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The Graduates (1995)
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The Graduates (1995)
Original name: I laureati
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four thirtyish university students share the same flat in Florence. Leonardo fantasizes about Letizia, a very beautiful girl; Rocco works as a night watchman, Bruno tries to get his degree to please his father in law and Pino dreams of becoming a stand up comedian.
Style: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: bird, thirty something, friendship, university, family relations, friendship between men, graduate student, friends, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, dishonesty, thirtysomething life, model, betrayal, divorce, adultery, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, infidelity, comedian, male female relationship, group of friends, family business, husband wife relationship ...
Place: italy, florence, europe, florence italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and sentimental films with plots about couples, love and romance, friendship, family relations, friends, infidelity and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Graduates: The Cyclone (1996), Manual of Love (2005), Fireworks (1997), A Beautiful Wife (2007), This Year's Love (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cyclone (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Levante lives in a small city near Florence (Tuscany, Italy) and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Plot: small town, flamenco, large family, couples, dull life, dancer's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, family business, culture clash, life turned upside down, small town life ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, tuscany, europe
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100%
Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, fall in love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, family life, family relations, love, husband wife relationship, dating, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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41%
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Fireworks (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ottone is a shopkeeper in a pet-shop. During a trip to the Maldives, he tells a psychoanalyst his history with women. Mara had left him for a butcher; Barbara, his best friend, betrays her man and leaves him; Luna, beautiful and rich, wants him just ...
Plot: doctor, husband wife relationship, neighbor, friend, doctor patient relationship, party, love, marriage, friendship, argentine, male female relationship, heiress ...
Place: tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Beautiful Wife (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Miranda is a beautiful Italian girl, she is married to Mariano. They live in a village called Anghiari
Style: light, sincere, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, family life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, humour, love and romance, satire, lifestyle, couple relations, relationships ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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This Year's Love (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker ...
Style: sexy, talky, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, marriage, lust, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, mate swapping, couples, friends, thirtysomething life, breakup ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, social differences, couples, age difference, love, infidelity, communication problem, couple relations, older man younger woman relationship
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.2
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So Woman! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot: fall in love, friendship, love and romance, family relations, friends, lifestyle, parents and children, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, best friends, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
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Chillicothe (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A narrative about six friends in college.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, friendship, betrayal, youth, coming of age, lifestyle, human nature, love and romance, couples, friends, battles, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 90s
Place: midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Tuscan Wedding (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tuscan Wedding, the new romantic comedy from the creators of Loving Ibiza. Together with her father Tom and stepmother Marla, Sanne runs Casa Matrimonio, a luxurious villa in sunkissed Italy. The estate is located in Tuscany, a beautiful region ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, couples, love affair, family relations, love and romance, eccentric family, siblings relations, family business, adultery, workplace, estate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Frenchmen 2 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: friendship, group of friends, couples, friends, couple relations, best friends, buddies, adultery, male female relationship, divorced woman, divorced man, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Dark Eyes (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's ...
Style: romantic, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: anton chekhov, love story, femininity, family relations, betrayal, love, husband wife relationship, couples, lovers apart, crumbling marriage, human nature, love and romance ...
Time: turn of the century
Place: russia, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous, romantic
Audience: date night
Plot: crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, friendship, family problems, couple relations, breakup, dishonesty, infidelity, lifestyle, unfulfillment, remarry, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Team Spirit (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story centers around a group of friends (and girlfriends) who have been playing football together for over 10 years, and who are now getting everything ready for their 500th match.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sincere, realistic
Plot: friendship, couples, ambition, sport team, buddies, lifestyle, couple relations, friends, sport, football team, male nudity, dressing room ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.0
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Sam the Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, couples, love and romance, looking for love, estrangement, womanizer, dishonesty, lifestyle, breakup, suspense, bittersweet, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Every Blessed Day (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when ...
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: love affair, love and romance, couples, pregnancy, family relations, parents and children, hotel, netflix
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Bed & Board (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: infidelity, divorce, pregnancy, culture clash, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, dysfunctional couple, relationships, adultery, music teacher ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
I'm Reed Fish (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When an old high school crush returns to his small hometown, Reed Fish's once simple, calculated life begins to unravel. A drunken incident prompts Reed's fiancee (Alexis Bledel) and the entire town to turn against him. This one-of-a-kind ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, wedding, introspection, lovers reunited, young lovers, lifestyle, coming of age, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, canceled wedding, family relations, friends, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Buddy System (1984)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, parents and children, infidelity, love and romance, self discovery, couples, school, single parent, friends, friendship, family relations, buddies ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Wedding Bell Blues (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd rather be divorced than unmarried, they take off to Las Vegas in search of the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friends, breakup, pregnancy, friendship, wedding, family relations, cons and scams, on the road, singleness, feminism, lifestyle, gender ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Remember Me, My Love (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot: childhood sweetheart, midlife crisis, love affair, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, infidelity, couples, crumbling marriage, youth, dishonesty, audition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Five Aces (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: bittersweet, wedding, friends, couples, thirtysomething life, family relations, introspection, moral dilemma, love and romance, chase, buddies, friendship ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Italian Key (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, young lovers, youth, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, social relations, siblings relations, fish out of water, fall in love, friends, estate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Heart Elsewhere (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The Pope's tailor sends his son, a virgin at 35, to Bologna hoping he will find a woman. Nello, a classicist moved by the romantic poetry of Ovid, proves to be a good teacher and also falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Angela Gardini. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: disability, relationships, social differences, tragic love, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, infidelity, looking for love ...
Time: 1920s
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
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Adam & Eva (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Adam and Eva have been married for four years. But the romance has disappeared from their relationship and has been replaced by boredom and old routine. When Adam meets his brother's baby-sitter, Jackie, he is immediately attracted to her. They ...
Style: witty, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, gloomy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, infidelity, rescue, couples, family problems, battle of the sexes, couple relations, dishonesty, breakup, love triangle, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Men... (1985)
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: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: unemployment, artist, love triangle, adultery, jealousy, extramarital affair, wedding, celebrity culture, friendship, infidelity, couples, buddies ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Let's Be Friends (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Claude Mendelbaum est un informaticien trentenaire, célibataire, timide, hypocondriaque et transparent. Depuis Vicky, sa dernière histoire d'amour, il a du mal à remonter la pente. Son travail dans une grande tour de la Défense, peu propice ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: friendship, looking for love, self discovery, odd couple, obsessive quest, power relations, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, buddies, singleness, womanizer, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Going All the Way (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, love, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, homecoming, small town life, adolescence vs adulthood, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, year 1954
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Change of Plans (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, biting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: siblings relations, friendship, family relations, nothing goes right, love triangle, midlife crisis, infidelity, uninvited guest, couples, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Cocktail (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, romantic
Audience: date night
Plot: beach, love triangle, friendship, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, couples, beach party, nightlife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Love is Not Blind (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Xiaoxian’s life is right on track. She has a steady job at an upscale wedding planning company, a cute apartment, and most importantly, a loving boyfriend of 7 years. Any day now, Xiaoxian is sure that he’ll pop the question. But everything ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, lifestyle, love, betrayal, best friend, friendship, love story, best friends, love and romance, friends, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%