployment, desire for fame, couples, change of luck, down on your luck, theater, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, ironic, melancholic ...
Plot:
social media, youth culture, young adult, moral ambiguity, loneliness, ambition, social satire, satire, bittersweet, obsession, isolation, mental health ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
81%
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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:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
Style:
family comedy, ironic, lighthearted, dark comedy, period piece ...
Plot:
satire, social satire, materialism, japanese culture, ambition, slice of life, family business, consumerism, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, parent child relationship ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask ...
Style:
satirical, period piece, comedy drama, witty, light hearted
Plot:
marriage, gender roles, divorce, power struggle, switching roles, patriarchy, sexism, social commentary, social satire, confrontation, romantic relationship, female empowerment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, athens greece
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
partner, hitman, factory worker, unemployment, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, assassination attempt, obnoxious boss, satire, danger, workplace ...
Time:
year 2008, september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
jealousy, funeral, mourning, grief, obsession, anxiety, irony, depression, guilt, domestic drama, family conflict, shame ...
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexual, cult classic, stylized, biting ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
satire, womanizer, adultery, hairdresser, sex, infidelity, cheating girlfriend, businessman, mistress, skinny dipping, hair salon, motorcycle ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1975, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, egypt
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Güven, a taxi driver is desperately in love with Meral, but he’s too shy to open up to her. One day he picks up a customer, gets accused of a crime he didn’t commit and his world is turned upside down.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
taxi driver, taxi, looking for love, problem, witnessing a crime, murder witness, psycho killer, murderer, love and romance, murder, mentally unstable, loneliness ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, period piece, sitcom, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
death, car race, family drama, working class, social satire, social commentary, chaos, satire, mortality, grief, character study, realism ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place:
mexico city, south america
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Do Maeng-su, a weak and timid citizen is a debtor who owes a lot. He gets a fake divorce to protect his beloved wife from the scary private moneylenders, and immediately, ironically, he wins a large sum of the lottery.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
debt, money, needing money, money falling through the air, family problems, relationship problems, money problems, life is a bitch, relationships, problem, family relations, male female relationship ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman in a Catholic brotherhood in the south of Spain tries to be president in a world traditionally reserved to men.
Style:
humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film, social ...
Plot:
religion, female protagonist, women's rights, society, female empowerment, patriarchy, catholicism, tradition, political satire, social relations, social satire, civil rights movement ...
Place:
spain, andalusia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, semi serious, intense, satirical ...
Plot:
university, university professor, professor, rivalry, philosophy, professional rivalry, satire, teacher, competitor, ambition, power struggle, jealousy ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
80%
103
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nandi, Grabi and Rober are three unemployed 30-year-olds living with their mothers. They pass their days sitting on a bench waiting for something to happen.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, satirical, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
satire, unemployment, social satire, unemployed, society, family relations, social problems, family problems, lifestyle, character study, slice of life, living with parents ...
Similarity:
80%
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