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Hot Air (2018)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
Style:
satirical, psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, comedy drama, realistic
Plot:
talk show host, uncle niece relationship, relationships, politics, teenage girl, changing lives, political intrigue, radio announcer, ambition, satire, tv host, lifestyle, lifestyle change, niece, political satire, family drama, character study, coming of age, identity crisis, father daughter relationship, urban, suburban life, fish out of water, road trip, talk radio
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and psychological films with plots about satire, lifestyle, changing lives, slice of life, lifestyle change, coming of age and urban mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Hot Air: Apartment Troubles (2014), People Who Are Well (2014), Golden Chickensss (2014), Dim the Fluorescents (2017), Tulsa (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two codependent roommates, on the verge of eviction, flee New York for the promise of sunshine in Los Angeles where their friendship is tested by a chance at fame, a fortune teller and an amorous wealthy aunt.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, art, female friendship, friendship, needing money, money problems, lifestyle, financial problem, female protagonist, escapades, friends, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
lawyer, satire, wealth, materialism, high society, changing lives, money problems, social misfits, financial problem, betrayal, lifestyle change, relationship problems ...
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Working as a prostitute since she was 16, Kam has witnessed the highs and lows of Hong Kong over the decades. Kamis now a “madam” who manages a stable of high-end prostitutes, entertaining and hosting parties for rich men. She has seen it all. ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, disturbing, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, prostitute, sex work, prostitution, ex husband ex wife relationship, lifestyle, male female relationship, couple relations, changing lives, ex convict, social satire, social problems ...
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel ...
Style:
independent film, thrilling, captivating, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, playwright, role playing, struggling artist, actress, relationship vs career, character study, female friendship, ambition, improv, behind the scenes, slice of life ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A desperate marine biker’s life is turned upside-down when he is united with the sassy 9-year-old daughter he never knew existed.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, daughter, marine, biker, changing lives, paternity revealed, parents and children, family drama, family relations, relationships, lifestyle change, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities by having her ex-boyfriend kidnap her 11-year-old daughter for a month.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, satire, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, desire for fame, ex boyfriend, lifestyle, ambitious woman, ambition, celebrity, family life, aspiration, escapades ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, disturbing ...
Plot:
couples, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love affair, male female relationship, changing lives, lifestyle, couple relations, relationships, love story, ex couple relations, love interest, satire ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot:
manuscript, divorce, therapy, family problems, changing lives, broadway, lifestyle, lifestyle change, relationship problems, screenwriter, satire, marital problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A family conflict ends in a catastrophe - the husband leaves the house in his slippers. But this decision leads him to absolutely incredible events, temptations and challenges. 2015
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
family conflict, relationships, satire, divorce, marital crisis, relationship problems, husband wife conflict, escapades, husband wife relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, changing lives ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Radio Personality, Michael Washington, known as "DJ Mike" makes fun of people's lives with prank phone calls on his radio show, JAB STAB. His jokes make his show #1 of all morning talk show in the state. However, behind the scenes of ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
radio announcer, radio station, radio, problem, relationship vs career, relationship problems, radio dj, satire, survival, moral dilemma, risk, danger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, relationship problems, relationship vs career, male female relationship, ambition, stand up comedy, family drama, comedian, stand up comedian, brother brother relationship, rising to stardom, price of fame ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
family drama, family relations, domestic drama, basketball, family conflict, father son relationship, family problems, relationship problems, kids and family, satire, dysfunctional family, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Lake, a young theater actor with no respect for the elderly, is forced to make himself look old, in order to land a part in a Broadway-bound play. His ego drives his girlfriend away, and when research for the play requires him to spend a week in a ...
Style:
disturbing, satirical, semi serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
retirement home, actor, theater, personal growth, character change, elderly, elderly man, changing lives, retired, satire, old man, social issues ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When party girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, disturbing, comedy drama, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, father daughter relationship, satire, businessman, culture clash, money problems, family business, rich, rich woman, rich girl, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 1990, before the First Gulf War, Mounir, an impressionable and sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double, loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start. But once the real Saddam invades Kuwait and makes international headlines, ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, dark comedy ...
