Movies like The Shape of Things
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The Shape of Things (2003)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Quiet, unassuming Adam is changing in a major way, thanks to his new girlfriend, art student Evelyn. Adam's friends are a little freaked by the transformation.
Style:
witty, stylized, cynical, contemplative, disturbing, atmospheric, clever, talky, controversial, minimal cast ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
art, passion, friendship, relationships, betrayal, fall in love, power of love, dark humor, manipulation, manipulative person, dating, surgery, temptation, manipulative woman, mind game, public humiliation, cruelty, art student, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, destructive relationship, artist, vandalism, art history ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Shape of Things
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, clever, humorous and talky films with plots about couples, friendship, love, drinking alcohol, relationships, drinking and dialogue mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Shape of Things: Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Art School Confidential (2006), XX/XY (2002), In the Company of Men (1997), Kicking and Screaming (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
teenage girl, artist, art school, painting, dark humor, murder, art class, art, sex, coming of age, nude model, painter ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, college, passion, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, haunted by the past, buddies ...
Time:
year 1993, 2000s, year 2002, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, london, england, europe, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, controversial, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
secretary, manipulation, battle of the sexes, revenge, love, misogynist, relationships, brutality, dark humor, betrayal, businessman, deaf woman ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
31%
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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, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, slacker, graduation, drinking, campus, lone hero, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style:
sincere, witty, realistic, romantic drama, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationships, friendship, honest, food, betrayal, family problems, dialogue, secrets, introspection, marriage, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, california, poland ...
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22%
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, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance, obsession, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts ...
Style:
cynical, stylized, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
writers, financial problem, friendship, mental illness, obsession, couples, holiday, opposites attract, writer's life, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style:
clever, anthology, art house, contemplative, talky ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female nudity, passion, love and romance, infidelity, crazy love, glamour, affair, illicit affair, marriage, love, love affair, desire ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, sex comedy, funny, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
breakup, vacation, love and romance, resort, sex scene, sarcasm, rock star, nothing goes right, surfing, one night stand, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, los angeles, oceania, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue...
Style:
independent film, clever, contemplative, sex comedy, political ...
Plot:
artist, wall street, art history, art, visceral, painter, coming of age, love, under the surface, couples, stock broker, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Style:
sexy, talky, humorous, captivating, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
closeted homosexual, sexual relations, oral sex, looking for love, infidelity, love and romance, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, curses spells and rituals, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
artist, polyamory, love triangle, art, bohemian life, love and romance, women, love affair, painter, love, love story, couples ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, europe, spain, catalonia, new york
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.
Style:
philosophical, humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
seduction, philosophy, unlikely couple, relationships, dating, introspection, teaching the ways of the world, looking for love, buddies, fall in love, couples, wooing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new mexico, santa fe new mexico, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style:
sexy, sincere, clever, independent film, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, lesbian, love affair, fall in love, casual sex, passion, sister sister relationship, sisters, love triangle, life philosophy, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa, seattle
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, love story, single father, true love, storytelling, daughter, father, love, best friends in love, fall in love, male female friendship, relationships ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1994, year 1992, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, wisconsin, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, romantic, witty, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, profanity, parenthood, fish out of water, society, lifestyle, relationship problems, relationships, hipster, taxi driver, lovers, vacation ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a ...
Style:
romantic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
college, love, fall in love, college life, artist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, argument, chef, depression, flashback, painter, breakup ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco, france
Similarity:
19%
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
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Style:
romantic, talky, sentimental, romantic comedy, retro ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, love, sex, friendship, high school, dating, new year's eve, bittersweet, nudity, young lovers, thanksgiving, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, romantic, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, travel, relationships, prejudice, youth, roommate, college life, student, coming of age, college, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france, spain, barcelona, catalonia, paris france ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Style:
talky, witty, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
new year, new year's eve, love, friendship, nightlife, couples, love and romance, best friend, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life, sexual dysfunction ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, year 1999, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style:
sexy, controversial, sexual, depressing, erotic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
college, mate swapping, coming of age, sexual content, relationships, friendship, love triangle, campus, college life, infidelity, friends, sex ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style:
cute, humorous, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, age difference, divorce, single mother, family relations, parents and children, love affair, fall in love, writers, generation gap ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, san francisco
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, heartbreaking, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lovers, friendship, youth, love hate relationship, game, love story, best friends in love, friends, relationships, childhood love, first love, music box ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, belgium, paris france
Similarity:
18%
56K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief ...
Style:
sexy, light, contemplative, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, life philosophy, relationships, happy ending, seduction, storytelling, sex in car, unfaithful boyfriend, lifestyle, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2004, 60s, 21st century
Place:
new york, united kingdom, usa, europe, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Teacher Sara has always played by the rules and has never thought of herself as one who's attracted to the "bad boy" type. That all changes when tattoo artist Virgil takes part in a classroom show-and-tell session and Sara reluctantly ...
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
tattoo artist, love affair, fall in love, unlikely couple, school teacher, looking for love, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, fiance fiancee relationship, marriage proposal ...
Place:
idaho, mexico
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style:
light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, perversion, slut, revenge, sex scene, nobility, seamstress, adultery, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, love ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
18%
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