Movies like Venus 2006

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Venus (2006)
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Venus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, realistic, romantic comedy, twisted, humorous, semi serious, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: aging, age difference, art, elderly, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, art class, teenage life, lifestyle, actor's life, peeping tom, old age, bittersweet, unlikely relationship, dirty old man, senior citizen, love, loneliness, filmmaking, drinking, planet, beach, mission, affair, aged person ...
Time: year 2006, contemporary
Place: london
Keyword: challenge, reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, touching and humorous films with plots about friendship, kiss, couples, love and romance, husband wife relationship, sex and drinking mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Venus: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), Le Week-End (2013), The Mother (2003), These Foolish Things (2006), Being Julia (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Le Week-End (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage ...
Style: humorous, sincere, touching, powerful, happy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly lovers, elderly, weekend, love and romance, aging, life is a bitch, dark humor, crumbling marriage, verbal byplay, old man, aged person, senior citizen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, montmartre paris, france, new york, manhattan new york city
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33%
 6.7
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The Mother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Style: psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, love affair, age difference, older woman younger man sex, extramarital affair, mother daughter relationship, incest, relationships, secrets, infidelity, loneliness, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2003
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
These Foolish Things (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hotel, elderly, aging, self discovery, goodhearted, old age, introspection, loneliness, marital problem, choice, life changing experience, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, delhi, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Lawless Heart (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner
Style: melancholic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: adultery, gay, infidelity, eccentricity, relationships, love and romance, love affair, sex, multiple storylines, couple relations, sex in car, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: europe, england, prague, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Humbling (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Style: tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, actor, aging, life turned upside down, dark humor, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love and romance, love affair, female professor, psychiatrist patient relationship, veterinarian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Style: talky, independent film, multicultural, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitution, culture clash, immigrant, taxi, drinking, taxi driver, muslim, black, asian, driver, indians, prostitute ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: love story, elderly, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love triangle, mature woman, opposites attract, love and romance, aging, couples, love, fall in love ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, paris france, usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 23K
Elegy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style: sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, obsession, hedonism, infidelity, couples, male teacher female student affair, love and romance, teachers and students, teacher, adultery ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style: mumblecore, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, looking for love, college graduate, female nudity, female pubic hair, college, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, gangster, courage, brutality, eccentric family, redemption, human nature, aging, couples, money, lawyer, marriage ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 42K
The Last Kiss (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 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, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: pregnancy, wedding, infidelity, adultery, friendship, introspection, manic pixie dream girl, human nature, free spirited, power of love, marriage, youth ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, polynesia, usa, sydney australia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
In the Land of Women (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, love story, love, suburban life, teenager, depression, neighbor, self discovery, believe in yourself, homecoming, passion ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: california, detroit, michigan, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Alfie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief ...
Style: sexy, light, contemplative, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: womanizer, infidelity, love and romance, seduction, lifestyle, culture clash, betrayal, relationships, happy ending, redemption, human nature, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 60s, 21st century
Place: new york, united kingdom, usa, europe, manhattan new york city
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Russian Dolls (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Style: romantic, humorous, feel good, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: friendship, lesbian, male nudity, writers, relationships, looking for love, love triangle, lifestyle, understanding, writer's life, old love, culture clash ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, london, england, europe ...
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21%
Life of Riley (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
Style: realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, aging, disorder, life is a bitch, friends, elderly, unfulfillment, bittersweet, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, flirting, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
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, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Alive and Kicking (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, aids, bittersweet, lgbt, death, dancing, dance, hospital, hiv, glbt, lgbtq, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: greece, athens greece, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Peter's Friends (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, intense, realistic ...
Plot: aids, friends, new year's eve, redemption, justice, weekend, thirtysomething life, adulthood, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, family problems ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: elderly, loneliness, estrangement, free spirited, character study, suicide attempt, friendship, odd couple, death of wife, respect, dancer, optimism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, brussels, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
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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 ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
Lovely & Amazing (2001)
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, touching, erotic, realistic, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: sister sister relationship, lifestyle, love affair, love, older woman younger man relationship, society, parents and children, coma, cigarette smoking, women, nudity, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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