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The Ex (2006)
19K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.
Style:
humorous, intense, funny, rom com, entertaining, light, realistic, not serious, road movie, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
couples, workplace, honest, farce, goofy hero, advertising, nothing goes right, uninhibited rivalry, cooking, fired from the job, girl, love triangle, chef, family relations, love and romance, rivalry, workplace intrigue, disorder, silly humor, couple relations, workplace situations, in-laws, jealous spouse, loss of job, coworker ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, contemporary
Place:
ohio
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and light films with plots about couples, love and romance, disorder, couple relations, love, family relations and workplace mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like The Ex: The Woman in Red (1984), Norbit (2007), Mr. Woodcock (2007), Kitchen in Paris (2014), The Best Day of My Life (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sexy, intense, light ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, adultery, love triangle, sexy woman, love and romance, goofy hero, female nudity, bare breasts, midlife crisis, cheating, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, california, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
87K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
Style:
funny, humorous, slapstick, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
couples, evil woman, dream girl, dysfunctional family, black, unlikely couple, family problems, goofy hero, siblings relations, love triangle, satire, overweight ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, north america
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
Style:
funny, humorous, teen, slapstick, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teacher, vengeance, writers, transformation, single mother, uninhibited rivalry, haunted by the past, parents and children, teachers and students, rivalry, family relations, humiliation ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The employees of the famous Russian "Claude Monet" restaurant are forced to move their business to Paris.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
restaurant, escapades, workplace, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, friendship, couples, chef, cooking, romantic rivalry, love triangle, wedding ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, family relations, hopes, couple relations, disorder, couples, introspection, nothing goes right, love and romance, battle of the sexes, romantic relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, relaxing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, friends, couples, divorce, love triangle, rivalry, prenuptial agreement, girl, family problems, love and romance, lovers reunited ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Javier se ha casado con MarÃa, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic, talky
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, breakup, looking for love, obsession, nothing goes right, couples, silly humor, disorder, introspection, couple relations, love and romance, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, couples, eccentric family, black, family gatherings, fish out of water, family relations, couple relations, disorder, african american, blaxploitation, black american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
long island, usa, new york
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young career woman Samantha 'Sam' Hoyt gets swept off her feet by Benjamin 'Ben' Rosen, who romances her better then anyone before, so she jumps at the offer of becoming his fiancée. If Ben thought a girls typical obsession with ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, rom com
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, wedding, rabbi, disorder, obsession, love and romance, nothing goes right, couples, culture clash, love triangle, breakup, love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, captivating, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
bakery, homecoming, love and romance, starting over, romantic relationship, couples, family relations, looking for love, housewife, misfit, couple relations, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, becomes a barfly and attaches himself to the newlywed couple almost permanently -- as their houseguest. But the longer Dupree camps out on their couch, ...
Style:
funny, romantic, entertaining, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
nothing goes right, wedding, stupidity, sarcasm, twists and turns, couple relations, homeless, drinking, best friend, father in law, life philosophy, school teacher ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Rock Hudson is Roger Willoughby, a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige (Paula Prentiss), a sweetly annoying girl who has just ...
Style:
slapstick, romantic comedy, retro, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
screwball, fishing, writers, fisherman, lake, contest, farce, store, love affair, fall in love, workplace intrigue, ambition ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1930s, 70s
Place:
san francisco, california, england, ireland
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise when his wife invites her open-minded (and very sexy) yoga instructor to stay in the guest house ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, romantic, funny, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
husband wife relationship, love triangle, romantic relationship, love story, couples, love and romance, crumbling marriage, love, yoga, love affair, male female relationship, yoga instructor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Style:
humorous, talky, melancholic, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
singleness, slutty attitude, breakup, adaptation, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, illicit affair, dating, slut, affair ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, teen, cute, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, marriage, love, nothing goes right, priest, happy ending, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, farce, disorder, women ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly, missing a breast and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, family relations, society, friendship, rivalry, gays and lesbians, provincial life, singleness, silly humor, love and romance, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, intense, funny, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
obsession, love, honest, character study, love and romance, couples, self discovery, breakup, fall in love, doomed romance, crazy love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two rival Medieval shows vie for supremacy in the world of Renaissance Faires.
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, fairy tale, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
couples, campus, nobility, love and romance, workplace, disorder, college, artists and showbiz, uninhibited rivalry, goofy hero, fish out of water, workplace situations ...
Time:
middle ages, 21st century
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
Style:
romantic, funny, cute, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
faked pregnancy, pregnancy, love and romance, dishonesty, boss and employee, pretense, manipulation, job promotion, babies and infants, coworker relationship, teenage girl, workplace romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
263
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, self discovery, rivalry, family business, store, family relations, workplace, disorder, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, escapades, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy. A small town teenager's angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, funny ...
Plot:
farce, affection, looking for love, teenage life, matchmaking, couples, love and romance, youth, small town, singleness, self discovery, first love ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
iowa, usa, china, midwest, wisconsin
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, battle of the sexes, manipulation, disorder, couples, family relations, nothing goes right, womanizer, dishonesty, vengeance, gender, love and romance ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sex comedy
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cooking, marriage proposal, food, contest, cooking and food, bakery, lifestyle, relationship vs career, rivalry, workplace, workplace situations, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It's your standard guy-fails-bar-exam-loses-girlfriend-works-for-a-lunatic-and-is-stalked-by-a-monkey-clown story ...with a twist.
Style:
sexy, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
youth, boss and employee, silly humor, couples, friends, farce, sexual relations, workplace, lifestyle, rivalry, college, erotica ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
breakup, couples, love and romance, workplace, rivalry, fall in love, wooing, workplace situations, career change, teenager, win over, failing business ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A wannabe Elvis meets his true love, the best waitress in the West..
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
nothing goes right, introspection, follow your dream, teenage love, love triangle, workplace, starting over, youth, moral dilemma, disorder, couples, optimism ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
30%
163K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
inheritance, justice, happy ending, love and romance, rags to riches, lone hero, greed, rise to the top, small town life, fall in love, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new hampshire, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
54K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn't like.
Style:
funny, entertaining, melancholic, stylized, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
happy ending, inheritance, chauffeur, relationships, true love, man child, money, mentor, life philosophy, domineering mother, fall in love, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
84
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
love triangle, ex girlfriend, friends, small town, couples, love, rivalry, choice, youth, disorder, dishonesty, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
Brandon Craig is a regular guy who loves split pea soup and happens to be in monogamous relationships with three amazing women: Monique, his photo editor boss; Wendy, an undercover cop; and Franki, host of the popular Internet show Missleblast. ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, love and romance, womanizer, lifestyle, dishonesty, couple relations, love triangle, twentysomething life, food, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
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