Movies like The Break-Up

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The Break-Up (2006)
 5.8
 138K
The Break-Up (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Cohabitating couple Gary and Brooke find their once-blissful romance on the rocks when petty spats about lemons and dirty dishes mushroom into an all-out battle for custody of their upscale Chicago condo. An escalating argument ensues as Gary and Brooke continue to live under the same roof, all while cooking up schemes to drive each other off the premises.
Style: funny, romantic, humorous, sentimental, romantic comedy, intense, cynical, light, dramatic, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: breakup, crumbling marriage, opposites attract, unsupportive spouse, infidelity, uninhibited rivalry, verbal byplay, relationships, rivalry, family problems, introspection, hopes, love, women, divorce, love story, battle of the sexes, dating, couples, girl, bowling, teenager, college, lovers, hotel ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place: chicago, usa
Keyword: break-up, sport, gangsters, flat, poster

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Most similar movies to The Break-Up

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, romantic and feel good films with plots about love, love and romance, couples, fall in love, breakup, love story and relationships mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Break-Up: Failure to Launch (2006), The Bounty Hunter (2010), The Proposal (2009), Four Christmases (2008), Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Failure to Launch (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are ...
Style: feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: relationships, battle of the sexes, pretend relationship, love and romance, opposites attract, unlikely couple, love story, life philosophy, family relations, happy ending, family life, dating ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bounty Hunter (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Milo Boyd is a bounty hunter whose latest gig is rather satisfying, as he finds out that the bail-skipper he must chase down is his own ex-wife, Nicole -- but she has no intention of getting nabbed without a fight. Complicating matters, ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, sexy, rom com ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, bounty hunter, love story, love and romance, enemies to lovers, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, escapades, reporter, murder, relationships, marriage ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 357K
The Proposal (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Style: feel good, romantic, light, funny, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love, love story, wedding, happy ending, love and romance, relationships, initially antagonists, couples, opposites attract, unlikely couple, workplace romance, pretend relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Four Christmases (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is ...
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, family relations, couple relations, in-laws, family bonds, brothers, marriage, family drama, love, christmas season ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, independent film, mumblecore, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, friendship, divorce, breakup, love story, dysfunctional family, honest, happy ending, best friend, love, lifestyle, starting over ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Picture Perfect (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, workplace romance, manipulation, happy ending, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, unlikely couple, dishonesty, nothing goes right, fall in love, workplace, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 88K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 114K
Couples Retreat (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
Style: funny, tropical, sexy, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: resort, couple relations, friendship, couples therapy, marriage, island, couples, divorce, marital problem, crumbling marriage, friends, screwball ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tahiti, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 150K
This Is 40 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Style: funny, humorous, emotional, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, birthday, 40 year old, aging, relationships, family relations, family drama, family bonds, life philosophy, depression, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, year 1974, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 40K
Mother's Day (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother's Day.
Style: romantic, entertaining, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, single father, holiday, secrets, divorce, multiple storylines, parenthood, relationships, character change, changing lives, family relations, relationship problems ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, women, love story, unrequited love, wedding preparations and rituals, best friend, love triangle, gay, friendship, love and romance, male female friendship, screwball ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: chicago, madagascar, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 264K
Just Go with It (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: fall in love, pretense, couples, couple relations, love and romance, pretend relationship, single mother, love story, happy ending, dating, wedding, beach ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, year 1988, 80s ...
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
 53K
French Kiss (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of ...
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: fall in love, unlikely couple, couple relations, unlikely partners, wine, love and romance, fear of flying, breakup, love, escapades, vineyard, smuggling ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, cannes, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Ireland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love triangle, looking for love, thirtysomething life, happy ending, couples, love story, women, love and romance, love, relationships, wedding, marriage proposal ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, thailand, new york, bangkok thailand, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.0
 38K
Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: adoption, happy ending, custody, orphan, couple relations, couples, parents and children, fashion, love, teenage girl, parenthood, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples, unlikely couple, bet, couple relations, relationships, dating, journalist ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, funny, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love story, unlikely couple, opposites attract, looking for love, boss and employee, workplace romance, lawyer, love and romance, women, enemies to lovers, billionaire ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
 20K
My Sassy Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
Style: romantic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: chance meeting, love and romance, manic pixie dream girl, young lovers, opposites attract, unlikely couple, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, small town life, love, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
It's Complicated (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her ...
Style: feel good, realistic, light, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, marriage, ex husband, couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, dating, love triangle, old love, family relations, divorced parents, love affair, love and romance ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his ...
Style: feel good, light, funny, romantic, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night
Plot: pregnancy, adoption, childbirth, women, parents and children, pregnant woman, babies and infants, family relations, pregnant wife, love story, parenthood, love and romance ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 6.8
 379K
50 First Dates (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: memory loss, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, love, memory, relationships, wooing, dating, life philosophy, dream ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Life as We Know It (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a distastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have is common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly ...
Style: touching, romantic, entertaining, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: adoption, baby, initially antagonists, parenthood, unlikely couple, love story, love and romance, opposites attract, godparent, orphan, babies and infants, enemies to lovers ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Rumor Has It... (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest ...
Style: light, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, love affair, dysfunctional family, love story, relationships, writers, infidelity, love and romance, life is a bitch, young lovers, youth, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1997
Place: california, usa, pasadena california, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: sweet, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, breakup, relationships, couples, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, heartache, fall in love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Wedding Date (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place: europe, england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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