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Film · 10 connectionsA naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Directed byEthan Coen, Joel Coen
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1991 · 117 min · Comedy · Drama · Thriller
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Same director
1998 · 117 min · Comedy · Crime
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
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1998 · 114 min · Drama · Fantasy · Romance
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
Strong story similarity
2003 · 116 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Same studio
1988 · 119 min · Drama · Romance
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Shared cast
1992 · 124 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Genre overlap
1994 · 127 min · Comedy · Drama · History
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Strong movie match
2001 · 90 min · Comedy · Romance
Although already in relationships, two strangers realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
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1987 · 111 min · Comedy
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
Same studio
1979 · 97 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama
Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glory – by sticking up a Manhattan bank in broad daylight.
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