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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, mumblecore ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, lifestyle, buddies, twentysomething life, campus, student, party, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, roommate, fraternity, video store, teenager, high school, hipster, drinking alcohol, love, beer, infidelity, young adult ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, prague, greenwich village manhattan new york city, milwaukee wisconsin ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about love and romance, friendship, love, friends, couples, cigarette smoking and drinking mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Kicking and Screaming: Frances Ha (2012), Metropolitan (1990), Adventureland (2009), Reality Bites (1994), Swingers (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Frances Ha (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Style: mumblecore, black and white, realistic, poignant, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female friendship, best friend, relationships, friendship, coming of age, bittersweet, loneliness, female protagonist, dancer, self discovery, direction and purpose, dancing ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, sacramento california, paris france, france ...
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Metropolitan (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award ...
Style: independent film, cult classic, intellectual, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, christmas, friendship, philosophy, campus, college, preparatory school, trippy, xmas, teenage dreams, conservative, pain ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, upper east side
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Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
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Reality Bites (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize ...
Style: realistic, talky, romantic, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, love, coming of age, friendship, best friends in love, graduation, roommate, unlikely friendships, slacker, best friend, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: usa, seattle, chicago, texas, houston texas
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100%
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Swingers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the ...
Style: entertaining, funny, realistic, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, dancing, comedian, depression, breakup, buddy, aspiring actor, self esteem, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, swinger, dating ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, wisconsin
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100%
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teenager, adultery, marriage, boy, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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100%
New York, I Love You (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, interracial relations, multiple storylines, couples, fall in love, young lovers, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, city life, friendship, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
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100%
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight"s Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
Style: heartbreaking, feel good, touching, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, friendship, slut, coming of age, small town, slutty attitude, snow, high school, life philosophy, love story, hometown, unlikely friendships ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: minnesota, massachusetts, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.6
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Rushmore (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the ...
Style: funny, dark comedy, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, depression, student, jealousy, adolescence, love triangle, teacher, teen angst, friendship, youth, mentor ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, y2k, year 1998
Place: usa, midwest, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Style: cult classic, talky, clever, witty, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: disco, nightclub, friendship, pretending to be gay, jealousy, nightlife, venereal disease, cynicism, love triangle, unemployment, dancing, roommate ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, barcelona, spain
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100%
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Marriage Story (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
Style: thought provoking, sad, art house, funny, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: divorce, parent child relationship, infidelity, marriage, father son relationship, troubled marriage, theatre director, lawyer, courtroom, husband wife conflict, actress, heartwarming ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, suicide attempt, hitchhiker, friendship, on the road, mental illness, dealing with death, love story, surrealism ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: turkey, new jersey
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 5.5
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Burning Annie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: college, lifestyle, couples, obsession, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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200 Cigarettes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Style: talky, witty, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: new year's eve, love, friendship, couples, nightlife, new year, love and romance, cigarette smoking, sexual dysfunction, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life ...
Time: 80s, year 1999, year 1981, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
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28%
Naked in New York (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think ...
Style: talky, clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: redhead, coming of age, male nudity, college, nudity, marriage, gay, stoner, age-gap relationship, 007, gay interest, teenager ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa, santa fe new mexico, boston
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The Wackness (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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27%
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Telling You (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, crying
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: college graduate, post college, friendship, college, old friend, flirting, slacker, friendship between men, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
Place: south pole
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27%
Sleep with Me (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. ...
Style: sexy, talky, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, marriage, sexual relations, marriage proposal, redemption, lgbt, relationships, lesbian, poker, wedding, friendship ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: las vegas
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26%
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Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he ...
Style: independent film, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teacher, obsession, love and romance, jealousy, substitute teacher, pop culture, infidelity, wooing, singleness, looking for love, comedy of errors, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, iowa, manhattan new york city ...
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The Tao of Steve (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.
Style: philosophical, humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dating, philosophy, unlikely couple, relationships, introspection, teaching the ways of the world, looking for love, seduction, buddies, fall in love, couples, wooing ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new mexico, santa fe new mexico, usa
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26%
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Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
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Mistress America (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, depressing, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, writers, betrayal, eccentric family, prank, follow your dream, hopes, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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26%
Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, family relations, prank, honest, high school, parents and children, american football, teenage life, student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
Place: usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
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25%
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Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style: humorous, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic ...
Plot: infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, dialogue, food, adultery ...
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The Pompatus of Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
Style: talky, clever, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dialogue, love, drinking, beer, dating, lifestyle, self discovery, love and romance, gender, battle of the sexes, womanizer, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean, manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Charlie Bartlett (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most ...
Style: teen, independent film, entertaining, cynical, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, adolescence, high school, bully, psychiatrist, therapy, misfit, girlfriend, bullying ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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24%
Drinking Buddies (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really ...
Style: mumblecore, independent film, melancholic, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: group of friends, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, relationships, beer, adaptation, profanity, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, weekend ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Glory Daze (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It's punk rock meets Animal House in this campus comedy that stars Ben Affleck as Jack, a soon-to-be graduate who finds he's having a difficult time letting go of the college life -- and decides maybe he doesn't have to. Also ...
Style: light, sentimental, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, friends, relationship vs career, graduation, teacher, student, adolescence vs adulthood, looking for love, nightlife, singleness, college life, student life ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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