Movies like Melinda and Melinda
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Melinda and Melinda (2004)
33K
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 affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, clever, humorous, witty, talky, metafiction, cult classic, intelligent, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
writers, life philosophy, loneliness, love affair, existentialism, creativity, sarcasm, friends, family problems, crumbling marriage, art, female protagonist, dinner party, infidelity, time travel, suicide attempt, mental disorder, feminism, dinner, hipster, brotherhood, manners, mood swing, pianist, dating ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, spain, barcelona, new jersey, barcelona spain
Keyword:
gangsters, retrospective
Most similar movies to Melinda and Melinda
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, infidelity, husband wife relationship, art and adultery mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Melinda and Melinda: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Husbands and Wives (1992), Art School Confidential (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot:
adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
atmospheric, talky, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, addiction, dark humor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, chicago, 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, year 1992, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
artist, art school, teenage girl, painting, murder, art, nude model, coming of age, painter, investigation, ambition, serial killer ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Midnight in Paris
147K
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:
black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, 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, witty, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
midlife crisis, destiny, unrequited love, obsession, writers, human nature, couples, crumbling relationship, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, loneliness, art ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
212K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, realistic, tragicomedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
depression, riches to rags, unfaithful husband, narcissism, suicide, family drama, mental illness, starting over, tragedy, sisters, relationships, family relations ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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:
romantic, sexy, sexual, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
artist, polyamory, love triangle, women, art, summer, love and romance, love, bohemian life, love story, painter, open relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, europe, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, sex addict, battle of the sexes, introspection, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, friendship, loneliness, adultery, sex, girl ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Films like Something Borrowed
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, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, writers, advice, relationship problems, psychoanalysis, young lovers, unlikely couple, couple relations, writer's life, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce ...
Style:
humorous, clever, witty, anthology, realistic ...
Plot:
wedding, hotel, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, anniversary, looking for love ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
black and white, philosophical, cult classic, postmodern, talky ...
Plot:
artist, existentialism, filmmaking, weekend, art, showbiz, childhood memory, nostalgia, alien, discussion, argument, price of fame ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style:
humorous, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, dialogue, food, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Before We Go similar movies
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, melancholic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
self discovery, infidelity, magic, invisible man, female protagonist, magic realism, identity crisis, bored housewife, dysfunctional family, relationships, police investigation, life philosophy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, stylized ...
Plot:
movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, adultery, dysfunctional family, justice, showbiz, one more chance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.
Style:
talky, clever, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
depression, infidelity, obsession, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, adultery, loneliness, marriage, polygamy, open relationship, jazz, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, homosexual, lifestyle change, eccentricity, polyamory, love and romance, storytelling, unlikely couple, character change, social climbing ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style:
talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, family problems, secrets, introspection, marriage, crumbling marriage, love and romance, food, midlife crisis ...
Time:
year 1988, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Movies like Moonstruck
277K
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:
romantic comedy, philosophical, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
comedian, relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, loneliness, unlikely friendships, love story, dating, passion, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, 60s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Plot:
infidelity, trophy wife, stock broker, boss, alcohol abuse, love affair, mate swapping, failed attempt, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, couple relations, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her ...
Style:
light, melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional marriage, brother sister relationship, adultery, marriage, wedding, infidelity, marital problem, self discovery, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a ...
Style:
stylized, witty, sexy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, life philosophy, multiple storylines, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, looking for love, human nature, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Annie Hall related movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style:
romantic, period piece, light, humorous, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
magic, twists and turns, relationships, love story, magician, cons and scams, fish out of water, plot twist, spiritualism, medium, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, provence, england, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, witty
Plot:
midlife crisis, infidelity, affair, translator, love triangle, language learning, family problems, couples, love affair, homecoming, fish out of water, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
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, witty, humorous, parody ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dating, love, infidelity, nymphomaniac, art, friendship, adultery, imaginary friend, divorce, farce, filmmaking, bittersweet ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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