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What a Way to Go! (1964)
7K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, retro, laugh out loud, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
curse, horse ranch, love, fall in love, money, millionaire, businessman, taxi, nightclub, passionate kiss, widow, husband wife relationship, satire, death of husband, loss of husband, bohemian, fashion, sea, strong female lead, women, clown, swing, in love, choreography, choreographer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, couples, happy ending, mentor, catastrophe and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like What a Way to Go!: Paris When It Sizzles (1964), The Wedding Date (2005), All in a Night's Work (1961), Irma la Douce (1963), Marriage on the Rocks (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. ...
Style:
witty, romantic comedy, clever, rom com, retro ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
screenwriter, drinking, writer's block, weekend, love, fashion, writers, costume party, vampire, couples, love and romance, writer's life ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
paris france, france, usa, europe, england
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, marriage, love and romance, opposites attract, disorder, unlikely couple, looking for love, sisters, couples, family gatherings ...
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's ...
Plot:
cheerleading, american football, fictional country, college football, minefield, student athlete, airplane crash, harem, belly dancing, cold war, fall in love, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, soviet union, indiana, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine star in this sweet 1961 comedy about Tony Ryder (Martin), who takes over the duties of magazine publisher when his uncle dies suddenly, supposedly while spending time with a mistress. Worried that the news will ...
Style:
retro, technicolor, witty, sexy, semi serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, mistaken identity, minefield, in love, veterinarian, blackmail, extortion, publishing house, inheritance, sudden death, investigation, drowning ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
new york, palm beach
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.
Style:
humorous, stylized, sex comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
prostitute, pimp, prostitution, fall in love, smoking, police, unlikely couple, couple relations, love triangle, disorder, love of one's life, couples ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, america
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards who, when he goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary, winds up getting divorced by mistake - whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake. Frank's future pop ...
Style:
retro, rom com, offbeat, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
spy, redheaded woman, divorce, marriage, best friend, friendship, misunderstanding, stoner, mistaken identity, moral dilemma, crumbling marriage, midlife crisis ...
Time:
60s
Place:
latin america, mexico
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22%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
Style:
romantic, feel good, witty, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
witch, magic, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, spell, couple relations, supernatural romance, disorder, witchcraft, hidden identity, misfit ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to a famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town
Style:
biting, clever, witty, retro, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
prostitute, small town, satire, transformation, greed, on the road, singer, piano teacher, songwriter, sexual content, fishing village, village ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
las vegas, usa, california, nevada, san francisco ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
small town, breakup, lie, love story, destiny, architect, screwball, happy ending, farce, employer employee relationship, marriage proposal, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s
Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having ...
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
dentist, honest, love and romance, cons and scams, love triangle, couples, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, manic pixie dream girl, swing, marriage ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 1950s, 50s
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A director's (Yves Montand) wife (Shirley MacLaine) poses as a geisha to win the lead in his Japanese production of "Madame Butterfly."
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Plot:
fall in love, husband and wife, sumo, minefield, in love, disguise, jealousy, mistaken identity, opera, filmmaking, love triangle, disorder ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, absurd, black comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas time, dysfunctional family, suburbs, christmas season, loneliness, new year, farce, xmas, looking for love, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
illinois, chicago
Similarity:
20%
33K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of ...
Style:
funny, clever, romantic comedy, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
love, true love, butler, addiction, culture clash, screwball, servant, fall in love, bittersweet, drunk, grief, death ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an ...
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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style:
feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, manly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
office, rich and poor, aunt nephew relationship, workplace, businessman, passionate kiss, mistaken identity, love triangle, workplace romance, office worker, job promotion, corporation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, kansas, usa, florida, new jersey ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.
Style:
witty, romantic comedy, retro, sex comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
new york yankees, unemployment office, insider trading, screwball, love, idealism, fall in love, farce, hotel, psychiatrist, mistaken identity, marriage ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, baltimore, philadelphia, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult ...
Plot:
fashion, small town, homecoming, love and romance, husband wife relationship, couples, marriage proposal, wedding, lovers reunited, lifestyle, hopes, love ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, new york, southern usa, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, entertaining, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
stewardess, flight attendant, happy ending, love story, lone hero, friendship, storytelling, adaptation, follow your dream, love and romance, rise to the top, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
california, arizona, usa, cleveland ohio, texas ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, romantic, humorous, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
mistaken identity, nothing goes right, dark humor, friendship, loneliness, youth, love triangle, adolescence vs adulthood, self discovery, comedy of errors, milf, high school ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, leaves the tropical paradise kingdom in search of his queen. What better place than Queens, New York, to find his bride? Joined by his loyal servant and friend, Semmi, Akeem attempts to blend in as an ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, african american, heir to the throne, love, comedy of errors, royalty, wedding, fall in love, hidden identity, prince, fictional country, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, new york, america, usa, new york state ...
Similarity:
19%
187K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, love, wedding dress, opposites attract, wedding planner, bridesmaid, love and romance, women, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, rhode island, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Wendy Walton is the best designer in Boston... but no one knows it yet. Hoping to kick-start her career, Wendy has left work with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, the most prestigious designer in the city. Ms. Hall ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, obnoxious boss, love triangle, christmas romance, boss and employee, fall in love, christmas present, misunderstanding, romantic relationship, love and romance, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marriage proposal, incognito, bachelor, lawyer, trial, neighbor, jealousy, landlady, marriage, affair, illicit affair, suburbs ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, washington d.c., paris france
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply ...
Style:
sweet, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, destiny, couple relations, opposites attract, infidelity, looking for love, unfulfilled love, love triangle, misfit, unlikely couple, fall in love, nothing goes right ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, europe, france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After fishing out coins from a water fountain in Italy, cynical New Yorker Beth Harper finds herself being wooed by several ardent suitors. As she deals with the attention, Beth tries to figure out whether a charming reporter really loves her.
Style:
romantic, romantic comedy, rom com, funny, cute ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
fall in love, love, looking for love, wooing, love and romance, true love, couples, singleness, wedding, love story, happy ending, destiny ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, new york, europe, manhattan new york city, italy ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them five years later on the ...
Style:
retro, cute, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, fall in love, road not taken, boss and employee, nothing goes right, breakup, politics, down on your luck, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
60s, 1950s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Writer Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sweet, cute, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, unlikely couple, gambling, happy ending, destiny, book, love triangle, workplace romance, casino, twists and turns, love affair, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
boston, philadelphia, massachusetts, switzerland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, rom com, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, friendship, love story, best friends in love, love and romance, best friend, destiny, male female friendship, love triangle, canceled wedding, wedding planning, friends in love ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, witty, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
farce, greed, adaptation, art, love triangle, switching roles, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, wooing, hidden identity, nothing goes right, screwball ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
miami
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, moral dilemma, winter, factory worker, creativity, social relations, happy ending, prejudice ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
minnesota, miami, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
17%
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