Movies like I'll Make You Happy

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I'll Make You Happy (1999)
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I'll Make You Happy (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Story: A young hooker must find the money to send her roommate to Tibet in order to fulfill his dreams. She discovers plans for an illegal steroid deal going down between her pimp and a coke addict. Her and the girls, a new male friend, and her agoraphobic, HIV positive father pull off the biggest heist of their lives when they manage to get away clean with the money.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: aids, heist, prostitute, love and romance, teenage life, drug dealing, nothing goes right, disorder, dishonesty, love, money, police officer, hiv, pimp, agoraphobia, male female relationship, steroids, dominatrix, hidden identity, roommate, friend, drug bust, cash, impersonating a police officer, missing father ...
Time: 90s
Place: new zealand

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Most similar movies to I'll Make You Happy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, disorder, couple relations, fall in love, love and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like I'll Make You Happy: Soft Shell Man (2001), Your Life in 65 (2006), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), All Relative (2014), Sweet Jane (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Soft Shell Man (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Style: psychological, semi serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: travel, best friend, underwater, love triangle, life turned upside down, fish out of water, hopes, redemption, dishonesty, couples, male female relationship, girlfriend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada, montreal, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Your Life in 65 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, romantic ...
Plot: love story, friendship, partner, friends, buddies, love and romance, gender, couples, mistaken identity, love affair, twentysomething life, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, couples, disorder, human nature, nothing goes right, siblings relations, parents and children, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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 2K
All Relative (2014)
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: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Sweet Jane (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: aids, terminal illness, hiv, illness, sex, quarantine, destruction, hospital, bittersweet, society, social misfits, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Meet Prince Charming (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, hidden identity, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, disorder, dating, neighbor, making love, sex scene, newspaper, online dating ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.4
 469
Blue Moon (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, gangster, dishonesty, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, cons and scams, fall in love, on the run, love and romance, disorder, prostitute, iron curtain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, vienna, eastern europe, central europe, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Two Guys Talkin' About Girls (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When longtime friends Joey Fortone and Lenny Kaminski get together, the race is on to get one up on the other. Their fantasies abound and their results lag far behind.
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: diner, storytelling, disorder, friends, couples, love and romance, buddies, womanizer, nothing goes right, looking for love, city life, destiny ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Letting Go (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Unlucky in love, strangled at work, and tormented at home, Joel Slater is desperately searching for a way to juggle his life. But sometimes, the secret to happiness begins with letting go.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot: introspection, love and romance, starting over, therapy, love triangle, secret, industry, dream, depression, pets, happiness
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Run for Your Wife (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John ...
Style: not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, sex comedy ...
Plot: couples, disorder, love and romance, love triangle, farce, dishonesty, nothing goes right, infidelity, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, taxi driver, mugging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem ...
Style: realistic, emotional, art house, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, gay, asian history, love letter, gangster, street life, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, couple relations, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, new york, asia, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
It's My Party (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, glbt, death, friendship, deaf, gay interest, male nudity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Hotaru the Movie: It's Only a Little Light in My Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Set two years after after "Hotaru no Hikari" drama series, Hotaru Amemiya learns that her boss and now husband Seichi Takano has dreamed of vacationing in Rome, Italy like in the movie "Roman Holiday". Hotaru then makes plans to ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, romantic relationship, strong female presence, nothing goes right, fish out of water, twentysomething life, disorder, misfit, wedding ceremony ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.1
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Beijing Love Story (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, young lovers, infidelity, love triangle, renewed love
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Crazy from the Heart (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: high school, interracial relations, couples, workplace romance, social differences, love affair, looking for love, small town, small town life, opposites attract, society, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Forever Lulu (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his new wife.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: on the road, lovers reunited, couple relations, love and romance, lost love, love, family relations, couples, screwball, misfit, adoption, mental illness ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.2
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Inside Out (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, gloomy
Plot: gambling, prostitute, agoraphobia, profanity, addiction, bookies, life is a bitch, vengeance, self discovery, betrayal, telephone call, delivery ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 6.6
 146
Is That You? (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: IS THAT YOU? Is the story of RONNIE, 60 year old Israeli film projectionist, who has been fired from his job and is going now to the U.S. in a search for RACHEL, the love of his youth IS THAT YOU? Is a romantic, road trip journey to 'The Road ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: on the road, unfulfilled love, love and romance, aging, road not taken, fish out of water, escapades, journey, introspection, israeli, partner, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Crush (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, independent film
Plot: hospital, woman, love and romance, couple relations, gays and lesbians, femme fatale, journalism, hidden identity, fugitives, rehabilitation, dishonesty, cons and scams ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Vishwanath is a multi-millionaire industrialist, who lives in a palatial house, with his only chid, a son named Vijay. Vijay has been literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and indulges in life's temptations and weaknesses to the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: wedding, pregnancy, police detective, family relations, couples, parents and children, family business, homecoming, mistaken identity, love and romance, on the run, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
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Empty Days (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: infidelity, unemployment, friendship, society, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friends, couples, love affair, sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Milenge Milenge (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lovers reunited, fall in love, love and romance, looking for love, hopes, fate, college student, diary, destiny, hindi, bollywood
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Love for Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Audience: date night
Plot: aids, romancing partners, male female relationship, illness, relationships, social problems, love and romance, hiv, hiv positive, fighting illness, love story, love affair ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Racing Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his ...
Style: touching, serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: pigeon, follow your dream, young lovers, hidden identity, fall in love, fish out of water, couple relations, dishonesty, disorder, couples, betrayal, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.7
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X's & O's (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodrat with no street cred, a poet ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, sexual
Plot: friendship, couples, obsessive quest, love and romance, womanizer, wooing, laboratory, friend, poetry, babe scientist
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Who's the Man, Who's the Woman (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The sequel to the blockbuster comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Who's the Woman, Who's the Man picks up right where the original left off! Music producer Sam (Leslie Cheung) and his cross-dressing protege Wing (Anita Yuen) have ...
Style: captivating, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: impostor, lgbt, switching roles, transsexual, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, hidden identity, artists and showbiz, gender, lifestyle, performer's life, transvestism ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Perfect Match (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, retirement home life, fall in love, couples, love and romance, nothing goes right, disorder, maid, internet dating, retirement home, solitary, retiring ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
I'll Take You There (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman forces a man to move forward with his life after his wife dumps him.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot: best friend, friends, couples, wild ride, unfulfillment, love and romance, stalking, obsession, dangerous attraction, opposites attract, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Escort (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 68 min.
Story: When Eric pays an escort, Veronica, for 60 minutes of her time he intends to use this opportunity to convince her to quit this line of work. But Veronica is no damsel in distress and what ensues is a verbal battle of wits as sparks fly and the pair ...
Style: romantic, captivating, realistic, tragic
Plot: escort, tragic event, life is a bitch, prejudice, love and romance, couples, secret, call girl, prostitution, society, love interest, customer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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