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Bamboozled (2000)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
TV producer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it incredibly becomes a smash hit. Michael Rapaport co-stars in this searing satire.
Style:
thought provoking, black comedy, independent film, humorous, witty, semi serious, contemplative, parody, hood, deep ...
Plot:
racism, satire, hip hop, blaxploitation, rise and fall, overnight success, civil rights, showbiz, society, media satire, artists and showbiz, television, black, ambition, black history, audition, ghetto, murder, drug, african american, media, stupidity, racial slur, racial stereotype, television producer ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 60s, 21st century, 1960s
Place:
manhattan new york city, america, usa, africa, new york, brooklyn new york city, harlem ...
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Most similar movies to Bamboozled
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, talky and semi serious films with plots about hip hop, black, nude, storytelling, blaxploitation, african american and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Bamboozled: The Commitments (1991), Girls Trip (2017), School Daze (1988), Krush Groove (1985), Tap (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
musician, working class, music, rock and roll, profanity, singer, friendship, rock, blues, bittersweet, rock music, young couple ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, raunchy, rom com, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, female protagonist, woman punches a man in the face, black, female bonding, motel, african american, african american woman, bare chested male, male nudity, women, promise ...
Time:
year 2017, future, year 2011, year 2000, year 2012 ...
Place:
louisiana, indiana, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.
Style:
hood, cult classic, black comedy, social, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male nudity, black, fraternity, blaxploitation, hip hop, campus, college life, school, coming of age, african, urban, black history ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, atlanta georgia, new york, new jersey
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58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a ...
Style:
hood, black comedy, grim, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hip hop, breakdance, black, blaxploitation, dancing, urban, black man, black girl, hip hop culture, clubbing, youth culture, teen angst ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instructor, is less than thrilled to see him. Her father, ...
Style:
black comedy, captivating, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dancing, black, music, destiny, black romance, blaxploitation, showbiz, social realism, choreography, poverty, gangster, tap dance ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, african american, black, child's point of view, family relations, school, parents and children, single parent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, tokyo, africa
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
hip hop, fish out of water, satire, interracial relations, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, opposites attract, disorder, family relations, media ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
54%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, profanity, black, artists and showbiz, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, lifestyle, on the road, hip hop, hip hop culture ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.
Style:
hood, independent film, humorous, black comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hip hop, college, black, urban, ghetto, party, friendship, gangster, black college, blaxploitation, campus, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, controversial ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial romance, architect, african american, love affair, adultery, racism, interracial love, sexual intercourse, relationships, prejudice, hip hop, black ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Four black students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post-racial' America ...
Style:
witty, independent film, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
racism, interracial relations, college life, satire, campus, prejudice, storytelling, obsession, oral sex, black, friendship, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2014, year 2012, year 2011 ...
Place:
usa, indiana, california
Similarity:
54%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't apear to know as much about rap music ...
Style:
spoof, mockumentary, black comedy, hood, funny ...
Plot:
hip hop, satire, music, black, urban, rock and roll, hip hop culture, fictional band, gang, rapper, shaman, discrimination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know that three of the thugs at ...
Style:
independent film, hood, funny, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
african american, hip hop, high school, party, coming of age, black, father son relationship, urban, dancing, ghetto, police, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 1930s
Place:
usa, africa, california
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style:
serious, psychological, romantic drama, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, musician, african american, sex scene, hip hop, urban, jealousy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
53%
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:
teens, adult
Plot:
hollywood, racism, farce, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, africa, los angeles
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along ...
Style:
sentimental, hood, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, friendship, racism, black, rock and roll, african american, drug addiction, music business, rise and fall, blaxploitation, black history, corruption ...
Time:
60s, year 1991, 70s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.
Style:
lyrical, semi serious, humorous, witty, cynical ...
Plot:
concert, revolution, lifestyle, rebelliousness, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, promotion, musician, music, destiny, magic realism, landscape ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
new orleans, san francisco, latin america
Similarity:
52%
136K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style:
hood, funny, independent film, feel good, light ...
Plot:
african american, ghetto, hip hop, weed, marijuana, friendship, drug, rap, friends, rapper, friendship between men, drug dealer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher ...
Style:
hood, black comedy, rom com, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, gangster, urban, black, music, party, black girl, discrimination, street crime, high school romance, stoner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspenseful, suspense, sex comedy ...
Plot:
sex, lesbianism, workplace, investigation, lesbian, businessman, sexuality, workplace situations, couple relations, rise and fall, downfall, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2004
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Girl 6 is a 1996 American film by director Spike Lee about a phone sex operator. Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs written by Prince. The ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, talky, sexual, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
phone sex, friendship, satire, neighbor, unlikely friendships, thirtysomething life, lifestyle, boss and employee, workplace situations, black, women, nudity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Style:
inspirational, hood, captivating, touching, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
basketball, redemption, prison, college, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, hip hop, hopes, forgiveness, ghetto, black, released from prison ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a ...
Style:
mockumentary, spoof, parody, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
hip hop, satire, music, black, musician, hip hop culture, urban, rapper, african american, black friday, blaxploitation, stoned ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, california, africa ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, hood, harsh, stylized ...
Plot:
addiction, hip hop, drug addiction, drug, brutality, urban, drug abuse, satire, gangster, murder, heroin, profanity ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, detroit, new york
Similarity:
51%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Style:
melancholic, bad ending, talky, political, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex scene, gangster, redemption, blaxploitation, black, justice, dysfunctional family, adaptation, women, civil rights, african american, social commentary ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, indiana, iraq
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style:
humorous, cynical, cult classic, captivating, light ...
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, mistress, money, showbiz, hollywood, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
30K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style:
satirical, witty, black and white, cynical, stylized ...
Plot:
satire, greed, writers, loneliness, justice, dark hero, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Young single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. She ends up working at a shoe store, but meets two strippers from a nearby gentlemen's club who convince her there's fast money to be made ...
Style:
hood, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stripper, hip hop, gangster, urban, prostitute, blaxploitation, black, rape, organized crime, crime gone awry, police investigation, fish out of water ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin ...
Style:
cult classic, surreal, independent film, biting, humorous ...
Plot:
racism, bigotry, satire, transformation, racial issues, african american, social commentary, bus, culture clash, black, interracial sex, sex ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
england, new jersey, africa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on the Fox Network from April 15, 1990, to May 19, 1994. Brothers Keenen and Damon Wayans created, wrote and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory ...
Style:
sketch comedy, humorous, parody, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
african american, comedian, sketch, interracial relations, black, disorder, social differences, social relations, antisocial behavior, workplace situations, hip hop culture, media ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, new york
Similarity:
50%
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