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Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Style: humorous, talky, surreal, cult classic, funny, independent film, clever, black comedy, dark comedy, existential ...
Plot: art, writers, psychiatrist, writer's life, alienation, human nature, relationships, philosophy, satire, sexual content, eternal love, depression, prostitution, cannibalism, psychiatry, psychotherapy, surrealism, cannibal, time travel, psychology, cinema, lonely, infidelity, media, hipster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: avant-garde, jewish, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, witty, realistic and talky films with plots about couples, love and romance, art, couple relations, man with glasses, satire and adultery mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Deconstructing Harry: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Annie Hall (1977), Zelig (1983), Celebrity (1998), Broadway Danny Rose (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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 8.0
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Annie Hall (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style: romantic comedy, philosophical, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: comedian, relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, loneliness, unlikely friendships, love story, dating, passion, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, 60s
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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100%
 7.7
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Zelig (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, ...
Style: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody ...
Plot: celebrity, psychiatrist, satire, character study, justice, fictional biography, artists and showbiz, switching roles, missing person, disappearance, therapy, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: new york, paris france, germany, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.3
 28K
Celebrity (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style: black and white, stylized, satirical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture, spectacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style: black and white, funny, talky, clever, touching ...
Plot: screwball, showbiz, gangster, thanksgiving, mafia, female protagonist, art, comedian, girlfriend, artist, profanity, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style: surreal, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot: child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.9
 38K
Bananas (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Style: slapstick, humorous, political, funny, talky ...
Plot: revolution, dictatorship, satire, dictator, politics, rebellion, political satire, loser, fish out of water, political activism, misfit, rise to the top ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Husbands and Wives (1992)
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 ...
Plot: marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Stardust Memories (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Style: black and white, philosophical, cult classic, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: artist, existentialism, filmmaking, weekend, art, showbiz, childhood memory, nostalgia, alien, discussion, argument, price of fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, talky, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: summer, shakespeare, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, chess, love, marriage, professor, doctor, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
Style: sex comedy, parody, anthology, surreal, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zoophilia, satire, sex, mad scientist, surrealism, sexual fantasy, sex scene, bestiality, transsexuality, looking for sex, nudity, sarcasm ...
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43%
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Style: surreal, humorous, black and white, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, vigilante, vigilantism, investigation, false accusation, circus, disorder, danger, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, adultery ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, central europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of ...
Style: funny, talky, witty, humorous, parody ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dating, love, infidelity, nymphomaniac, art, friendship, adultery, imaginary friend, divorce, farce, filmmaking, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Anything Else (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda ...
Style: witty, melancholic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, advice, relationship problems, psychoanalysis, young lovers, unlikely couple, couple relations, writer's life, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.8
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Manhattan (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style: black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
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Love and Death (1975)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in 19th-century Russia, Allen is a cowardly serf drafted into the Napoleonic war, who would rather write poetry and obsess over his beautiful but pretentious cousin. Allen's cowardice serves him well when he hides in a cannon and is shot ...
Style: parody, philosophical, surreal, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, war, philosophy, napoleonic wars, irreverent, nothing goes right, love and romance, disorder, comedy of errors, fall in love, military, goofy hero ...
Time: year 1975, 1800s, 1810s, 19th century
Place: russia, ussr, st. petersburg russia
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40%
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Style: suspenseful, dark comedy, witty, feel good, clever ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, obsession, murder, women, death, marriage, paranoia, hotel, sherlock holmes, mysticism, truth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state
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39%
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style: ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized ...
Plot: movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, adultery, dysfunctional family, justice, showbiz, one more chance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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39%
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style: atmospheric, talky, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, addiction, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny ...
Plot: prison, robbery, heist, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, unlikely criminals, misfit, couple relations, hapless, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 50s, 60s, 20th century ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style: light, humorous, funny, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, backstage, murder, actor, writers, playwright, actress, rehearsal, satire, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
Style: talky, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: infidelity, dysfunctional family, adultery, crumbling marriage, family problems, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, life turned upside down, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Style: romantic, light, witty, feel good, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love story, destiny, family drama, beautiful scenery, couple relations, family life, multiple storylines, dysfunctional family, infidelity, satire, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: paris france, new york, europe, italy, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.4
 36K
Radio Days (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, talky, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: radio, working class, dysfunctional family, rescue, lifestyle, love and romance, submarine, family problems, parents and children, nostalgia, world war two, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.7
 202K
Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, witty
Plot: iron curtain, farce, tourist, disorder, screwball, political unrest, clergy, nothing goes right, dishonesty, goofy hero, conspiracy, silly humor ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Barton Fink (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style: psychological, surreal, neo noir, dark comedy, cerebral ...
Plot: twists and turns, hollywood, showbiz, murder, screenwriter, neighbor, surrealism, serial killer, insanity, dark humor, film industry, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1941
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Style: surreal, talky, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot: midlife crisis, car salesman, adaptation, surrealism, losing-it hero, self discovery, success, against the rules, couple relations, small town, small town life, satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: indiana, hawaii
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35%
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