Movies like The Tall Guy
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The Tall Guy (1989)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Style:
romantic, clever, humorous, witty, sexy, erotic, parody, funny, light, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
british, satire, love, hospital, actor, chase, nude, catastrophe, musician, relationships, women, music, obsession, sex scene, death, betrayal, wine, lone hero, fantasy world, destiny, brutality, corruption, runaway, childhood, mentor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out witty, realistic, humorous and light films with plots about catastrophe, mentor, culture clash, dialogue, storytelling, runaway and destiny mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Tall Guy: The Very Thought of You (1998), A Couch in New York (1996), Born Romantic (2000), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), A Touch of Class (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, sentimental, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
couples, friendship, relationships, love and romance, best friends, love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, looking for love, infidelity, comedy of errors, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, latin america, new jersey, argentina, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply ...
Style:
feel good, melancholic, sweet, light, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, couple relations, opposites attract, unlikely couple, nothing goes right, misfit, love and romance, unfulfilled love, infidelity, love triangle, looking for love, fall in love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, romantic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
opposites attract, fall in love, love affair, looking for love, couples, sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, breakup, dancing, taxi driver, bdsm, divorce ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
london, california, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four Weddings And A Funeral is a British comedy about a British Man named Charles and an American Woman named Carrie who go through numerous weddings before they determine if they are right for one another.
Style:
feel good, romantic, sweet, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, love, unrequited love, fall in love, funeral, love and romance, friendship, love story, multiple storylines, marriage, lgbtq, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, ...
Style:
clever, witty, sexy, poignant, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
women, infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, love affair, marriage, hotel, nude, eccentricity, redemption, obsession, adaptation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
london, spain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.
Style:
romantic, feel good, humorous, light, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
prejudice, love story, couples, looking for love, social misfits, love, role playing, rivalry, love triangle, destiny, happy ending, obsession ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, babies and infants, infertility, writers, happy ending, couple relations, family relations, marital reconciliation, marital separation, diary, writer's block, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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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:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, love, marriage, love story, relationships, love and romance, fall in love, couples, first love, couple relations, looking for love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, marseille, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.
Style:
sexy, feel good, melancholic, sweet, stylized ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, betrayal, siblings relations, fall in love, wedding, love story, family relations, happy ending, seduction, love, sibling relationship, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, london, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Style:
sexy, humorous, enigmatic, witty, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
farce, gays and lesbians, phone sex, erotica, sex, hitman, wine, adultery, satire, gangsters, women, fantasy world ...
Time:
1920s, 90s
Place:
spain, tokyo, europe, los angeles, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she ...
Style:
feel good, witty, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love story, destiny, love, irish, love and romance, politics, small town, fall in love, culture clash, small town life, dog, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, boston, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement ...
Style:
talky, feel good, humorous, unusual plot structure, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
farce, orphan, writers, transformation, distopia, beautiful scenery, dark humor, culture clash, destiny, catastrophe, brutality, british ...
Time:
1930s, 19th century, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
Style:
romantic, funny, feel good, light, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
open marriage, wedding, marriage, unlikely couple, couple relations, in-laws, marital problem, relationships, up and down relationship, love story, divorce, newlyweds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, sex on first date, relationships, marriage, women, looking for love, wedding, sex, dating, pillow talk, stereotypes, runaway ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, miami, tahiti ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common ...
Style:
sentimental, witty, touching, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, friends, new year's eve, justice, redemption, weekend, aids, thirtysomething life, adulthood, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Films like Bridget Jones's Diary
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Ireland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, light, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love triangle, looking for love, thirtysomething life, happy ending, love story, love and romance, women, love, relationships, couples, wedding, marriage proposal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, thailand, new york, bangkok thailand, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, feel good, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
opposites attract, countryside, shakespeare, wedding, honest, intrigue, happy ending, love and romance, aristocracy, comedy of errors, eligible bachelor, dishonesty ...
Time:
16th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
italy, england, tuscany, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls in love.
Style:
witty, humorous, light, romantic, intense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, royal family, women, eccentricity, farce, manipulation, rivalry, master and servant, fall in love, society, female protagonist, murder ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, georgian era
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style:
stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, adaptation, complex characters, women, loneliness, actor's life, love, art, adultery, vengeance ...
Time:
1930s, 50s, 20th century, year 1938
Place:
england, canada, new jersey, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, witty, romantic, touching ...
Plot:
hotel, opposites attract, death of father, love affair, family problems, nothing goes right, death in the family, twists and turns, fall in love, couples, disorder, unlikely couple ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, paris france, europe, rome italy, naples italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, stylized, witty, touching ...
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chick flick, date night
Plot:
wedding, friendship, love triangle, accountant, looking for love, couples, couple relations, love and romance, event planner, love, office, nerd ...
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new york, new orleans, new jersey, san francisco, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
love and romance, couples, politics, high society, husband wife relationship, love story, unlikely friendships, dishonesty, blackmail, society, dandy, corruption ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 18th century, 90s
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style:
feel good, touching, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
fame, love and romance, couples, social differences, love, opposites attract, paparazzi, friendship, power of love, ordinary person, male female relationship, love story ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he ...
Style:
talky, humorous, clever, witty, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
teacher, obsession, love and romance, writers, life philosophy, multiple storylines, mentor, relationships, redemption, sarcasm, unlikely friendships, gangsters ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, iowa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, ...
Style:
funny, romantic, parody, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
satire, television, destiny, women, farce, actor, transsexual, brutality, doctors, secrets, runaway, adaptation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, dysfunctional family, farce, midlife crisis, architect, relationship vs career, family problems, love affair, looking for love, love triangle, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
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usa, new york, mississippi, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Antoine is a maitre d' in a Paris brasserie, Chez Jean, and is so full of being of service to others that he can't say 'no'. Late for dinner with his girlfriend, Christine, he takes a shortcut home through the park but finds a ...
Style:
romantic, compassionate, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, farce, suicide attempt, fall in love, love, mentor, nothing goes right, love and romance, couple relations, rescue, infidelity, restaurant ...
Place:
france, paris france, new jersey, europe, brittany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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, twist ending ...
Plot:
movie business, blindness and impaired vision, justice, dysfunctional family, adultery, one more chance, showbiz, disorder, comedy of errors, blind character, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available ...
Style:
talky, clever, witty, feel good, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, shakespeare, theater, actor, idealism, tragedy, prejudice, love story, mentor, love, loneliness, segregation ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
london, england, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Style:
romantic, sexy, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
sex, love story, couples, love and romance, best friends in love, sexual relations, sexual attraction, casual sex, opposites attract, fall in love, love, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
california, hawaii, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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