Movies like The Dog in the Manger
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The Dog in the Manger (1996)
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Original name: El perro del hortelano
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Diana, the Countess of Belflor, is an intelligent, impulsive woman in love with her secretary, Teodoro. He is engaged to Marcela, one of the countess's ladies in waiting. When the countess finds out about the engagement, driven by jealousy, she does everything possible to separate the lovers. Film adaptation of the play by Lope de Vega that respects the text in verse
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, biting
Audience:
date night
Plot:
master and servant, intrigue, love triangle, love and romance, social differences, love, male female relationship, forbidden love, suspense, rivalry, society, dishonesty, power relations, nude, jealousy, deception, nobleman, maid, nobility, secretary, engagement, noblewoman, long lost son, bare breasts, large breasts ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, love triangle, love, male female relationship, dishonesty and infidelity mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Dog in the Manger: Don Juan (1998), Tea & Sangria (2014), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), Costa! (2001), If You Are the One 2 (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
Style:
stylized, humorous, light, captivating, fairy tale ...
Plot:
horse, revenge, love affair, love triangle, lust, marriage, countryside, insult, valet, village, couples, womanizer ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fish out of water, life turned upside down, culture clash, society, love and romance, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.
Style:
biting, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, rich, couples, showbiz, infidelity, love affair, alcohol abuse, obnoxious boss, hotshot hero, workplace, boss and employee, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
love triangle, beach, vacation, love and romance, couples, summer romance, eurovision, friendship, fall in love, rivalry, dancer's life, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A woman seduces a hotel janitor to gain access to the famous musicians coming into town.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
obsession, couple relations, lifestyle, youth, crumbling marriage, society, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, opposites attract, couples, road not taken ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous, retro
Plot:
erotica, prostitute, deportation, servant, widow, rags to riches, strong female presence, couples, power relations, rise to the top, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
europe, belgium, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues ...
Style:
touching, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, battle of the sexes, love, wedding, flying
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, love and romance, lovers reunited, family problems, dull life, couple relations, mother daughter relationship, love, adultery, male female relationship, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, malta
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
Style:
witty, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, love triangle, dysfunctional family, infidelity, love and romance, rivalry, couple relations, family problems, dishonesty, breakup, uninhibited rivalry, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
135
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, looking for love, city life, lifestyle, buddies, rivalry, society, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
University Professor Juanjo falls into a tailspin of depression and confusion after being dumped by his girlfriend. Convinced that he is being manipulated by her, he persuades his boldest student, Nico, to help him regain his former love. However, ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot:
couples, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, college, infidelity, nude, lesbian sex, lesbian, bdsm, lesbian kiss, bikini ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, lifestyle, obsession, love and romance, dishonesty, wooing, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, hidden identity, male female relationship, unfulfillment, city life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
854
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The Maid is a 1991 film in which Anthony Wayne (Martin Sheen) goes to Paris for a new job and has a 30 day period before he starts work to get settled.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nanny, family relations, love, maid, mistaken identity, secret identity, fall in love, couples, power relations, love and romance, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, new york, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
mafia, debt, fall in love, love, young lovers, gangsters, waitress, money, suicide, deadend life, sexual content, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, hopes, starting over, hidden identity, fall in love, disorder, love and romance, dishonesty, store, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, sexy woman, first date ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
Fernando Lascurain is a wealthy businessman and recent widower, attempting to raise his seven unruly children. He seeks the assistance of a new nanny. He hires and falls in love with Ana Leal, a struggling exotic dancer who tries to hide her double ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, fall in love, life turned upside down, social differences, youth, single parent, nanny, family life, love and romance, intrigue, workplace situations, mischievous children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
Style:
sweet, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, happy ending, legal, love, power relations, couples, fall in love, love and romance, rivalry, legal action, dedicated lawyer, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional love story about an Irish food writer and a politically committed Spanish woman.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, clever
Plot:
social differences, best friends, opposites attract, battle of the sexes, thirtysomething life, couple relations, lifestyle, couples, looking for love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, love ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
Style:
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Plot:
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71%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
Brandon Craig is a regular guy who loves split pea soup and happens to be in monogamous relationships with three amazing women: Monique, his photo editor boss; Wendy, an undercover cop; and Franki, host of the popular Internet show Missleblast. ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, love and romance, dishonesty, womanizer, lifestyle, couple relations, love triangle, twentysomething life, food, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot:
farce, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, infidelity, vengeance, young lovers, uninhibited rivalry, love triangle, couples, soldier, eccentric family ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.
Style:
sexy, cynical, talky, biting, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gays and lesbians, male objectification, suspense, looking for love, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, nude, female objectification, sex scene, topless woman ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young, independent Latina has a safe relationship with her Anglo boyfriend until she is rescued and romanced by an aggressive Latino firefighter.
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
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Time:
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Place:
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69%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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68%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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