Movies like Don't Play Us Cheap
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Don't Play Us Cheap (1972)
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Film version of Melvin Van Peebles' Broadway musical. A pair of devil-bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up. But somehow, their attempts to ruin the party fail.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, cult film
Plot:
blaxploitation, devil, racism, rich and poor, love and romance, interracial relations, injustice, couples, society, breakup, city life, curses spells and rituals, power relations, love, demon, religion, party, love triangle, black cast, african american, cockroach, beetle, male female relationship, bat, young love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, harlem
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love, society, urban and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Don't Play Us Cheap: A Little Night Music (1977), Mona (2008), For Love of Ivy (1968), Enemies of Laughter (2000), Herman U.S.A. (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, estate, couples, friends, love and romance, actor's life, desire for fame, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
austria
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95%
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:
new york, usa
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94%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic relationship between a black man and woman. Sidney Poitier stars as Jack Parks, a trucking executive who runs an illegal travelling ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, blaxploitation, love, gangsters, family relations, dinner, happy ending, black love, couples, social differences, cons and scams, looking for love ...
Time:
60s
Place:
harlem, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters ...
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semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
couple relations, couples, love and romance, writer's life, midlife crisis, love affair, curses spells and rituals, male female relationship, love, father son relationship, mother son relationship, curse ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this quirky romantic comedy inspired by a true story, an influx of women invade the small town of Herman, Minn., to get their hands on a surplus of bachelors yearning for female companionship. When the persuasive "cry from the heart" of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, looking for love, couples, lifestyle, singleness, couple relations, love, male female relationship, social relations, love and romance, journalism, gender ...
Time:
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Place:
minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, boarding house, mistaken identity, nosy, couples, friends, disorder, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance, opposites attract, buddies ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
african american, hip hop, black love, gangsters, black man, hip hop culture, ambition, nightclub, friendship, intern, sabotage, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
restaurant, waitress, food, looking for love, lifestyle, workplace, workplace romance, relationship vs career, workplace situations, couples, twentysomething life, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, singleness, boy, imaginary
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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:
couples, immigrants, love and romance, lifestyle, opposites attract, society, looking for love, interracial relations, love affair, singleness, infidelity, social differences ...
Time:
90s
Place:
cuba, latin america, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, couples, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, love and romance, morality, love, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, love triangle, wedding, best friend, fall in love, couples, cons and scams, party, writers, best man, high school friends, group of friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, couples, parents and children, culture clash, family life, love and romance, interracial marriage, society, father son relationship, interracial love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
filmmaking, breakup, love and romance, couples, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, obsession, artists and showbiz, actress, urban, talking to the camera ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, offbeat
Plot:
bicycle, riding a bicycle, couples, love and romance, battle of the sexes, husband wife relationship, marriage, city, black american, bicycle race, novelist, puppet ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jay Brooks is that black guy who digs indie rock, graphic novels, and dates white chicks. After a slew of bad break-ups, Jay gives up white women, "cold turkey," and he goes on a mission: "Operation Brown Sugar". But because Jay ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
interracial relations, ethnic stereotype, jazz, hip hop, looking for love, couples, dating, lifestyle, society, wooing, stereotypes, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Diahann Carroll was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for her gripping portrayal as the indomitable Claudine in this heartwarming comedy. While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, sincere
Plot:
african american, single mother, black history, blaxploitation, love, teenage pregnancy, girl, gangsters, city, women, social worker, single parent ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, stylized, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, love, couples, artists and showbiz, ambition, rising to stardom, actor's life, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, filmmaking ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, family relations, love affair, fish out of water, eccentric family, opposites attract, family problems, couples, family gatherings, breakup, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new york, georgia ...
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48%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste in men! When separated divorce attorney Andrea finds herself guilty of falling for her white and ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, restaurant, friendship, racism, friends, couples, thirtysomething life, transvestism, lifestyle, love and romance, immigrants, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Grace is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York's high society. At a socialite event, she is mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress and meets her Prince Charming. Nothing is as it seems absorbing drama. What will happen to this ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Style:
tragicomedy, ironic, social, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, society, power relations, disorder, hidden identity, dishonesty, couples, snobbism, parents and children, love and romance, male female relationship ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa, england, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two strangers meet and fall in love during the weekend that they are planning their respective weddings.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, forbidden love, battle of the sexes, looking for love, love affair, couples, unlikely couple, lifestyle, infidelity, love, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
infidelity, goofy hero, battle of the sexes, best friends, dishonesty, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, friends, thirtysomething life, sport team, breakup ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jewish Jack-the-lad David seriously fancies smart, rich Anglo-Saxon Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still says she finds him appalling he works on it and they are soon together. ...
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, clever, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
jewish, friendship, couples, religions or cults, friends, best friends, love and romance, society, battle of the sexes, social differences, love affair, wooing ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
Style:
sex comedy, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, culture clash, society, immigrants, couples, interracial relations, parents and children, love and romance, family relations, disorder, chalet
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
39%
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