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The Makeover (2013)
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The Makeover (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns something of Elliot's side of life.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: politics, social differences, disorder, fish out of water, hopes, misfit, love and romance, couples, rivalry, working class, congress, partner, campaign, unlikely couple, opposites attract, makeover, destiny, flirting, fall in love, society, ambition, idealism, patronizing, teaching the ways of the world, snobbism ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: boston, massachusetts
Keyword: partners

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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, disorder, fall in love, couples, society, fish out of water and misfit mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Makeover: Born Yesterday (1993), Take the Trash (2008), Unemployed (2008), I Married Who? (2012), More of Me (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Born Yesterday (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. ...
Style: humorous, satirical, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, farce, society, fall in love, love and romance, journalism, social differences, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, couples, women, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Take the Trash (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: working class, self discovery, redemption, friendship, community service, fish out of water, life turned upside down, reluctant partners, workplace, disorder, hopes, society ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Unemployed (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jamal and Dex are two hapless out of work actors who come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, slasher ...
Plot: nothing goes right, follow your dream, against the odds, fish out of water, love and romance, unlikely couple, actor's life, buddies, couples, disorder, unemployment, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
I Married Who? (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Straight-laced Jordan (Martin) is about to marry Peter (Snedeker), a clean-cut ambitious attorney. Before she walks down the aisle, Jordan and her best friends, Claire (Adrienne Frantz) and Jessica (Daphnee Duplaix), head to Vegas for a bachelorette ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: eligible bachelor, unlikely couple, disorder, celebrity culture, life turned upside down, showbiz, couples, love and romance, actor's life, bachelorette party, wedding, movie star ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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More of Me (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Alice is your typical modern woman, juggling her demanding roles as a mother of twins, a loving wife and a successful career woman. She struggles to keep all the balls in the air, until the day it all becomes too much for one person to handle and ...
Style: witty, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: wish come true, hopes, rivalry, relationship vs career, couples, suburbs, power relations, behavior control, parents and children, disorder, life turned upside down, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Women Who Flirt (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Zhang Hui is told by long-time best friend Xiao Gong that he has a new girlfriend, she is determined to learn new tricks to gain him back. Based on the novel written by Luo Fuman, "Everyone Loves Tender Women".
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, rivalry, disorder, friendship, fall in love, seduction, self-help, couples, uninhibited rivalry, friends, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Falling for Mala (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, cons and scams, unlikely couple, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, society, manipulation, drinking alcohol, friendship, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
And the Winner Is... (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Comedy - The hypocrisy lurking behind politics and small-town life is revealed in this sharp, hilarious satire that finds Centerville shaking up its mayoral election by forcing the candidates to participate in an "Election Pageant." Seven ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: politics, satire, ambition, rise to the top, transvestism, campaign, social decay, social differences, lifestyle, rivalry, contests and competitions, society ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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A Nanny for Christmas (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: nanny, christmas, holiday, love and romance, comedy of errors, fall in love, workplace, lifestyle, disorder, couples, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Happy Ever Afters (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two weddings collide when both receptions are held at one hotel.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, true love, social differences, immigrant, love and romance, nothing goes right, opposites attract, fall in love, society, family relations, screwball, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Postmark Paradise (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, fish out of water, starting over, society, love and romance, couple relations, couples, culture clash, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, rom com, parody ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot: opposites attract, nanny, female protagonist, dictatorship, couples, culture clash, fish out of water, couple relations, love and romance, society, single parent, women ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The MatchMaker (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she ...
Style: touching, humorous, witty, feel good, black and white ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, destiny, love story, politics, love and romance, fall in love, small town, culture clash, small town life, dog, politician, election campaign ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, boston, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Book of Caleb (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, best friend, friends, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, friendship, true love, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Wedding Photographer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When the factory in Molkom shuts down, Robin leaves his beloved hometown to try his luck in Stockholm as a wedding photographer. This experience changes not merely his outlook on life but also his hairstyle.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: career change, fall in love, fish out of water, disorder, starting over, love and romance, meet the parents, misfit, hopes, social differences, wedding, photographer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.2
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Sandy Wexler (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
Style: sincere, entertaining, uplifting, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: woman, couple relations, fall in love, male female relationship, love and romance, love, love affair, rivalry, ambition, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
My best enemy (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a man fires a hotel maid for stealing, the woman's son gets his revenge.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: friendship, fall in love, rivalry, love and romance, social differences, dishonesty, vengeance, working class, danger, blackmail, wedding, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, youth, disorder, lifestyle, love and romance, teenage love, fish out of water, odd couple, culture clash, party, prediction, hindu ...
Place: texas, usa, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, love and romance, single parent, unlikely couple, buddies, cons and scams, eccentric family ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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New in Town (2009)
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, 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, life philosophy, prejudice ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: minnesota, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The ...
Style: black comedy, not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: labor union, blaxploitation, african american, clergy, black, church, adultery, labor leader, migrant worker, domestic abuse, partner, manipulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Waltzing Anna (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: doctors and patients, couples, workplace, moral dilemma, mental illness, elderly, introspection, fall in love, love and romance, misfit, human nature, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: opposites attract, social differences, unlikely couple, terminal illness, couples, attraction, in love, flirting, destiny, love, love and romance, aspiring actress ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Intern (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young, underappreciated intern at the ultra-hip magazine Skirt must learn to deal with kissy-face phoniness, model tantrums and bulimic editors, while trying to steal the heart of a dashing British art director from the grips of a supermodel.
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, fashion model, love triangle, looking for love, workplace, fall in love, ambition, lifestyle, rise to the top, fashion magazine, disorder, workplace romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.1
 599
Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light
Plot: partner, satire, working class, workplace situations, comedy of errors, friends, love and romance, mistaken identity, dishonesty, materialism, social differences, buddies ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Kiss for Jed Wood (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Nineteen year old Orla from Country Antrim wins 'Follow a Star' on the Irish national TV station. Her prize is a quest - to find C&W star Jed Wood, give him a kiss, and report on her adventure on the following week's show. Ray ...
Style: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, stalking, escapades, media, filmmaking, opposites attract, partner, ambition, radio dj, couples, fall in love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Jatt & Juliet 2 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A sequel to the hit Punjabi romantic comedy.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic, fun
Plot: punjabi, disorder, unlikely couple, law enforcement, couples, love and romance, fall in love, opposites attract, mission, chase, fish out of water, misfit
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Dr. Cabbie (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An unemployed doctor turned cab driver becomes a local hero when he converts his taxi into a mobile clinic. Dr. CABBIE is the heart warming journey of a young Indian Doctor who immigrates to Canada with the selfless ambition of healing others while ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: taxi, doctor, fish out of water, disorder, workplace, follow your dream, hopes, buddies, misfit, love and romance, workplace situations, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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