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Happy Times (2000)
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Original name: 幸福时光
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, stylized, cult classic, sincere, feel good, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot:
blindness, fall in love, money, greed, blind girl, comedy of errors, misfit, introspection, hotel, deception, bus, bittersweet, farce, irreverent, friendship, poverty, massage, young lovers, evil stepmother, family abandonment, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, marriage, white lie, physical disability, wedding ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, tibet, asia, japan, tokyo, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, fall in love, love, family relations and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Happy Times: Hotel de Love (1996), Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003), All About You (2001), Jump Tomorrow (2001), Aisha (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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674
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, road movie, stylized, talky, light ...
Plot:
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Place:
brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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