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A Merry War (1997)
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Original name: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Style:
cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
writers, advertising, book, poverty, marketing, money, artist, literature, poetry, working class, satire, bookstore, drinking, love, poet, pregnancy, love and romance, fall in love, couples, society, infidelity, lifestyle, writer's life, idealism, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1930s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and talky films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, drinking, friendship, sex and drinking alcohol mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Merry War: Turtle Diary (1985), Metroland (1997), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), The Divorce (2003), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
bookstore, book, rescue, couples, environmentalism, against the rules, ocean, loneliness, eccentricity, turtle, friendship, writer's block ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe, atlantic ocean, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, friendship, desire, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, sex, nudity ...
Time:
year 1997, 70s, 20th century, year 1963, year 1977 ...
Place:
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Similarity:
93%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Style:
sexy, talky, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, culture clash, happy ending, desire, divorce, justice, prejudice, pregnancy, art history, marriage, sisters, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, maine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when ...
Style:
talky, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, culture clash, nudity, british, lesbian, marriage, death, love, murder, violence, revolution, indians ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe, india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
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sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, humorous, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Plot:
novelist, drug smuggling, poet, manipulation, dishonesty, lifestyle, destructive relationship, family problems, love triangle, writers, infidelity, writer's block ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Style:
period piece, stylized, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cross dressing, shakespeare, twins, mistaken identity, beach, tudors, comedy of errors, gender bending, love triangle, disguise, sea disaster, presumed dead ...
Time:
19th century, year 1996, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era ...
Place:
cornwall, britain, london, seattle, england
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, witty, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, india
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, lust, lifestyle, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, couples, thirtysomething life, friends, love affair, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, canada
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, seduction, couples, looking for love, unlikely couple, fall in love, writer's life, writers, office, love story, age difference, magazine editor ...
Place:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, romantic, sweet, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, europe, england, minneapolis minnesota, new jersey ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on the side! And if this triangle wasn't crowded enough, the arrival of a seductive newcomer ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, witty, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lesbian, mob boss, priest, confession, painter, painting, catholic church, passion, rock, friendship, infidelity, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
painter, painting, art, artist, composer, writers, friendship, eviction, illegal immigrant, dog, magazine editor, artists' life ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, finland
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Style:
romantic, humorous, feel good, witty, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens
Plot:
male nudity, writers, lesbian, relationships, friendship, summer, public nudity, looking for love, love triangle, lifestyle, understanding, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, london, france, england, europe ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, period piece, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, wedding day, bride and groom, unrequited love, lovers reunited, under the surface, introspection, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, passion ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
writers, financial problem, friendship, mental illness, obsession, couples, holiday, opposites attract, writer's life, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
estate, inheritance, sister sister relationship, wealthy family, country house, aristocrat, rich snob, family drama, passion, sword, arrest, terminal illness ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, year 1992, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, london
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style:
stylized, disturbing, melancholic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, female nudity, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, couple relations, journalism, couples, relationship vs career, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Finland, Luxembourg, USA, Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An "aspiring Hollywood actress" (Vinessa Shaw), on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, fall in love, love triangle, disorder, couples, unlikely couple, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, infidelity, dating, writers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, england, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. ...
Style:
independent film, talky, clever, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
businessman, culture clash, cold war, hospital, drinking, cousin cousin relationship, marijuana, preppy, conservative, economics, stoner, hipster ...
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Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, madrid, pentagon ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, offbeat, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, homoerotic friendship, poverty, alcohol abuse, addiction, great dialogue, homosexuality, road trip, pub, drug, great ending, dark humor ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain, northern england, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Style:
talky, multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrant, taxi, drinking, muslim, call girl, street walker, driver, asian, black, indians, prostitution ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, touching, realistic, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
art, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, elderly, friendship, art class, nude model, peeping tom, older man younger woman romance, teenage life, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Style:
tragicomedy, ironic, romantic, social, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, society, dishonesty, hidden identity, power relations, disorder, couples, love and romance, parents and children, snobbism, black maid ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, usa, new york, europe, london
Similarity:
41%
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