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Stardust Memories (1980)
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Stardust Memories (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Style: black and white, philosophical, cult classic, clever, humorous, surreal, witty, talky, postmodern, existential ...
Plot: artist, existentialism, filmmaking, weekend, art, showbiz, alien, nostalgia, childhood memory, flashback, argument, discussion, price of fame, memory, mental illness, movie business, eternal love, midlife crisis, hotel, childhood, satire, violinist, lovers reunited, depression, self doubt ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: twilight, avant-garde, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, talky, witty and semi serious films with plots about art, love and romance, couples, satire, man with glasses, writers and artists and showbiz mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Stardust Memories: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Annie Hall (1977), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Mighty Aphrodite (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style: ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Annie Hall (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style: romantic comedy, philosophical, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: comedian, relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, loneliness, unlikely friendships, love story, dating, passion, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, 60s
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
Style: philosophical, surreal, thought provoking, minimal cast, existential ...
Plot: conversation, restaurant, philosophy, food, existentialism, art, dialogue, cooking, dinner, realism, transcendence, occult ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, poland, middle east, manhattan new york city, sahara ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style: surreal, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot: child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting ...
Style: hispanic, parody, road movie, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: writers, literature, book, dark humor, social satire, magic realism, feeling, secrets, midlife crisis, forgiveness, job, nobel prize winner ...
Place: argentina, iberian peninsula, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style: black and white, funny, talky, clever, touching ...
Plot: screwball, showbiz, gangster, thanksgiving, mafia, female protagonist, art, comedian, girlfriend, artist, profanity, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style: atmospheric, talky, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, addiction, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Celebrity (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style: black and white, stylized, satirical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture, spectacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him ...
Style: talky, humorous, surreal, cult classic, funny ...
Plot: art, writers, psychiatrist, writer's life, human nature, alienation, relationships, philosophy, satire, sexual content, eternal love, depression ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.8
 147K
Manhattan (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style: black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
New York Stories (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents ...
Style: anthology, talky, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, art, obsession, hotel, luxury hotel, young heroes, jealousy, family relations, gallery, youth, city life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, greece, usa, manhattan new york city, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Husbands and Wives (1992)
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: realistic, talky, melancholic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized ...
Plot: movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, adultery, dysfunctional family, justice, showbiz, one more chance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.7
 44K
Zelig (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, ...
Style: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody ...
Plot: celebrity, psychiatrist, satire, character study, justice, fictional biography, artists and showbiz, switching roles, missing person, disappearance, therapy, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: new york, paris france, germany, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, talky, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: summer, shakespeare, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, chess, love, marriage, professor, doctor, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Slaves of New York (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style: ironic, sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: adaptation, artist, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, society, bittersweet, ambition, love, loneliness, art, fashion ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of ...
Style: funny, talky, witty, humorous, parody ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dating, love, infidelity, nymphomaniac, art, friendship, adultery, imaginary friend, divorce, farce, filmmaking, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: midlife crisis, existentialism, theater, surrealism, showbiz, actor, magic realism, satire, father daughter relationship, dark humor, alter ego, art ...
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Place: new york, los angeles, america, ethiopia, manhattan new york city ...
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37%
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of ...
Style: philosophical, melancholic, talky, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Style: surreal, humorous, black and white, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, vigilante, vigilantism, investigation, false accusation, circus, disorder, danger, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, adultery ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, central europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.7
 202K
Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Radio Days (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, talky, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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36%
My Favorite Year (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn type actor with a drinking problem is to be that weeks guest star.
Style: funny, humorous, witty, touching, parody ...
Plot: writers, swashbuckler, farce, alcoholic, satire, television, gangster, sketch, fame, bad father, workplace, alcoholism ...
Time: 1950s, year 1982, 20th century, 50s, year 1954
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.2
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Another Woman (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style: psychological, realistic, meditative, talky, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, writers, depression, eavesdropping, psychology, psychiatrist, self discovery, human nature, dysfunctional family, infidelity, melancholy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
 38K
Bananas (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Style: slapstick, humorous, political, funny, talky ...
Plot: revolution, dictatorship, satire, dictator, politics, rebellion, political satire, loser, fish out of water, political activism, misfit, rise to the top ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, rise to the top, desire for fame, workplace romance, filmmaking, workplace situations, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, workplace, rising to stardom, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The feature film debut by artist Miranda July about a various comic situations and plots that intertwine. One story line is about a father who is ending his marriage and the other story is of a video artist (possibly autobiographical of Miranda ...
Style: touching, disturbing, realistic, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: artist, childhood, coming of age, art, depression, unlikely friendships, complex characters, art gallery, neighbor, struggle, shyness, divorce ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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