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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
Style: melancholic, sincere, cerebral, clever, talky, stylized, entertaining, absurd, philosophical, spiritual ...
Plot: theater, loneliness, relationships, character study, artists and showbiz, family problems, human nature, art, existentialism, family gatherings, redemption, drinking, anton chekhov, life philosophy, spirituality, literary, family relations, rehearsal, longing, redheaded woman, parents and children, love and romance, couples, showbiz, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 1890s, turn of the century, 19th century
Place: new york, russia, usa, st. petersburg russia, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Keyword: russian, oldies, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and talky films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, artists and showbiz, friendship and restaurant mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Vanya on 42nd Street: My Dinner with Andre (1981), God Said, 'Ha!' (1998), Husbands and Wives (1992), August (1996), Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
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Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
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God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
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Husbands and Wives (1992)
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, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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August (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton ...
Style: melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 19th century, year 1996, edwardian era, victorian era, 1890s
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Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style: independent film, talky, clever, contemplative, realistic ...
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Time: 90s
Place: usa, long island
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
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Time: 90s, year 1997
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Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
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