Movies like Shutterbug

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Shutterbug (2009)
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Shutterbug (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When shooting the dawn one morning, photographer Alex Santiago looks into the rising sun and hurts his eyes. As a result, he begins to see spots and blurs. When the spots become a face - an apparition of a woman - he embarks on a journey to discover who she is.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, emotional, sincere, offbeat, serious, gloomy, independent film, dark
Plot: obsession, hopes, miraculous event, journey, spirit, hallucination, love, photograph, photographer, photography, nightlife, urban, imaginary, lifestyle, city life, obsessive quest, artists and showbiz, performer's life, ghost, underground, city, night, supernatural power, apparition, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york

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Most similar movies to Shutterbug

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, urban, society, hopes and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Shutterbug: Monogamy (2010), The Waiting City (2009), Don't Let Me Drown (2009), Nights and Weekends (2008), Touched with Fire (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Monogamy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an unexpected turn—and creates a rift with his fiancée —when he’s hired by a ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, stalking, lifestyle, couple relations, dishonesty, mysterious character, strained relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, jealousy, photograph, vicious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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95%
The Waiting City (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: adoption, couple relations, family relations, hopes, society, city life, love, rivalry, indian woman, culture shock, spirituality, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, youth, society, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Nights and Weekends (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: long distance relationship, couples, lovers apart, relationship vs career, lifestyle, unfulfillment, hot guys, love, mental disorder, self discovery, hipster, hotel room ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Touched with Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, mental health, mental disorder, illness, couples, friendship, hospital, hopes, special needs, real world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Here (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote ...
Style: captivating, surreal, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot: self discovery, journey, satellite, love affair, on the road, girl, sex scene, male female relationship, society, wilderness, culture clash, road trip ...
Time: 21st century
Place: armenia, caucasus
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76%
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2nd Take (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, showbiz, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.2
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X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Christmas on the Bayou (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, couples, hopes, miraculous event, family relations, christmas romance, love, hometown, comeback, girl, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Into Temptation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: woman in danger, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, clergy, prostitute, society, priest, sin, illegal prostitution, suicide, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Getting Go, the Go Doc Project (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Too shy to make a proper introduction, a recent college grad devises to shoot a documentary about the NYC nightlife scene in order to meet the go-go guy he’s cyber-obsessed with.
Style: realistic, sexual, psychological, captivating, rough ...
Plot: gay, male nudity, nightlife, obsession, gender, gay sex, filmmaking, gay interest, gay relationship, lgbtq, gay love, go go dancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Musical Chairs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, couples, against the odds, dance school, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, society, dancing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style: contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, society, couples, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Ultimate Life (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. But when he discovers his late grandfather’s journal, he is transported back to Red Stevens’ incredible world. With everything ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: christian, self discovery, rags to riches, life lesson, introspection, sent to the past, wisdom of life, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, destiny, once in a lifetime opportunity, lawsuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tibet, haiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Love and Rage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Daniel is a very talented piano student and loves Sofie, but he is terrified by the thought of losing her and accuses her of seeing another man. Everybody says he is wrong, but the suspicion grows as does an uncontrollable side of Daniel.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: obsession, prodigy, couples, unfulfillment, love, jealousy, mental illness, self mutilation, musician, pianist, assault, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Stubborn (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: For the sake of love, Vincent has followed Barbara to New York. But she wants nothing more to do with him. Obsessed with the idea of winning her back, he decides to see things through to the bitter end...
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: losing-it hero, unfulfilled love, obsession, wooing, city life, love and romance, obsessive quest, sexual content, unfulfillment, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, breakup, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style: sentimental, atmospheric, road movie, psychological, touching ...
Plot: road trip, love and romance, love story, travel, loneliness, waitress, cross country, passion, on the road, bittersweet, self discovery, melancholy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, china, new york, memphis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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 ⇓
54%
Palermo Shooting (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Style: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, suspense, mesmerizing ...
Plot: photograph, on the run, photography, rivalry, human nature, mysterious character, love affair, lifestyle, on the road, life turned upside down, revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, italy, europe, sicily
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53%
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The Citizen (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: american dream, starting over, immigrant, society, hopes, 9/11, rivalry, arab, legal, lawyer, urban, city ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, touching, teen ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: life turned upside down, couple relations, love affair, crumbling marriage, love and romance, career change, breakup, couples, love, art, intimacy, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Maze (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, friends, couples, family relations, introspection, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, moral dilemma, fall in love, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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John and Mary (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, love, commitment, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, urban, singleness ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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51%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Falling Overnight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, sentimental, cute ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, cancer, male female relationship, brain tumor, escapades, photographer, terminal illness, coming of age, thoughtful, hipster, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
For Lovers Only (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: FOR LOVERS ONLY is a story of a MAN and a WOMAN in love. After seeing each other for the first time in years while on separate work assignments in Paris, the LOVERS flee together and travel by train, car and motorcycle, as their love affair takes ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, black and white, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: couple relations, couples, photograph, haunted by the past, on the road, photographer, photography, fall in love, journey, self discovery, porn, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, french riviera, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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You (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, parents and children, haunted by the past, redemption, single parent, hopes, love, loss of mother, teenager, friendship, grieving widower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.0
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Missing Pieces (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A heartbroken man kidnaps two strangers in hopes they will fall in love.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: redemption, teenage love, love and romance, obsession, youth, confined, mentally unstable, wilderness, captivity, breakup, teen romance, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Year of the Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, experimental ...
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, teenage life, friendship, society, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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