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The Salon (2005)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Beauty shop owner finds romance as she struggles to save her business.
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy, hood, realistic, talky
Plot:
ambition, save the day, love and romance, fighting the system, rivalry, society, workplace romance, workplace, uninhibited rivalry, boss and employee, workplace situations, black, african american, beauty salon, hair, hairdresser, friends, interracial relations, gays and lesbians, store, urban, underdog, power relations, struggle, gangster ...
Time:
year 2005, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Salon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about workplace, workplace situations, society, love and romance, workplace romance, boss and employee and ambition mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Salon: Dancing in September (2000), Outsourced (2006), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), Nora's Hair Salon II (2008), The Nightowls of Coventry (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, independent film
Plot:
lifestyle, ambition, love and romance, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, media satire, workplace romance, friendship, journalism, society, hollywood, african american ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Style:
humorous, realistic, romantic, light, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
workplace, self discovery, arts and culture, human nature, travel, boss, office, fish out of water, call center, boss and employee, love and romance, corporate world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, seattle, asia, bombay india, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, workplace, friends, workplace romance, hip hop, family business, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
Similarity:
51%
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, humorous, clever, witty ...
Plot:
beauty salon, society, workplace, family relations, friends, friendship, estrangement, workplace situations, city life, hairdresser, black, hair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Peaches, a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela, the owner of an upscale salon in Beverly Hills, get reacquainted when Peaches decides to attend a celebration for Angela in LA. The reunion is bittersweet and worsens when ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
beauty salon, female protagonist, follow your dream, ambition, family business, friendship, working class, rivalry, contests and competitions, relationship vs career, love and romance, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
beverly hills, los angeles, usa, baltimore
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tyrone Johnson is in jail. As a result his sister Yolanda, an exotic dancer, inherits Tyrone's struggling hair salon business. She first sees the shop as a burden and waste of her time and puts the shop up for sale. But Yolanda eventually sees ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, offbeat ...
Plot:
relationship vs career, ambition, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, workplace, society, follow your dream, independent woman, exotic dancer, store, anti hero, beauty salon ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two door to door vaccuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, light, sex comedy
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rivalry, rise to the top, workplace, ambition, against the odds, workplace situations, workplace romance, uninhibited rivalry, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, farce, silly humor ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, boss and employee, couples, workplace romance, career woman, ambition, workplace, office work, business, gambling, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, black comedy ...
Plot:
interracial relations, opposites attract, looking for love, social differences, couples, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, african american, divorce, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying to make it on the streets. With all the competition they face in their chosen ...
Style:
black comedy, hood, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
urban, hip hop, profanity, sexual humor, black girl, african american, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, performer's life, drug dealing, contests and competitions, ambition ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Similarity:
28%
322
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Cuts is an American sitcom that aired on the UPN network from February 14, 2005, to May 11, 2006, and is a spin-off of another UPN series, One on One. The show was canceled along with many other shows when the UPN and WB networks merged to form The ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sitcom, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
family business, prodigy, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, workplace, couples, workplace romance, workplace situations, boss and employee, uninhibited rivalry, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
baltimore
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
righting the wronged, save the day, fighting the system, rivalry, culture clash, screwball, good versus evil, society, buddies, heroes, lone wolves, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., virginia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, society, hopes, love and romance, workplace romance, workplace situations, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
You thought you'd heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven't heard anything yet - the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop.
Style:
humorous, teen, melancholic, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
beauty salon, women, small business, hairdresser, adaptation, vengeance, single parent, workplace situations, black, ambition, urban, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s
Place:
usa, africa, georgia, chicago, atlanta georgia ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, hood, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
workplace, beauty salon, hairdresser, urban, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, african american, family relations, society, buddies ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, usa, north america, illinois ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A twentysomething office drone struggles between freedom and responsibility in this independent comedy-drama. Sanjay is a man in his mid-'20s who has come to the conclusion his life is stuck in neutral. Sanjay hates his job and doesn't ...
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film, clever ...
Plot:
introspection, rise to the top, boss and employee, nothing goes right, fighting the system, workplace, twentysomething life, sexual content, workplace situations, dull life, unfulfillment, showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ever have one of those nights where nothing seems to be going right? Ever have a job that made you ponder "this place would be fun if it didn't suck so much"? Welcome to food-service hell. Natalie, the waitress, is on the verge of a ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
workplace romance, love and romance, betrayal, obnoxious boss, workplace, couples, workplace situations, boss and employee, cooking and food, heist, love, rodeo ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
asian man white woman relationship, fall in love, workplace romance, legal, love and romance, workplace situations, disorder, fish out of water, misfit, business, interracial romance, shrewd ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic
Plot:
social differences, infidelity, boss and employee, workplace romance, rivalry, introspection, culture clash, love triangle, save the day, obsessive quest, couples, siblings relations ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, clever
Plot:
public health, corporate crime, introspection, love affair, society, rise and fall, boss and employee, obsession, dishonesty, workplace, couples, workplace situations ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, desire for fame, rise to the top, love and romance, lifestyle, actor's life, rising to stardom, workplace, filmmaking, workplace situations, workplace romance, best friend ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
906
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Its Barbershop for Rednecks. Bill is a bait shop owner who has to make a balloon payment of $15,000 or else the bank will close his shop. Unable to make the payment from the proceeds of the shop, Bill must compete in the annual Bass Tournament, ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
save the day, rivalry, family business, workplace, contests and competitions, store, small town, working class, ambition, friends, fishing, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tinseltown has its movers and shakers, but they all first started somewhere as The Assistants in Hollywood. The Assistants is a new movie opening December 3. It's a story about a group of Hollywood assistants who use their positions to lie, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, rivalry, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambition, satire, workplace, boss and employee, manipulation, workplace situations, artists and showbiz, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A.U.S.A. is an American sitcom television series that aired in 2003 on NBC, starring Scott Foley.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
hotshot lawyer, workplace intrigue, relationship vs career, lifestyle, rivalry, legal, ambition, boss and employee, workplace, society, friendship, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
After being laid-off from their corporate day jobs, Aaron, Bryn, Derek, Olivia and Jack compete to get their businesses off the ground when a mystery benefactor promises to invest $500,000 in one of their startups.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, inspirational, semi serious ...
Plot:
boss and employee, money raising, ambition, workplace, programmer, buddies, computers and web, power relations, rise to the top, society, rivalry, computer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style:
mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, hardcase students, power relations, lifestyle, ambition, youth, education, rivalry, teaching, high school teacher ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot:
best friend, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, artists and showbiz, actor's life, gays and lesbians, gender, down on your luck, singleness, friends, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
workplace romance, fall in love, love affair, strong female lead, unlikely couple, relationship vs career, boss and employee, office, love and romance, urban, workplace, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary, a high-class- cosmetics ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, family business, boss and employee, workplace, family relations, workplace intrigue, disorder, society, fish out of water, salesman, save the day, workplace situations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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