Movies like The Invention of Lying
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The Invention of Lying (2009)
156K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style:
philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical, clever, ironic, cute, cynical, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
atheism, rags to riches, love and romance, satire, alternate reality, stupidity, love triangle, misfit, life philosophy, existentialism, creativity, roman empire, society, disorder, homeless, religion, alternate history, dating, distopia, sarcasm, impossible love, overnight success, life after death, mission, fictional reality ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 13th century, 21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Invention of Lying
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out funny, humorous, feel good and entertaining films with plots about love, storytelling, destiny, dialogue, mentor, happy ending and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Invention of Lying: Bruce Almighty (2003), Liar Liar (1997), Stranger Than Fiction (2006), Ghost Town (2008), Click (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Grace, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
god, religion, wish come true, chosen one, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural power, divine intervention, selfishness, deal, niagara falls, reporter, job promotion ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north america, mount everest
Similarity:
86%
360K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, laugh out loud, slapstick ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
lawyer, liar, father son relationship, lie, court, courtroom, dishonesty, change of heart, truth, ex husband ex wife relationship, trial, divorce ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, boston
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, sexy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
literature, paranoia, novelist, publisher, love story, philosophy, writer's life, existentialism, metaphysics, happy ending, transformation, food ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, seattle
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, seeing dead people, supernatural, haunted by the past, doctor, selflessness, untimely death, self involved, supernatural ability, encounter, loss of loved one ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
Similarity:
60%
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384K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style:
inspirational, parody, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, architect, wish come true, alternate reality, wish fulfillment, time machine, life lesson, dysfunctional family, destiny ...
Time:
year 2006, future, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place:
new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
Similarity:
56%
78K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
Style:
romantic, feel good, witty, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
witch, magic, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, spell, couple relations, supernatural romance, disorder, witchcraft, hidden identity, misfit ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, clever, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
workplace romance, women, fall in love, love and romance, battle of the sexes, womanizer, love story, telepathy, seducer, life philosophy, initially antagonists, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago, america, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
50%
734K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Raph and Swan, two retarded thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenseless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find ...
Plot:
urban setting, male female relationship, thief, coin, partner, theft, mob boss, saint, poverty, slum, strip club, homelessness ...
Place:
lyon
Similarity:
100%
146K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, teen, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
college, teenager, college life, sex, high school, youth, campus, party, slacker, coming of age, american football, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, yale university, harvard university
Similarity:
100%
403K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
Style:
feel good, funny, romantic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life, life changing experience, lifestyle change, love and romance, character change, change of heart, philosophy, life philosophy, optimism, couples, motivational speaker, self esteem ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, north america, nebraska ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sexy, surreal, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love story, movie star, magic realism, daydreamer, satire, writers, surrealism, imagination, unlikely couple, life turned upside down, fish out of water, real world ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1985, 1900s, year 1935
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, feel good, touching, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, love triangle, friendship, accountant, couples, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, event planner, love, cupid, office ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, brooklyn new york city, cincinnati ohio ...
Similarity:
28%
54K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn't like.
Style:
funny, entertaining, melancholic, stylized, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
happy ending, inheritance, chauffeur, relationships, true love, man child, money, mentor, life philosophy, domineering mother, fall in love, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
135K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Style:
romantic, feel good, humorous, light, funny ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
best friends in love, teenager, christmas, love and romance, high school crush, true love, couples, fall in love, holiday, love, cheerleader, friends in love ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1995, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
347K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, rom com, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
flirting, dating, love and romance, love story, looking for love, power of love, interracial romance, eligible bachelor, slick, wooing, love, destiny ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, rom com, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, friendship, love story, best friends in love, love and romance, best friend, destiny, male female friendship, love triangle, canceled wedding, wedding planning, friends in love ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, marriage, love and romance, opposites attract, disorder, unlikely couple, looking for love, sisters, couples, family gatherings ...
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, new jersey ...
Similarity:
27%
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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.
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, romantic, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, satire, hollywood, breakup, sister sister relationship, hotel, couples, infidelity, divorce, unrequited love, nervous breakdown, romantic rivalry ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family friendly
Plot:
memory loss, love, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, memory, wooing, relationships, dating, life philosophy, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
With his signature pitch-black sense of humor, Ricky Gervais takes the stage at the London Palladium in this provocative stand-up comedy special.
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
stand up comedy, mental health, satire, dark humor, comedian, stand up comedian, irony, humour, adult humor, mature, deadpan, social commentary ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
politics, marriage proposal, idealism, love and romance, sarcasm, one night stand, society, legislation, state affairs, fall in love, rebellion, love affair ...
Time:
year 2015, year 1987, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., america, indiana
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
breakup, love, relationships, couples, love story, unrequited love, love and romance, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, heartache ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Movie in collections
428K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, reflective, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, fall in love, life, lovers, life philosophy, couple relations, true love, looking for love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
Similarity:
27%
290K
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:
philosophical, funny, romantic comedy, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
comedian, breakup, neurosis, love and romance, relationships, dating, love story, passion, sarcasm, marriage, divorce, pessimism ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 20th century, year 1977, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, los angeles, california, usa ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
small town, breakup, lie, love story, destiny, architect, screwball, happy ending, farce, employer employee relationship, marriage proposal, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s
Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other peoples lives that she knows nothing about. Things take a turn when ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, writers, love and romance, love triangle, wedding, destiny, happy ending, farce, revenge, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey, london ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult ...
Plot:
fashion, small town, homecoming, love and romance, husband wife relationship, couples, marriage proposal, wedding, lovers reunited, lifestyle, hopes, love ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, new york, southern usa, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, relationships, couples, unlikely couple, bet, dating, couple relations, initially antagonists ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, san francisco ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, rom com, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, couples, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, love and romance, enemies to lovers, happy ending, newlyweds, initially antagonists, destiny, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
27%
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