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My Geisha (1962)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A director's (Yves Montand) wife (Shirley MacLaine) poses as a geisha to win the lead in his Japanese production of "Madame Butterfly."
Style:
retro, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, romantic comedy
Plot:
fall in love, husband and wife, sumo, jealousy, in love, minefield, mistaken identity, disguise, opera, filmmaking, love triangle, love and romance, couples, showbiz, lifestyle, hidden identity, actor's life, disorder, switching roles, comedy of errors, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, couple relations, deception, actor ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and witty films with plots about couples, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couple relations, fall in love, disorder and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like My Geisha: The TV Set (2006), That Funny Feeling (1965), Hollywood Dreams (2006), Pipe Dream (2001), Mrs. Winterbourne (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every ...
Style:
satirical, melancholic, witty, semi serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sarcasm, television, showbiz, audition, deadpan, farce, artists and showbiz, media satire, nothing goes right, actor's life, strong female character, filmmaking ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bachelor, screwball, mistaken identity, opposites attract, love affair, workplace romance, impossible love, humble, disorder, couples, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, emotional, psychological, sex comedy ...
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, fall in love, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, audition, producer, disorder, couples ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, iowa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, filmmaking, couples, hidden identity, actor's life, disorder, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, frame up, dishonesty, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, enemies to lovers, women, rags to riches, pretend relationship, train crash, forbidden love, society, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Style:
witty, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, actress, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, mistaken identity, social differences, comedy of errors, bus, writers, young lovers, movie star ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, beverly hills, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, tense, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
disorder, couples, fall in love, couple relations, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, parents and children, love, male female relationship, graduate student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The sequel to the blockbuster comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Who's the Woman, Who's the Man picks up right where the original left off! Music producer Sam (Leslie Cheung) and his cross-dressing protege Wing (Anita Yuen) have ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, sexy, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
lgbt, impostor, gender bending, mistaken identity, sexual relations, love triangle, gender, lifestyle, dishonesty, transsexual, artists and showbiz, performer's life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, spiritual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, starting over, love triangle, fish out of water, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, friends, disorder, mine ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
33%
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, sexual, emotional, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, desire, looking for love, love triangle, friends, wooing, infidelity, actress, frustration, director, fall in love, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends. In her path, she meets weird people who they, also, seek their dreams but ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, actor's life, unlikely couple, follow your dream, opposites attract, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, showbiz, artists and showbiz, loneliness, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
32%
591
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wedding, love triangle, follow your dream, couples, ambition, showbiz, race against time, filmmaking, nothing goes right, black, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hyun-Ju is a woman in her late twenties who keeps waiting for her boyfriend–So-Hun, a professional exterminator–to pop the big question. Yet he doesn’t. We soon learn that he’s caught between the desires of two women and Hyun-Ju's rival ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
nothing goes right, fall in love, love triangle, opposites attract, best friend, love and romance, obsessive quest, society, disorder, couples, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.
Style:
humorous, stylized, sex comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
prostitute, pimp, prostitution, fall in love, smoking, police, unlikely couple, couple relations, love triangle, disorder, love of one's life, couples ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, america
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, biting ...
Plot:
hollywood, lifestyle, dishonesty, nightlife, showbiz, filmmaking, friendship, infidelity, love and romance, couples, bookies, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
romantic rivalry, dating show, fall in love, in love, couples, family relations, love and romance, dishonesty, hidden identity, mistaken identity, fiance fiancee relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
australia, italy, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Pirated DVD seller Zafer who is formerly an extra in movies; swore to give up illegal works when his wife wanted to get divorce. To win his family back, he and his old-fashioned crew decided to make a movie called "Summit - The End Of ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
nothing goes right, film producer, follow your dream, starting over, actor's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, disorder, family relations, filmmaking, divorce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
31%
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:
anthology, witty, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, hotel, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, midlife crisis, honeymoon ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carolina is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
romantic triangle, young lovers, family relations, fall in love, love triangle, looking for love, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, eccentric family, american football, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, romantic, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, satire, hollywood, breakup, sister sister relationship, hotel, couples, infidelity, divorce, unrequited love, nervous breakdown, romantic rivalry ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, paparazzi, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love triangle, alcohol abuse, couples, unstoppable, lifestyle, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he ...
Style:
independent film, talky, witty, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
male male relationship, teacher, obsession, love and romance, jealousy, substitute teacher, school teacher, romantic triangle, infidelity, screwball, disorder, couples ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, iowa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Unemployed 35 year old Sakurai aspired to become an actor, but failed miserably. He decides to end his own life, but first he goes to purify himself at a public bathhouse. While there, he meets the very prosperous Kondo, who subsequently suffers a ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, tense ...
Plot:
hitman, mistaken identity, deception, hidden identity, switching roles, disorder, memory loss, artists and showbiz, comedy of errors, dishonesty, danger, disguise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As he eases into adulthood at the age of forty, Conrad Valmont, the over-educated, under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune, is cut off from his allowance following his parents abrupt divorce and tossed out into the unforgiving streets of ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, sentimental, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, love, love and romance, fall in love, down on your luck, looking for love, singleness, couples, relationship vs career, disorder, couple relations, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the British novelist Joe Therrian (Alan Cumming) receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, cynical, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, marital crisis, skinny dipping, novelist, dysfunctional relationship, party, character study, family problems, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Style:
funny, humorous, witty, clever, talky ...
Plot:
hotel, multiple storylines, tennis, sarcasm, farce, nylons, womanizer, custody, friendship, luxury hotel, couples, friends ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, biting ...
Plot:
showbiz, lifestyle, actor's life, ambition, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, love affair, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, farce, hollywood ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
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, satire, dysfunctional family, justice, adultery, one more chance, showbiz, disorder, blind character, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian ...
Style:
entertaining, talky, romantic, rom com, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
hotel, concierge, betrayal, mistress, happy ending, deception, couple relations, love and romance, couples, disorder, rise to the top, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, future, 80s
Place:
new york, europe, ireland, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial relations, identity crisis, couple relations, audition, moral dilemma, actor's life, parents and children, family reunited, couples, family relations, society, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, pakistan
Similarity:
28%
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