Movies like Western 1997

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Western (1997)
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Western (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, on the road, family relations, countryside, friends, misfit, love and romance, fall in love, couples, self discovery, society, opposites attract, partner, culture clash, disorder, fish out of water, buddies, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, love, dancing, thief, children, money, police officer ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, europe, brittany, galicia
Keyword: partners, russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, friendship, couple relations, male female relationship and kiss mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Western: Accidental Saint (2002), God Is Great and I'm Not (2001), Jet Lag (2002), Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001), When the Cat's Away (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Accidental Saint (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Raph and Swan, two retarded thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenseless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find ...
Plot: male female relationship, urban setting, theft, christmas eve, poverty, slum, homelessness, partner, thief, coin, rescue, saint ...
Place: lyon
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God Is Great and I'm Not (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
Style: sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: judaism, love affair, society, fall in love, love and romance, youth, culture clash, looking for love, couples, spirituality, religion, family relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: israel, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Jet Lag (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the ...
Style: sweet, sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, airport, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chance meeting, opposites attract, fall in love, fish out of water, love and romance, misfit, disorder, father son relationship, cooking and food ...
Time: year 2002
Place: paris france, france, latin america, europe, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: love and romance, nothing goes right, against the odds, disorder, couples, male female relationship, misfit, ballet, accountant, love, taxi, police ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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When the Cat's Away (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, loneliness, drinking, gay, cat, friends, couples, family relations, fall in love, gays and lesbians, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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50%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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So Woman! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, psychotronic
Plot: friendship, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, friends, best friend, disorder, dishonesty, parents and children, cons and scams, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Agata and the Storm (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, infidelity, family relations, looking for love, midlife crisis, family life, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, love affair, parents and children ...
Place: italy, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Ten Days Without Love (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Miguel, a young psychiatrist working in Madrid, learns that his wife has just dumped him for no one else than his own father while he's expecting his mother-in-law's visit, who's come to the city on a medical revision, and ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: love triangle, breakup, couple relations, couples, opposites attract, love and romance, doctors and patients, self discovery, disorder, nothing goes right
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
My Friends, My Love (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, love and romance, odd couple, family relations, hopes, parents and children, partner, friendship between men, love triangle, ex husband ex wife relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Adventures of Felix (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching, lyrical ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, road trip, male nudity, lgbt, unemployment, friendship, youth, society, parents and children, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, marseille, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Would I Lie to You? (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community
Style: funny, realistic, not serious, witty, humorous
Plot: lie, kickass, fall in love, immigrant, friends, disorder, religions or cults, couples, culture clash, materialism, working class, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Lost in Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friendship, escapades, fall in love, couples, disorder, island, rivalry, excavation, spirituality, diving, artifact ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love Is in the Air (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Instructeur dans une compagnie aérienne, Yann Kerbec évalue la capacité des pilotes sur les simulateurs de vols dans des conditions extrêmes. Mais il a un problème : il a peur de l'avion, une peur panique liée à sa naissance et qui, dans ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, love affair, looking for love, couples, fall in love, buddies, fear of flying, friends, love and romance, instructor, radio announcer, ford mustang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Taste of Others (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy ...
Style: biting, meditative, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, bohemian life, extramarital affair, opposites attract, fish out of water, disorder, snobbism, couple relations, fall in love, adultery, artist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mouth to Mouth (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: phone sex, farce, gays and lesbians, hitman, drinking, wine, adultery, erotica, sex, satire, lgbt, fetish ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, europe, madrid, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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XXL (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: opposites attract, immigrant, social relations, couples, fashion, love and romance, lifestyle, unfulfillment, impossible love, social differences, culture clash, on the road ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Tall Guy (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Style: romantic, humorous, witty, clever, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nymphomania, satire, making love, hospital, love, actor, chase, sex scene, nude, infidelity, dating, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Art of Seduction (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, doctor patient relationship, disorder, wooing, nothing goes right, misfit, couples, friendship, therapy, flowers, fish, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Salt of Life (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, entertaining, uplifting ...
Plot: aging, maturity, looking for love, couples, wooing, young at heart, infidelity, dishonesty, buddies, love and romance, elderly, senior citizen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Almost Charming (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...
Style: romantic, feel good, humorous, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, nothing goes right, opposites attract, self discovery, parents and children, on the road, disorder, family relations, character change, lifestyle change, father daughter relationship, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: divorce, ex husband ex wife relationship, blind date, couples, professor, friendship, alimony, unfaithfulness, breakup, grief, godfather, trauma ...
Time: year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied ...
Style: aesthetic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, daily life, crazy love, passion, love letter, summer, teenager, love, suburbs, tennis, cafe, secret ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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I'm with Lucy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her ...
Style: sweet, light, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, sex on first date, relationships, marriage, women, looking for love, dating, wedding, sex, pillow talk, chess, meme ...
Place: new york, tahiti, usa, manhattan new york city, madagascar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, humorous, smart ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, fall in love, breakup, opposites attract, unlikely couple, eccentric family, family problems, newlyweds, love affair, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eddie, Dov, Yvan et les autres… Nos chaleureux amis ont migré du Sentier moribond à la banlieue florissante d’Aubervilliers… Là où les vieux entrepreneurs juifs ont laissé le terrain à de jeunes grossistes chinois courageux et ...
Style: realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, disorder, misfit, partner, friends, religions or cults, fish out of water, comedy of errors, society, love and romance, nothing goes right, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
It's in the Water (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When hordes of gays and lesbians come out "of the closet" in the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas, intolerant residents go into a panic about the water supply.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian sex, aids, friends in love, lgbtq, erotica, lesbian teen, lesbian interest, glbt ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
Style: talky, clever, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, swedish, british, friendship, art, hotel, crazy love, infidelity, love triangle, notre dame cathedral, dating, performer's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: tahiti, paris france, france, corsica, lyon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Book of Love (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, high school, teenage love, friendship, fish out of water, youth, self discovery, couple relations, fall in love, friends, college life, college ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Crazy Stranger (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Style: atmospheric, sexy, sentimental, humorous, art house ...
Plot: gypsy, friendship, beautiful scenery, village, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, obsessive quest, lifestyle, bittersweet, ethnic conflict, dance ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: romania, balkan, france, europe, bucharest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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