Movies like Moscow on the Hudson
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, light, romantic, intellectual, feel good, political, entertaining, melancholic ...
Plot:
cold war, friendship, culture clash, american dream, fall in love, kgb, city, gay, jazz, freedom, shopping, immigration, paranoia, catastrophe, gangsters, relationships, loneliness, life, depression, politics, weapons, russian, lone hero, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, russia, new jersey, usa, ussr, moscow russia, miami ...
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Most similar movies to Moscow on the Hudson
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, touching and melancholic films with plots about dialogue, mentor, life philosophy, storytelling, love and romance, catastrophe and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Moscow on the Hudson: The Terminal (2004), The Fisher King (1991), Enemies: A Love Story (1989), Before We Go (2014), Frankie and Johnny (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, motivational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
airport, culture clash, loneliness, stranded, immigrants, happy ending, fish out of water, passenger, nothing goes right, destiny, life philosophy, aviation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, eastern europe, canada, romania ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Style:
psychological, touching, thought provoking, inspirational, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, insanity, mental illness, guilt, transformation, redemption, psychology, holy grail, tragic event, haunted by the past, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style:
emotional, talky, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jewish, world war two, holocaust, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, peasant, self discovery, human nature, dark humor, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
new york, poland, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, pittsburgh ...
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, chance meeting, love, hopes, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, nothing goes right, friendship, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, love, true love, restaurant, male female relationship, waitress, ex convict, loneliness, love story, life philosophy, friendship, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style:
intense, touching, sentimental, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, wedding, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style:
realistic, touching, clever, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
masseur, infidelity, marriage, divorce, relationships, massage, brooklyn bridge, loneliness, stereotypes, nude, life & death, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, intense, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, creativity, showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, couples, friendship, performer's life, redemption, love, multiple storylines, catastrophe ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, midlife crisis, relationships, starting over, life philosophy, parenthood, life, love, fall in love, longing, old love, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, paris france, france, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay ...
Style:
light, sentimental, romantic, feel good, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage of convenience, love, immigration, lawyer, destiny, immigrants, green card, cheating, pretend relationship, fake relationship, cons and scams, fake marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, middle east, france, new jersey, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
Style:
romantic, humorous, clever, feel good, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, african american, black romance, corruption, gangsters, friendship, infidelity, fight scenes, football, dysfunctional family, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, relationships, women, divorce, happy ending, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, first contact, destiny, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, witty, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
fall in love, love triangle, love story, sarcasm, life philosophy, destiny, twists and turns, writers, shopping, love affair, love and romance, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, couple relations, fall in love, love triangle, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, new jersey, vancouver, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, touching, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
relationships, friendship, coming of age, writers, love, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, multiple storylines, couples, writer's life, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
women, singleness, breakup, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, single, love story, love, multiple storylines, teenager, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
middle aged woman, women, midlife crisis, greek island, british, friendship, culture clash, female nudity, reality, bittersweet, affair, suburbs ...
Time:
80s
Place:
greece, england, europe, new jersey, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Style:
feel good, clever, sexy, heartfelt, non-linear ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
destiny, love, writers, fall in love, loneliness, love story, multiple storylines, idealism, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, betrayal, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, new jersey, usa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual ...
Style:
touching, light, sweet, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
destiny, immigration, adaptation, mistaken identity, political prisoner, prostitute, family relations, society, human nature, politics, immigrants, prison ...
Time:
80s
Place:
cuba, miami, usa, latin america, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, love and romance, love, happy ending, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, best friends in love, loneliness, travel, small town, encounter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, california, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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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 ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
Style:
realistic, witty, sentimental, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, aids, male nudity, gay couple, lgbtq, friendship, nude, blind character, bittersweet, gay interest, homosexuality, blind man ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, england, new york state, usa
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17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, campy, absurd, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
librarian, library, female protagonist, friendship, nightclub, party, prejudice, coming of age, drugs, creativity, bullying, school ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, romantic, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, roommate, destiny, love story, happy ending, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, brooklyn bridge, best friend, suicide attempt, looking for love, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, melancholic, light, stylized ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, african american, relationships, marriage, women, stereotypes, brothers, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
women, friendship, bittersweet, widow, grief, death of husband, brutality, runaway, revenge, unlikely friendships, vengeance, relationships ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Style:
romantic, erotic, talky, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, friendship, teenager, high school, sex, male nudity, bittersweet, nude, new year's eve, infidelity, revenge, lesbian ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, witty, poignant ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, dark humor, ventriloquist, eccentricity, unemployment, lifestyle, parents and children, siblings relations, looking for love, suburbs, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Style:
touching, sentimental, romantic, feel good, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
yuppie, love, working class, diner, family life, small town life, friendship, beautiful scenery, survival, blindness, brutality, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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:
funny, sweet, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
single mother, love story, love, audition, dancer, actor, women, happy ending, divorce, fall in love, aspiring actor, true love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, california, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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