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The Cobbler (2014)
65K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Style:
sentimental, entertaining, feel good, stylized, surreal, semi serious, touching, uplifting, intellectual, mysterious ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
body swapping, shoemaker, lone hero, supernatural ability, family business, justice, lifestyle change, disorder, workplace, self discovery, down on your luck, fashion, magic, fantasy world, magic realism, fish out of water, mafia, art, witchcraft, switching bodies, impostor, grief, mobster, trauma, meme ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, touching and light films with plots about culture clash, mentor, storytelling, dialogue, transformation, catastrophe and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Cobbler: A Thousand Words (2012), Click (2006), Bruce Almighty (2003), 50 First Dates (2004), The Fisher King (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style:
inspirational, parody, humorous, feel good, funny ...
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regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, architect, wish come true, alternate reality, wish fulfillment, time machine, life lesson, dysfunctional family, destiny ...
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new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Grace, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules ...
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funny, humorous, feel good, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
god, religion, wish come true, chosen one, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural power, divine intervention, selfishness, deal, niagara falls, reporter, job promotion ...
Time:
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Place:
north america, mount everest
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family friendly
Plot:
memory loss, love, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, memory, wooing, relationships, dating, life philosophy, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 87 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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with ...
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touching, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, destiny, self discovery, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, eccentric family, passion, magic, relationships, passionate love, dating ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, texas, usa, california, austin texas ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
250K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Style:
sentimental, funny, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
adoption, child's point of view, immaturity, parenthood, single father, childhood, responsibility, orphan, adolescence, slacker, children, mentor ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, sweet, rom com, touching, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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new jersey
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, entertaining, inspirational, melancholic, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, satire, lesbianism, body swapping, body swap, philosophy, actor, existentialism, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, emotional, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, happy ending, redemption, tragedy, cancer, actor's life, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, custody, happy ending, couple relations, parents and children, couples, teenage girl, destiny, family bonds, orphan, love, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Style:
light, comedy drama, light hearted, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot:
body swapping, body swap, switching roles, switching bodies, school, transformation, childhood, christmas, youth, longing, skull, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, feel good, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, manly
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Time:
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Place:
arkansas, america, chicago, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
literature, paranoia, novelist, publisher, love story, philosophy, writer's life, existentialism, metaphysics, happy ending, transformation, food ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa, seattle
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With ...
Style:
sweet, feel good, sincere, sexy, offbeat ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
witch, curses spells and rituals, magic, supernatural, sisters, supernatural ability, witchcraft, curse, love, halloween, aunt niece relationship, small town ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place:
seattle, usa, arizona, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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27%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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touching, feel good, sentimental, reflective, melancholic ...
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
Similarity:
80%
263
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience:
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Plot:
nothing goes right, self discovery, rivalry, family business, store, family relations, workplace, disorder, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, escapades, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, surreal, cerebral, bleak, dark comedy ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
russia, new york, usa, st. petersburg russia, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for ...
Style:
talky, touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
50%
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Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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