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The Associate (1996)
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The Associate (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: gender disguise, wall street, workplace, sexism, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, women, farce, racism, strong female lead, christmas, fake identity, women's rights, female protagonist, broker, cons and scams, revenge, feminist, prejudice, motivation, finance, economics, hotel, black cast ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, new jersey
Keyword: feminist film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, light and feel good films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, workplace, farce, friendship, cons and scams and workplace situations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Associate: The First Wives Club (1996), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Nine to Five (1980), The Wheeler Dealers (1963), Opportunity Knocks (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: divorce, revenge, battle of the sexes, friendship, female protagonist, female bonding, feminism, women, dancing, breakup, feminist, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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100%
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, laugh out loud, cult classic, spy comedy ...
Plot: spy, women, cold war, spying, espionage, agent, kgb, computer, hacking, women of color, caper, conspiracy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Nine to Five (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: workplace, female protagonist, revenge, feminist, business, strong female lead, farce, satire, sexual harassment, kidnapping, fighting the system, worker ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Style: retro, semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting ...
Plot: farce, economics, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, opportunist, businessman, stock market, businesswoman, scam, misunderstanding ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Merci Dr Rey! (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young phone-sex addict goes to a therapist who herself has died and a psychotic patient is in her place.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, murder, parents and children, farce, comedy of errors, hidden identity, voyeurism, police investigation, gay son, lgbt, gay, glbt ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Eddie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations ...
Style: inspirational, light, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, friendship, ambition, rivalry, against the odds, lifestyle, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Big Business (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally ...
Style: feel good, humorous, laugh out loud, cult classic, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: twins, luxury hotel, hotel, twins separated at birth, women, mistaken identity, shakespeare, culture clash, business, mountain, entrepreneurship, lgbtq ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty, absurd ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: farce, anthropology, hoax, expedition, college, dishonesty, switching roles, comedy of errors, cons and scams, nothing goes right, embezzlement, jungle ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: papua new guinea
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38%
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Head Office (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, workplace, dishonesty, rise to the top, business, office work ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
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37%
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In a World... (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Style: humorous, feel good, clever, light, witty ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: sexism, female empowerment, workplace, shyness, workplace situations, siblings relations, love and romance, hopes, feminist, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, women ...
Time: year 2013, year 1989, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Get a Job (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In order to save his own job, an employment agent has to find work for the most unemployable man on Maui.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: racial stereotype, workplace situations, partner, disorder, friends, goofy hero, workplace, adult as child, unemployment, farce, wedding
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii
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37%
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She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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37%
Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them ...
Style: humorous, satirical, realistic, not serious, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, mistaken identity, farce, chase, torture, screwball, business, hitman, dating, messenger, infidelity, suitcase of money ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: venice, italy, europe
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37%
Critical Condition (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Plot: doctor, mistaken identity, hospital, african american, fish out of water, doctors and patients, hidden identity, nothing goes right, mental institution, disorder, gangster, medicine ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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37%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light
Plot: partner, satire, working class, workplace situations, comedy of errors, friends, love and romance, mistaken identity, dishonesty, materialism, social differences, buddies ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, europe
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36%
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Closet (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: homosexuality, gay, pretending to be gay, workplace, workplace intrigue, friendship, dishonesty, disorder, discrimination, comedy of errors, workplace situations, parents and children ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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36%
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Qwerty (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Conglomerated Assets, a brokerage firm is sinking fast as its CEO checks out and leaves the company to his inept film school drop out son. Enter Quincy, Waverly, Erica, Rudy, Tina and Yasmine. Team QWERTY--six sexy secretaries that must save the day.
Style: entertaining, humorous, funny, captivating, exciting
Plot: business and finance, business, female protagonist, women, boss secretary relationship, woman, broker, businessman, stock broker, family business, secretary, firm
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Lionheart (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to save her father's ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill.
Style: entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: woman, black history, businesswoman, sexism, family business, female sexism, businessman, problem solving, family relations, coping, father daughter relationship, financial problem ...
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36%
Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
Style: talky, realistic, witty, humorous, clever ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style: humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
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Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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3 Strikes (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, light, not serious ...
Plot: hip hop, redemption, justice, going straight, starting over, comedy of errors, urban, partner, law enforcement, on the run, nothing goes right, heist ...
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35%
Fierce Creatures (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, black comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens
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Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.0
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Basic Training (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basic training, obnoxious boss, power relations, dishonesty, gender, boss and employee, battle of the sexes, workplace, female protagonist, couples, racism, military life ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, farce, department store, family relations, rise to the top, parents and children, wooing, disorder, goofy hero, chaos and mayhem, store, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 62K
Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: business, women, workplace, secretary, workplace romance, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, career, boss, strong female character ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.5
 165K
Trading Places (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style: funny, hilarious, feel good, laugh out loud, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stock market, prostitute, switching roles, fish out of water, beggar, wrongful arrest, social satire, wager, rags to riches, poverty, investor, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, arizona, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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