Movies like Turtle Diary

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Turtle Diary (1985)
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Turtle Diary (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Style: humorous, light, witty, talky, feel good, sentimental, realistic, independent film, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: bookstore, book, rescue, couples, environmentalism, ocean, against the rules, turtle, friendship, fighting the system, water, writer's block, wildlife, drinking, neighbor, sea turtle, boarder, suicide, road trip, privacy, friends, love and romance, midlife crisis, opposites attract, looking for love ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: england, london, europe, atlantic ocean, new jersey
Keyword: ocean or sea, partners

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Most similar movies to Turtle Diary

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about couples, love and romance, friendship, couple relations, fall in love, love and looking for love mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Turtle Diary: A Merry War (1997), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), This Year's Love (1999), A Touch of Class (1973), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Merry War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Style: cult classic, humorous, witty, clever, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, advertising, book, poverty, marketing, bookstore, satire, working class, poetry, literature, money, artist ...
Time: 1930s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had ...
Style: psychological, humorous, light, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: novelist, poet, drug smuggling, manipulation, dishonesty, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love triangle, family problems, writers, infidelity, writer's block ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
This Year's Love (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, lust, marriage, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, friendship, dishonesty, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
A Touch of Class (1973)
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, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: women, infidelity, betrayal, love affair, marriage, hotel, resort, slice of life, friendship, taxi, family relations, couples ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: london, spain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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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 ⇓
65%
Shadows in the Sun (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Style: feel good, touching, realistic, romantic, sincere ...
Plot: publisher, village life, fall in love, writer's life, odd couple, artists and showbiz, writers, writer's block, father daughter relationship, loss of wife, exile, hiker ...
Place: italy, tuscany, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Notting Hill (1999)
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: romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, fame, social differences, love and romance, bookstore, opposites attract, power of love, paparazzi, love, friendship, male female relationship, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Burning Annie (2004)
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, sentimental, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: college, lifestyle, couples, obsession, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Trouble with Men and Women (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A bitter-sweet romantic tale set in London, depicting the sentimental education of a young man who is absurdly confused about women.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: love affair, couples, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, buddies, wooing, love triangle, friendship, breakup, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard ...
Style: humorous, sweet, romantic, feel good, touching ...
Plot: unlikely couple, road trip, eccentricity, introspection, opposites attract, love triangle, looking for love, family relations, fall in love, friendship, comedy of errors, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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House Calls (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
Style: romantic comedy, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medical, medicine, partner, hospital, widower, doctor, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, couples, couple relations, looking for love ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Suburban Girl (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, rom com, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, seduction, couples, looking for love, unlikely couple, fall in love, writer's life, writers, older man younger woman relationship, office, love story, age difference ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Making Mr. Right (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: love and romance, eligible bachelor, cons and scams, power relations, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, smuggling, transformation, theft, party, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when ...
Style: talky, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: politics, culture clash, nudity, revolution, violence, love, lesbian, marriage, british, death, murder, book ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: london, england, europe, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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 ⇓
49%
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 56K
Man Up (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, romantic, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: blind date, single woman, seduction, love, looking for love, wedding anniversary, dishonesty, self discovery, disorder, one day, stranger, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style: sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: life turned upside down, friendship, fall in love, looking for love, society, buddies, disorder, love and romance, interracial relations, profanity, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
43%
Surviving Desire (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Style: retro, art house, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teachers and students, bookstore, teacher, age difference, writers, entertainment, book, philosophy, lovers, youth, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Wackness (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: male female friendship, autumn, friendship, love and romance, initially antagonists, best friends in love, fall in love, unlikely couple, love story, life philosophy, opposites attract, looking for love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1989, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, seattle, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: novelist, fall in love, rising to stardom, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, writer's life, overnight success, cons and scams, manuscript, plagiarism, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 12K
Fever Pitch (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he ...
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: soccer, football, teacher, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, fall in love, opposites attract, ambition, couples, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to ...
Style: sexy, talky, witty, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: midlife crisis, destiny, unrequited love, obsession, writers, human nature, couples, crumbling relationship, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, loneliness, art ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.3
 15K
Cocktail (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beach, love triangle, friendship, beach party, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love affair, love and romance, nightlife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Phileine Says Sorry (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, couples, dishonesty, actor's life, lifestyle, infidelity, artists and showbiz, intimate, weatherman, love and romance, couple relations, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, new york, holland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Love Letter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, bookstore, misunderstanding, love, comedy of errors, looking for love, writers, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, fall in love, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Swinging with the Finkels (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A suburban couple decide to spice up their lives by swinging with another couple.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: couples, open marriage, swinger couple, wife swapping, marital separation, crumbling marriage, couple relations, partner, sexual relations, friends, married couple, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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