Movies like Hollywood Ending
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Hollywood Ending (2002)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, light, twist ending, stylized, semi serious, realistic, psychological, funny ...
Plot:
movie business, blindness and impaired vision, adultery, justice, dysfunctional family, showbiz, one more chance, nothing goes right, disorder, comedy of errors, blind character, artists and showbiz, couple relations, art, satire, farce, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hollywood, blindness, filmmaking, catastrophe, twists and turns, roman empire, artist ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, humorous, clever and talky films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, mentor, writers, runaway, life philosophy and adaptation mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Hollywood Ending: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Cafe Society (2016), Anything Else (2003), To Rome with Love (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
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thought provoking, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
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adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, moral dilemma, human nature, couple relations ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, canada, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
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surreal, funny, sexy, talky, humorous ...
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child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
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romantic, light, sweet, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
hollywood, party, cinema, love, new year, letter, jewish, socialite, twists and turns, beach, relationships, gangsters ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
los angeles, new york, california, beverly hills, bronx new york city
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda ...
Style:
witty, melancholic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
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dysfunctional family, writers, psychoanalysis, advice, relationship problems, young lovers, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, unlikely couple ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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43%
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing ...
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feel good, romantic, surreal, sexy, light ...
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date night, chick flick
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love story, love, art, culture clash, meet the parents, adultery, farce, life philosophy, marriage, newlyweds, architect, love and romance ...
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1920s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they ...
Style:
witty, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
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hypnosis, investigation, workplace, insurance investigator, heist, plot twist, twists and turns, justice, power relations, unlikely criminals, love and romance, murder mystery ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, madagascar, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
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Plot:
screwball, gangsters, showbiz, jewish, mafia, art, city, hitman, bittersweet, betrayal, psychology, obsession ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 70s, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style:
talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot:
heist, love and romance, corruption, unlikely criminals, overnight success, disorder, cons and scams, couple relations, bank robbery, caper, art, crime gone awry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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34%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Style:
light, witty, romantic, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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paris france, new york, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
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sexy, sex comedy, talky, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
summer, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, marriage, love, writers, life philosophy, hotel, shakespeare, supernatural ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
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Audience:
date night, chick flick
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new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country ...
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
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funny, feel good, humorous, romantic, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
hollywood, love triangle, couples, hotel, infidelity, divorce, showbiz, paparazzi, desire for fame, dishonesty, marriage crisis, husband wife relationship ...
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21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to ...
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Plot:
hollywood, muse, screenwriter, writers, manipulation, writer's life, mentor, runaway, workplace, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, couple relations ...
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Place:
california, usa
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26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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california, new york, los angeles, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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