Movies like Ginger and Fred
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Ginger and Fred (1986)
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Original name: Ginger e Fred
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
Style:
sexy, emotional, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
television, aging, love and romance, fall in love, couples, showbiz, lovers reunited, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, performer's life, couple relations, train, transvestite, advertising, dwarf, dancer, city, old age, ghost hunter, cow, comeback, surrealism, nostalgia, satire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Most similar movies to Ginger and Fred
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, bittersweet, lifestyle and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Ginger and Fred: City of Women (1980), Interview (1987), All Together (2011), Manual of Love (2005), El Viaje de la Nonna (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style:
surreal, cerebral, art house, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, sex, satire, adult humor, train, feminism, women, passion, sexual relations, social satire, man with glasses, amazon tribe ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
italy, paris france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
Style:
art house, neorealism, realistic, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot:
filmmaking, surrealism, female nudity, kama sutra, television, nude girl, magic realism, journalism, film set, performer's life, biopic, actor's life ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, aging, couples, family relations, couple relations, elderly, parents and children, old age, truth, old people, friends, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, marital crisis, fall in love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, family relations, family life, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
Style:
touching, emotional, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, couple relations, homecoming, travel, bittersweet, unfulfillment, love and romance, elderly, couples, mental illness, memory loss, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, italy
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, life turned upside down, lovers reunited, obsessive quest, disorder, couples, pregnancy, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, screwball, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cerebral, non-linear, stylized ...
Plot:
fashion, satire, memory, orgy, surrealism, society, lifestyle, female nudity, politics, illegal prostitution, italian history, catholic church ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s, 1920s, year 1972
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lifestyle, love triangle, actor's life, celebrity culture, showbiz, social differences, couples, society, looking for love, love and romance, boss and employee, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. The odd couple, Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella ...
Style:
postmodern, humorous, offbeat, stylized, surreal ...
Plot:
cemetery, surrealism, moon, psychotic, full moon, tourist, music teacher, journalist, fool, love and romance, village, village life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long ...
Style:
sexy, witty, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
true love, power relations, love triangle, dishonesty, manipulation, couples, love affair, infidelity, destructive relationship, love and romance, femme fatale, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, sentimental, surreal, visual ...
Plot:
coming of age, satire, surrealism, big breasts, mature woman, memory, fascism, group of friends, horniness, family life, social relations, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
couples, couple relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, elderly, college, artists and showbiz, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, wooing, family relations, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, estrangement, unfulfillment, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot:
infidelity, couples, lifestyle, writer's life, gender, jazz, ex husband ex wife relationship, jazz singer, extramarital affair, television, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, lyon, france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, non-linear, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot:
food, husband wife relationship, member of parliament, screenwriter, communist, television, restaurant, politics, satire, friends, couples, unfulfillment ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
battle of the sexes, elderly lovers, hopes, starting over, love and romance, love affair, teenage love, fall in love, looking for love, couples, optimism, sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
50%
674
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, fall in love, human nature, on the road, looking for love, introspection, best friend, hopes, parents and children, family business, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
love affair, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family problems, couples, thirtysomething life, human nature, love and romance, relationship vs career, lovers reunited, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, family problems, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family relations, couples, happiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sweet, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot:
death, family relations, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, love and romance, life is a bitch, dealing with death, released from prison, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, old age, european, world war two, elderly, nude girl, worship, family life, on the road, parents and children, dysfunctional family, homeless ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, sicily, italy, europe, florence
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Second part of the film "Sorry if I love you". Alex (Raoul Bova) and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche) are more in love than ever. They have just returned from the lighthouse on the island Blu where they have lived unforgettable days. Niki ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, wedding planning, lifestyle, wedding preparations and rituals, age difference, couples, social differences, girl man relationship, amor, love, infidelity, communication problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
41%
931
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
unrequited love, culture clash, friendship, on the road, mistaken identity, buddies, society, dishonesty, love and romance, couples, disorder, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy, milan italy
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, sitcom
Plot:
rising to stardom, actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, workplace, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, comedian, celebrity culture, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
train, self discovery, couple relations, society, couples, social differences, on the road, railway, multiple storylines, soccer, football, migration ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
italy, scotland, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da ...
Style:
sad, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
brain tumor, hollywood, aging, tumor, grief, terminal illness, last wish, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians, nothing goes right, obsession, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, real estate, elderly, couple relations, society, love and romance, interracial relations, aging, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, flashback, elderly couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, love and romance, love affair, lovers reunited, opposites attract, couples, disorder, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship, one night stand ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, paparazzi, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love triangle, alcohol abuse, couples, unstoppable, lifestyle, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot:
friendship, best friend, family life, parents and children, friends, couples, couple relations, children, psychologist, doll, death of friend, school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
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