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Mr. Donkey (2016)
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Original name: 驴得水
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, tragicomedy, black comedy, cynical, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, school, medieval, poverty, village life, school teacher, social satire, con trick, social commentary, village, teacher, high school life, problem, satire, secret, dark humor, corruption, moral ambiguity, human nature, survival, class struggle, farce, absurdism, bittersweet, empathy ...
Place:
china
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, captivating, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about satire, social commentary, social satire, dark humor, moral ambiguity, urban and friendship mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Mr. Donkey: Let's Go to the Country (2014), Wannabe Widowed (2013), English Teacher (2024), Things from Another World (2011), Illegal Lives (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
friendship, living together, escapades, stealing money, road trip, neighbor neighbor relationship, wedding, economic crisis, social commentary, social satire, satire, unemployment ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
satire, romantic relationship, couples, male female relationship, love and romance, love interest, couple relations, relationships, relationship problems, deception, greed, inheritance ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, realistic, heartfelt ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay lead character, teacher, lgbt, high school life, high school, satire, high school teacher, gay interest, teacher student relationship, workplace situations, coworker ...
Place:
austin texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Maroso Golfetto is a firm manager from Veneto who is always yelling at his employees, all either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel where he keeps denouncing the evils of immigration and is very popular ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, allegory ...
Plot:
satire, immigration, xenophobia, prejudice, irony, racism, social satire, social commentary, immigrant, lifestyle change, working class, social issues ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mahsun constantly has to cope with police raids since he runs an illegal casino. Because he wants to continue to run this casino, Mahsun decides to establish a fake political party as a disguise. His aim is to keep the casino able to continue ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, police, illegal gambling, casino, problem, escapades, casino owner, deception, scheme, organized crime, black market, fraud ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, entertaining, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
unemployment, satire, teamwork, colleague, employment agency, problem, employment, workplace, job, problem solving, coworker, escapades ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
school, satire, director, high school life, high school teacher, school principal, school teacher, teacher student relationship, education, power, social commentary, mistrust ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
teacher, school, workplace, satire, school teacher, gym teacher, workplace situations, escapades, coworker, high school teacher, teacher student relationship, fish out of water ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Four door-to-door salesmen struggle to get by while pursuing an analog profession in a digital world. They unwittingly begin selling propaganda for a cult, whose popularity sweeps the city, leaving the salesmen as the only people who can stop it.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, captivating, satirical, comedy drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, propaganda, conspiracy, absurdism, social issues, social problems, problem, workplace, social commentary, city, ethical dilemma, urban ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Style:
satirical, parody, black comedy, controversial, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political corruption, satire, conspiracy, corruption, secret society, political satire, scandal, cover up, social satire, social commentary, dark humor, political intrigue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, entertaining, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
teacher, teacher student relationship, hostage situation, ethical dilemma, high school teacher, school teacher, problem, satire, father, escapades, teachers and students, hostage ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The owner of a bed and breakfast has an epiphany: in order to survive, he has to transform the B&B into a place of worship - where he will host tourists in exchange for a donation.
Style:
satirical, humorous, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, business, religion, religious fanatic, society, religious faith, social satire, escapades, religious cult, ethical dilemma, tax evasion, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The year is 1984. Teacher Amarida is crazy about school lunches, and he gets the shock of his life when school lunches are slated to be removed from the school. Amarida's student Kamino competes with him to see who can enjoy the school lunch ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
rivalry, satire, school, teacher, food, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, school teacher, cooking and food, competitor, nostalgia, friendship ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Carlos Ballarta mocks daily life in Mexico, including public transit, the education system and the corn seller who betrays your confidence
Style:
satirical, captivating, ironic, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, social satire, stand up comedy, humour, public speaking, comedian, irony, joke, absurd humor, social issues, stand up comedian, everyday life ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, captivating, satirical, entertaining
Plot:
doctor, problem, love story, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, love interest, love, husband wife relationship, con trick, couple relations, love and romance ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, feel good, erotic drama ...
Plot:
satire, body double, casting couch, abuse of power, exploitation, bandit, adult filmmaking, con trick, filmmaking, escapades, film producer, deception ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Kang Dae-Oh is a Chinese food deliveryman. He delivers food daily to to students at a women’s dormitory at a nearby university. Kang Dae-Oh then falls in love at first sight with a student named Seo Ye-Rin, an activist in the student movement. To ...
Style:
satirical, romantic comedy, semi serious, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, love, student, romantic relationship, love story, in love, deception, con trick, love interest, fall in love, love and romance, political satire ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, feel good, funny, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film depicts a young girl who, having come from a less-privileged family, makes a habit of lying to people about her financial status.
Style:
satirical, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, poverty, social climbing, entertainment, class differences, african, satire, deception, money, money problems, con trick, self doubt ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, satirical, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, deception, male female relationship, money, humour, absurd humor, eccentric family, con trick, silly humor, family relations, inheritance, wealth ...
Place:
cuba, spain
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William ,who's got a private plane and they crash on an island.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
island, businessman, survival, satire, stranded, unlikely friendships, escapades, desert island, resort, fugitive, corruption, shipwreck ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, cynical, ironic, black comedy, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, satire, ambition, dark humor, clinic, greed, ethical dilemma, corruption, social satire, manipulation, character study, office politics ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, political drama, black humor
Plot:
corruption, political satire, con man, social commentary, satire, deception, betrayal, scandal, greed, investigative journalism, absurd humor, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a young diplomat manages to get the Austrian government to return the Plume of Moctezuma to Mexico for an exhibition, his life quickly falls apart.
Style:
satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, humour, escapades, diplomacy, international relations, political satire, bureaucracy, social commentary, nationalism, identity crisis, urban, family drama ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico, austria, mexico city
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family's home for the Christmas holidays. But this time, the old folks have a surprise, a good surprise for them. They have decided to go living with one of their children and make him or ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy
Plot:
christmas, family drama, satire, greed, family secret, hypocrisy, social commentary, moral ambiguity, manipulation, absurdism, bittersweet, bourgeoisie ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While delivering a deceased man's body for burial, a naive village courier encounters a host of eccentrics and implicates himself in dark crimes.
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, captivating, light ...
Plot:
farce, road trip, satire, car trip, changing lives, car trouble, escapades, dead, absurd humor, silly humor, travel, humour ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A nice guy goes into the hospital for surgery and through a series of mishaps suffers every man's worst nightmare.
Style:
captivating, humorous, satirical, ironic, feel good ...
Plot:
medical malpractice, satire, irony, hospital, humour, medical examination, problem, medicine, anxiety, dark humor, accident, misadventure ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Colombia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Meet Cheo Martinez, the neighbor you do not want to have and whose time has come when his neighbors, tired of putting up with him, hire Carolina Rico, a beautiful and audacious escort, to make him fall in love and get him out of the building. What ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, romantic, semi serious, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
troubled past, romantic relationship, in love, couple relations, satire, love affair, love story, love interest, male female relationship, couples, fall in love, secret ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Story:
The story follows Malayali Bhuvana Chandran, an unsuccessful entrepreneur in a lot of debt, who gets involved in a land conflict between two powerful landlords in Tamil Nadu: Pandi Durai and Karuppayya Swami.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
satire, business, land dispute, money, landowner, money problems, escapades, corruption, scheming, small town life, class conflict, social commentary ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
india
Similarity:
34%
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