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The Suck Up Project (2012)
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Original name: 아부의 왕
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. Dong-sik decides to become the best insurance seller in his newly transferred insurance sales team, but sales is a major challenge for the completely tactless and obstinate Dong-sik. Then one day, Dong-sik has a chance encounter with Hyugosoo, the legendary ‘master of tongue’ of insurance sales industry. Hyugosoo bends his rules and accepts Dong-sik as his pupil, and Dong-sik begins to learn Hyugosoo’s secrets of flattery after a great struggle. Will his teachings indeed reinvent Dong-sik into ‘Mr. Ass-Kisser’?
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, uplifting, ironic, light hearted
Plot:
social satire, satire, salesman, debt, career, job, escapades, social climber, assistant, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, relationship vs career, workplace situations, transformation, office politics, social climbing, urban, fish out of water, bittersweet, corruption, father son relationship, teacher student relationship, sale, awkward ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
south korea, korea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, entertaining and feel good films with plots about satire, workplace, urban, friendship, workplace situations, coworker and social commentary mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Suck Up Project: Our School's E.T. (2008), New Biz in the Hood (2019), Genkai in a Black Company (2009), The Persuasionists (2010), Camera Cafe: The Movie (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his team meet Samy, a young suburb ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
buddies, rivalry, adaptation, business, co worker co worker relationship, culture shock, society, workplace situations, workplace, office politics, relationship vs career, friendship ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
burnout, office work, office worker, coworker, social satire, workplace situations, office, company, satire, workplace, job, exploitation ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
The sitcom focuses on the lives of five overpaid and underworked employees at fictional advertising agency HHH&H.
Style:
sitcom, funny, captivating, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
advertising agency, company, office, job, office worker, office work, coworker, satire, office politics, workplace situations, career, humour ...
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jesús Quesada, an incompetent executive, is appointed as the new director of a company in decline whose survival will now depend on both the ingenuity and ambition of his former colleagues.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, farce, retirement, office politics, employer employee relationship, workplace situations, coworker, workplace, co worker co worker relationship, dark humor, scheming, absurd humor ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
65%
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:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A once successful P.R. Specialist deals with the trials and tribulations of managing a local grocery store known as "The Yellow Bird" while struggling with his loveless marriage, an unhappy stepdaughter and his own sobriety.
Style:
entertaining, funny, satirical, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
divorce, workplace, humour, store, family problems, lifestyle, relationship vs career, satire, workplace situations, ambition, husband wife relationship, social satire ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Story:
An aspiring director works hard to fulfill his dream of making a movie. However, in the purely commercial process of turning a script into the final product, he faces so many challenges and is forced to make so many changes that his original story ...
Style:
satirical, ironic, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, dream, director, farce, problem solving, filmmaker, irony, filmmaking, behind the scenes, ambition, urban, bittersweet
Place:
india
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, social satire, husband wife relationship, farce, infidelity, adultery, deception, escapades, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, humour ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When camps around the country were shutting down every year and Camp Kitchikewana made the economically necessary move to turn co-ed, the result was a very real clash of the sexes.
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
summer camp, camp, employer employee relationship, coworker, satire, workplace situations, workplace, co worker co worker relationship, unhappiness, coming of age, friendship, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two friends accidentally drift from North Korea into South Korea after falling asleep during a fishing trip. Broke and unable to get home, they enter a singing contest whose grand prize is a trip to North Korea!
Style:
feel good, semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
singing competition, soldier, satire, inter-korean relations, friendship, fish out of water, culture clash, problem, escapades, contest, singer, border crossing ...
Place:
north korea, south korea, korea
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Having just lost his job at a soul food take-out joint, Cedric (Brian Hooks) gets the bad news that a local female crime kingpin has picked the wrong time to call in a large IOU he racked up some time back. Needing a fast buck, Cedric and some ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
debt, satire, party, escapades, money problems, friends, urban, hustler, neighborhood, community, female crime boss, payback ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, satire, labor union, unemployment, social commentary, factory worker, labor leader, factory owner, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
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Story:
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Style:
entertaining, light, humorous, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
satire, pilot, co worker co worker relationship, coworker, failed pilot, humour, workplace situations, co pilot, workplace, airline, everyday life, bureaucracy ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
Story:
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Style:
mockumentary, funny, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, news, media satire, journalist, workplace, office worker, workplace situations, office, office work, job, coworker, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
chef, satire, visa, marriage of convenience, fish out of water, illegal alien, escapades, coping, problem, job, immigration, illegal immigration ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, india
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Flighty young nurse Izumi Asakura longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her doctor husband feels that he cannot afford to take time off from developing his career. To Izumi's dismay, Wakabakai General Hospital is fast ...
Style:
feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, hospital, workplace, doctors and patients, medicine, physician, coworker, doctor, workplace situations, medical, nurse, hostage situation ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A spoiled executive climbs his way back up the corporate ladder, one humiliating temp job at a time.
Style:
funny, entertaining, feel good, light, humorous ...
Plot:
office politics, office, job interview, job, career, workplace, workplace situations, career change, employer employee relationship, humour, relationship vs career, coworker ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, satirical, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, corporation, workplace, team building, coworker, relationships, job, office worker, office, relationship vs career, career, teamwork ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brother Gokhan, Accountant Servet, Meatball Necmi and Del Piero Hikmet are released from prison on probation and they join group therapy in order to be reintegrated to society.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
group therapy, social problems, relationships, ex convict, society, parole, escapades, satire, lifestyle, fish out of water, male bonding, friendship ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Amrutham is a popular sitcom in Telugu. It was produced by Just Yellow Media. It was the longest running and most popular sitcom in Telugu.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, situational comedy, light hearted, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, satire, hotel, hotel manager, workplace, workplace situations, coworker, job, friends, everyday life, small business, urban
Place:
india
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, light hearted, captivating, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
stand up comedy, live performance, everyday life, comedian, satire, joke, stand up comedian, social satire, humour, public speaking, urban, honest ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
El-Limby lives in a decrepit neighborhood with his mother Faransa and he develops feelings for his neighbor. However, her father objects to their marriage, and El-Limby's mother encourages him to find a job to provide for his family-to-be.
Style:
feel good, satirical, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
arab, job seeking, wedding planning, money, mother son relationship, unemployment, working class, social problems, money problems, satire, workplace, romantic relationship ...
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Daniel and Stéphane, two salesmen working in the same store but who cannot stand each other, decide despite everything to team up to participate in television games so they can pay their debts.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, game show ...
Plot:
fictional game show, salesman, loser, money, workplace, needing money, coworker, satire, unlikely friendships, co worker co worker relationship, friendship, false accusation ...
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40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
zoo, satire, humour, money problems, pretense, social problems, escapades, animal, pretending to be someone else, asian, personality change, zookeeper ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Esmat Abu Shanab (Yasmin Abdul Aziz) is a female police officer who works in an administrative position and tries in various ways to work on field assignments.
Style:
detective, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
teamwork, satire, police, female protagonist, female police officer, workplace situations, partners against crime, coworker, female detective, police detective, career, police station ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
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