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The Anniversary Party (2001)
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The Anniversary Party (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the British novelist Joe Therrian (Alan Cumming) receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.
Style: independent film, melancholic, satirical, humorous, cynical, clever, talky, realistic, semi serious, biting ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, marital crisis, character study, dysfunctional relationship, love and romance, family problems, lifestyle, party, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, anniversary, drug, hollywood, infidelity, abortion, women, wedding anniversary, night, marriage, ballet, dog, female nudity, maid, swimming pool ...
Time: year 2001, contemporary
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Keyword: gangsters, retrospective

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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 couples, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, infidelity, unfulfillment and female nudity mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Anniversary Party: The Last Days of Disco (1998), Some Girl (1998), The Big Picture (1989), Man of the Year (2002), Always (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Some Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, brother sister relationship, twentysomething life, love affair, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, free spirited, heartache ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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70%
The Big Picture (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once ...
Style: light, suspense, melancholic, harsh, entertaining ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, friendship, movie business, rise to the top, desire for fame, rivalry, ambition, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, rich and poor, satire ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: california, usa
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69%
Man of the Year (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Plot: hollywood, lifestyle, love and romance, infidelity, filmmaking, friendship, nightlife, showbiz, couples, dishonesty, bookies, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Always (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style: independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: marriage, mental disorder, nudity, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, estrangement, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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54%
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, christian film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, family problems, couple relations, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, lifestyle, unfulfillment, infidelity, remarry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, usa
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52%
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Wild Roomies (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, looking for sex, infidelity, looking for love, love affair, youth, love and romance, disorder, college life, love triangle, college, teenage life ...
Place: usa, dallas texas, texas
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52%
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Greenberg (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style: psychological, independent film, semi serious, mumblecore, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, personal assistant, depression, starting over, self fulfillment, fall in love, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies, escape from reality ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Full Frontal (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A contemporary comedy set in Los Angeles, Full Frontal traces the complicated relationship among seven friends as they deal with the fragile connections that bind them together. Full Frontal takes place during a twenty-four hour period - a day in ...
Style: talky, entertaining, non-linear, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, actor's life, workplace intrigue, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, couple relations, husband wife relationship, satire, internet, film industry ...
Time: year 2002
Place: los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city, africa ...
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49%
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce ...
Style: humorous, clever, witty, anthology, realistic ...
Plot: wedding, hotel, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, anniversary, looking for love ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Marie and Bruce (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, introspection, family problems, crumbling marriage, unsupportive spouse, women, couples, urban, city life, unfulfillment, couple relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Darling Companion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Dinner with Friends (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, family problems, secrets, introspection, marriage, crumbling marriage, love and romance, food, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 1988, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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California Suite (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Style: funny, witty, humorous, clever, talky ...
Plot: hotel, multiple storylines, tennis, farce, sarcasm, womanizer, custody, friendship, luxury hotel, family problems, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Plot: pregnancy, family relations, couples, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, love and romance, marriage, art, on the road, travel, karaoke
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, lawyer, satire, law, infidelity, love triangle, female nudity, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, couples, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
All Night Long (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, love affair, nightlife, human nature, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, unsupportive spouse, unfulfillment, jealousy, adultery ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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38%
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Phileine Says Sorry (2003)
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, semi serious, sincere ...
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Duration: 93 min.
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Time: 90s
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: talky, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: fish out of water, gender, media, lifestyle, disorder, nervous breakdown, male nudity, male to female cross dressing, bare chested male, talk show, crossdresser, unlikely couple ...
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Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Breaking Up (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and roses, but as they realize they have little in common besides great sex, the romance wanes, and they ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Sam the Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, dishonesty, womanizer, estrangement, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
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The Trouble with Romance (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, unfulfillment, battle of the sexes, sexual relations, hotel, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, love, marriage proposal, friendship, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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33%
Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, producer, audition, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
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