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According to Spencer (2001)
 4.5
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According to Spencer (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: According to Spencer, She's the one... Everyone else thinks so too!
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere, melancholic, independent film, offbeat, crying
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, fall in love, workplace, porn industry, love triangle, love and romance, couples, workplace romance, unfulfilled love, buddies, workplace situations, husband wife relationship, dating, betrayal, friends, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, road not taken, twentysomething life, love, sex, dog, lesbian, school, basketball ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa, los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, friendship, drinking, sex, friend and love mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like According to Spencer: Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003), Dream for an Insomniac (1996), XX/XY (2002), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Music from Another Room (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
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 ⇓
95%
Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, couple relations, love triangle, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, san francisco, vancouver, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 5.9
 3K
XX/XY (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style: melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, college, haunted by the past, buddies, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, year 1993, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
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 ⇓
71%
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Plot: single father, family relations, parents and children, american football, love and romance, destiny, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, marriage, blindness ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.2
 616
Sueño (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, lifestyle, fall in love, single parent, musician's life, family business, unfulfilled love, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Fish Without a Bicycle (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Comedy - Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go "find herself" she ends up falling in love with an ...
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, love triangle, looking for love, friends, wooing, infidelity, actress, frustration, desire, director, lesbian, lesbian sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 5.5
 287
Burning Annie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: college, lifestyle, couples, obsession, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, prague, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.4
 42K
The Last Kiss (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
Style: emotional, romantic, intense, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: pregnancy, wedding, infidelity, adultery, friendship, introspection, manic pixie dream girl, human nature, free spirited, power of love, marriage, youth ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, polynesia, usa, sydney australia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Tattoo, a Love Story (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Teacher Sara has always played by the rules and has never thought of herself as one who's attracted to the "bad boy" type. That all changes when tattoo artist Virgil takes part in a classroom show-and-tell session and Sara reluctantly ...
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: tattoo artist, love affair, fall in love, unlikely couple, school teacher, couples, looking for love, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fiance fiancee relationship, workplace romance ...
Place: idaho, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 988
Some Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, brother sister relationship, twentysomething life, love affair, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, free spirited, heartache ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.2
 2K
Entropy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Entropy is the semi-autobiographical film by director which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, dating, true love, passion, talking cat, model, wedding, pregnancy, nudity, sex, female nudity, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, las vegas, usa, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Shake It All About (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, infidelity, gay relationship, family relations, fall in love, friendship, pregnancy, love triangle, looking for love, couple relations, gay couple ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.2
 9K
Blow Dry (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Style: witty, feel good, humorous, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: beauty salon, working class, fashion, competition, eccentricity, family relations, model, relationship vs career, follow your dream, love and romance, workplace situations, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 2001
Place: england, yorkshire, europe, london, detroit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style: mumblecore, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, looking for love, college graduate, female nudity, female pubic hair, college, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Real Blonde (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
Style: light, satirical, melancholic, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, sexual dysfunction, loneliness, showbiz, actor's life, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, workplace, lifestyle, unsuccessful, waiter, dog ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 168K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
You Stupid Man (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a man finally gets over his former girlfriend, who has moved to Los Angeles and become a television star, and falls in love with another woman, the former girlfriend's show is canceled and she wants him back.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, wedding, love and romance, disorder, couples, looking for love, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, ex girlfriend, in love, director ...
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Beside Still Waters (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A young man struggles for closure after the death of his parents.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, group of friends, buddies, friends, haunted by the past, bittersweet, twentysomething life, dealing with death, unfulfillment, dark humor, death, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.1
 898
Slutty Summer (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Hunky writer Markus returns home to find his boyfriend of four years naked with another man. Newly single, he begins waiting tables at a swinging Chelsea hotspot where the indelible supporting cast of co-workers offers conflicting directions on the ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, friendship, infidelity, lifestyle, youth, womanizer, opposites attract, unlikely couple, love triangle, looking for love, lgbtq ...
Place: new york, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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L.A. Without a Map (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Finland
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, fall in love, actor's life, love triangle, couples, disorder, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, infidelity, writers, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, europe, usa, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
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: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Pompatus of Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
Style: talky, clever, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dialogue, love, drinking, beer, dating, lifestyle, self discovery, love and romance, gender, battle of the sexes, womanizer, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean, manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 1K
Little City (1997)
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: talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: threesome, rock, friendship, infidelity, lesbian, priest, mob boss, confession, catholic church, painter, painting, couples ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, california, usa, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 5K
Buddy (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth dumps him for the boss of her trend bureau, his life falls to pieces. He feels like a loser. By coincidence some of Kristoffer's video diaries end up ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: friendship, best friend, partner, couples, buddies, love and romance, lifestyle, buddy, friends, roommate, female nudity, misfit ...
Place: new zealand, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love on the Side (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Small town waitress Eve Stuckley is stuck. She has spent years pining for testosterone saturate local hunk Jeff Sweeney and yearns to escape from the Hog-Chow Diner she runs. Just when Eve finally decides to pursue her man, drop dead gorgeous Linda ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: first lesbian experience, waitress, love triangle, looking for love, unfulfilled love, fall in love, couples, couple relations, buddies, youth, friendship, lifestyle ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.4
 2K
Now You Know (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, melancholic
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, wedding, breakup, family relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, buddies, flirting, male female relationship, father son relationship, prank, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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