Movies like The Best Man 1999

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The Best Man (1999)
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The Best Man (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
Style: romantic, clever, romantic comedy, light, black comedy, hood, rom com, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: black romance, wedding, black, african american, corruption, friendship, black history, black cast, urban, infidelity, love, hunting, stalker, hip hop, cheating, hip hop culture, wedding preparations and rituals, discrimination, black woman, black american, african american protagonist, black people, bromance, gangster, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: africa, new york, usa, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, american, compilation, change

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and black cinema films with plots about black, couples, african american, gangster, urban, love and romance and black cast mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Best Man: Love Jones (1997), The Wood (1999), Think Like a Man (2012), Breakin' All the Rules (2004), Two Can Play That Game (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Best Man Holiday (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Style: realistic, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, best man, black, friendship, friends, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, love and romance, buddies, christmas season, marriage, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Love Jones (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with ...
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: sex, black romance, love affair, love, friendship, black, women, hip hop, life philosophy, lifestyle, writer's life, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Think Like a Man (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The balance of power in four couples’ relationships is upset when the women start using the advice in Steve Harvey’s book, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, to get more of what they want from their men. When the men realize that the women have ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: battle of the sexes, interracial couple, couples, african american protagonist, black, advice, lifestyle, self esteem, socially awkward, couple relations, buddies, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, love triangle, breakup, looking for love, comedy of errors, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, hip hop, dating ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style: romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: battle of the sexes, black, mentor, ambition, looking for love, cheating, contests and competitions, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, guru, dating ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end ...
Style: sexy, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, friendship, black woman, women, black, couples, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, unlikely couple, looking for love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, caribbean, indiana, bay area, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They ...
Style: feel good, romantic comedy, light, funny, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: sisters, family relations, black, love and romance, couple relations, verbal byplay, shakespeare, hip hop, conspiracy, sister sister relationship, african american, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style: touching, sexy, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: divorce, friendship, black romance, women, betrayal, black, female protagonist, adultery, african american woman, love story, infidelity, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 31K
Boomerang (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes ...
Style: funny, witty, talky, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot: womanizer, african american protagonist, battle of the sexes, dating, black, love story, mentor, advertising, opposites attract, boss and employee, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Jumping the Broom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: wedding, family tradition, family gatherings, family relations, family feud, couple relations, parents and children, culture clash, black, class differences, meet the parents, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
About Last Night (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy, this contemporary version closely follows new love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dating, black, love and romance, looking for love, friendship, battle of the sexes, couple relations, sexual relations, up and down relationship, thirtysomething life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. ...
Style: light, witty, suspenseful, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, dating, obsession, black, life philosophy, battle of the sexes, womanizer, unlikely friendships, dangerous attraction, love and romance, wooing, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 10K
Baggage Claim (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: stewardess, marriage proposal, looking for love, family relations, black, couple relations, lifestyle, aviation, race against time, siblings relations, couples, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
35 and Ticking (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Clevon, and Phil -- all friends approaching the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, midlife crisis, comedy of errors, love and romance, buddies, couple relations, couples, wooing, disorder, thirtysomething life, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 33K
Barbershop (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style: hood, black comedy, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace, urban, hairdresser, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, catastrophe, beauty salon, african american, society, buddies ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 5K
The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Brown Sugar (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both ...
Style: romantic, intense, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: hip hop, wedding, friendship, infidelity, music, fall in love, black, dating, best friend, looking for love, couples, happy ending ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
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45%
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Soul Food (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy ...
Style: tear jerker, sentimental, touching, hood, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: black, food, hip hop, thanksgiving, black romance, women, sisters, black history, african american, family relations, black cast, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Think Like a Man Too (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.
Style: funny, sexy, not serious, humorous, teen ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: interracial couple, friends, couples, wedding, marriage, black, black romance, couple relations, battle of the sexes, buddies, love and romance, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single ...
Style: black and white, sexy, erotic, independent film, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: black, blaxploitation, thanksgiving, adultery, love and romance, urban, hip hop, love, sex, peace, strength, african ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, indiana, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.2
 8K
Roll Bounce (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago. The ...
Style: sweet, light, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, dancing, father son relationship, dance, rivalry, unlikely friendships, kids and family, black, friendship, contests and competitions, teenage love, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2005
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
House Party 3 (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher ...
Style: hood, rom com, black comedy, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, gangster, urban, black, music, party, black girl, discrimination, stoner, stoned, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.1
 6K
Cooley High (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and ...
Style: hood, black comedy, entertaining, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, blaxploitation, african american, high school, black, teenager, urban, black history, exploitation, black cast, basketball, horny teenager ...
Time: year 1975, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, ...
Style: humorous, intense, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, drug abuse, madea, family problems, family life, addiction, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marriage, infidelity, love triangle, marital problem, midlife crisis, family relations, black, family life, love affair, sexual relations, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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