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Such Good Friends (1971)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Otto Preminger directs this comedy-drama based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted by Elaine May (under the pseudonym Esther Dale). Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional facade. Her husband Richard (Laurence Luckinbill) checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong. The stellar cast includes James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard, Louise Lasser, Nina Foch, Sam Levine, Doris Roberts and Burgess Meredith.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, cult film
Plot:
hospital, infidelity, feminist, mole, friends, dark humor, escape, love triangle, suspense, parents and children, family life, love and romance, midlife crisis, best friends, sexual relations, couples, love affair, starting over, doctors and patients, crumbling marriage, blind ambition, dealing with death, couple relations, power relations, male nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, love affair, midlife crisis and adultery mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Such Good Friends: Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Loving (1970), Almost You (1984), Bastards of Young (2013), Kotch (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
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677
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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61%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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51%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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