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Cactus Flower (1969)
13K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, witty, funny, feel good, semi serious, realistic, sweet, retro ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dentist, honest, love triangle, love and romance, cons and scams, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, swing, marriage, medical, deception, heartache, hippie, inspiration, mine, hidden identity, love, dancing, writers, young woman, suicidal, lovers ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 50s, 1950s, 1960s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, fall in love, love, dishonesty and mentor mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Cactus Flower: Seems Like Old Times (1980), HouseSitter (1992), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Overboard (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
Style:
humorous, witty, sweet, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
farce, bank robbery, love triangle, couple relations, dog, bank teller, dishonesty, disorder, on the run, nothing goes right, love and romance, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, light, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
small town, breakup, lie, love story, destiny, architect, screwball, happy ending, farce, employer employee relationship, marriage proposal, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s
Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Style:
sexy, funny, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, farce, redheaded woman, husband wife relationship, marriage, adultery, motel, cheating, unfaithfulness, womanizer, relationships ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
Style:
sex comedy, sexual, romantic comedy, retro, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
couples, farce, journalist, impersonation, seduction, sexual attraction, magazine, con woman, car, music and dance, screwball, woman with a gun ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
rich woman poor man, memory loss, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, destiny, carpenter, pretend relationship, personality change, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
oregon
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Style:
humorous, clever, romantic comedy, hilarious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, marriage proposal, mistaken identity, fish out of water, fbi, family relations, fall in love, comedy of errors, dishonesty, love and romance, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, kansas city, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Adam and Seta fall madly in love after meeting in a Brooklyn laundromat. She suffers from Lupus, he's stuck at home caring for his chronically ill father. Both lie through their teeth to avoid having to reveal they are anything but perfect. ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, light, funny, neo noir, comedy drama ...
Plot:
camping, murder, marriage proposal, marriage of convenience, rescue from drowning, bachelor, mansion, private club, playboy, lawyer, bankruptcy, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, new york state
Similarity:
30%
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, filmmaking, couples, hidden identity, actor's life, disorder, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, frame up, dishonesty, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, tense, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
disorder, couples, fall in love, couple relations, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, parents and children, love, male female relationship, graduate student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, writers, dishonesty, single parent, human nature, love and romance, self discovery, couple relations, writer's life, family relations, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
valentine's day, love and romance, childhood trauma, love affair, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couple relations, thirtysomething life, couples, fall in love, looking for love ...
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Place:
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Similarity:
28%
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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london, europe, england, united kingdom, new jersey ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, fall in love, hotel, breakup, starting over, love and romance, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, lifestyle, beautiful scenery, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
vermont, new england, usa, new jersey, england
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, witty, semi serious, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, multiple storylines, life philosophy, lifestyle, looking for love, love triangle, love affair, crumbling marriage, human nature, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, love and romance, thirtysomething life, couple relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, unfulfilled love, eligible bachelor, dating ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
27%
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Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
architect, closeted homosexual, mistaken identity, destiny, misunderstanding, women, pretending to be gay, deception, business partner, comedy of errors, society, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
rom com, touching, sweet, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
pregnancy, marriage, babies and infants, women, self discovery, parent child relationship, couple relations, love, husband and wife, baby born, family drama, farce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
26%
28K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sweet, romantic, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
happy ending, mathematics, genius, couples, destiny, betrayal, honest, family relations, opposites attract, parents and children, mechanic, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 50s ...
Place:
usa, new jersey, seattle
Similarity:
26%
50K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style:
sexy, humorous, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
witty, romantic comedy, retro, sex comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, funny, surreal, talky, humorous ...
Plot:
adopted son, adoption, adoptive mother, sex spoof, adultery, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, italy, ancient greece
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, wedding, love triangle, fall in love, best friend, couples, cons and scams, party, romantic triangle, writers, high school friends, clumsy ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Plot:
infidelity, trophy wife, stock broker, boss, unsupportive spouse, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, unlikely couple, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
26%
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