Movies like Frankie and Johnny

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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
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 Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.
Style: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, talky, captivating, retro ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, ex convict, loneliness, dating, love, love story, life philosophy, friendship, self discovery, starting over, depression, happiness, single woman, voyeur, sadness, low self esteem, urban setting, argument, relationships, women, cooking ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Keyword: oldies, reading

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Most similar movies to Frankie and Johnny

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love, couple relations, friendship and restaurant mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Frankie and Johnny: Moonstruck (1987), I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), Before We Go (2014), You've Got Mail (1998), It Could Happen to You (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moonstruck (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: love story, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, love, couples, full moon, infidelity, love and romance, moon, self discovery, marriage proposal, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
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100%
I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
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: satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, age difference, fall in love, divorce, single mother, couple relations, family relations, love affair, parents and children, writers, generation gap ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, chance meeting, love, stranger, hopes, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, husband wife relationship, nothing goes right ...
Time: y2k, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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It Could Happen to You (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: generosity, greed, lottery ticket, love and romance, love story, love triangle, gambling, destiny, marital problem, rags to riches, lottery winner, hopes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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One Fine Day (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her ...
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: single parent, opposites attract, architect, one day, couples, love, single mother, girl, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, disorder ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four Weddings And A Funeral is a British comedy about a British Man named Charles and an American Woman named Carrie who go through numerous weddings before they determine if they are right for one another.
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: wedding, unrequited love, funeral, multiple storylines, love, love and romance, wedding ceremony, friendship, love story, fear of commitment, marriage, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: england, scotland, london, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style: humorous, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic ...
Plot: infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, dialogue, food, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Conversations with Other Women (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style: sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Plot: wedding, couples, infidelity, love story, unfulfilled love, love and romance, couple relations, hopes, introspection, sex, dialogue, adultery ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: business, women, workplace, secretary, workplace romance, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, career, boss, strong female character ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love Affair (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cruise, love affair, accident, relationships, accident victim, fall in love, couples, bittersweet, disability, love, 007, disabled ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love Actually (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: christmas, love, holiday, relationships, love story, multiple storylines, love and romance, fall in love, marriage, couples, first love, couple relations ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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%
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Fools Rush In (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, pregnancy, interracial love, wedding, culture clash, love, love affair, couples, nothing goes right, society, social differences, love story ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: usa, new york, las vegas, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Shirley Valentine (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, clever, offbeat ...
Plot: midlife crisis, middle aged woman, women, greek island, extramarital affair, british, friendship, culture clash, female nudity, summer, affair, girl power ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: greece, england, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Heartburn (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living ...
Style: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: journalism, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, divorce, journalist, battle of the sexes, cheating, marriage, writers, infidelity, crumbling marriage, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Go Fish (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?
Style: independent film, black and white, sexual, clever, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, feminist, sexuality, gender, lgbtqi, sapphic, women of color, advocate, transgender ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Playing by Heart (1998)
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, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
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29%
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
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: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ...
Style: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, couple relations, love triangle, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, san francisco, vancouver, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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No Reservations (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, restaurant, chef, love, love story, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
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Waitress (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot: pregnancy, domestic violence, cooking and food, small town, doctor, waitress, unwanted pregnancy, workplace, unplanned pregnancy, single mother, abusive husband, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Broken English (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her ...
Style: light, emotional, sweet, sexy, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: dating, loneliness, older woman younger man relationship, friendship, self discovery, looking for love, single, cliche, thirtysomething life, coming of age, relationships, hotel ...
Time: year 2007
Place: paris france, france, croatia, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
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, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Lawless Heart (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner
Style: melancholic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: adultery, gay, infidelity, eccentricity, relationships, love and romance, love affair, sex, multiple storylines, couple relations, sex in car, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: europe, england, prague, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
Style: independent film, realistic, sentimental, witty, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, male nudity, hiv, nudity, gay couple, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, friendship, blind character, blindness ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
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, touching, independent film, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: relationships, friendship, coming of age, multiple storylines, couples, writers, love, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, writer's life, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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