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The Secret of My Success (1987)
39K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, funny, entertaining, cult classic, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, manly, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
office, rich and poor, aunt nephew relationship, workplace, businessman, passionate kiss, mistaken identity, love triangle, workplace romance, corporation, office worker, job promotion, rise to the top, ambition, fish out of water, farce, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty, workplace situations, older woman younger man relationship, greed, love story, yuppie, college ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, kansas, usa, florida, san francisco, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and romantic comedy films with plots about fall in love, love and romance, mentor, happy ending, destiny, catastrophe and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Secret of My Success: For Love or Money (1993), Working Girl (1988), Cocktail (1988), Happy Together (1989), Head Office (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, rom com, captivating, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
business, workplace, women, secretary, career woman, workplace romance, rise to the top, love and romance, female protagonist, hopes, career, sex scene ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
98K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style. Brian ...
Style:
sexy, entertaining, rom com, romantic comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, manly, girls' night ...
Plot:
bartender, love, love and romance, ambition, wedding, one night stand, rise to the top, buddies, love affair, business, food, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
jamaica, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
college, pretending to be gay, college roommate, love, male nudity, female nudity, teenager, fall in love, opposites attract, university, dormitory, aspiring actor ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new york, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, rise to the top, workplace, dishonesty, business, money ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
100%
393K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, wedding, enemies to lovers, happy ending, workplace romance, love and romance, fake marriage, initially antagonists, relationships, boss and employee, opposites attract ...
Time:
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Place:
alaska, new york, usa, boston, canada ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
inheritance, justice, happy ending, love and romance, rags to riches, lone hero, greed, rise to the top, small town life, fall in love, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new hampshire, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's important in life.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
stock broker, couples, journalism, selfishness, secret, empathy, greed, riches to rags, fired from the job, yuppie, advice, deception ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.
Style:
romantic, teen, light, funny, not serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
store, workplace, boss and employee, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, life philosophy, love triangle, transformation, stereotypes, chase, ambition, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style:
funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other peoples lives that she knows nothing about. Things take a turn when ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, writers, love and romance, love triangle, wedding, destiny, happy ending, farce, revenge, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey, london ...
Similarity:
27%
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, rom com, touching, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
dog, mistaken identity, model, photographer, female protagonist, low self esteem, love story, happy ending, radio, friendship, love, blonde ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to ...
Style:
romantic, light, sweet, rom com, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
fall in love, love story, unlikely couple, looking for love, opposites attract, workplace romance, destiny, boss and employee, lawyer, happy ending, love and romance, billionaire ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
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26%
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, sweet, feel good, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, marriage, love and romance, opposites attract, disorder, unlikely couple, looking for love, sisters, couples, family gatherings ...
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, new jersey ...
Similarity:
26%
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:
sexy, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
architect, closeted homosexual, mistaken identity, destiny, misunderstanding, women, pretending to be gay, deception, business partner, comedy of errors, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
chicago, usa, egypt
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his ...
Style:
rom com, feel good, romantic comedy, existential, sad ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, time loop, fish out of water, time travel, childhood, misfit, rags to riches, alternate history, lost love, baseball coach, time jump, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
fall in love, workplace romance, relationship vs career, couples, dating, journalism, hidden identity, female journalist, looking for love, teenager, coworker relationship, teenage girl ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests ...
Style:
parody, sexy, humorous, rom com, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
fish out of water, nothing goes right, workplace, stupidity, dumb, misfit, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, father daughter relationship, goofy hero, disorder, looking for love ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Style:
humorous, light, talky, melancholic, not serious ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, small town, fish out of water, legal action, goofy hero, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, cons and scams, mistaken identity, law, farce ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, nevada, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, single parent, love and romance, couples, age difference, parents and children, starting over, infidelity, sex, relationships, unfaithful husband, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, istanbul turkey, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
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, black comedy, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
battle of the sexes, breakup, dating, black, love and romance, looking for love, love triangle, comedy of errors, friendship, dishonesty, couple relations, hip hop ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous friends. So when Tom foolishly agrees to give ...
Style:
black comedy, romantic, humorous, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
mistaken identity, nothing goes right, dark humor, friendship, loneliness, youth, love triangle, adolescence vs adulthood, self discovery, comedy of errors, milf, high school ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Adam and Seta fall madly in love after meeting in a Brooklyn laundromat. She suffers from Lupus, he's stuck at home caring for his chronically ill father. Both lie through their teeth to avoid having to reveal they are anything but perfect. ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, dishonesty, human nature, hidden identity, couples, city life, disorder, uncertainty, couple relations, urban, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping-a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door-until ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, cute, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
fashion, shopping, women, overnight success, addiction, love and romance, teenager, teenage girl, city life, fashion industry, rise to the top, journalism ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
Style:
romantic, funny, cute, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
faked pregnancy, pregnancy, love and romance, dishonesty, boss and employee, pretense, manipulation, job promotion, babies and infants, coworker relationship, teenage girl, workplace romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, ...
Style:
humorous, controversial, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
racism, mentor, high school, teenager, culture clash, racial discrimination, campus, happy ending, racial stereotype, white male pretending to be black, coming of age, black ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, los angeles, usa, hawaii, harvard university ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, sexy, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
couple relations, city life, rise to the top, gain trust, love affair, power relations, lifestyle, workplace, dating, cupid, women, romantic triangle ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
25%
187K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, love, wedding dress, opposites attract, wedding planner, bridesmaid, love and romance, women, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, rhode island, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, relationships, couples, unlikely couple, bet, dating, couple relations, initially antagonists ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, san francisco ...
Similarity:
25%
50K
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:
sexy, humorous, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
unrequited love, love story, fall in love, public nudity, love triangle, small town, happy ending, female nudity, passion, rivalry, wooing, physical appearance ...
Time:
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Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
Similarity:
24%
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