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Flower Drum Song (1961)
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Chinese stowaway Mei Li arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong, in an arranged marriage; but the groom has his eye on his star singer Linda Low. This film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical is filled with memorable song-and-dance numbers showcasing the contrast between Mei Li's traditional family and her growing fascination with American culture.
Style:
aesthetic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
Plot:
forbidden love, marriage proposal, nightclub owner, unrequited love, singer, father son relationship, chinese new year, arranged marriage, male male relationship, illegal immigration, dance, broadway, stowaway, immigrant, mugging, impossible love, dancing, police officer, dating, father daughter relationship, photograph, mirror, passionate kiss, workplace romance, widower ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
san francisco, china, california, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, singer, dancing, love, fall in love and singing mostly in Romance, Comedy and Musical genres. Some movies like Flower Drum Song: Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Fantasticks (2000), Sweet Charity (1969), Hello, Dolly! (1969), The Boy Friend (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
broadway, dancing, nightclub, transformation, charity, elevator, love, depression, tattoo, dancer, top hat, based on broadway musical ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
Style:
period piece, retro, feel good, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, broadway, music, love, music and dance, dance, matchmaker, widow, merchant, gilded age, theater, railway ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
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Duration: 137 min.
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The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, broadway, choreography, choreographer, love, morality, past, couples, filmmaking, fall in love, ambition ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
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date night, girls' night
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, rom com, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, wedding, opposites attract, initially antagonists, society, love, arranged marriage, fall in love, love story, culture clash, happy ending, heir ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
india, london, england, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test ...
Style:
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Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, year 1967, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, captivating, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
princess, true love, couples, imaginary kingdom, family relations, royal family, parents and children, wooing, love and romance, marriage, king, queen ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress ...
Style:
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Plot:
broadway, love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, actress, lawyer, couples, estate, friends, master and servant ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, France, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
millionaire, dancing, redheaded woman, new year, car, winter, family relations, school, social differences, siblings relations, martial arts, rich and poor ...
Time:
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Place:
philadelphia, usa, new york, detroit, san francisco ...
Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
sexy, entertaining, feel good, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic ...
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date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, humorous, light, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental
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girls' night, date night
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
humorous, stylized, feel good, touching, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
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wedding, love triangle, friendship, accountant, couples, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, event planner, love, cupid, office ...
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, semi serious, realistic, stylized, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Place:
india, london, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style:
romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, rom com, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
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scotland, europe, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
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18%
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