Movies like Toscana 2022
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Toscana (2022)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
With a bottle full of sperm in his pocket and on his way to the clinic where his wife is waiting for him to do an in vitro test, Santi - a culinary critic in the midst of a 40-year-old crisis - collides on a scooter with a vehicle whose driver is on the run. Seeking help, he gets trapped in the Toscana restaurant where, at gunpoint, an ex-chef demands a severance pay from his owner.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, culinary, psychological, tense, emotional, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
italian restaurant, hostage situation, hostage, criminal, loss of job, problem, absurd humor, satire, fired from the job, silly humor, restaurant, midlife crisis, character study, aging, moral dilemma, identity crisis, claustrophobia, robbery, extortion, fertility, social commentary, fatherhood, urban, kidnapping, gun violence ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
tuscany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, semi serious, satirical and entertaining films with plots about satire, urban, character study, problem, moral ambiguity, intimate and social commentary mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Toscana: Mirror, Mirror (2022), Locked in Society (2022), Asking for It (2020), Farce (2017), Spilt Milk (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gérard Lanvin has an important role in a new blockbuster! Filming is about to begin in the South of France. On site, he meets Momo Zapareto, the pool boy at the house he is renting for the duration or the shoot. But Momo is a fan, a big fan… an ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
Style:
multicultural, tension, suspense, dark comedy, political thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, italian restaurant, restaurant, hostage, social commentary, interracial relations, character study, intimate, empathy, captivity, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
london
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49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
satire, social experiment, moral dilemma, money falling through the air, money, friends, life, friendship, experiment, social issues, character study, human nature ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, culinary ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
44%
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After two failed deliveries, a pair of motorcycle taxi drivers must recover the goods they lost for any hope of financially assisting their families.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, entertaining, funny, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
latin america
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, satirical, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Serbia
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Nigeria
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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