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These Foolish Things (2006)
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These Foolish Things (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble piece features zesty performances by Anjelica Huston as an eccentric investor, Mark Umbers as a vain matinee idol, and Terence Stamp as a tart butler. And don't miss the immortal Lauren Bacall in a small role.
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, crying
Plot: love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, love affair, lifestyle, actor's life, showbiz, rich and poor, fall in love, couples, filmmaking, homecoming, ego clash, hopes, mother daughter relationship, ambition, world war two, orphan, war, friends, love and romance, wartime life, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, post world war two, 30s
Place: england, london
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, crying and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, dancing, kiss, restaurant, drinking and dancer mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like These Foolish Things: Being Julia (2004), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Alive and Kicking (1996), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Venus (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Liverpool. 1947. A star-struck young girl learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Style: bleak, clever, biting, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: nymphet, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, coming of age, incestuous sex, drinking, death, gay, peter pan, gay interest, lgbt, sex crime ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1947, year 1941
Place: england, europe, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wedding, lovers reunited, bride and groom, unrequited love, under the surface, love and romance, introspection, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, ex lover, marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Alive and Kicking (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, aids, bittersweet, lgbt, death, dancing, dance, hospital, hiv, glbt, lgbtq, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: greece, athens greece, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Style: talky, emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, art, historical figure, actor's life, youth, teenage life, artists and showbiz, boss and employee, fall in love, blind ambition, mentor, self discovery ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Venus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, realistic, twisted ...
Plot: aging, age difference, art, elderly, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, art class, teenage life, lifestyle, actor's life, peeping tom, old age ...
Time: year 2006
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
Style: romantic drama, independent film, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opera, rivalry, power relations, couples, bank, showbiz, college, unfulfilled love, ambition, artists and showbiz, mind game, feminism ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, england, london, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Sueño (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, lifestyle, fall in love, single parent, musician's life, family business, unfulfilled love, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Shake It All About (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, infidelity, gay relationship, family relations, fall in love, friendship, pregnancy, love triangle, looking for love, couple relations, gay couple ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style: sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Tall Guy (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Style: romantic, humorous, witty, clever, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nymphomania, satire, making love, hospital, love, actor, chase, sex scene, nude, infidelity, dating, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Forgive and Forget (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, unrequited love, best friend, lgbt, closeted homosexual, love triangle, friendship, gay slur, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, buddies, looking for love ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 2K
A Merry War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Style: cult classic, humorous, witty, clever, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, advertising, book, poverty, marketing, bookstore, satire, working class, poetry, literature, money, artist ...
Time: 1930s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Republic of Love (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his feelings? An exploration of love, adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize winning author Carol Shields.
Style: sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, breakup, fall in love, looking for love, thirty something, couples, love affair, tragic love, love and romance, lifestyle, love at first sight, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Peter's Friends (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, intense, realistic ...
Plot: aids, friends, new year's eve, redemption, justice, weekend, thirtysomething life, adulthood, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, family problems ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Almost Peaceful (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, anti semitism, holocaust, survival, human spirit, starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations, moral dilemma, society ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946, post world war two
Place: paris france, france, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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A Silent Love (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: interracial relations, love triangle, family relations, looking for love, human nature, couple relations, society, love and romance, fall in love, couples, parents and children, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montreal, mexico, canada, latin america, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.3
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Metroland (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris ...
Style: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: male nudity, friendship, male pubic hair, marriage, adultery, sex, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, railway, liar ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977
Place: england, paris france, london, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Style: touching, light, romantic, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love affair, love and romance, social differences, friendship, actress, high society, farce, couples, actor's life, lifestyle, love triangle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Russian Dolls (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Style: romantic, humorous, feel good, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: friendship, lesbian, male nudity, writers, relationships, looking for love, love triangle, lifestyle, understanding, writer's life, old love, culture clash ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.3
 6K
The Bubble (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, controversial ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay sex, israeli, lgbt, friendship, lgbtq, forbidden love, occupation, love affair, civil rights, understanding ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, tel aviv israel, palestine, idaho ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.4
 512
Drift (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work. (Canadian)
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, novelist, breakup, serial killer, introspection, gay, couples, tragic love, drug abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, moral dilemma ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.9
 248K
Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
L.A. Without a Map (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An "aspiring Hollywood actress" (Vinessa Shaw), on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, fall in love, actor's life, love triangle, couples, disorder, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, infidelity, writers, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, europe, usa, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 4K
Cantinflas (2014)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. ...
Style: serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic, crying
Plot: biopic, filmmaking, hollywood, rise to the top, rising to stardom, actor's life, showbiz, ambition, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship, celebrity, fame ...
Time: year 1941, year 2014, year 1958, year 1955, year 1940 ...
Place: usa, los angeles, mexico city, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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