Movies like Ira & Abby

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Ira & Abby (2006)
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, smart, offbeat, realistic, talky, not serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, couples, breakup, opposites attract, eccentric family, unlikely couple, love affair, family problems, newlyweds, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, terrorism, self discovery, amor, family relations, group therapy, parents and children, love and romance, profanity, sexual content, couple relations, love, christmas, sex ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: french fries, movie theatre, break-up

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, couple relations, friendship, kiss and friend mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Ira & Abby: Friends with Kids (2011), Trust the Man (2005), Accidental Saint (2002), Kissing Jessica Stein (2001), Town & Country (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
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100%
Trust the Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, sex addict, battle of the sexes, introspection, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, friendship, loneliness, adultery, sex, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Accidental Saint (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Raph and Swan, two retarded thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenseless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find ...
Plot: male female relationship, urban setting, theft, christmas eve, poverty, slum, homelessness, partner, thief, coin, rescue, saint ...
Place: lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Town & Country (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, farce, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, architect, relationship vs career, family problems, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, new york, mississippi, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her ...
Style: psychological, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, restaurant, family relations, fall in love, friends, couples, singleness, family gatherings, wooing, store, family life, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
All Over the Guy (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
Style: sentimental, feel good, romantic, witty, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, love, friends, lgbt, gay interest, happy ending, lgbtq, storytelling, opposites attract, sex, odd couple, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her ...
Style: light, melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional marriage, brother sister relationship, adultery, marriage, wedding, infidelity, marital problem, self discovery, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Baxter (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who ...
Style: humorous, stylized, witty, feel good, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, friendship, love triangle, accountant, couples, looking for love, love and romance, couple relations, event planner, love, office, marriage ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, connecticut, usa, manhattan new york city, cincinnati ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Seeing Other People (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two months shy of their wedding, a couple decide to allow each other last flings until their wedding.
Style: sexy, humorous, touching, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, wedding, infidelity, adultery, couples, fiance fiancee relationship, couple relations, love and romance, family relations, divorce, friendship, open marriage ...
Time: y2k, year 2004
Place: harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Sordid Lives (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed ...
Style: humorous, compassionate, bad ending, talky, realistic ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, adultery, tragedy, lgbt, crime gone awry, family relations, couples, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, southern usa, usa, los angeles, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
That Old Feeling (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
Style: sexy, funny, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, ex husband ex wife relationship, marital reconciliation, love affair, infidelity, love story, lovers reunited, screwball, father daughter relationship, family relations, couple relations, wedding party ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Love, Ludlow (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Myra Smuldanski has done the unthinkable. After years of shunning men she accepts a date with Reginald Baron, an account executive at the office where she temps. The only man in her life up to this point has been Ludlow, Myra's bi-polar younger ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, depressing ...
Plot: workplace romance, love and romance, dating, estrangement, couples, social misfits, workplace, eccentric family, family problems, siblings relations, workplace situations, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
This Is Not a Film (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, breakup, couples, couple relations, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, obsession, artists and showbiz, urban, actress, reenactment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: divorce, ex husband ex wife relationship, blind date, couples, professor, friendship, alimony, unfaithfulness, breakup, grief, godfather, trauma ...
Time: year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Little City (1997)
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 ...
Audience: date night
Plot: threesome, rock, friendship, infidelity, lesbian, priest, mob boss, confession, catholic church, painter, painting, couples ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, california, usa, new york, los angeles ...
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Kettle of Fish (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: opposites attract, jazz, unlikely couple, friendship, fall in love, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love and romance, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
See You in September (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay (Estella Warren) gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: support group, couple relations, friendship, doctors and patients, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, power relations, group therapy, waiter, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
People Places Things (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who ...
Style: touching, humorous, sweet, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Meeting Daddy (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, family relations, love affair, fish out of water, eccentric family, opposites attract, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family gatherings, breakup ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia, california, usa, los angeles, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Starting Over (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, support group, dating, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: boston, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Prime (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style: sweet, light, sentimental, romantic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, relationships, love story, therapy, artist, love, older woman younger man sex, family relations, life philosophy, doctors and patients, love of one's life ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, salt lake city utah, panama, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
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Now You Know (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, melancholic
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, wedding, breakup, family relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, buddies, flirting, male female relationship, father son relationship, prank, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: restaurant, gambling, bookies, looking for love, couples, disorder, fall in love, womanizer, unlikely couple, dating, russian mafia, bet ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is ...
Style: romantic, funny, cute, talky, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: marriage, lawyer, hotel, honeymoon, opposites attract, husband wife relationship, love story, drunkenness, attic, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, urban setting ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love and romance, wedding, renewed love, marriage, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, parents separation, parents and children, in laws ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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