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Ariel (1988)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
Style:
art house, dark comedy, road movie, black comedy, humorous, witty, stylized, clever, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot:
on the road, fall in love, minimal dialogue, loneliness, suicide, unemployment, marriage, social commentary, prison, prisoner, revolution, chaos, loser, entertainment, outlaw, nordic, underdog, factory worker, helsinki, finland, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, down on your luck, false accusation, seaport ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future, year 1988
Place:
finland, europe, eastern europe, helsinki finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, dark comedy and semi serious films with plots about cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol, dialogue, loneliness, friendship, storytelling and bar mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Ariel: Shadows in Paradise (1986), The Man Without a Past (2002), The Bohemian Life (1992), The Match Factory Girl (1990), I Hired a Contract Killer (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Style:
art house, dark comedy, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
dating, love letter, revolution, nordic, chaos, hopes, friendship, helsinki, finland, salesman, unfulfillment, redemption, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
europe, helsinki finland, estonia, finland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
amnesia, poverty, generosity, memory loss, friendship, couple relations, hopes, presumed dead, robbery, eccentricity, starting over, family relations ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, north korea, helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Style:
black and white, dark comedy, art house, cerebral, spiritual ...
Plot:
painter, painting, art, artist, composer, writers, friendship, eviction, illegal immigrant, dog, magazine editor, artists' life ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, finland
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style:
serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot:
working class, vengeance, visceral, loneliness, murder, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 1990, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, surreal, neo noir, semi serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, professional killer, killer, contract killer, loner, assassin, stream of consciousness, professional, bittersweet, dark humor, dull life, change of luck ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
on the road, hitchhiker, nordic, summer, social satire, misfit, relationships, road trip, buddies, misfit partners, social misfits, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place:
europe, finland
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, swamp, pimp, escape, prison life, on the road, serendipity, prostitute, fight, misfit, partner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and ...
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, touching, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot:
food, unemployment, labor, working class, suffering, psychology, social injustice, loser, gourmet, employment, minimalism, entertainment ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
europe, helsinki finland, finland, spain, california
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
Style:
realistic, serious, neo noir, intercultural, bleak ...
Plot:
guilty conscience, guilt, murder, police, morality, loneliness, life is a bitch, law enforcement, down on your luck, crime and punishment, friend, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
helsinki finland, europe, finland
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
outsider, drifter, love letter, ex-lover, on the run, telephone call, roadblock, vengeance, crime boss, spring, revenge, punched in the face ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
paris france, helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Style:
dark comedy, neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, avant garde ...
Plot:
shakespeare, corporation, factory, chess, business, industrialist, satire, hamlet, tragic love, skyscraper, literary, helsinki, finland ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, finland
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coma, first date, singing, hospital, male female relationship, alcoholism, love story, helsinki, finland, relationships, satire, destiny, love and romance ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
eastern europe, helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, sincere, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
down on your luck, existentialism, loneliness, femme fatale, night watchman, cons and scams, misfit, gem, regret, homeless, mental disorder, loser ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
finland, europe, scotland, argentina
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Style:
comedy drama, captivating, serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
refugee, syrian refugee, racism, war refugee, loss of family, illegal alien, poker, migration, unemployment, life is a bitch, restaurant, husband leaves wife ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland, eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, talky, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, murder, corruption, gangster, wedding, love triangle, motel, elopement, presumed dead, framed for murder, brother brother relationship, stripper ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, las vegas, usa, california
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they ...
Style:
black and white, visual, cult classic, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsession, surrealism, journey, perfection, human relationship, blind ambition, escapades, redemption, obsessive quest, gang, ambition, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, finland, helsinki finland, eastern europe, new jersey
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, surreal, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
refugee, poverty, friendship, immigrant, human spirit, bohemian life, working class, migrant, elderly, society, misfit, social misfits ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, year 2009, 70s ...
Place:
france, africa, europe, normandy, paris france ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, unusual plot structure, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, lapland, ultimatum, self discovery, taxi driver, nothing goes right, snowstorm, male friendship, on the road, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
finland, europe, eastern europe, new jersey
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Style:
humorous, clever, romantic comedy, hilarious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, marriage proposal, mistaken identity, fish out of water, fbi, family relations, fall in love, comedy of errors, dishonesty, love and romance, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, kansas city, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot:
on the road, surrealism, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, on the run, vietnam war, couples, infidelity, lovers, couple relations, tragic love ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 1965, 60s
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, paris france, europe, africa ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other.
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, cynical, clever ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, gangster, love, kidnapping, battle of the sexes, sex scene, wedding, love at first sight, murder, manipulation, femme fatale ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, brooklyn new york city, usa, los angeles, new york ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an ...
Style:
light, intense, humorous, realistic, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
money, corruption, stolen money, chase, runaway, heist, friends, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, criminal, gangster ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place:
philadelphia, new jersey, california
Similarity:
55%
13K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, talky ...
Plot:
love and romance, age difference, dysfunctional family, dark humor, coming of age, bittersweet, unwanted pregnancy, existentialism, redemption, factory, heart attack, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place:
long island, usa, new york
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, witty, light, realistic ...
Plot:
happy ending, hitman, hospital, murder, sexy nurse, medical, memory loss, psychology, professional killer, delusion, losing-it hero, obsessive quest ...
Time:
y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, kansas, usa, new mexico ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, witty, humorous, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, on the run, love, friendship between men, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, prison, gangster, heist, loser, sibling relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
fall in love, food, love triangle, love affair, fish out of water, human nature, lovers on the run, society, unlikely criminals, love and romance, couple relations, working class ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
54%
783
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, neo noir, non-linear ...
Plot:
femme fatale, dishonesty, escapades, on the run, cons and scams, chases and races, on the road, cash, chase, unlikely partners, twists and turns, bus ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, poland, rome italy
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style:
art house, cynical, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, one night stand, factory worker, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, renaissance, small town, youth, satire ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czechoslovakia ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, touching, black comedy, witty ...
Plot:
infidelity, justice, profanity, eccentricity, multiple storylines, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, compassionate, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
prison, gardening, prison escape, friendship, outdoor sex, solitude, unlikely friendships, adaptation, happy ending, misfit, fish out of water, going straight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
53%
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