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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic, light, philosophical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
publisher, village life, fall in love, writer's life, odd couple, artists and showbiz, writers, writer's block, father daughter relationship, loss of wife, exile, skinny dipping, survival, travel, nature, vineyard, girl, landscape, hiker, train travel, isolation, village, friendship, friends, family relations ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
italy, tuscany, london, england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, couples, friendship, family relations, couple relations and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Shadows in the Sun: Not Another Happy Ending (2013), My Friends, My Love (2008), Orchestra Seats (2006), Love Actually (2003), Smoke (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy.The only ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
publisher, writer's block, writers, writer's life, workplace romance, overnight success, workplace, love and romance, power relations, workplace situations, charm, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, parents and children, partner, friendship between men, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
waitress, fall in love, pianist, friendship, reconciliation, lifestyle, couples, artists and showbiz, couple relations, collector, terminal illness, marital problem ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, love, holiday, multiple storylines, love story, love and romance, couples, fall in love, relationships, marriage, first love, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over ...
Style:
independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, comedy drama ...
Plot:
writers, multiple storylines, photograph, photography, smoking, dark humor, photographer, melancholy, friendship, redemption, summer, philosophy ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, year 1990
Place:
new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, coming of age, youth, friendship, social relations, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, siblings relations, fish out of water, estate, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
small town, writers, divorce, love, passion, life, tourist, starting over, male female relationship, middle aged woman, friendship, vineyard ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
Style:
independent film, emotional, heartfelt, contemplative, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
family drama, family bonds, friendship, intimate, introspection, reconciliation, healing, second chance, family reunited, nostalgia, slice of life, longing ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sweet, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot:
death, family relations, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, love and romance, life is a bitch, dealing with death, released from prison, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The Pope's tailor sends his son, a virgin at 35, to Bologna hoping he will find a woman. Nello, a classicist moved by the romantic poetry of Ovid, proves to be a good teacher and also falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Angela Gardini. ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
disability, relationships, social differences, tragic love, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, infidelity, looking for love ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, marital crisis, fall in love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, family relations, family life, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
Style:
humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot:
self discovery, friends, couples, village life, countryside, village, lighthouse, family relations, fall in love, love, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with little money and no friends. In her path, she meets weird people who they, also, seek their dreams but ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, actor's life, unlikely couple, follow your dream, opposites attract, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, showbiz, artists and showbiz, loneliness, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
No overview
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
babies and infants, single parent, life turned upside down, starting over, romantic relationship, couple relations, love and romance, couples, hopes, family problems, death of wife, widower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
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, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, wedding, love triangle, fall in love, best friend, couples, cons and scams, party, romantic triangle, writers, high school friends, clumsy ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
breakup, love triangle, bittersweet, friends, looking for love, friendship, unfulfillment, sexual content, family relations, couples, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, spiritual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, starting over, love triangle, fish out of water, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, friends, disorder, mine ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious
Plot:
hopes, isolation, starting over, friendship, fish out of water, couple relations, love and romance, elderly, odd couple, disorder, lifestyle change, cultural difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sad, breathtaking, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
poet, poetry, writers, love, friendship, communism, island, postman, bicycle, art, letter, amor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1994, 90s, future ...
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, chile, naples italy ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
actress, widower, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, fall in love, starting over, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Style:
humorous, witty, talky, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bookstore, book, rescue, couples, environmentalism, against the rules, ocean, loneliness, eccentricity, turtle, friendship, writer's block ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe, atlantic ocean, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
415
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friendship, fall in love, escapades, couples, disorder, island, excavation, rivalry, spirituality, diving, artifact ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sasha is a boy in his twenties, deeply loving the beautiful Benedetta, who doesn't seem to recognize his existence. Nicole is a French woman in her forties, living in Rome with her husband. They casually meet and start a friendship which ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, light, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
friendship, teaching the ways of the world, couples, wooing, youth, love, fall in love, family relations, sexual tension, older woman younger man sex, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Suzie Gold is a twentysomething torn between the nice Jewish boy her family is keen on and the non-Jewish boy she loves.
Style:
realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, unrequited love, love and romance, society, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, love triangle, family gatherings, interracial relations, judaism, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, middle east, london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an ...
Style:
humorous, sincere, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
introspection, life turned upside down, unlikely couple, family relations, fall in love, couples, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, dogma, sexual content, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
19%
1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
Style:
grindhouse, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, sex, age difference, forbidden love, may december romance, teenage girl, older man young girl relationship, male female relationship, older man younger woman romance, girl, young love, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa, england, europe, london ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style:
sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
housekeeper, self discovery, midlife crisis, beach volleyball, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, starting over, couple relations, fall in love, police investigation, family drama ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany, tokyo ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sexual relations, infidelity, amor, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, life turned upside down, older younger relationship, stripper, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy, tuscany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, couple relations, unlikely partners, love and romance, smuggling, wine, destiny, vineyard, breakup, escapades, true love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, riviera, south of france ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile ...
Style:
contemplative, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
introspection, redemption, estrangement, family relations, friendship, parents and children, love triangle, human nature, fake illness, photographer, love, skinny dipping ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, alps
Similarity:
19%
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