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Ruben, Ruben (1983)
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Ruben, Ruben (1983)
Original name: Reuben, Reuben
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Peter De Vries. Story of an alcoholic, lecherous Scottish poet on a tour of New England Universities, where he goes from one bed and bottle to another.
Style: independent film, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, eighties
Plot: poet, obsession, writers, poetry, self discovery, drinking alcohol, college, university, campus, alcoholism, womanizer, alcohol abuse, love and romance, fall in love, writer's life, college life, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, power relations, love, sex, dog, train, alcoholic ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place: new england, usa
Keyword: scot

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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 couples, love and romance, couple relations, love, fall in love, writers and artists and showbiz mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Ruben, Ruben: Burning Annie (2004), The Medicine Show (2001), Smart People (2008), The Rewrite (2014), Blume in Love (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Burning Annie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: college, lifestyle, couples, obsession, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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95%
The Medicine Show (2001)
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, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: hospital, opposites attract, couple relations, terminal illness, love affair, against the odds, introspection, workplace, life is a bitch, fall in love, family problems, couples ...
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Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
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The Rewrite (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: writers, teacher, college, justice, single parent, fall in love, college life, teaching, power relations, unlikely couple, writer's life, professor ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Blume in Love (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, lawyer, satire, law, infidelity, love triangle, female nudity, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, couples, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, los angeles, europe, usa ...
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Barfly (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: addiction, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, bartender, poet, writers, misfit, alcoholic, biopic, mentally unstable, drinking, loser ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Damsels in Distress (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed ...
Style: talky, romantic, satirical, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: college, depression, eccentricity, relationships, loneliness, best friend, college life, self discovery, female friendship, social relations, love and romance, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Surviving Desire (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Style: retro, art house, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teachers and students, bookstore, teacher, age difference, writers, entertainment, book, philosophy, lovers, youth, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: usa
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66%
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The Moderns (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He ...
Style: clever, humorous, surreal, expressionism, realistic ...
Plot: art, artist, sensuality, painter, writers, painting, forgery, collector, drinking, love, nude photography, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Plaza Suite (1971)
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: humorous, clever, witty, anthology, realistic ...
Plot: wedding, hotel, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, anniversary, looking for love ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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In Custody (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. ...
Style: parallel cinema, insightful, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: poetry, poet, tradition, progress, writer's life, artists and showbiz, society, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, culture clash, second wife, publisher ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Sam the Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, dishonesty, womanizer, estrangement, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Story of Us (1999)
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
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, prague, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city ...
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55%
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Skin Deep (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking ...
Style: sexy, funny, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: manly
Plot: divorce, womanizer, midlife crisis, lust, alcoholic, male nudity, redemption, police investigation, love story, couple relations, reconciliation, drunkenness ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
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50%
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A Merry War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Style: cult classic, humorous, witty, clever, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, advertising, book, poverty, marketing, bookstore, satire, working class, poetry, literature, money, artist ...
Time: 1930s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro ...
Style: witty, independent film, retro, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, radio, radio station, age difference, aunt, past, older woman younger man sex, couples, parents and children, infidelity, love affair, college ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 1951
Place: new orleans, usa
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48%
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California Suite (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Style: funny, witty, humorous, clever, talky ...
Plot: hotel, multiple storylines, tennis, farce, sarcasm, womanizer, custody, friendship, luxury hotel, family problems, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa
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44%
Modern Romance (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
Style: humorous, melancholic, disturbing, intense, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: obsession, love, character study, honest, love and romance, couples, self discovery, breakup, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, doomed romance, crazy love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place: usa
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44%
Purple Violets (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, chef, looking for love, fall in love, introspection, couples, love triangle, college, family problems, love and romance, unlikely couple, haunted by the past ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, seattle
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43%
The Pompatus of Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
Style: talky, clever, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dialogue, love, drinking, beer, dating, lifestyle, self discovery, love and romance, gender, battle of the sexes, womanizer, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean, manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles
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Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Bad Manners (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes ...
Style: erotic, independent film, biting, tense, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dilemma, infidelity, older man younger woman relationship, manipulation, family problems, couples, religions or cults, love affair, singleness, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: england, europe
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Tadpole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from ...
Style: humorous, witty, sweet, talky, funny ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, coming of age, older woman teenage boy relationship, love and romance, female pedophile, adolescence, love, thanksgiving, friendship, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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39%
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Factotum (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, philosophical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gambling, unemployment, alcoholic, alcoholism, writer's life, alcohol abuse, lifestyle, down on your luck, drinking, life is a bitch, society, bookies ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Easy (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Quirky Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) has a big problem: She's a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up when she becomes the object of affection of two seemingly normal guys, Mick (Brian O'Byrne) and ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, witty, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, love triangle, sister sister relationship, fall in love, looking for love, couple relations, lifestyle, youth, introspection, human nature, couples, promiscuous daughter ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: librarian, library, sexual content, family relations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, family life, urban, parents and children, men hatred, city life ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, usa
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39%
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced ...
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: love, friendship, true love, irish catholic, guilt, marriage, high school, bad father, bromance, loss of father, abusive father, best friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child ...
Style: spiritual, funny, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: child custody, social worker, clown, hippie, spirituality, democracy, psychologist, uncle nephew relationship, illegitimate child, precocious child, nonconformity, library ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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