Best movies like The King of the Candle
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies like The King of the Candle? Contribute your knowledge to steer others toward tv series and movies you've watched previously that might likewise entrance them. Assist in growing the circle of people referring videos among each other. We value your engagement!
Plot Summary:
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: avant garde, allegory
Best tv shows and movies like The King of the Candle (1983):
Similar in 87%
Hvem har bestemt? (1978)
Plot Summary:
The anarchist Ottar is being locked up in a mental institution after a serious of tantrums that involves rage against the machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 89%
Maids (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, manga
Similar in 85%
Flaming Creatures (1963)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, erotic, psychedelic, dark, absurd, art film, black and white, cult classic, independent film
Similar in 90%
As You Want Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
Pasquale is a policeman in Roma. During a roundup he meets Desideria. He/she is a transsexual, living together with other two trans , Gaia and Gioia. But overall Desideria is an old friend of Pasquale, they already been attending the same schools. Desideria immediately fall in love for Pasquale. But the policeman has a fiancé, Nellina, even if too far so they meet rarely. That's why Pasquale could change idea about Desideria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 76%
Sixteen-Oh-Sixty (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, taking everyone home. Soon, conflicts arise from the impossible coexistence of such contrasting families under the same roof.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black comedy
Similar in 89%
Leaving (2011)
Plot Summary:
A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation gradually goes from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: allegory
Similar in 86%
The Girls (1968)
Plot Summary:
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: experimental
Similar in 76%
Time Has Come (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a time and place indeterminate a bandit has kidnapped Rixo Lomadis Bron’s daughter. Bron is a wealthy landowner who reigns over the shepherds of the Purple Mountain. The time has come when Rixo Lomadis Bron accuses Manjas-Kebir of killing his daughter and urges all the country’s inhabitants to track down the assassin. It’s the time when Radovan Remila Stoï, the land’s greatest warrior, rises up against this foolhardy act which has every chance of leading to war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
Similar in 89%
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, weird
Similar in 77%
Italian Postcards (1987)
Plot Summary:
Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silvana (Genevieve Page) for her writer boyfriend (David Brandon). Her first obstacle is the boarding house owner and former stage star Pola Mareschi, who is very protective of her tenant's privacy. Lidia is robbed by a motorcycle gang in the middle of the living room and is caught up in a performance put on by the residents. Lidia soon finds herself wanting to stay with the quirky actors as she becomes a performer in their offbeat antics.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
Similar in 86%
Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel (2000)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled him with self-loathing. He meets Miss Make-Do, who teaches him the fun of reckless behavior and emotional management via getting higher than a kite. The film stars Leslie Jordan (who also wrote the screenplay) and features a host of cameos from John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Kathy Kinney and others. Julia Jay Pierrepont III directs. - Leslie Jordan, Erin Chandler, Mark Pellegrino.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, disturbing, semi serious, humorous
Similar in 88%
The Trial of Tony Blair (2007)
Plot Summary:
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Kral Ubu (1996)
Plot Summary:
A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet black humor. Using a human touch, the film- makers were able to transform the original into a film aimed at a contemporary audience while remaining faithful to the vision of Father Ubu and Mother Ubu venturing everything in their efforts to seize power and mammon.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, allegory, dark comedy, urban fantasy, campy
Similar in 84%
The Waterfall (2001)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now a famous painter, Cemal goes back to his hometown years later and remembers his childhood. In those days Cemal's father and uncle, member of rival political parties, are in a continious struggle with each other. The film depicts this absurd struggle and the strange stories of people in Harbiye together with the lyric story of the famous waterfall of the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 83%
Owner of the Story (2004)
Plot Summary:
A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, disturbing, feel good
Similar in 82%
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
Plot Summary:
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic
Similar in 81%
Long Live Freedom (2013)
Plot Summary:
The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin brother of the politician. Even if looks like two drops of water with his brother Giovanni may have a different personality. His ideas are innovative and direct approach to get the party in the polls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, clever, semi serious, funny, art house, biting, suspense
Similar in 90%
Hyenas (1992)
Plot Summary:
After being kicked out of her African village three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Linguere (Ami Diakhate) has returned home. While Linguere has done well for herself, her home village has fallen on hard economic times. Intent on punishing Dramaan (Mansour Diouf), the man who fathered her child but refused to own up to the act, Linguere makes a proposal: She will help the town financially, if the locals agree to execute Dramaan.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Senegal, France, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
Similar in 89%
Posthumous Memories (2001)
Plot Summary:
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: contemplative, humorous, surreal, cynical, semi serious, suspense, biting
Similar in 87%
The Year of the Yahoo! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A country-western singer is recruited to run for the U.S. Senate, and soon clashes with his unscrupulous campaign manager on the tactics to run his political campaign.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political, independent film
Similar in 88%
La chinoise (1967)
Plot Summary:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, artsy, art house, cult classic, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
Similar in 78%
Privates on Parade (1983)
Plot Summary:
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, entertaining, independent film
Similar in 86%
Insect (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect Play, a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, allegory, humorous, captivating, stylized, intellectual, dark, art house, dark comedy, aesthetic
Similar in 83%
Kill the Monsters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three men struggle to save their relationship while traveling across country in search of a doctor they believe will make one of them well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, tense, light, romantic, sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 88%
Os Sete Gatinhos (1980)
Plot Summary:
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
Similar in 80%
Being There (1979)
Plot Summary:
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, clever, satirical, meditative, dark comedy, existential, realistic
Similar in 77%
Irresistible (2020)
Plot Summary:
A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, funny, twist ending, parody, humorous, ironic, satirical, absurd, feel good, cult classic
Similar in 88%
The Best Things in the World (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, spectacular, realistic, queer cinema
Similar in 87%
Wag the Dog (1997)
Plot Summary:
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, political, talky, dark comedy, realistic, satirical, funny, melancholic, humorous, thought provoking
Similar in 79%
The Candidate (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, witty, realistic, cynical, thought provoking, clever, talky, biting, entertaining, funny