Movies like Catch a Falling Star

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Catch a Falling Star (2000)
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Catch a Falling Star (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sydney Clarke is a spoiled famous actress who is shooting a film when she suddenly gets angry and storms off. She wakes up in the middle of nowhere and gets a ride to a small New England town. There she meets and develops a friendship with Joyce, a waitress at a bowling alley. There she meets Ben, a steel mill owner, and later when she goes to get a job in that small town, she meets Ben again. Sydney becomes a nurse at the mill. All the men adore her. There they have many great times together, and Sydney realizes how important real friends are and that small towns are better than big name Hollywood.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: cinderella story, love, social differences, bowling, small town, friendship, rally, hollywood, love and romance, couples, actor's life, small town life, artists and showbiz, woods, actress, female protagonist, waitress, movie star, fake identity, talent agent, film set, movie studio, caught in the act, forest, out of the way ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, new england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, friendship, artists and showbiz, lifestyle and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Catch a Falling Star: Not Cool (2014), Chameli's Marriage (1986), Face the Music (1993), Just Write (1997), X's & O's (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Not Cool (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: NOT COOL follows former prom king and college freshman Scott (Shane Dawson) who has just returned home for Thanksgiving break only to be dumped by his eccentric, long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, scenic, teen ...
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, college life, youth, couples, unlikely couple, friends, small town, homecoming, love, college, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Chameli's Marriage (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: restaurant, couples, school, small town, small town life, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, poverty, town, lawyer, bicycle ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 4.7
 425
Face the Music (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: breakup, friendship, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, family relations, couples, peace, married, love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.1
 1K
Just Write (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Style: witty, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, social differences, bus, writers, actress, hidden identity, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: beverly hills, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Movie in collections
 4.7
 304
X's & O's (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodrat with no street cred, a poet ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, sexual
Plot: friendship, couples, obsessive quest, love and romance, womanizer, wooing, laboratory, friend, poetry, babe scientist
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
This Thing with Sarah (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual - or so she thinks - rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: couples, down on your luck, writers, love, friendship, porn, love and romance, beach, surfing, narration
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Sorry if I Want to Marry You (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Second part of the film "Sorry if I love you". Alex (Raoul Bova) and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche) are more in love than ever. They have just returned from the lighthouse on the island Blu where they have lived unforgettable days. Niki ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, wedding preparations and rituals, wedding planning, age difference, social differences, couples, love, amor, communication problem, infidelity, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 6.7
 22K
State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced ...
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: love, friendship, true love, irish catholic, guilt, marriage, high school, bad father, bromance, loss of father, abusive father, best friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Love Conquers Paul (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story: Comedy - Brendan Bradley, Russell Garofalo, Elizabeth Wood
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, voyeurism, misfit, dishonesty, love and romance, stalking, social misfits, looking for love, small town, twentysomething life, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Across the Moon (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: prison, female bonding, prisoner, desert, social relations, friends, on the road, small town, friendship, working class, small town life, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.6
 665
You and Me (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because he won't propose, won't ask her to live with ...
Style: humorous, sexy, captivating, emotional, light ...
Plot: looking for love, high maintenance, artists and showbiz, love, family relations, rivalry, friendship, couples, female protagonist, thirtysomething life, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
My Faraway Bride (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, fall in love, writer's life, society, tragic love, fish out of water, friendship, infidelity ...
Place: california, asia, usa, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.0
 1K
Chapter Two (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: widower, friendship, death of wife, actress, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Queen of Spain (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to “The ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: cinema, gay stereotype, actor's life, actress, movie business, filmmaking, film industry, movie studio, queen, showbiz, homesickness, couple relations ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Somebody to Love (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: transvestism, celebrity culture, down on your luck, hollywood, nightlife, showbiz, city life, unfulfilled love, social differences, urban, friendship, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.3
 32K
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
 5.0
 246
Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 2K
Jersey Girl (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love, working class, diner, family life, small town life, friendship, witness protection, opposites attract, yuppie, love and romance, stalking, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 80
Tug (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, small town, couples, friends, rivalry, choice, love, ex girlfriend, dishonesty, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Fish Without a Bicycle (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Comedy - Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go "find herself" she ends up falling in love with an ...
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, love triangle, looking for love, friends, wooing, infidelity, actress, frustration, desire, director, lesbian, lesbian sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom
Plot: rising to stardom, ambition, actor's life, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, couple relations, showbiz, workplace, filmmaking, hollywood, comedian, celebrity culture ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Man of the Year (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Plot: hollywood, lifestyle, love and romance, infidelity, filmmaking, friendship, nightlife, showbiz, couples, dishonesty, bookies, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.8
 839
Gossip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of "Queen Christina".
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: filmmaking, actor's life, artists and showbiz, strong female presence, lesbian, female protagonist, producer, rivalry, director, actress, actor, unfaithfulness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, producer, audition, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: opposites attract, social differences, unlikely couple, terminal illness, couples, attraction, in love, flirting, destiny, love, love and romance, aspiring actress ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.5
 512
Hit and Runway (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alex and Elliot an unlikely pair connect to write a film about a New York cop working undercover as a fashion model.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: gay, lgbtq, glbt, gay subtext, human nature, couple relations, gays and lesbians, nothing goes right, introspection, actor's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Everything You Want (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It was at a very young age that Abby found herself experimenting with the gift of art while she practically...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, rom com
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: imaginary friend, love, lifestyle, love triangle, fall in love, love and romance, youth, unlikely couple, opposites attract, prodigy, couples, wooing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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