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Dedication (2007)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
Style:
cynical, stylized, psychological, touching, realistic, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
writers, financial problem, friendship, obsession, mental illness, holiday, fall in love, couples, opposites attract, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, artist, success, love and romance, love affair, antisocial behavior, love story, father son relationship, love, depression, brain tumor, misogynist, eccentricity, women ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, writers, friendship, mentor and relationships mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Dedication: Trust the Man (2005), New York, I Love You (2008), Next Stop Wonderland (1998), Secretary (2002), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, sex addict, introspection, battle of the sexes, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, sex, friendship, loneliness, adultery, actress ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, young lovers, interracial relations, multiple storylines, looking for love, city life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, first love, love affair ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, independent film, romantic comedy, heartfelt, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
destiny, love, writers, fall in love, dating, loneliness, passionate kiss, magic, ship, grief, flirting, siblings ...
Time:
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Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, london, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
108K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, psychological, sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
bdsm, sexual perversion, workplace romance, sadomasochism, obsession, sex scene, fetish, secretary, masochism, masochist, sexual relations, power relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, england
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style:
sincere, independent film, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
multiple storylines, love story, gay, love, divorce, adultery, illicit affair, affair, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance ...
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Place:
los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, touching, independent film, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, relationships, coming of age, friendship, love, writers, multiple storylines, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, writer's life, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
Style:
humorous, witty, erotic, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coma, sister sister relationship, lifestyle, love affair, love, society, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, women, nudity, bittersweet, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the help of Andrew, Frank, Laura, and a brief romance with Bill ...
Style:
humorous, touching, romantic, independent film, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
female friendship, sex, women, friendship, life philosophy, youth, bittersweet, obsession, cat, psychologist, stalking, strong female lead ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania, new jersey ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of ...
Style:
rom com, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, seduction, couples, looking for love, unlikely couple, fall in love, writer's life, writers, office, love story, age difference, magazine editor ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style:
sexy, teen, sex comedy, clever, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
womanizer, sex, relationships, infidelity, couples, friendship, obsession, friends to lovers, dating, friends, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, france, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance, obsession, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Style:
romantic comedy, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, writer's life, teenage love, writers, relationships, casual sex, dating, family drama, youth, love story, love, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, north carolina, usa
Similarity:
19%
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Style:
touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
fall in love, unfaithful wife, adultery, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, cheating on husband, extramarital affair, polyamory, relationships, older woman younger man sex, older younger relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, light, sentimental, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
black romance, sex, love affair, friendship, love, black, hip hop, women, life philosophy, lifestyle, writer's life, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago, africa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced ...
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, touching, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
true love, love, irish catholic, friendship, temptation, guilt, marriage, loss of father, abusive father, bad father, high school, bromance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, ireland, long island, usa, boston ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style:
entertaining, sweet, melancholic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, couple relations, fall in love, love triangle, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, usa, oakland california, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...
Style:
independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, talky ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
mechanic, ex convict, accidental death, redemption, friendship, greed, high school, drinking, literature, obsession, prison, depression ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new york state, long island, usa, harvard university ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Style:
talky, witty, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
new year, new year's eve, love, friendship, nightlife, couples, love and romance, best friend, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life, sexual dysfunction ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, year 1999, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, rom com, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, love story, love and romance, fall in love, age difference, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, opposites attract, couples, female nudity, dating, writers ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, new york, france, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dating, satire, taxi, best friend, filmmaking, friendship, love and romance, ambition, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style:
cute, humorous, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, age difference, divorce, single mother, family relations, parents and children, love affair, fall in love, writers, generation gap ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, love story, relationships, sex, older woman younger man sex, artist, therapy, therapist, family relations, impossible love, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, teenager, love story, love, suburban life, shopping mall, depression, neighbor, believe in yourself, self discovery, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california, detroit, michigan, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a ...
Style:
romantic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
college, love, fall in love, college life, artist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, argument, chef, depression, flashback, painter, breakup ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco, france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
18%
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