Movies like Manhattan 1979
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Manhattan (1979)
142K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
romantic, humorous, meditative, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, visually appealing, funny, clever ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love triangle, love, age difference, divorce, friendship, love and romance, couples, adultery, dating, mistress, dachshund, 17 year old, relationships, city life, crumbling relationship, older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, obsession, love story, character study, life philosophy, love affair, looking for love, teenage girl, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan, new york city
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Most similar movies to Manhattan
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out talky, melancholic, humorous and semi serious films with plots about relationships, mentor, dialogue, storytelling, couples, runaway and loneliness mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Manhattan: Annie Hall (1977), Liberal Arts (2012), Husbands and Wives (1992), Play It Again, Sam (1972), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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269K
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, non-linear, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, jewish, comedian, unlikely friendships, loneliness, love story, friendship, art ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to ...
Style:
sweet, touching, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
college, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, fall in love, college student, thirtysomething life, dull life, depression, happy ending, college life, unlikely couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
realistic, talky, melancholic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of ...
Style:
funny, talky, humorous, witty, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, infidelity, nymphomaniac, art, friendship, farce, adultery, divorce, imaginary friend, bittersweet, love and romance, advice ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style:
thought provoking, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot:
adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, moral dilemma, human nature, couple relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, talky, humorous, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, christmas, friendship, philosophy, fashion, eccentricity, obsession, runaway, gangsters, melancholy, campus, city ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda ...
Style:
witty, melancholic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, writers, psychoanalysis, advice, relationship problems, young lovers, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, unlikely couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic, philosophical, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
love triangle, polyamory, artist, women, love and romance, art, love, bohemian life, fall in love, love story, lifestyle, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, europe, new york, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents ...
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, witty, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
artist, art, obsession, luxury hotel, young heroes, jealousy, hotel, family relations, gallery, youth, city life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, tokyo, greece, new jersey, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
existentialism, artist, weekend, art, showbiz, price of fame, flashback, alien, argument, nostalgia, childhood memory, discussion ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Movies like He's Just Not That Into You
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, light, twist ending ...
Plot:
movie business, blindness and impaired vision, justice, dysfunctional family, adultery, one more chance, showbiz, disorder, comedy of errors, blind character, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style:
funny, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Plot:
screwball, gangsters, showbiz, jewish, mafia, art, city, hitman, bittersweet, betrayal, psychology, obsession ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 70s, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, divorce, couples, love story, dysfunctional family, happy ending, honest, best friends, love, starting over, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, talky, clever, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
writers, life philosophy, loneliness, love affair, sarcasm, existentialism, creativity, friends, family problems, crumbling marriage, art, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style:
surreal, funny, sexy, talky, humorous ...
Plot:
child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Movies similar to 500 Days of Summer
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, talky, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
summer, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, marriage, love, writers, life philosophy, hotel, shakespeare, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style:
romantic, sincere, emotional, sexy, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
relationships, lesbian, love, love triangle, love affair, twists and turns, life philosophy, sex, sister sister relationship, friendship, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to ...
Style:
sexy, talky, cynical, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
midlife crisis, destiny, twists and turns, obsession, writers, human nature, couples, crumbling relationship, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, art, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Style:
light, witty, romantic, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, love story, destiny, beautiful scenery, couple relations, family life, infidelity, christmas, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, satire, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, new york, europe, italy, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, surreal, sexy, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, love, art, culture clash, meet the parents, adultery, farce, life philosophy, marriage, newlyweds, architect, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, new york, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Films like Lost in Translation
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style:
talky, atmospheric, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, dark humor, musician ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into ...
Style:
philosophical, romantic, feel good, funny, cynical ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, suicide attempt, family relations, homosexual, lifestyle change, eccentricity, polyamory, love and romance, unlikely couple, character change, social climbing ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Style:
mumblecore, feel good, realistic, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love, relationships, female friendship, dancer, coming of age, bittersweet, loneliness, friendship, melancholy, female protagonist, dancing, self discovery ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, paris france, new jersey, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style:
sexy, heartbreaking, light, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
wedding, infidelity, destiny, couples, love story, lovers reunited, bridesmaid, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, introspection, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, london, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, funny, intense, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
obsession, love, character study, honest, love and romance, couples, self discovery, fall in love, breakup, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nude, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Films like Midnight in Paris
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Style:
suspenseful, feel good, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, obsession, murder, women, city, marriage, hotel, death, writers, paranoia, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style:
melancholic, sexy, sweet, talky, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, interracial relations, multiple storylines, fall in love, looking for love, city life, young lovers, couple relations, lifestyle, couples, friendship, first love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, paris france, new jersey, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Style:
philosophical, romantic, unusual plot structure, talky, psychological ...
Plot:
professor, murder, depression, suspense, philosophy, russian roulette, plot twist, college, teachers and students, unlikely friendships, loneliness, writers ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, rhode island, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
infidelity, unlikely friendships, relationships, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, love of one's life, sibling relationship, wedding, siblings relations, love affair, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, ireland, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) comes to her defense from ...
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, poignant, compassionate ...
Plot:
loneliness, love, screwball, marriage, macabre, love story, life philosophy, vengeance, runaway, relationships, obsession, multiple storylines ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, los angeles, tokyo, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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