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Because Why (1993)
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Because Why (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Alex returns to Montreal after a five-year absence.
Style: independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, infidelity, youth, friends, love and romance, singleness, couples, gays and lesbians, self discovery, love affair, elderly, single parent, lifestyle, gender, human nature, bittersweet, twentysomething life, thirtysomething life, sex, gay, travel, train, cat, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, montreal, montreal quebec canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, friendship, friends, lifestyle, looking for love and friend mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Because Why: Gerontophilia (2013), When the Cat's Away (1996), Dog Park (1998), Sol Goode (2003), April's Shower (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gerontophilia (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Lake is in a straight relationship with Desiree but finds himself becoming attracted to men at the pool. When he cannot control his desires any longer, he starts working at an adult home and starts a relationship with a much older man.
Style: touching, romantic, sad, lyrical, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older man younger man relationship, gay, gay bar, gay teenager, gay love, lgbt, journey, escapades, introspection, gay youth, self discovery, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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When the Cat's Away (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, loneliness, drinking, gay, cat, friends, couples, family relations, fall in love, gays and lesbians, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Dog Park (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. A mild-mannered man loses his present girl friend to another man. His attraction to a kid's TV show hostess goes ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: canine, pets, dating, twentysomething life, urban, looking for love, city life, wooing, singleness, human nature, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Sol Goode (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run out; faced with eviction from his hipster apartment, totaling his car, and the threat of having to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
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44%
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April's Shower (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: April's Shower begins with a group of people gathered for a wedding shower for April. At first, it seems to be a normal gathering for such an occasion but, as time goes on, secrets and stories begin to be revealed. Alex is a chef and a maid of ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Our two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school. Years later they reconnect in Manhattan, but life is more complicated. Sarah sleeps with her beeper. James goes to "open-mike therapy". As Sarah plans her wedding to ...
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Time: 90s
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Strange Planet (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, friends, roommate, marriage, pregnancy, friendship, unfaithfulness, coitus, divorce, dating, one night stand, marital problem ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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37%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
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Story: Two real-life lesbian actresses meet by chance when they are cast as lovers in a local stage play, and end up actually falling in love. Robin, who is married to her girlfriend for half a dozen years, and Lacie, someone who never had a lasting ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, accountant, couples, family relations, friends, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, human nature, musician's life, actor's life, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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Never Again (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style: witty, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, wooing, sexual relations, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
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The Very Thought of You (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Story: Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sweet, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 90s, year 1998
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two stages of a Dominican-American's life; first as a boy trying to bond with his young mother, then a 21-year-old looking for love in New York City.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, hispanic ...
Plot: gay, youth, lgbt, gay latino, looking for love, self discovery, love and romance, twentysomething life, dating, homosexual, nothing goes right, lifestyle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on the side! And if this triangle wasn't crowded enough, the arrival of a seductive newcomer ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, england, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Luminarias (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
Style: sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2001
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
Style: feel good, sexy, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
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Friends & Lovers (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Broadway Damage (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about aspiring writers in NY.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqi, glbt, lovers, friendship, gay subtext, best friend, bittersweet, friends, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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8 Dates (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A press seller in love with a girl who goes against his kiosk; a man who reunites his childhood sweetheart; a young woman who wants something more with the girl that just lying down; a nervous kid with your second appointment; two boyfriends who ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Plot: looking for love, lifestyle, breakup, unfulfillment, gender, love, society, friendship, bittersweet, singleness, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Queens (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel ...
Style: humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
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Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
That's My Baby! (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This little heard of modest Canadian comedy drama revolves around a young hetero couple. The man wants to start a family but his partner is much more career focused.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: food, fall in love, parents and children, looking for love, love and romance, actor's life, lifestyle, couples, disorder, friendship, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Danny Deckchair (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, self discovery, love affair, balloon, social relations, small town life, love triangle, inventor, small town, prank, biker, love ...
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Place: australia, sydney australia, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Passionate People (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary features. So she asks her a favor: to lend her boyfriend once. In the middle of surprising situations, Uma ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, neo screwball comedy
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, fall in love, friendship, love triangle, family relations, couples, opposites attract, lifestyle, youth, artists and showbiz, stewardess, pregnancy ...
Place: ibiza, buenos aires argentina, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
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The Best Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, wedding, fall in love, couples, cons and scams, party, writers, clumsy, group of friends, high school friends, high school friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 2K
I Think I Do (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A screwball comedy about a gay couple at a straight couple's wedding.
Style: homoerotic, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lgbtq, wedding, gays and lesbians, lovers, lgbtqi, glbt, gay romance, happy ending, roommate, friendship, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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