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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Style: talky, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, stylized, compassionate, cult classic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, art, historical figure, youth, teenage life, actor's life, fall in love, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, boss and employee, mentor, self discovery, teenager, school, radio, high school, drinking, love, past, hollywood, showbiz, pain, entertainment industry, theater, first love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937, 80s, 30s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, england, new jersey
Keyword: reading, poster, new yorker, marquee, gangsters, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and crying films with plots about kiss, friendship, coming of age, love, love and romance, dancing and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Me and Orson Welles: These Foolish Things (2006), Being Julia (2004), Calendar Girl (1993), Tumbleweeds (1999), Two Bits (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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These Foolish Things (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: london, england
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Calendar Girl (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Like many adolescent boys, Roy Darpinian had the hots for movie divas, and one in particular was his wet dream as half of America's in the 1950s: Marilyn Monroe. The difference is, one summer holiday he actually decided to enlist his spineless ...
Style: teen sex comedy, road movie, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: beach, chase, high school, hollywood, obsession, coming of age, death, love, summer, marijuana, bad father, on the road ...
Time: year 1993, 60s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.7
 4K
Tumbleweeds (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, self discovery, human nature, starting over, single mother, family problems, single parent, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, south carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Two Bits (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, anamorphic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, rich and poor, world war one, family relations, friends, hopes, self discovery, friendship, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.2
 6K
Camp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style: talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.7
 40K
Liberal Arts (2012)
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: touching, humorous, talky, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: college, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, dull life, love and romance, fall in love, book, college student, thirtysomething life, depression, happy ending, college life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: ohio, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Movie in collections
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Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Winter Passing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, character study, complex characters, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.6
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Mr. Church (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style: sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Listen Up Philip (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to ...
Style: independent film, stylized, atmospheric, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: loneliness, writer's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, arrogance, infidelity, solitude, writer's block, self pity, isolation, suicide, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york state, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Driving Lessons (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Style: sentimental, witty, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, obsession, family problems, friendship, parenthood, honest, redemption, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, family relations ...
Time: year 2006
Place: england, scotland, united kingdom, edinburgh scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 10K
Noi the Albino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK, Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with ...
Style: harsh, touching, depressing, enigmatic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, family relations, teenage life, unfulfilled love, death, hopes, love and romance, social relations, parents and children, dull life ...
Place: iceland, hawaii, singapore, cairo egypt, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.8
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House of D (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her ...
Style: sentimental, light, emotional, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, coming of age, self discovery, troublemaker, storytelling, haunted by the past, parents and children, teenage life, love and romance, mentally challenged, misfit, youth ...
Time: 70s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1973
Place: new york, paris france, europe, france, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Polish Wedding (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is ...
Style: light, melancholic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, children, parenthood, family life, family bonds, happy ending, family relations, love affair, couples, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Man in the Chair (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: follow your dream, obsessive quest, friendship, youth, aging, society, lifestyle, family relations, filmmaking, teenage life, parents and children, hollywood ...
Time: year 2007
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: politics, coming of age, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, cheerleader, teenage boy, male nudity, fall in love, misfit ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Movie in collections
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Thumbsucker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, addiction, youth, teenager, depression, debate, teenage life, self discovery, lifestyle, drug, mental illness ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Running with Scissors (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style: intense, disturbing, stylized, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, mental illness, adoption, therapist, writers, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, parents and children, marital problem ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place: new york, seattle, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.5
 14K
Rocket Science (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style: clever, sincere, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, coming of age, debate, teenager, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, misfit, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Style: funny, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, lgbt, cat, abortion, judaism, journey, beat generation, father son relationship, beatnik, homosexual, bohemian ...
Time: 1950s, year 1976, 50s, 20th century
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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She's Funny That Way (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
Style: light, funny, humorous, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: adultery, multiple storylines, aspiring actor, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, writers, hotel, actor, obsession ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Paula McFadden knows: In romance, actors all follow the same stage instruction: Exit. Without warning, her actor boyfriend split today for a movie role and sublet their Manhattan apartment. The new tenant's name: Elliot Garfield. Profession: ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, sweet, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: single mother, love story, love, dancer, audition, actor, women, happy ending, divorce, fall in love, true love, aspiring actor ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 7.2
 88K
Swingers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the ...
Style: entertaining, funny, realistic, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, dancing, comedian, depression, breakup, buddy, aspiring actor, self esteem, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, swinger, dating ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teenager, adultery, marriage, boy, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.0
 734
Cannes Man (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, movie business, disorder, farce, showbiz, media satire, celebrity culture, cons and scams, desire for fame, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, france, europe, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.7
 534
Beautiful Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: mathematics, coming of age, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage love, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, youth, estrangement ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, budapest, hungary, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style: philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: teacher, suicide, coming of age, friendship, poetry, poet, mentor, philosophy, teachers and students, literature, youth, teenager ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1989, year 1959
Place: vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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