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Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996)
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: breakup, love and romance, fall in love, couples, destructive relationship, sex, con artists, truck, snow, sex scene, journalist, criminal, stripper, dalmatian, photograph, best friend, fear, slacker, joke, driving, assault, nervous breakdown, cigarette smoking, newspaper, goldfish ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
Keyword: canadian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, female nudity, dishonesty, sex and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Joe's So Mean to Josephine: Silver Man (2003), Love the Hard Way (2001), The Law of Enclosures (2000), American Visa (2005), So Young (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Silver Man (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A street performer fights a pathological man for his girlfriend's love.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: dangerous attraction, criminal's revenge, fall in love, hotshot hero, gangster, couples, hitman, dishonesty, rivalry, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, profanity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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95%
Love the Hard Way (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, student life, cons and scams, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friendship, friend, secret ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
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93%
The Law of Enclosures (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: family relations, elderly, retirement home, family problems, fall in love, couple relations, infidelity, haunted by the past, terminal illness, couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: iraq, canada
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90%
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American Visa (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Bolivia, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, crime drama, romantic drama
Plot: fall in love, immigrant, estrangement, couples, society, politics, love and romance, starting over, visa, aging, blind ambition, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bolivia, miami, florida, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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So Young (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In the brink of the 90s, 18-year-old Zheng Wei steps into her university life with a hopeful heart for love. She forms a great friendship with her roommates and united as a group, they embark on their university life together. Wei meets Chen ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, university, coming of age, youth, breakup, melancholy, high school, asian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, asia, china
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88%
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Another Woman (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a brutal attack leaves Lisa Temple without her memory, her husband declares that she is another woman. She begins to find out just what that means when she begins to try to recover that lost memory. The life that emerges is one of a bitter and ...
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, clever, detective ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, self discovery, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, couples, haunted by the past, starting over, investigation, doctor, restaurant owner ...
Time: 90s
Place: ontario canada
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85%
Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A taxi driver (Naveen Andrews) picks up a fare (Barbara Hershey) in Manhattan. She offers the driver a large sum to drive her to the desert. While the pair drive across the country, the woman tries various strategies to lure the driver into ...
Style: road movie, talky, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, taxi, interracial relations, desert, couples, opposites attract, love and romance, on the road, airport, cigarette smoking, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Diamond Girl (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Denny Montana never looks at Claire. She has been working for him for four years and fallen in love at a distance. When Denny's brother Regan returns to oversee the sale of the family vineyard, Claire and Reganen makes pact. To make Denny ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sex comedy
Plot: womanizer, family relations, dishonesty, starting over, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, homecoming, couples, hopes, siblings relations, unrequited love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, san francisco
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76%
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Villain (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Shimizu Yuichi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, lovers on the run, unlikely criminals, murder, couples, socially awkward woman, misfit, social misfits, romancing a suspect, young
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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75%
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Slingshot (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
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72%
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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
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71%
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: relationships, ladykiller, mental disorder, hotel, travel, marriage crisis, tragic love, sexual relations, village life, pregnancy, on the road, love affair ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, spain, madrid
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61%
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Falling (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Karis (Nicole Oliver) is a clothing store owner who picks up a handsome music executive, Lars (Christopher Shyer), in a bar and immediately engages him in some very hot sex that leads to an ongoing physical relationship. One morning Lars encounters ...
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Lovers: A True Story (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by ...
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Time: year 1991, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
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Millennium Mambo (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 119 min.
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Style: realistic, contemplative, touching, art house, aesthetic ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, addiction, friendship, love triangle, coming of age, couple relations, destructive relationship, lifestyle, life is a bitch, nightlife, infidelity ...
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59%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Time: year 1999, 90s
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57%
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Atlantic City (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, realistic, aesthetic, cynical ...
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Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: year 2003, 21st century
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57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 93 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 86 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Intersection (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: bad ending, sexy, sad, erotic, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
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50%
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