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Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
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Original name: Slow Dancing In The Big City
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, realistic
Plot:
ballerina, misfit, orphan, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, follow your dream, couples, society, opposites attract, ambition, terminal illness, doctors and patients, city life, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, dancer's life, unlikely couple, relationship vs career, dancing, loneliness, ballet, urban, columnist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, unfulfillment, hopes, life is a bitch and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Slow Dancing in the Big City: Musical Chairs (2011), Don't Let Me Drown (2009), Cuckoo (2014), Go for It! (2011), Make Your Move (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Visually-challenged Tamizh and Suthanthirakodi fall in love with each other, but her self-centred brother wants to marry her off to his friend, which leads to the lovers' separation. Can their love help them find each other?
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love and romance, blindness and impaired vision, disability, friendship, fall in love, love story, journey, couples, relationship vs career, unfulfillment, society, train travel ...
Time:
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india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Carmen is a good student with a bad attitude who lives for dancing in the underground clubs of Chicago. She yearns to be 'somebody' but is afraid to believe in herself. Her immigrant Mexican, working-class parents want her to stay in ...
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realistic, touching, emotional, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, ambition, follow your dream, self discovery, hopes, desire for fame, family relations, parents and children, dance school, contests and competitions, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, california, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece ...
Style:
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Time:
60s
Place:
new york, nebraska, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
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Time:
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Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couple relations, couples, looking for love, taiwanese, love and romance, loneliness, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A story bout a relationship that's ended. Khwahish traces the sexy, funny and intense relationship of Amar Ranawat(Himanshu Malik) and Lekha Khorzuvekar (Mallika Sherawat) from the time they meet in the last semester of college, their quirky ...
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Audience:
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Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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date night
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puerto rico, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
society, fall in love, prostitute, homecoming, unfulfillment, speech impediment, friendship, homosexuality, bittersweet, cause and meaning, unlikely couple, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Duration: 187 min.
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Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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