Movies like The Last Word 2008

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The Last Word (2008)
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The Last Word (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck (Wes Bentley, 'American Beauty') makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte (Winona Ryder, 'Girl, Interrupted'), the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, touching, romantic, independent film, indie film
Plot: love and romance, writer's life, fall in love, dysfunctional family, opposites attract, family problems, mentally unstable, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, writers, crisis, suicide, composer, mountain, dark humor, couples, terminal illness, unfulfillment, dancing, lie, masturbation, blackmail, poetry, giraffe, extortion ...
Time: contemporary

Most similar movies to The Last Word

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, love, unlikely couple and opposites attract mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Last Word: Autumn in New York (2000), The Bread, My Sweet (2001), Meet Prince Charming (1999), Instant Karma (1990), The Medicine Show (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Autumn in New York (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: love story, love, true love, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, older man young girl relationship, autumn, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dominic works round the clock: nights making biscotti for his family's bakery in a working-class Italian neighborhood in Pittsburgh, then days downtown where he's a specialist in firing people at a company that negotiates mergers. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, family life, unfulfilled love, best friend, couples, family problems, human nature, unlikely couple, single parent, dream come true, parents and children ...
Place: usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Meet Prince Charming (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, hidden identity, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, disorder, dating, neighbor, making love, sex scene, newspaper, online dating ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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Instant Karma (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The writer of a bad TV series begins to rethink his life when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Plot: car crash, surrealism, celebrity, dating, screenwriter, hollywood, misunderstanding, nudity, showbiz, artists and showbiz, writer's life, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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The Medicine Show (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: hospital, opposites attract, couple relations, terminal illness, love affair, against the odds, introspection, workplace, life is a bitch, fall in love, family problems, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Old Fashioned (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, opposites attract, friendship, buddies, fall in love, couples, hopes, introspection, christian, faith based, faith, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: opposites attract, social differences, unlikely couple, terminal illness, couples, attraction, in love, flirting, destiny, love, love and romance, aspiring actress ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Bridal Fever (2008)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couple relations, writer's life, couples, fall in love, looking for love, boss and employee, power relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Illuminata (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that ...
Style: melancholic, artsy, stylized, witty, humorous ...
Plot: farce, existentialism, life philosophy, art, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, theater, writer's life, sex scene, gilded age ...
Time: 1900s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: america, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, touching, clever, sexy ...
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, betrayal ...
Time: year 2001
Place: santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Expired (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, fall in love, opposites attract, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, unlikely couple, single parent, lifestyle, family relations, couples, unfulfilled love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.0
 805
Cupid & Cate (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second class citizen because of her line of work. Harry meets Cate and they fall in love instantly. Francesca is a doctor who finds ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, human spirit, family relations, family problems, couples, breakup, male female relationship, misfit, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.8
 2K
Gabriela (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mike is romantic and persistent, a social worker at a psychiatric clinic who falls for a new intern. Gabriela is passionate; she's also engaged; although her love for her fiance Patrick seems more fraternal than erotic, she has an overwhelming ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, romantic drama, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, fall in love, opposites attract, couple relations, power relations, couples, family relations, looking for love, engagement, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, crazy love, midlife crisis, unlikely couple, love and romance, hopes, young lovers, society, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, nebraska, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Everything You Want (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It was at a very young age that Abby found herself experimenting with the gift of art while she practically...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, rom com
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: imaginary friend, love, lifestyle, love triangle, fall in love, love and romance, youth, unlikely couple, opposites attract, prodigy, couples, wooing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Gesture (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Andaz or Andaaz is a 1971 Hindi romantic movie starring Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Simi Garewal. The film was directed by Ramesh Sippy. The film was a considerable success and important in the career of Malini as an actress.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: single parent, fall in love, couples, injustice, family relations, pregnancy, infidelity, showbiz, parents and children, artists and showbiz, babies and infants, rebelliousness ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.9
 2K
Fall (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous ...
Style: sexy, romantic, melancholic, intense, sweet ...
Plot: fall in love, writers, storytelling, honest, loneliness, love story, extramarital affair, infidelity, love affair, love and romance, couples, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Ape (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: unlikely couple, mentally unstable, fall in love, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, couples, dark humor, nothing goes right, writer's life, family life, ape ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Always (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style: independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: marriage, mental disorder, nudity, family relations, thirtysomething life, family problems, estrangement, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Mercy (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: asthma, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couples, novelist, society, in love, womanizer, sexual content ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Maze (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, friends, couples, family relations, introspection, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, moral dilemma, fall in love, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
This Thing with Sarah (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual - or so she thinks - rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: couples, down on your luck, writers, love, friendship, porn, love and romance, beach, surfing, narration
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Perfect Opposites (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of two college graduates from the Midwest who move to Los Angeles, where their love is tested for the first time.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: relationship problems, unlikely couple, love triangle, youth, looking for love, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, single, love, college, ice cream ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Navigating the Heart (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry, she butts heads with local fisherman and notorious loner, John Daly. While she thrives on the fast-paced ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, romantic, sincere, factual
Audience: chick flick
Plot: couples, opposites attract, fall in love, journalism, small town, unlikely couple, true love, love and romance, society, writer's life, love affair, environmentalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, vancouver, british columbia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Straight From the Heart (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, fish out of water, couples, love and romance, relationships, male female relationship, marriage proposal, love affair, romantic triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Purple Violets (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, chef, looking for love, fall in love, introspection, couples, love triangle, college, family problems, love and romance, unlikely couple, haunted by the past ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Singer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, couples, change of heart, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, singer, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Bird of the Air (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
Style: realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: basset hound, bird, orphan, love and romance, love affair, hopes, self discovery, couples, unlikely couple, library, waitress, highway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Alexandra "Alex" Delgado, a pairs figure skater, found her career come to an abrupt halt after her partner (on and off the ice) became injured. As their love affair cooled, a heartbroken Alex stopped competing and turned to teaching. Enter ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: figure skating, couples, skating, opposites attract, sport competition, unlikely couple, partner, ambition, reluctant partners, love and romance, contests and competitions, unlikely partners ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.9
 4K
Stay Cool (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, homecoming, high school life, hometown, disorder, prom, friends, teenage life, artists and showbiz, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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