Movies like Western 1997
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Western (1997)
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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, 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, friendship, love, fall in love, kiss and male female relationship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Western: The Adventures of Felix (2000), Accidental Saint (2002), God Is Great and I'm Not (2001), When the Cat's Away (1996), Jet Lag (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
israel, france
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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, feel good, sentimental, clever ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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, touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
airport, culture clash, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, chance meeting, opposites attract, fall in love, fish out of water, love and romance, misfit, disorder, happy ending ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
paris france, france, europe, latin america, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, love and romance, against the odds, couples, disorder, male female relationship, misfit, ballet, accountant, soccer, dance teacher, police ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, melancholic, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, family relations, looking for love, family life, midlife crisis, couples, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, hopes, parents and children, love affair, disorder ...
Place:
italy, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
31%
117
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:
realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, family relations, friends, best friend, parents and children, singleness, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
30%
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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:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
28%
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, family relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, parents and children, partner, friendship between men, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
27%
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:
nightclub, rolls royce, businessman, unwanted pregnancy, lie, kickass, fall in love, cons and scams, farce, working class, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
27%
415
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friendship, fall in love, escapades, couples, disorder, island, excavation, rivalry, spirituality, diving, artifact ...
Time:
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Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
sex on first date, love and romance, wedding, relationships, marriage, women, dating, sex, looking for love, chess, pillow talk, marriage proposal ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
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Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Style:
romantic, erotic, clever, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, witty, humorous, touching, smart ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, fall in love, breakup, unlikely couple, opposites attract, eccentric family, newlyweds, family problems, love affair, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
380
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
opposites attract, impossible love, immigrant, unfulfillment, lifestyle, love and romance, fashion, couples, social relations, on the road, social differences, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
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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, sexual, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
phone sex, closeted homosexual, sex, farce, gays and lesbians, erotica, hitman, adultery, wine, male nudity, drinking, satire ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid, los angeles, tokyo ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, romantic drama, captivating, light ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, couples, dating, opposites attract, mother daughter relationship, friends, middle aged woman, female protagonist, single mother, mysterious stranger, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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, sincere, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
doctor patient relationship, love, disorder, wooing, nothing goes right, misfit, couples, friendship, fish, flowers, seduction, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
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Country: Romania, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, humorous, sentimental, romantic, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, rom com, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, love, destiny, marriage, unlikely couple, hurricane, gay bar, fiance fiancee relationship, opposites attract, travel, looking for love, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, miami, savannah georgia, hawaii ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, clever, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, crazy love, young lovers, swedish, friendship, british, art, hotel, notre dame cathedral, dating, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tahiti, paris france, france, corsica, lyon ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
meditative, witty, melancholic, art house, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time:
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Place:
france, south of france, europe, london, paris france ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
engagement, fear of commitment, dating, friends, love, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, commitment, marriage proposal, lap dance, male nudity, naked in public ...
Place:
new york, usa, caribbean, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
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Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
22%
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, humorous, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
prom, high school, couple relations, teenage love, little brother, friendship, fish out of water, youth, friends, self discovery, fall in love, couples ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
california
Similarity:
21%
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