Movies like The Way We Were
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The Way We Were (1973)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual, talky, intense, romantic, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
naval officer, mccarthyism, love story, love and romance, couples, adultery, friendship, jewish, writers, politics, young lovers, college, destiny, love, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, true love, world war two, marriage, new year, catastrophe, winter, relationships, women, loneliness ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 70s, year 1945, year 1933, year 1944 ...
Place:
usa, new york, california, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., malibu california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and melancholic films with plots about love and romance, love, mentor, destiny, dialogue, couples and catastrophe mostly in Romance, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like The Way We Were: Out of Africa (1985), Love Story (1970), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Falling in Love (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
colonialism, love story, infidelity, writers, love and romance, love, lion, adaptation, unlikely friendships, mentor, love affair, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1930s ...
Place:
africa, kenya, denmark
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, tragedy, death, college, fall in love, love story, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences, destiny ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, massachusetts, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, professor, love, wedding, literature, self discovery, friendship, love story, spinster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, venice, london, manhattan new york city, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, parents and children, pretend relationship, wine, family relations, love story, world war two, estate ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, light, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, love and romance, christmas, love story, adultery, friendship, extramarital affair, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, women, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style:
touching, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, love triangle, countess, marriage, infidelity, forbidden love, aristocracy, lawyer, love, destiny, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, paris france, washington d.c. ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, marriage, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, love story, extramarital affair, adultery, couples, cholera, love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 19th century
Place:
china, shanghai, london, england, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, emotional, touching, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love story, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, true love, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, older man young girl relationship, unlikely couple, couples, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, producer, ambition, introspection, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, brutality, nude, runaway ...
Time:
1930s, 70s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, love story, ambition, opposites attract, introspection, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, psychiatrist, psychology, love, rape, sexual abuse, women, love story, psychiatry, suicide attempt, transformation, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love and romance, fall in love, love, true love, power of love, youth, love triangle, love of one's life, young lovers, love affair, lovers reunited ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style:
sexy, sexual, emotional, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
gambling, adultery, husband wife relationship, millionaire, infidelity, love triangle, love, love story, marriage, sexual relations, cuckold, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
las vegas, california, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
music, tragic love, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, women, rock star, fame, self discovery, rise and fall, friends, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, happy ending, hospital, moral dilemma, adaptation, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1988, year 1989, year 1946, 21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style:
romantic, affectionate, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, fall in love, bittersweet, parents, couples, love and romance, immigration, lovers apart ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, england, london, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sexy, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
journalism, love, happy ending, love story, women, reporter, media, mentor, president, life philosophy, death, conspiracy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
miami, usa, pennsylvania, florida, philadelphia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, sweet, intense, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, fall in love, love story, happy ending, friendship, unlikely friendships, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, love ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, love story, relationships, love and romance, old love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, unfaithful husband, love, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, tourist, love, marriage, character study, dishonesty, fall in love, couples, love and romance, wedding, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa, cairo egypt, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, melancholic, intense, sentimental ...
Plot:
destiny, fall in love, writers, honest, loneliness, love story, extramarital affair, love affair, infidelity, love and romance, couples, opposites attract ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, barcelona, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrants, starting over, love and romance, fashion, love triangle, friendship, female protagonist, irish, immigration, love, working class, true love ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, clever, bad ending ...
Plot:
murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, fall in love, death in the family, family problems, dysfunctional family, grief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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, intellectual, talky, melancholic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, human nature ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems ...
Style:
romantic, fairy tale, feel good, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
florist, magic, love, love story, women, fall in love, hotel, death, adultery, runaway, childhood, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style:
witty, melancholic, clever, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, writers, women, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, death ...
Place:
california, santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, fairy tale ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
ballet, dancing, ballerina, bittersweet, midlife crisis, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, rivalry, friendship, glbt, self-help, mother ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, oklahoma, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Style:
emotional, feel good, romantic, road movie, stylized ...
Plot:
true love, love, death, love story, teacher, winter, coming of age, first love, village life, school, memory, loneliness ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, touching, sad, feel good, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
photographer, adultery, love affair, impossible love, love story, housewife, fall in love, relationships, love, infidelity, middle aged, couples ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, 80s, year 1965, year 1987 ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, lovers reunited, high school sweetheart, love affair, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, teenager, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1992, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, new jersey, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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