Movies like The Thing Called Love

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The Thing Called Love (1993)
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, entertaining, rom com, talky, crying ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes, twentysomething life, music, rock and roll, husband wife relationship, death, volunteer, inspiration, girl power, showbiz, dating, lifestyle, human nature, sex, dog ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 1990s
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, texas, ireland, connecticut, austin texas ...
Keyword: candy, watching a movie, gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Thing Called Love

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love, love and romance, couples, kiss, friendship, fall in love and singing mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Thing Called Love: A Slipping-Down Life (1999), Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Electric Dreams (1984), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Sueño (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style: touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
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100%
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Electric Dreams (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with ...
Style: offbeat, surreal, cult classic, rom com, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: artificial intelligence, computer, internet, robot, cello, blonde girl, hacker, technology, love, blonde, memory, architect ...
Place: san francisco, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sueño (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, lifestyle, fall in love, single parent, musician's life, family business, unfulfilled love, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Music from Another Room (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Plot: single father, family relations, parents and children, american football, love and romance, destiny, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, marriage, blindness ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.4
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The Bodyguard (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks ...
Style: romantic, touching, suspense, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: love, love story, interracial romance, music, bodyguard, white male black female relationship, singer, stalker, interracial love, love and romance, interracial couple, relationships ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, city life, friendship, rock, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, musician's life, roommate, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, couple relations, love triangle, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, san francisco, vancouver, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
Style: humorous, lyrical, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: radio, backstage, country music, musician's life, cowboy, lifestyle, showbiz, society, artists and showbiz, singer, music, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, chicago, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Hottest State (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: musician, sexuality, love affair, youth, couple relations, fall in love, young lovers, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: sleepwalking, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, mental disorder, road trip, biopic ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia, ohio, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
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, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, chance meeting, love, stranger, hopes, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, husband wife relationship, nothing goes right ...
Time: y2k, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Daltry Calhoun (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, workplace situations, family relations, rise to the top, businessman, redneck, long lost daughter, volunteer, bad father, redemption, estrangement ...
Time: year 2005
Place: tennessee, usa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, ex convict, loneliness, dating, love, love story, life philosophy, friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fall in love, couples, life is a bitch, cancer, love affair, couple relations, dying, best friends in love, love, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, women, love story, unrequited love, wedding preparations and rituals, best friend, love triangle, gay, friendship, love and romance, male female friendship, screwball ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: chicago, madagascar, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Buck Bonham (Willie Nelson) is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and son. He has everything going his way until the daughter of his former ...
Style: road movie, southern gothic, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: rock and roll, love, music, on the road, stranded, infidelity, friends, couples, introspection, moral dilemma, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Running on Empty (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been ...
Style: touching, serious, political, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: coming of age, music, vietnam war, radical, hidden identity, follow your dream, love, parents and children, haunted by the past, eccentric family, rebelliousness, society ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1988, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: new jersey, new york, oakland california, usa, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
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Waitress (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot: pregnancy, domestic violence, cooking and food, small town, doctor, waitress, unwanted pregnancy, workplace, unplanned pregnancy, single mother, abusive husband, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.0
 9K
Paper Heart (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paper Heart follows Nick and Charlyne on a cross-country journey to document what exactly "love" is. Interviewing ministers, happily married couples, chemists, romance novelists, divorce lawyers, a group of children and more, the ...
Style: talky, intense, mockumentary, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, friendship, true love, interracial romance, love, filmmaking, looking for love, hopes, human nature, couples, friends, optimism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, california, new york, toronto ontario canada, nashville tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Family Stone (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Style: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, cancer, holiday, family drama, terminal illness, secret, brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, love, family values, christmas season, snow ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.8
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Sam the Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, dishonesty, womanizer, estrangement, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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