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Pushing Tin (1999)
32K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Style:
humorous, tension, intense, feel good, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, clever, dark comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
air traffic controller, air traffic control, rivalry, workplace, female nudity, blonde, supermarket, husband wife relationship, one night stand, panic, dysfunctional marriage, marital separation, stress, marital reconciliation, justice, dark humor, corruption, character study, contests and competitions, competition, dishonesty, workplace situations, airplane, vengeance, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, long island, new york, usa, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, dialogue, mentor, life philosophy and storytelling mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Pushing Tin: Feeling Minnesota (1996), Bandits (2001), Playing by Heart (1998), The Last Kiss (2006), Husbands and Wives (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, talky, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, murder, corruption, gangster, wedding, love triangle, motel, elopement, presumed dead, framed for murder, brother brother relationship, stripper ...
Time:
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Place:
minnesota, las vegas, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, robbery, prison, friendship, bank robbery, bored housewife, on the run, stockholm syndrome, hostage, caper, home invasion, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, california, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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, independent film, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
multiple storylines, love story, gay, love, divorce, adultery, illicit affair, affair, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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:
romantic, intense, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, midlife crisis, power of love, adultery, friendship, unhappy marriage, bachelor party, cheating wife, introspection, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
polynesia, wisconsin, usa, sydney australia, australia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
talky, realistic, philosophical, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, marital separation, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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, light, intense ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
referee, basketball, restaurant, flashback, american abroad, dysfunctional marriage, marriage proposal, marital separation, marital reconciliation, husband wife relationship, love, couple relations ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, usa, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, sincere, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, older woman younger man relationship, dull life, suicide, blackmail, dysfunctional marriage, infidelity, workplace, sexual content, dark humor, temptation, adultery ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
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159K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Style:
funny, emotional, humorous, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, 40 year old, relationships, husband wife relationship, family bonds, family drama, life philosophy, depression, midlife crisis, high maintenance, adulthood, family life ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 70s, year 1974 ...
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
355
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
marriage, mental disorder, breakup, relationship vs career, dysfunctional family, suburban life, suburbs, pregnancy, midlife crisis, infidelity, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style:
satirical, talky, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, southern belle, women, family problems, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
savannah georgia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style:
sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
wedding, couples, love story, infidelity, destiny, bittersweet, sex, ex husband ex wife relationship, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london
Similarity:
24%
10K
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, nightclub, self discovery, creativity, showbiz, rise to the top, ambition, couples, friendship, performer's life, comedian, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki ...
Style:
funny, humorous, sexual, talky, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, love triangle, midlife crisis, family relations, black, love affair, family life, sexual relations, moral dilemma, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2007, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla ...
Style:
light, stylized, sex comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, orgasm, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, fall in love, high school, female masturbation, age difference, couples, unfaithfulness, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
ohio, cleveland ohio, usa
Similarity:
23%
198K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, sexy, funny, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
music, breakup, love and romance, musician, musician's life, rock, rock and roll, love story, love, character study, relationships, dating ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
chicago, usa, seattle, london
Similarity:
23%
263
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, self discovery, rivalry, family business, store, family relations, workplace, disorder, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, escapades, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a ...
Style:
entertaining, emotional, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
battle of the sexes, journalism, opposites attract, dating, couple relations, workplace, couples, media, unlikely couple, destiny, women, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
23%
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:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, relationships, wedding, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, love of one's life, sibling relationship, love affair, siblings relations, husband wife relationship, taxi ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Laura San Giacomo stars in this sexy comedy about adultery. When Nina's (San Giacomo) husband goes out of town for several weeks on a business trip, Nina hooks up with a photographer. Told from a reporter's point of view, his interviews ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
true love, infidelity, impossible love, male nudity, love, loneliness, lost love, passion, women, best friend, sexual content, family problems ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
oakland california, san francisco
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Style:
humorous, sincere, dark comedy, romantic, cynical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, fake death, starting over, family relations, love and romance, friendship, parents and children, family business, small town life, infidelity, husband wife relationship, small town ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
wales
Similarity:
23%
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:
romantic, touching, sweet, rom com, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, love, chance meeting, hopes, stranger, passion, husband wife relationship, jazz musician, life philosophy, love story, honest, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2014, y2k, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
Similarity:
23%
33K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes ...
Style:
sexy, funny, rom com, black comedy, talky ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
womanizer, battle of the sexes, african american protagonist, dating, love story, black, advertising, mentor, black cast, unlikely couple, buddies, boss and employee ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
Style:
weeping, talky, clever, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
father son relationship, hospital, advertising, marriage, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, amputation, surgery, advertising executive, marital separation, dysfunctional family, employer employee relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
hospital, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, terminal illness, against the odds, life is a bitch, workplace, introspection, fall in love, family problems, dark humor ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This adult comedy follows six characters, three men and three women from a cross-section of social groups, as they play sexual power games. When an affair fires up between 2 of the married characters, it sparks a chain of consequences for all of ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, sexual, clever, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dark humor, male nudity, passionate kiss, male friendship, betrayal, adultery, multiple storylines, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, thirtysomething life, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a ...
Style:
independent film, biting, cynical, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
nurse, troubled marriage, adultery, wall street, midlife crisis, couples, disability, infidelity, urban, twentysomething life, cold relationship, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
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