Movies like A New Life 1988

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A New Life (1988)
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A New Life (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Style: sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, sitcom, semi serious
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dating, pregnant woman, blind date, wall street, divorce, friendship, friends, family relations, love and romance, midlife crisis, profanity, singleness, couples, self discovery, looking for love, breakup, starting over, terminal illness, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, ego clash, bittersweet, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, lifestyle, friendship, friends and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like A New Life: Betsy's Wedding (1990), The Four Seasons (1981), V.O.S. (2009), Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), Sweet Liberty (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by ...
Style: talky, humorous, funny, melancholic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family drama, stereotypes, happy ending, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, construction worker, parents and children, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: long island
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100%
The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
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46%
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V.O.S. (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, meta ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, introspection, love affair, love triangle, couples, battle of the sexes, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, lifestyle, pregnancy, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his ...
Style: funny, independent film, talky, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, adultery, dysfunctional family, catholic, friends, family relations, couples, love triangle, twentysomething life, eccentric family, love affair, family life ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Sweet Liberty (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very ...
Style: melancholic, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, showbiz, fish out of water, actor's life, young lovers, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: usa, north carolina
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30%
The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years. Although their marriage is not perfect, they are seemingly happy in their married and family life. But all their married friends seem to be getting divorced or separated. These newly single ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: divorce, nudity, friendship, couples, marriage, female nudity, sexuality, love, extramarital affair, friends, revolution, family relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
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Lola Versus (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: breakup, best friend, couples, starting over, singleness, disorder, lifestyle, introspection, hopes, life turned upside down, ex boyfriend, grieving ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Cemetery Club (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, elderly lovers, aging, elderly, love and romance, lifestyle, dealing with death, human nature, cemetery, female bonding, wedding, female friendship ...
Time: year 1993, 50s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Edie & Pen (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: divorce, best friend, couples, friends, thirtysomething life, family relations, screwball, midlife crisis, love triangle, breakup, verbal byplay, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
Place: reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Festival in Cannes (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, talky, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, betrayal, friendship, actor's life, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, desire for fame, ambition, rise to the top ...
Time: year 2001
Place: cannes, riviera
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25%
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Caffeine (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
Style: talky, semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, twentysomething life, couple relations, disorder, couples, family relations ...
Place: europe, london, england
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25%
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and ...
Style: sex comedy, colorful, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: midlife crisis, adultery, sleaze, dating, family relations, couples, family problems, restaurant, thirtysomething life, eccentric family, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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24%
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Watch It (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mike, Danny, and Rick are grown men who share a house in Chicago. They take on a fourth house mate, John, who is Mike's estranged first cousin. John's welcome to the house is crowned by his introduction to a game of perpetual pranks called ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, prank, dating, friends, family relations, couples, youth, buddies, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, fall in love ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: friends, self discovery, society, friendship, dull life, lifestyle, ambition, youth, twentysomething life, farce, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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24%
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
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23%
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Staying Alive (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marianne (34) discovers that her boyfriend HĂĄkon is having an affair. Supported by her best friend's revenge tips and wisdom, Marianne stumbles into her new life where she discovers that coziness is overrated and having fun is what matters.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: breakup, hopes, couples, infidelity, strong female presence, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, extramarital affair, revenge, best friend, unfulfillment, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, love and romance, family business, looking for love, family relations, couples, homecoming, parents and children, fall in love, friendship, strong female presence, siblings relations ...
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My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fatherhood, baby born, pregnancy, friendship, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, youth, love and romance, buddies, custody ...
Time: year 2004
Place: philadelphia
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22%
The Lather Effect (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 21st century
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21%
Mutual Appreciation (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the ...
Style: mumblecore, sincere, touching, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician, friendship, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, couple relations, musician's life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, artists and showbiz, human nature, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Funny About Love (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When Duffy Bergman, a New York cartoonist, meets Meg Lloyd, a gourmet chef, he discovers the love of his life and they marry -- yet love alone isn't enough to make them happy. Meg decides she wants to have a baby, a goal that initially makes ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, biting, cynical, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: adoption, pregnancy, chef, baby, cartoonist, fall in love, introspection, food, sorority, restaurant, marital reconciliation, marital separation ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
30 Years to Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style: witty, touching, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, love and romance, human nature, midlife crisis, society, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, buddies, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
Style: suspense, realistic, humorous, independent film, biting ...
Plot: pregnancy, parenthood, workplace, depression, media, relationship vs career, family life, love and romance, workplace situations, woman, stereotypes, television producer ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Many Kisses Later (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI ...
Style: emotional, humorous, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, breakup, bittersweet, friends, friendship, looking for love, unfulfillment, sexual content, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
Manhattan Love Story (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The unfiltered internal monologues of a young man and a young woman are exposed as they begin a new relationship together.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: dating, couple relations, battle of the sexes, love and romance, looking for love, couples, society, family relations, friendship, rivalry, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: best friend, twentysomething life, couples, family relations, friends, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, party, black, r&b
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, performer's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, twentysomething life, down on your luck, urban, male female relationship, dog ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Pursuit of Happiness (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An advertising executive fails to realize that the woman of his dreams is his best friend since first grade, now married to his cheating co-worker.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, romantic, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, crime gone awry, advertising executive, relationships, loneliness, destiny, drinking, midlife crisis, looking for love, best friend, obsessive quest, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c.
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20%
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