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Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
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Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
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 L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.
Style: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, looking for love, unlikely couple, love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, women, lgbt, police, dream, cafe, sleep disorder, meme, friend, love and romance, couples, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, san francisco, vancouver, usa, michigan, toronto ontario canada, oakland california ...
Keyword: reading, dreams

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The Object of My Affection (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, friendship, pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, love, gender, lgbt, women, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, love triangle, glbt ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york state
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: male female friendship, autumn, friendship, love and romance, initially antagonists, best friends in love, fall in love, unlikely couple, love story, life philosophy, opposites attract, looking for love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1989, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, seattle, chicago, usa
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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%
All Over the Guy (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
Style: sentimental, feel good, romantic, witty, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, love, friends, lgbt, gay interest, happy ending, lgbtq, storytelling, opposites attract, sex, odd couple, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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You've Got Mail (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, sentimental, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: love, fall in love, bookstore, happy ending, destiny, online dating, unlikely couple, rivalry, christmas, internet, hidden identity, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Billy, a struggling young gay photographer (who likes Polaroids), tired of being the "other man", falls in love with Gabriel, a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. Billy tries to get ...
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, erotic, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, indiana, san francisco
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100%
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Big Eden (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood ...
Style: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, friendship, small town, self discovery, native american, gay couple, gay love, happy ending, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: witty, sexual, intense, rom com, teen ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
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Style: humorous, sweet, romantic, witty, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Country: USA
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
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31%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: melancholic, touching, independent film, emotional, feel good ...
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Duration: 82 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: entertaining, touching, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
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Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Long-Term Relationship (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
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29%
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Never Again (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style: witty, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, wooing, sexual relations, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
How Do You Know (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
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Style: romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Lot Like Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, best friends in love, love and romance, love, happy ending, friendship, bittersweet, small town, loneliness, travel, encounter, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa
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