Movies like I'm Shy, But I'll Heal

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I'm Shy, But I'll Heal (1978)
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I'm Shy, But I'll Heal (1978)
Original name: Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
Style: psychological, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, unfulfilled love, wooing, unfulfillment, casino, luxury hotel, cashier, dishwasher, romance
Time: 70s
Place: vichy, france, europe, normandy, nice france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, fall in love, family relations, couple relations and disorder mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like I'm Shy, But I'll Heal: Distracted (1970), I'm Losing My Temper (1974), Special Delivery (2002), Luck (2003), Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Distracted (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Style: cult classic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: daydreamer, advertising agency, advertising, family relations, misunderstanding, marketing, mother son relationship, couples, disorder, goofy hero, love and romance, workplace ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with ...
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, poet, suicide attempt, hotel manager, female nudity, poem, gas explosion, poetry reading, clock, tape recorder
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: disorder, goofy hero, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, chaos and mayhem, job, family honor, anesthetic, breaking the fourth wall, father son relationship, archbishop, army general ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: paparazzi, teacher, cinema, magic realism, journalism, dark humor, election campaign, surgeon, farce, love and romance, media, campaign ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: south of france, france, europe, provence
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Special Delivery (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
Style: realistic, psychological, semi serious, humorous
Plot: love triangle, couples, cause and meaning, couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, infidelity, misunderstanding, restaurant, missing person, alcohol abuse, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Luck (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Plot: hopes, hockey, obsession, unfulfillment, ambition, small town, gambling debt, fall in love, ice hockey, wooing, rivalry, love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, tennis, buddies, friends, love and romance, disorder, love affair, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: family relations, coming of age, summer vacation, sex scene, friendship, motherhood, female nudity, sex on floor
Time: 21st century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Made in Italy (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, sexy ...
Plot: inheritance, love and romance, family relations, lifestyle, couples, sexual tension, attempted seduction, family secret, widow, money, pregnancy, soccer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the time to send a message to the last five women ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: breakup, looking for love, wooing, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, thirtysomething life, love and romance, unfulfilled love, couple relations, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, paris france, europe, london
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56%
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Max (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: unlikely couple, family relations, hopes, society, love and romance, starting over, parents and children, redemption, bittersweet, christmas, social misfits, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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52%
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Les Gazelles (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: introspection, breakup, singleness, strong female presence, unfulfillment, women, friendship, love and romance, society, thirtysomething life, bittersweet, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Moon in a Bottle (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: fall in love, ambition, desire for fame, friends, writer's life, love and romance, ghost writer, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, cafe, donkey, piano ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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Second Best (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, homecoming, introspection, unfulfillment, hollywood, unfulfilled love, best friend, gay interest, gays and lesbians, human nature, friends, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
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Housewarming (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Madame Irma (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depressed by the idea of being unemployed and the prospect of losing his second wife, Francis decides ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, cynical ...
Plot: hidden identity, social relations, lifestyle, love and romance, unemployment, couples, gender bending, fortune teller, loss of job, con men, unlikely couple, impossible love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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45%
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Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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The Stroller Strategy (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Thomas Platz is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a man-child forever, and proving he is ready to take the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: wooing, renewed love, dishonesty, life turned upside down, baby, ex girlfriend, seduction, babies and infants, disorder, love and romance, fish out of water, kindergarten ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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43%
A Spot of Bother (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: disorder, elderly, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, parents and children, gay, estrangement, family problems, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Finding Joy (2013)
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, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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41%
Made for Each Other (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The pair who created "Lovers and Other Strangers" take on marriage and other impossibilities.
Style: semi serious, realistic, biting, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: therapy, bittersweet, fall in love, love and romance, siblings relations, haunted by the past, love affair, family relations, couples, woman, group, masturbation ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york
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40%
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V.O.S. (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, meta ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, introspection, love affair, love triangle, couples, battle of the sexes, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, lifestyle, pregnancy, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Goreyan Nu Daffa Karo (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A conservative Indian family experiences a culture shock when it agrees to participate in a Canadian wedding.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: punjabi, forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, culture clash, family relations, wooing, society, siblings relations, love and romance, culture, bollywood
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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40%
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The Suitor (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, slapstick, realistic ...
Plot: crazy love, farce, hide and seek, fall in love, nothing goes right, obsession, love and romance, disorder, wooing, looking for love, piano, bourgeoisie ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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39%
One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A House of Your Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: nothing goes right, family life, couple relations, couples, domestic disturbance, family problems, countryside, family in crisis, house, silly humor, crumbling marriage, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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38%
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Kwik Stop (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two strangers discover you really can find anything at a convenience store -- even love. An aspiring actor stuck in a small town who has big plans of moving to Hollywood so he can strike it rich. One night, while on his way into a corner store, he ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, road movie ...
Plot: fall in love, odd couple, unlikely criminals, couple relations, couples, love and romance, on the road, aspiring actor, shoplifting, small town, business, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
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Try Me (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Quand Yves-Marie, 9 ans, demande à Jacqueline, qui a son âge : "Epouse-moi", elle répond par une pirouette : "Le jour où tu vas dans les étoiles, je te donne ma main."
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: family relations, love triangle, couples, wooing, love, astronaut, friendship, relationships, consciousness, love and romance, couple relations, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: social relations, prostitute, village, village life, village idiot, frenchman, drunken man, merchant
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france
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36%
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