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Irrational Man (2015)
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Irrational Man (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Style: romantic, suspense, talky, psychological, melancholic, realistic, unusual plot structure, humorous, witty, semi serious ...
Plot: professor, murder, philosophy, russian roulette, plot twist, college, teachers and students, loneliness, character study, unlikely friendships, relationships, redemption, moral ambiguity, judge, male teacher female student affair, love and romance, love affair, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, small town, desperation, amusement park, drinking problem, twists and turns, solitude ...
Time: year 2015, future, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, rhode island, england
Keyword: gangsters, dreams, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and clever films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, couple relations, sex, infidelity and profanity mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Irrational Man: Magic in the Moonlight (2014), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Ashby (2015), Some Kind Of Beautiful (2014), Surviving Desire (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style: romantic, period piece, light, humorous, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: magic, twists and turns, relationships, love story, magician, cons and scams, fish out of water, plot twist, spiritualism, medium, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, cote d'azur, provence, england, south of france ...
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100%
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
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Ashby (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a ...
Style: melancholic, talky, touching, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, bullying, coming of age, assassin, classmate, friendship, mentor, relationships, redemption, existentialism, storytelling, stereotypes ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Some Kind Of Beautiful (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired ...
Style: romantic, satirical, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: relationships, love triangle, adultery, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, women, sisters, womanizer, introspection, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Surviving Desire (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Style: retro, art house, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teachers and students, bookstore, teacher, age difference, writers, entertainment, book, philosophy, lovers, youth, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Oh in Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla ...
Style: light, stylized, sex comedy, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: orgasm, infidelity, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, high school, fall in love, love triangle, female masturbation, age difference, lesbian cunnilingus, love ...
Time: year 2006
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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Anything Else (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda ...
Style: witty, melancholic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, advice, relationship problems, psychoanalysis, young lovers, unlikely couple, couple relations, writer's life, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lost in Translation (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, offbeat, psychological, artsy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: loneliness, midlife crisis, age difference, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, alienation, fish out of water, love story, unlikely couple, self discovery, relationships, adultery ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, america, yale university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
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Whatever Works (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into ...
Style: philosophical, romantic, feel good, funny, cynical ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, suicide attempt, homosexual, lifestyle change, eccentricity, polyamory, love and romance, storytelling, unlikely couple, character change, social climbing ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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67%
 5.8
 13K
The Oranges (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film, romantic ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, family relations, age difference, fall in love, love and romance, friends, family problems, life turned upside down, family life, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
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Sideways (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style: road movie, talky, dark comedy, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: road trip, wine, on the road, friendship, couples, vineyard, vacation, divorce, infidelity, golf, food, buddy ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 110K
Inherent Vice (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private investigator, investigation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, drug trade, private detective, obsession, investigator, stoner, hippie, paranoia, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, 90s ...
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 18K
She's the One (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style: talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: infidelity, unlikely friendships, relationships, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, wedding, love of one's life, sibling relationship, love affair, siblings relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 60K
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style: black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, cult classic ...
Plot: alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, bowling, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, gambling, relationships, blackmail, debt, strip club ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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To Rome with Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: feel good, romantic, surreal, ironic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: love story, love, art, culture clash, meet the parents, adultery, farce, life philosophy, marriage, architect, newlyweds, love and romance ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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37%
Your Sister's Sister (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style: romantic, sincere, emotional, independent film, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: relationships, love, lesbian, casual sex, sisters, love triangle, sex, love affair, life philosophy, sister sister relationship, friendship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized ...
Plot: movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, adultery, dysfunctional family, justice, showbiz, one more chance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Love Serenade (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ken Sherry, a radio personality from Brisbane, moves to the small country town of Sun Ray to take over the local radio station as a retreat from city life and his past.He moves next door to love-starved sisters Vicki-Ann and Dimity Hurley. They are ...
Style: talky, satirical, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: radio dj, loneliness, eccentricity, transformation, disorder, small town life, love triangle, womanizer, small town, sister sister relationship, food, character study ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 16K
Intermission (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot: infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 150K
This Is 40 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Style: funny, humorous, emotional, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, birthday, 40 year old, aging, relationships, family relations, family drama, family bonds, life philosophy, depression, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, year 1974, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they ...
Style: witty, humorous, detective, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: hypnosis, investigation, workplace, insurance investigator, heist, plot twist, justice, unlikely criminals, love and romance, power relations, murder mystery, false accusation ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, year 1940, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, madagascar, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 40K
Liberal Arts (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to ...
Style: touching, humorous, talky, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: college, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, dull life, love and romance, fall in love, book, college student, thirtysomething life, depression, happy ending, college life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: ohio, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 23K
Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 23K
Elegy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style: sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, obsession, hedonism, infidelity, couples, male teacher female student affair, love and romance, teachers and students, teacher, adultery ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style: light, humorous, funny, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, backstage, murder, actor, writers, playwright, actress, rehearsal, satire, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Conversations with Other Women (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style: sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Plot: wedding, couples, infidelity, love story, unfulfilled love, love and romance, couple relations, hopes, introspection, sex, dialogue, adultery ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.3
 28K
Celebrity (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style: black and white, stylized, satirical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture, spectacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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