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A Previous Engagement (2008)
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A Previous Engagement (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, lovers reunited, family problems, couple relations, dull life, mother daughter relationship, love, adultery, male female relationship, mediterranean, island, couples, crumbling marriage, chorus girl, unfulfillment, feminism, vacation, family relations, salsa, secret, husband, villa, soul mate, empire ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, malta

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, love, love triangle, unfulfillment and male female relationship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like A Previous Engagement: I'm Staying (2003), Swinging with the Finkels (2011), My First Wedding (2006), If You Are the One 2 (2010), Hey Good Looking! (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I'm Staying (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
Style: witty, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, breakup, family problems, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Swinging with the Finkels (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A suburban couple decide to spice up their lives by swinging with another couple.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: couples, open marriage, swinger couple, wife swapping, marital separation, crumbling marriage, couple relations, partner, sexual relations, friends, married couple, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My First Wedding (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, true love, wooing, love triangle, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, couples, unfulfilled love, mistaken identity, singleness, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
If You Are the One 2 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues ...
Style: stylized, touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couple relations, couples, love and romance, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, love, wedding, flying
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Hey Good Looking! (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: friendship, beauty salon, family life, introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, lifestyle, road not taken, parents and children, couples, family problems, relationship vs career ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Business Affair (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, relationship vs career, couples, infidelity, fall in love, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, extramarital affair, love of one's life, strong female presence, feminism ...
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Ten Days Without Love (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Miguel, a young psychiatrist working in Madrid, learns that his wife has just dumped him for no one else than his own father while he's expecting his mother-in-law's visit, who's come to the city on a medical revision, and ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: love triangle, breakup, couple relations, couples, opposites attract, love and romance, doctors and patients, self discovery, disorder, nothing goes right
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Many Kisses Later (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI ...
Style: emotional, humorous, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, breakup, bittersweet, friends, friendship, looking for love, unfulfillment, sexual content, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Divorce Invitation (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, relaxing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lovers reunited, couple relations, friends, family relations, couples, divorce, love triangle, rivalry, girl, prenuptial agreement, family problems, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: love and romance, haunted by the past, family relations, couples, destiny, love, winter, fall in love, new year, son, lovers reunited, apartment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A woman seduces a hotel janitor to gain access to the famous musicians coming into town.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, feel good, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: crumbling marriage, youth, dishonesty, fall in love, society, lifestyle, unfulfillment, opposites attract, love and romance, couple relations, obsession, couples ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: love and romance, nothing goes right, against the odds, disorder, couples, male female relationship, misfit, ballet, accountant, love, taxi, police ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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French Film (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, clever
Plot: social differences, best friend, opposites attract, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, couples, looking for love, thirtysomething life, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Bed & Breakfast: Love is a Happy Accident (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bed and Breakfast is a romantic comedy about a saleswoman from a large department store in Rio who discovers she has inherited property in the wine country of California. She could never expect what she would find in "Webster", a small ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, opposites attract, comedy of errors, love affair, couples, small town, inheritance, male female relationship, fall in love, money problems, love story, in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The One and Only (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When handyman Niller comes to install Sus' new kitchen one day, their immediate crush is a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexual, feel good, humorous
Plot: working class, relationships, abortion, infidelity, adoption, pregnancy, wedding, love affair, road not taken, love triangle, couples, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, disorder, wedding, couples, introspection, love and romance, nothing goes right, battle of the sexes, romantic relationship, parents and children
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.2
 283
Novel Romance (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Book editor Max Normane can perfect anyone’s story apart from her own. Highly successful but highly single, she comes up with a novel plan: a publication in exchange for a sperm donation. But will she get her happy ending?
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, love, mother, single parent, looking for love, family relations, workplace situations, love and romance, couple relations, workplace, lifestyle, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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8 Dates (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A press seller in love with a girl who goes against his kiosk; a man who reunites his childhood sweetheart; a young woman who wants something more with the girl that just lying down; a nervous kid with your second appointment; two boyfriends who ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Plot: looking for love, lifestyle, breakup, unfulfillment, gender, love, society, friendship, bittersweet, singleness, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Her Minor Thing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jeana does IT for the Sacramento Fire Department. She and Tom, a self-confident local TV news reporter, are about to go on a cruise to Rio when he lets slip on TV that she is a virgin. It's a slow news week, so this becomes a story: the media ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, love triangle, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, adult virgin, first sex, loss of virginity, male female relationship, television reporter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love and romance, wedding, renewed love, marriage, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, parents separation, parents and children, in laws ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Never Again (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style: witty, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, wooing, sexual relations, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.0
 1K
Caprice (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love, couples, friends, actor's life, girl, school teacher, theater, school principal, actress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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 6.4
 3K
After You (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Antoine is a maitre d' in a Paris brasserie, Chez Jean, and is so full of being of service to others that he can't say 'no'. Late for dinner with his girlfriend, Christine, he takes a shortcut home through the park but finds a ...
Style: romantic, compassionate, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, farce, suicide attempt, fall in love, love, mentor, nothing goes right, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, rescue, restaurant ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Enemies of Laughter (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot: couple relations, couples, writer's life, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, love affair, midlife crisis, male female relationship, father son relationship, love, mother son relationship, curse ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.5
 262
Marry Me (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Oriane and Hadrian's couple is going through a crisis. Determined to save their marriage, Oriane visits a Gypsy fortune teller who foresees a dark future. But Oriane won't hear of anything but a happy ending and the psychic is forced to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, controversial, realistic
Plot: couple relations, breakup, best friend, supernatural, social misfits, love triangle, male female relationship, marriage, memory, love and romance, couples, wizards and magicians ...
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Unresolved Sexual Tension (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: University Professor Juanjo falls into a tailspin of depression and confusion after being dumped by his girlfriend. Convinced that he is being manipulated by her, he persuades his boldest student, Nico, to help him regain his former love. However, ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, love triangle, infidelity, college, lesbian sex, nude, lesbian, bdsm, nudity, bikini ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.5
 13K
Forget Paris (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sweet, intense, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: basketball, referee, couple relations, family problems, couples, marriage, long distance relationship, women, breakup, american abroad, love, crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.3
 739
Paradise (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Carmen and Alfredo live a happy, quiet life in the suburbs surrounded by friends and family. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move away to Mexico City where they immediately feel the social pressure of being overweight in a bustling ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: culture clash, self discovery, love and romance, crumbling marriage, physical appearance, society, couples, couple relations, discrimination, misfit, supportive spouse, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.8
 649
The Oddball (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Can one ensure immortal love? Hippolyte, an eccentric notary, sees his marriage to Camille as his one great success. He also believes that love doesn't last, and this flummoxes him as they approach their 15th anniversary. To test her love for ...
Style: romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: anonymous letter, family relations, couples, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, male nudity, prenuptial agreement, notary, desperation, secret admirer, male female relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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