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The Unemployment Club (2021)
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Original name: El club del paro
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Each morning, whatever the day, four friends meet at a bar to have some beers and fix the world their own way, by criticizing and ranting against everything and everyone. They have something in common: they are all unemployed. Well, all but one.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, tragicomedy, realistic, dark comedy
Plot:
unemployment, friendship, social satire, friends, group of friends, social problems, satire, conversation, social issues, camaraderie, economic crisis, working class, everyday life, slice of life, economic inequality, midlife crisis, urban, identity crisis, machismo, hopelessness, retiring, male friendship, intimate, anger, nostalgia ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, satirical and feel good films with plots about satire, friendship, slice of life, urban, social satire, social problems and friends mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Unemployment Club: Aislados (2005), Amore, bugie e calcetto (2008), Alpha Males (2022), The Test (2022), Lazy Susan (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Adrià arrives at the port of San Antonio in Ibiza. No one has come to collect it. He s
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, male friendship, island, self discovery, character study, coming of age, everyday life, slice of life, minimalism, intimate, weekend getaway, isolation ...
Place:
ibiza
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
Drama series depicts the lives of three men born in 1987 and oppose irrational things of the world through work, love, and friendship. The men are from the "yutori generation", when the Japanese government reformed the education system, ...
Style:
sitcom, satirical, semi serious, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, workplace, friendship, generation gap, male friendship, slice of life, lifestyle, society, friends, social issues, social satire, social problems ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven friends have a passion: every week they play futsal. Each of them forget the everyday's trouble playing futsal.
Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, soccer, group of friends, satire, escapades, humour, football, football player, escapism, slice of life, male bonding ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
italy
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59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Pedro, Luis, Raúl and Santi are four friends who feel a little lost in the new world of empowered women, each trying to adapt in their own haphazard way.
Style:
satirical, funny, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
male male relationship, machismo, female nudity, friendship between men, male protagonist, group of friends, friendship, gender roles, satire, lifestyle, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
What would you choose: be a little rich now, or wait ten years and be filthy rich? Could you wait this long? Why? And most importantly, could you come to terms with your life partner? The protagonists will have to choose between the possibility of ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, feel good, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, social experiment, moral dilemma, money falling through the air, money, friends, life, friendship, experiment, social issues, character study, human nature ...
Place:
spain, catalonia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family who lazily skated through life with their begrudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she’s middle-aged with no job, no relationship, and an increasingly estranged family. ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
slice of life, female protagonist, midlife crisis, middle aged, grownups, unemployed, self discovery, personal growth, estrangement, lifestyle, satire, middle aged woman ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.
Style:
satirical, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, retirement, aging, plan, satire, friends, senior citizen, introspection, lifestyle change, changing lives, emigration, character study ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Employees at a cosmetics firm grapple with their respective desires by arguing with themselves in the mirror, ahead of their company’s anniversary party.
Style:
captivating, satirical, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
workplace, ambition, satire, beauty, coworker, introspection, cosmetics, workplace situations, competitor, beautician, co worker co worker relationship, career ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sex comedy, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
escort, satire, sex worker, social problems, problem, sexploitation, prostitute, social satire, prostitution, male prostitution, machismo, gender roles ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
germany, munich germany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A film about the hard fate of a decommissioned pilot, who not lost the ability to fly, as well as about male solidarity, cemented by national drinking traditions, about two truths - for male and for female, and about the love that will reconcile ...
Style:
feel good, light, psychological, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
alcoholism, male friendship, social problems, male female relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, relationship problems, absurd humor, alcohol abuse, marital problem, family problems ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba".
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, male protagonist, slice of life, social problems, lifestyle, divorced man, family problems, satire, separation, self discovery, divorce, everyday life ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nostalgic for his glory days, a frustrated stay-at-home dad invites all of his high school Facebook friends to an 80s-themed surprise party for his exhausted corporate wife.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
nostalgia, midlife crisis, friendship, relationships, identity crisis, party, satire, friends, husband wife relationship, high school reunion, surprise party, costume party ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, psychoanalyst, patient, psychoanalysis, doctors and patients, illness, doctor patient relationship, blindness, blindness and impaired vision, humour, neurosis, mental illness ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
45%
149
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridiculous situation after the other.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
inspiration, slice of life, college student, sculptor, art school, lifestyle, student, satire, social satire, creative process, art student, personal growth ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
minnesota
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, semi serious, satirical, comedy drama ...
Plot:
friendship, young adult, adulthood, unemployment, thirty something, everyday life, slice of life, satire, social satire, lifestyle, social issues, group of friends ...
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Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
satire, friendship, social commentary, nepotism, favoritism, problem, social problems, friends, old friends reunited, investigation, reunited friends, humour ...
Time:
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Place:
florence
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41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, dark comedy, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, surveillance, friends, escapades, group of friends, workplace, workplace situations, teamwork, friendship, social commentary, privacy, empowerment ...
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41%
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Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, genetics, dna, science, escapades, reunited friends, science gone wrong, friends, genetic experiment, identity crisis, personal growth ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
40%
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, funny, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
friendship, immigration, social issues, satire, punjabi, immigrant, struggle, social satire, illegal immigrant, immigrant family, social problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
soccer, football, rivalry, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, hopes, redemption, underdog, goalkeeper, working class, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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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:
37%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
feel good, funny, semi serious, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, satire, female protagonist, humour, light comedy, small business, slice of life, urban, working class, community, loyalty ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two precarious workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and convinced of their potential they plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, semi serious, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, teamwork, satire, winter olympics, championship, sport team, team, contests and competitions, direction and purpose, escapades, ambition, group of friends ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
In this darkly comic series, three gay friends in their late 50s are forced to face the fact that their lives have fallen far short of what they imagined for themselves when they were in their 20s. Dreams of wealth, career success, and lasting love ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
gay, midlife crisis, friendship, lgbtq, aging, social problems, satire, gay friend, social satire, social issues, male homosexuality, gay lead character ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, journey, grownups, british, satire, friends, travel, new year, escapades, party, coming of age, nostalgia ...
Place:
london
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36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alexander is a 26 year old scrap hauler who is facing eviction. In a last ditch effort to save his house from the bank, he turns it into a brothel - even though he has never had sex before.
Style:
funny, entertaining, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
brothel, male virgin, sexual humor, needing money, escapades, comedy of manners, financial problem, money problems, satire, social problems, eviction, desperation ...
Similarity:
36%
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:
34%
47K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
best friend, hypocrisy, life, parenting, parenthood, parents, friends, lifestyle, social problems, satire, friendship, social satire ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
34%
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