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Husbands and Wives (1992)
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Husbands and Wives (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, sincere, semi serious, romantic, philosophical, clever, bleak, witty ...
Plot: marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems, dishonesty, slut, friends, fall in love, human nature, couple relations, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, crumbling marriage, love story, hotel, time travel, passion, motivation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, talky, humorous and clever films with plots about couples, infidelity, love and romance, couple relations, art, marriage and love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Husbands and Wives: Annie Hall (1977), Sideways (2004), Manhattan (1979), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Annie Hall (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style: romantic comedy, philosophical, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: comedian, relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, loneliness, unlikely friendships, love story, dating, passion, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, 60s
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Sideways (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style: road movie, talky, dark comedy, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: road trip, wine, on the road, friendship, couples, vineyard, vacation, divorce, infidelity, golf, food, buddy ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
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100%
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Manhattan (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style: black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teenager, adultery, marriage, boy, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
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.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style: ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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100%
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Another Woman (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style: psychological, realistic, meditative, talky, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, writers, depression, eavesdropping, psychology, psychiatrist, self discovery, human nature, dysfunctional family, infidelity, melancholy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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100%
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Afterglow (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.
Style: talky, clever, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, infidelity, obsession, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, adultery, loneliness, marriage, polygamy, open relationship, jazz, age-gap relationship ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Style: cult classic, talky, clever, witty, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: disco, nightclub, friendship, pretending to be gay, jealousy, nightlife, venereal disease, cynicism, love triangle, unemployment, dancing, roommate ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, barcelona, spain
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100%
 6.6
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Cafe Society (2016)
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.
Style: romantic, light, atmospheric, period piece, visual ...
Plot: hollywood, new year, party, cinema, love, letter, socialite, twists and turns, beach, dialogue, storytelling, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 1900s, 1930s
Place: los angeles, new york, california, beverly hills, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of ...
Style: philosophical, melancholic, talky, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: writers, life philosophy, loneliness, love affair, sarcasm, creativity, existentialism, friends, family problems, crumbling marriage, art, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
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Wonder Boys (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award winning "Great American Novel" 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, professor, college, adultery, gay, coming of age, divorce, gay interest, university, alienation, literature, prodigy ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dinner with Friends (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, family problems, secrets, introspection, marriage, crumbling marriage, love and romance, food, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 1988, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, usa
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38%
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
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 ...
Style: surreal, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot: child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
New York Stories (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents ...
Style: anthology, talky, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, art, obsession, hotel, luxury hotel, young heroes, jealousy, family relations, gallery, youth, city life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, greece, usa, manhattan new york city, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
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 ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, talky, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: summer, shakespeare, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, chess, love, marriage, professor, doctor, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Anything Else (2003)
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, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, advice, relationship problems, psychoanalysis, young lovers, unlikely couple, couple relations, writer's life, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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37%
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ...
Style: depressing, psychological, realistic, tragicomedy, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, riches to rags, unfaithful husband, narcissism, suicide, family drama, mental illness, starting over, tragedy, sisters, relationships, family relations ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
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: romantic, light, witty, feel good, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love story, destiny, family drama, beautiful scenery, couple relations, family life, multiple storylines, dysfunctional family, infidelity, satire, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: paris france, new york, europe, italy, venice ...
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36%
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him ...
Style: talky, humorous, surreal, cult classic, funny ...
Plot: art, writers, psychiatrist, writer's life, human nature, alienation, relationships, philosophy, satire, sexual content, eternal love, depression ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style: atmospheric, talky, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, addiction, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, chicago, usa
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36%
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
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. ...
Style: black and white, funny, talky, clever, touching ...
Plot: screwball, showbiz, gangster, thanksgiving, mafia, female protagonist, art, comedian, girlfriend, artist, profanity, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of ...
Style: funny, talky, witty, humorous, parody ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dating, love, infidelity, nymphomaniac, art, friendship, adultery, imaginary friend, divorce, farce, filmmaking, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
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September (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style: talky, emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adultery, friendship, couples, loneliness, depression, family relations, family problems, parents and children, friends, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
 77K
Whatever Works (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into ...
Style: philosophical, romantic, feel good, funny, cynical ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, suicide attempt, homosexual, lifestyle change, eccentricity, polyamory, love and romance, storytelling, unlikely couple, character change, social climbing ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her ...
Style: light, melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional marriage, brother sister relationship, adultery, marriage, wedding, infidelity, marital problem, self discovery, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Stardust Memories (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Style: black and white, philosophical, cult classic, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: artist, existentialism, filmmaking, weekend, art, showbiz, childhood memory, nostalgia, alien, discussion, argument, price of fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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She's the One (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style: talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: infidelity, unlikely friendships, relationships, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, wedding, love of one's life, sibling relationship, love affair, siblings relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, ireland, usa
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35%
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