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The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
7K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...
Style:
independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, witty, talky, funny, retro, indie film, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
mechanic, ex convict, accidental death, redemption, prison, friendship, depression, obsession, anarchist, literature, greed, high school, drinking, murder, waitress, neighbor neighbor relationship, age difference, drifter, gossip, hipster, love letter, small town, family relations, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
new york, new york state, long island, usa, harvard university, new jersey
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Most similar movies to The Unbelievable Truth
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, talky and humorous films with plots about love and romance, friendship, drinking, mentor, drinking alcohol, life philosophy and storytelling mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Unbelievable Truth: Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992), Ira & Abby (2006), Next Stop Wonderland (1998), Buffalo '66 (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, talky ...
Plot:
love and romance, age difference, dysfunctional family, dark humor, coming of age, bittersweet, unwanted pregnancy, existentialism, redemption, factory, heart attack, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place:
long island, usa, new york
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost ...
Style:
road movie, talky, witty, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, transformation, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, missing person, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, on the road, husband wife relationship, friendship, anarchist ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
new york, florida, maryland, pennsylvania, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it ...
Style:
sentimental, witty, humorous, touching, smart ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, fall in love, breakup, unlikely couple, opposites attract, eccentric family, newlyweds, family problems, love affair, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Style:
clever, independent film, romantic comedy, heartfelt, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
destiny, love, writers, fall in love, dating, loneliness, passionate kiss, magic, ship, grief, flirting, siblings ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, london, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style:
black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, depressing ...
Plot:
alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, dysfunctional family, bowling, older man teenage girl relationship, relationships, dark humor, haunted by the past, gambling, blackmail ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york state, new york, usa
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80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Style:
cult classic, philosophical, independent film, black comedy, erotic ...
Plot:
writers, making love, poetry, art, poet, sex scene, writer's life, bittersweet, drinking, violence, egocentric man, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, stockholm sweden, new york
Similarity:
100%
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:
lovers, teachers and students, bookstore, teacher, writers, entertainment, book, age difference, school teacher, college, philosophy, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, sensual, sweet, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
age difference, mental illness, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional family, love and romance, starting over, parents and children, haunted by the past, family problems, retirement ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 2000s, year 2009, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, independent film, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, slacker, graduation, drinking, campus, lone hero, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
Style:
dark comedy, biting, erotic, sexual, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, gay interest, sex, lgbt, gay man has sex with a woman, heterosexuality, death of lover, coming of age, satire, pregnancy, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, canada, los angeles, las vegas, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. ...
Style:
independent film, talky, clever, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
businessman, culture clash, cold war, hospital, drinking, cousin cousin relationship, marijuana, preppy, conservative, economics, stoner, hipster ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, madrid, pentagon ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Style:
art house, erotic, humorous, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot:
amnesia, redemption, memory loss, identity, nun, caper, memory, sexual abuse, underworld, philosophy, couples, nosy ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a ...
Style:
independent film, art house, talky, clever, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
homosexual, lgbt, loneliness, flirting, desire, in love, infidelity, dark humor, ultimatum, couples, love triangle, gender ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, europe, germany, asia, japan ...
Similarity:
24%
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the ...
Style:
sentimental, dark comedy, raunchy comedy, black comedy, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
sex worker, lap dance, marriage, mansion, hedonism, sex work, male female relationship, priest, swimming pool, husband wife relationship, new year's eve, baptism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, las vegas, new york, nevada
Similarity:
100%
174K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style:
romantic, funny, sentimental, independent film, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, summer job, friendship, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, youth, misfit, young adult ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1987, 2000s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, boston, new york ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Style:
talky, witty, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
new year, new year's eve, love, friendship, nightlife, couples, love and romance, best friend, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life, sexual dysfunction ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, year 1999, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
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, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance, obsession, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
18%
40K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
sexy, psychological, semi serious, independent film, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, fall in love, depression, musician, starting over, self fulfillment, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts ...
Style:
cynical, stylized, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
writers, financial problem, friendship, mental illness, obsession, couples, holiday, opposites attract, writer's life, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. ...
Style:
sweet, humorous, melancholic, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, family drama, dysfunctional family, honest, love, starting over, parents and children, family life, couples, human nature, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
england, europe, glasgow scotland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Josh's life is pretty much in the toilet. He's a failed NYC indie rocker, and a failing booking agent. But he finds the potential of a small victory in a really bad idea. He decides to purchase a 1985 Lazy Boy on eBay, just like the one ...
Style:
mumblecore, road movie, melancholic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
road trip, wedding, on the road, family relations, parents and children, introspection, hopes, love and romance, self discovery, brother brother relationship, gift, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
17%
43K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, love story, relationships, sex, older woman younger man sex, artist, therapy, therapist, family relations, impossible love, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, offbeat, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
castration, family relations, pregnancy, doctor, self discovery, eccentric family, meet the parents, couples, disorder, fatherhood, male female relationship, childbirth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
7K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Style:
touching, humorous, dark comedy, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dark humor, ventriloquist, eccentricity, unemployment, lifestyle, looking for love, siblings relations, parents and children, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, shyness ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.
Style:
philosophical, humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
seduction, philosophy, unlikely couple, relationships, dating, introspection, teaching the ways of the world, looking for love, buddies, fall in love, couples, wooing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new mexico, santa fe new mexico, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
Style:
romantic, intense, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, midlife crisis, power of love, adultery, friendship, unhappy marriage, bachelor party, cheating wife, introspection, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
polynesia, wisconsin, usa, sydney australia, australia ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
Style:
humorous, witty, erotic, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coma, sister sister relationship, lifestyle, love affair, love, society, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, women, nudity, bittersweet, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.
Style:
touching, melancholic, romantic comedy, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, dogme 95, culture clash, fall in love, hotel, dogma, starting over, lifestyle, couples, food, love story, relationships ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
italy, venice, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
Similarity:
17%
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, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
male female friendship, friendship, fall in love, autumn, love and romance, love, love story, unlikely couple, initially antagonists, best friends in love, friends, life philosophy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Similarity:
17%
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