Movies like Shark City

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Shark City (2009)
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Shark City (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Dagen and Kenny are two best friends in their early thirties living in New York who are looking for love in all the wrong places. One of them finds his dream girl, who just happens to be the daughter of the biggest mobster in town, and the other friend swindles her mob boss Dad out of a million dollars.
Style: tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: best friend, fall in love, ambition, on the run, gangster, survival, gambling, love and romance, couples, partner, dishonesty, criminal heroes, love at first sight, swindle, one night stand, poker, hustler, stock broker, friends, urban, city life, sex, female nudity, bartender, bare breasts ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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Most similar movies to Shark City

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and clever films with plots about couples, love and romance, fall in love, best friend, friends, dishonesty and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Shark City: Something More (1999), Girl on a Bicycle (2013), Pigs (2007), Textuality (2011), The Last International Playboy (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Something More (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Sam and his friend fall for the same woman, their friendship is put at risk.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot: womanizer, friendship, mind game, buddies, fall in love, love and romance, contests and competitions, battle of the sexes, power relations, thirtysomething life, couples, friends ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Girl on a Bicycle (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: life turned upside down, couple relations, fall in love, comedy of errors, love and romance, dishonesty, buddies, disorder, couples, infidelity, bicycle, inspiration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Pigs (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A college ladies man accepts a challenge from his dorm buddies - sleep with the entire alphabet, A through Z, before graduation. The rules are simple: the rarer the first letter of the girl's last name, the higher the payout. All goes well ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, light, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: looking for sex, college, partner, college life, looking for love, fall in love, couples, wooing, teenage life, love and romance, youth, battle of the sexes ...
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87%
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Textuality (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people attempt to get into a relationship, while exiting the multiple relationships they were each managing through their Blackberries before they met.
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sexual content, dating, couples, battle of the sexes, fall in love, best friend, buddies, love and romance, looking for love, sexual relations, amor, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The Last International Playboy (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When playboy and one-hit-wonder novelist Jack Frost (Jason Behr) learns that his childhood sweetheart is getting married, he tries to drown his sorrows by dramatically escalating his self-destructive drinking and womanizing. Frost's pals try to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sex comedy
Audience: adult
Plot: best friend, friends, couples, love affair, introspection, lifestyle, love triangle, love and romance, looking for love, human nature, haunted by the past, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, india, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Con Artist (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates his target into taking on one last heist.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: starting over, love and romance, fall in love, cons and scams, going straight, dishonesty, heist, robbery, danger, rivalry, couples, ex convict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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I Do (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Denise Richards plays Lauren, a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be (Dean Cain).
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, romantic, relaxing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: event planner, infidelity, wedding planner, wedding, love and romance, dishonesty, mistaken identity, fall in love, wedding planning, girl, couples, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Tiny Times 2.0 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set four years after the first movie, Lin Xiao, Lily, Nan Xiang, and Ruby, confront opportunities and challenges as their school days come to an end.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexy, stylized
Plot: friendship, love and romance, ambition, best friend, couples, relationship vs career, friends, fashion, youth, business, strong female presence, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: china, shanghai, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, fall in love, countryside, isolation, lone wolves, love and romance, confined, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.7
 2K
Lightbulb (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, light, humorous ...
Plot: entrepreneur, friends, ambition, follow your dream, couple relations, hopes, gambling, scientist, business, stewardess, couples, rise to the top ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Too Young to Marry (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lovers reunited, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, wish come true, college life, unfulfilled love, coming of age, youth, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Quarter Life Crisis (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Hindu, and a believer in Astrology, Neil Desai is a second-generation East Indian-American, who is 27 years of age, works for an ad company, and has been in a relationship for over 6 years with Angel Matthews, and lives with her in a small ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: bet, bachelor, couples, love and romance, best friend, friends, wooing, lifestyle, unlikely couple, womanizer, buddies, youth ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, love triangle, couples, couple relations, friendship between men
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Fisherman and His Wife (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen) and Leo (Simon Verhoeven) are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in ...
Style: realistic, humorous, atmospheric, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: fashion designer, couple relations, couples, crumbling marriage, infidelity, veterinarian, ambition, jealousy, father son relationship, career woman, travel, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Some Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, brother sister relationship, twentysomething life, love affair, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, free spirited, heartache ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Blue Moon (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, gangster, dishonesty, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, cons and scams, fall in love, on the run, love and romance, disorder, prostitute, iron curtain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, vienna, eastern europe, central europe, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Divine Intervention (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Matthews recovers from a stroke. While trying to impress Reverend Matthews, Gibbs has to win the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, christian film, spiritual ...
Plot: church, going straight, introspection, downfall, dishonesty, society, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, fall in love, clergy, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Young People Fucking (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by angst and ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, erotic, teen sex comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: sex, roommate, sexuality, sex scene, erotica, casual sex, sexual relations, looking for sex, buddies, lifestyle, couple relations, opposites attract ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Sprung (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes ...
Style: black comedy, humorous, slapstick, independent film, biting ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hip hop, black, urban, friendship, sex, black american, gangster, women, dating, wedding, best friend, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Better Than Sex (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.
Style: sexy, erotic, witty, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sex, loneliness, looking for love, opposites attract, lifestyle, fall in love, battle of the sexes, youth, unlikely couple, couples, love affair, sexual relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, europe, australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Dish Dogs (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends travel from town to town taking jobs as dishwashers until they both find love and must choose separate paths.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: surfing, love, surf, battle of the sexes, friendship, young lovers, fall in love, youth, lifestyle, introspection, buddies, wooing ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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When Sparks Fly (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A big city journalist is sent back to her small hometown to write a Fourth of July story and discovers the life and love she left behind are exactly what she's been missing.
Style: humorous, emotional, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: homecoming, love triangle, couples, best friend, wedding, wedding planning, journalist, family relations, lovers reunited, friendship, holiday, getting home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
 15K
Cocktail (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beach, love triangle, friendship, beach party, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love affair, love and romance, nightlife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sexy urban comedy about how a guy who is addicted to watching pornography discovers love is stronger than fantasy when he meets and falls in love with the girl of his dreams.
Style: black comedy, cynical, erotic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: black, bare breasts, friends, sexual dysfunction, couples, thirtysomething life, twentysomething life, city life, store, wooing, celibacy, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Dog Trick (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A shy but very romantic young man tries to meet a girl by walking a borrowed dog. The trick works unbelievably well. They fall in love.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, couples, wooing, nordic, love and romance, student, dog, airport, taxi driver, best friend, tennis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Making Mr. Right (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: love and romance, eligible bachelor, cons and scams, power relations, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, smuggling, transformation, theft, party, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Little Miss Marker (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling ...
Style: family comedy, semi serious, realistic, talky, witty ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, bookies, gangster, gambling, custody, parents and children, love and romance, mischievous children, unlikely partners, opposites attract, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 1930s, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Virgin Queen of St. Francis High (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A high school jock bets his friends that he can score with the school beauty queen, who is also a virgin.
Style: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virginity, bet, love, teenager, canuxploitation, fall in love, gender, love and romance, youth, couples, social relations, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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