Movies like Waiting to Exhale

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Waiting to Exhale (1995)
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Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Style: touching, sexy, sweet, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, humorous, romantic, hood, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: divorce, friendship, black romance, women, betrayal, black, adultery, female protagonist, african american woman, love story, infidelity, love and romance, best friend, looking for love, black woman, black history, fall in love, love affair, couple relations, thirtysomething life, love, dating, african american, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
Keyword: gangsters, american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and romantic films with plots about couples, friendship, love and romance, love, couple relations, friends and women mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Waiting to Exhale: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Sex and the City (2008), The Object of My Affection (1998), The Best Man (1999), Friends with Kids (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end ...
Style: sexy, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, friendship, black woman, women, black, couples, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, unlikely couple, looking for love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, caribbean, indiana, bay area, africa ...
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Sex and the City (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
Style: light, romantic, witty, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: fashion, women, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, city life, best friend, friendship, friends, couples, urban, sexual relations ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, malibu california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Object of My Affection (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, friendship, pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, love, gender, lgbt, women, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, love triangle, glbt ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 12K
The Best Man (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
Style: romantic, clever, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: black romance, wedding, black, african american, corruption, friendship, black history, urban, black cast, infidelity, hip hop, black american ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: africa, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
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The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
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, independent film, mumblecore, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, friendship, divorce, breakup, love story, dysfunctional family, honest, happy ending, best friend, love, lifestyle, starting over ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, christian film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, family problems, couple relations, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, lifestyle, unfulfillment, infidelity, remarry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They ...
Style: feel good, romantic comedy, light, funny, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: sisters, family relations, black, love and romance, couple relations, verbal byplay, shakespeare, hip hop, conspiracy, sister sister relationship, african american, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nappily Ever After (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.
Style: uplifting, inspirational, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: breakup, hair, physical appearance, black, strong female lead, self discovery, lifestyle change, change of heart, lifestyle, new life, relationships, introspection ...
Place: indiana, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
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, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love Jones (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with ...
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: sex, black romance, love affair, love, friendship, black, women, hip hop, life philosophy, lifestyle, writer's life, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
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The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 10K
Brown Sugar (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both ...
Style: romantic, intense, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: hip hop, wedding, friendship, infidelity, music, fall in love, black, dating, best friend, looking for love, couples, happy ending ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
About Last Night (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy, this contemporary version closely follows new love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dating, black, love and romance, looking for love, friendship, battle of the sexes, couple relations, sexual relations, up and down relationship, thirtysomething life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, friendship, black, crumbling marriage, introspection, couple relations, family problems, couples, battle of the sexes, intrigue, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: colorado, indiana, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style: romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: battle of the sexes, black, mentor, ambition, looking for love, cheating, contests and competitions, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, guru, dating ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Boomerang (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes ...
Style: funny, witty, talky, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot: womanizer, african american protagonist, battle of the sexes, dating, black, love story, mentor, advertising, opposites attract, boss and employee, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
How to Be Single (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
Style: romantic, light, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: singleness, women, breakup, love and romance, couple relations, single, love story, love, multiple storylines, fall in love, life, adaptation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, women, love story, unrequited love, wedding preparations and rituals, best friend, love triangle, gay, friendship, love and romance, male female friendship, screwball ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: chicago, madagascar, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Something Borrowed (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to ...
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sexy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, best friends in love, wedding preparations and rituals, love story, fall in love, best friend, friendship, love and romance, destiny, friends, love triangle, lie ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Style: feel good, sweet, romantic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, love triangle, love and romance, couples, love story, thirtysomething life, christmas, looking for love, opposites attract, holiday, workplace romance, happy ending ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
Life Partners (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship
Style: realistic, humorous, talky, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian friend, friendship, relationships, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, loneliness, best friend, unlikely couple, couples, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Friends with Money (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Style: sexy, melancholic, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, shopping, midlife crisis, maid, money problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, looking for love, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Friends & Lovers (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: sex, friendship, skiing, existentialism, relationships, honest, thirtysomething life, midlife crisis, infidelity, lifestyle, gay, male nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
 66K
Enough Said (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dating, loneliness, masseuse, poet, relationships, divorce, sexual activity, parenthood, goodhearted, couple relations, single parent, middle aged ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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