Movies like Paperback Hero

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Paperback Hero (1999)
 6.4
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Paperback Hero (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jack Willis is a handsome roadtrain driver with a secret - he has just become a top-selling romance novelist. However, being a 'man's man' in the Australian outlook, to avoid embarrassment, he needs a name, a woman's name - and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Ziggy, arrives in dusty outback Lucktown to sign 'Ruby Vale' to a major book deal. Ruby agrees to help Jack though it's for her own gain as well - the publisher will pay for her coming wedding (with Hamish, Jack's buddy). Accompanied by Jack, Ruby goes to Sydney to meet the media, appear on TV and cocktail parties, etc. Gradually, Jack realizes that he has fallen in love with Ruby, while Ruby is also touched by Jack's novel. However, Hamish arrives in Sydney a few days later and asks both of them to stop all these foolish things
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, happy, independent film, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: truck, love triangle, best friend, art, happy ending, novelist, trucker, friendship, love, dog, airplane, truck driver, cafe, publisher, female pilot, secret, fish out of water, australian outback, trucking, friends, love and romance, rise to the top, fall in love, ambition, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, sydney australia

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Most similar movies to Paperback Hero

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, fall in love, disorder, dishonesty and love triangle mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Paperback Hero: The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), Breakin' All the Rules (2004), A Case of You (2013), The Best Man (2005), The Very Thought of You (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Style: entertaining, touching, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dog, love and romance, mistaken identity, model, radio, friendship, love story, happy ending, disorder, comedy of errors, women, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
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95%
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, love triangle, breakup, looking for love, comedy of errors, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, hip hop, dating ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.6
 12K
A Case of You (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: win over, fall in love, writer's life, looking for love, disorder, dishonesty, hidden identity, writers, false identity, social network, girl, internet dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.9
 4K
The Best Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, wedding, fall in love, couples, cons and scams, party, writers, clumsy, group of friends, high school friends, high school friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Very Thought of You (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sweet, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, friendship, relationships, best friend, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, infidelity, looking for love, couple relations, comedy of errors, destiny ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: london, england, europe, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Story of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, captivating, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: humour, introspection, ambition, rise to the top, relationship vs career, love triangle, lifestyle, writer's life, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.1
 1K
Just Write (1997)
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, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, social differences, bus, writers, actress, hidden identity, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: beverly hills, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.2
 27K
HouseSitter (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: small town, breakup, lie, house, love story, screwball, architect, divorce, life philosophy, writers, disorder, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 6.1
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Three to Tango (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ...
Style: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night
Plot: love triangle, architect, mistaken identity, gay, pretending to be gay, women, misunderstanding, business partner, comedy of errors, society, destiny, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.6
 986
Strange Planet (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, friends, roommate, marriage, pregnancy, friendship, unfaithfulness, coitus, divorce, dating, one night stand, marital problem ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 5.4
 6K
Two Much (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: twins, farce, greed, art, love triangle, switching roles, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity, screwball ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Christmas in Boston (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and now will let their friends meet. True love is found in the end for all.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: christmas, pen pal, mistaken identity, love affair, friendship, love and romance, holiday, disorder, christmas romance, letter, false identity, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Cherry on the Cake (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way ...
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, couples, best friend, mistaken identity, new year, looking for love, friendship, comedy of errors, singleness, dishonesty, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Wedding Date (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place: europe, england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Lost and Found (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: TV writer Ji-ho (Jin-hie Park) has been secretly in love with Min-woo (Ki-woo Lee) for the last 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find that she has just gotten fired for low ...
Style: captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: memory loss, couples, hidden identity, disorder, love, wooing, fall in love, accident, rehabilitation, friendship, love story, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Style: ironic, tragicomedy, captivating, romantic, social ...
Plot: society, fall in love, family relations, dishonesty, hidden identity, couples, power relations, disorder, love and romance, snobbism, parents and children, woman ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, england, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Night We Never Met (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style: offbeat, semi serious, realistic, feel good, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boarding house, love, exodus, mistaken identity, partner, couples, disorder, friends, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.1
 1K
Pipe Dream (2002)
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: filmmaking, couple relations, hidden identity, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, frame up, fall in love, disorder, artists and showbiz, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Movie in collections
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Lost & Found (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, romantic, sweet, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: neighbor, love story, happy ending, justice, love and romance, buddies, unfulfilled love, friendship, looking for love, nothing goes right, couples, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, friends, fish out of water, love, love at first sight, journey, culture clash, couples, society, love story, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 4.9
 4K
If Lucy Fell (1996)
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, romantic, melancholic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, best friend, roommate, destiny, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, happy ending, love story, brooklyn bridge, suicide attempt, looking for love, couples ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.8
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Tug (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, small town, couples, friends, rivalry, choice, love, ex girlfriend, dishonesty, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.4
 4K
Ceremony (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, wedding, couple relations, buddies, lifestyle, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, wooing, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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A Couch in New York (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply ...
Style: melancholic, sweet, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, couple relations, opposites attract, nothing goes right, love and romance, unlikely couple, misfit, fall in love, infidelity, looking for love, love triangle, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, paris france, usa, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
Style: offbeat, cynical, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, love and romance, looking for love, buddies, introspection, absurdism, meaning of life, obsession, depression, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Nice Guys Sleep Alone (1999)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Carter (O'Bryan) wonders if he's ever going to find a woman who wants to be more than "just friends." His conniving best friend Pat and beautiful step-sister Erin (Vanessa Marcil) both know what's causing the problem: ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, bittersweet, best friend, cons and scams, sexual relations, looking for love, looking for sex, singleness, infidelity, wooing, friends, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: kentucky, usa, louisville kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
Style: romantic comedy, funny, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: love triangle, breaking the fourth wall, childhood friend, teen romance, best friend, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, male female relationship, relationships, friends, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.4
 8K
Hope Springs (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, fall in love, hotel, love and romance, starting over, love affair, looking for love, breakup, couple relations, lifestyle, love triangle, beautiful scenery ...
Time: year 2003
Place: vermont, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 2.2
 1K
Lovemakers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, disorder, comedy of errors, silly humor, dishonesty, cons and scams, mistaken identity, couples, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, high maintenance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.6
 47K
Roxanne (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, love story, small town, rivalry, physical appearance, wooing, dishonesty, hidden identity, happy ending, public nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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