Plot:
body double, saddam hussein, identity crisis, lookalikes, lifestyle, changing lives, satire, pretending to be someone else, criminal, political unrest, lifestyle change, problem ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, iraq
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A youngster in his mid-30s goes through a series of struggles after coming to terms with the fact that he was in coma for 16 years.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, semi serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
fish out of water, lifestyle change, social problems, satire, social issues, lifestyle, life is a bitch, society, changing lives, male protagonist, culture shock, social commentary ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, desire for fame, parenting, family drama, acceptance, lifestyle change, love story, changing lives, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, satire ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The adventures of a young woman who moves to New York City from a small town to become an actress.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
aspiring actress, female protagonist, aspiration, direction and purpose, changing lives, ambitious woman, actress, ambition, satire, self discovery, coming of age, struggling artist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Pining for a lavish life abroad, a lazy but lovable guy next door crafts a scam to avoid a career in nursing and find a wealthy spouse to secure a visa.
Style:
entertaining, psychological, disturbing, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
ambition, satire, scam, caper, lifestyle, escapades, cons and scams, social satire, deception, scheming, marriage, anti hero ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, boy, parent child relationship, parenthood, family drama, changing lives, relationships, family relations, lifestyle change, fatherhood, paternity revealed ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, realistic, humorous, mumblecore ...
Plot:
relationships, city life, investigative journalism, multiple storylines, social problems, escapades, satire, investigative reporter, social issues, lifestyle, city, urban setting ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
22%
810
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
"Frat Star" explores the alluring, superficial, manipulative, and dark world of Ivy League fraternity culture. An insecure, poor, and broken-hearted Nick enters freshman year with no interest in fraternities. This all changes when his old ...
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, satirical, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
fraternity, college, satire, social problems, college roommate, lifestyle change, changing lives, brotherhood, self doubt, college student, roommate, student ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, captivating, satirical, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
satire, italian abroad, road trip, friends, travel, lifestyle change, escapades, friendship, changing lives, group of friends, cold war, fish out of water ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
To-il tutors high school student Ho-hoon, but she soon falls in love with him and gets pregnant. The film unfolds a series of playful happenings when To-il embarks on a journey to find her birth father for the wedding, though she is living with her ...
Style:
humorous, psychological, semi serious, satirical, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, family problems, relationships, family relations, problem, relationship problems, satire, unwanted pregnancy, pregnant woman ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two recent college graduates, Anne, an ambitious law student and Amir, an aimless escalator attendant and aspiring sculptor move into a 300 square foot apartment and try to start a life together. But the combination of their small apartment, their ...
Style:
romantic, romantic comedy, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
neighbor, satire, social satire, relationship problems, lifestyle, family problems, living together, couple relations, relationships, young couple, intimate, intimacy ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Wary of the effects of his good looks on others, a shut-in agrees to attend high school for the first time and meets a girl who's immune to his charm.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
school, teenager, high school life, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage boy, children, lifestyle change, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, slice of life, couple relations, relationships ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mr. Unni Mukundan who is very passionate about his first movie, coincidentally meets Mr. David Paul, a famous movie director. At the same time, the life experiences of Amal, who relocates himself to Cochin from Thalaserry, makes him undergo a total ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, movie business, director, lifestyle change, satire, lifestyle, couple relations, changing lives, couples, self discovery, friendship, personal growth ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, character study, secrets, realism, husband wife relationship, marital problem, satire, lifestyle, secret, relationship problems, couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family drama, character study, post war, loneliness, kids and family, changing lives, male female relationship, family life, family relations, lifestyle, satire, lifestyle change ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky ...
Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
panic attack, mental illness, anxiety, female protagonist, panic, lifestyle, social problems, satire, male female relationship, problem, relationships, intimate ...
Similarity:
20%
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