Movies like An Unmarried Woman
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional, sincere, semi serious, feminist film, realistic, retro ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
divorce, female nudity, midlife crisis, breakup, starting over, self discovery, mother daughter relationship, betrayal, fall in love, couple relations, marital separation, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, love affair, teenage life, infidelity, family problems, human nature, hopes, crumbling marriage, sexual content, feminist, female protagonist, time travel ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, family relations, unfulfillment and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like An Unmarried Woman: Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Heartburn (1986), Blume in Love (1973), The Story of Us (1999), Sex & Mrs. X (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, midlife crisis, starting over, love triangle, breakup, working class, dysfunctional family, love affair, human nature, hopes, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington state, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living ...
Style:
melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
journalism, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, women, divorce, journalist, battle of the sexes, marriage, writers, cheating, infidelity, fall in love ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
Style:
funny, talky, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
marriage, divorce, lawyer, satire, infidelity, love triangle, female nudity, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, couples, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
venice, beverly hills, europe, italy, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, relationships, women, divorce, happy ending, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, first contact, destiny, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman regains her sense of self through a sexual reawakening after her husband leaves her for another woman.
Style:
humorous, sexy, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
starting over, breakup, self esteem, self confidence, seduction, journalist, self discovery, infidelity, battle of the sexes, love and romance, marital problem, lost girl ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
support group, starting over, love affair, infidelity, love triangle, hopes, couple relations, love, friendship, dating, thanksgiving, holiday ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, usa
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37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot:
family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, introspection, writer's life, family relations, couple relations, couples, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style:
emotional, talky, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jewish, world war two, holocaust, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, peasant, self discovery, human nature, dark humor, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
new york, poland, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, pittsburgh ...
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34%
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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, 90s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, wooing, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style:
sitcom, talky, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, homecoming, family life, looking for love, family relations, family problems, college, estrangement, couples, starting over, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
divorce, filmmaking, female nudity, cheating, self discovery, battle of the sexes, womanizer, family relations, dysfunctional family, hollywood, custody, little girl ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, africa, usa, egypt
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
brother brother relationship, divorce, ex husband ex wife relationship, family life, love affair, family problems, platonic, breakup, infidelity, couples, single parent, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style:
touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, fall in love, friendship, on the road, looking for love, human nature, introspection, best friends, hopes, parents and children, family business, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
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:
emotional, romantic, intense, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
pregnancy, wedding, infidelity, casual sex, adultery, friendship, cheating, introspection, free spirited, human nature, power of love, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wisconsin, new jersey, polynesia, usa, cape town south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love affair, chef, love triangle, introspection, family problems, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, college, couples, lifestyle, haunted by the past ...
Place:
new york, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, feminist film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, feminist, love triangle, satire, adultery, marital problem, housewife, isolation, women, child abuse, domestic violence, abuse ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Quirky Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) has a big problem: She's a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up when she becomes the object of affection of two seemingly normal guys, Mick (Brian O'Byrne) and ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, witty, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
true love, love triangle, sister sister relationship, looking for love, fall in love, lifestyle, human nature, introspection, couple relations, youth, couples, artists and showbiz ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
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32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
oral sex, food, family relations, feminism, self discovery, betrayal, friendship, pregnancy, suburbs, dysfunctional family, infidelity, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
opposites attract, young lovers, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, unlikely couple, lifestyle, single parent, love and romance, couples, family relations, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, introspection, love and romance, lifestyle, moral dilemma, self discovery, friends, family relations, couples, fall in love, love affair, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, africa, usa
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, midlife crisis, love affair, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, infidelity, couples, crumbling marriage, youth, dishonesty, audition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, love, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, homecoming, small town life, adolescence vs adulthood, male female relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1954
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style:
talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, relationships, infidelity, honest, betrayal, family problems, secrets, introspection, marriage, love and romance, crumbling marriage, food ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, california, new jersey, poland ...
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Divorced and demoralized Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help, but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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connecticut, usa, new york
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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, feel good, touching, light, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, marriage, friendship, grandmother, women, advice, stereotypes, adultery, americana, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, north carolina, northern california, paris france
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, starting over, self discovery, estrangement, hopes, social decay, forbidden love, relationship vs career, betrayal, society, pregnancy, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Style:
sincere, light, humorous, entertaining, twisted ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, sex, teenage life, sexual relations, love and romance, parents and children, teenage love, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, teen angst, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style:
talky, feel good, satirical, light, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, family relations, women, family problems, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, southern belle ...
Time:
90s
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, divorce, couples, love story, dysfunctional family, happy ending, honest, best friends, love, starting over, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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