Movies like Jane Austen in Manhattan
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Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
Style:
clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, avant garde
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rivalry, opera, college, feminism, love and romance, bank, fall in love, couples, showbiz, ambition, mind game, contests and competitions, satire, lifestyle, actor's life, unfulfilled love, gender, ego clash, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, power relations, love, dog, dancing, abduction ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, england, london, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, lifestyle, love, kiss, artists and showbiz and dancing mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Jane Austen in Manhattan: These Foolish Things (2006), Roseland (1977), Intentions (2003), Butley (1974), Sueño (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, lifestyle, actor's life, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, hopes, couples, rich and poor, filmmaking ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
london, england
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95%
518
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, disco, dancer's life, love and romance, human nature, hopes ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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90%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexual content, lesbian, family relations, college, infidelity, love and romance, forbidden love, lesbian relationship, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
846
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Alan Bates recreates his award-winning stage role in director Harold Pinter's 1974 film verson of Simon Gray's play, about a university professor whose private life is in freefall. The cast also includes Jessica Tandy, Richard ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty ...
Plot:
college, love triangle, lgbt, professor, drug addiction, university, alcohol abuse, infidelity, academy, sarcasm, teacher student relationship, bisexual ...
Time:
70s
Place:
northern england, london, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, ambition, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, musician's life, lifestyle, single parent, unfulfilled love, fall in love, family business ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, talky, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, infidelity, adultery, existentialism, secrets, character study, city life, lifestyle, introspection, love and romance, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, london, czech republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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, light, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, looking for love, friends, wooing, infidelity, actress, frustration, desire, director, lesbian sex, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, writer's life, lifestyle, social relations, college graduate, latin, village, writers, male female relationship, journey, flirting, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
uruguay, latin america, south america, madrid, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, clever, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, self discovery, friendship, lifestyle, follow your dream, forbidden love, lgbt, feminism, human nature, love and romance, couples, road not taken ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the wake of tragedy, a renowed New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After leaving the dance world for good, Travis, Chrissa, and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that shattered their careers. They have one last chance to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, romantic, sexy
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dance school, dancing, follow your dream, lifestyle, performer's life, dancer's life, love and romance, redemption, ambition, artists and showbiz, teenage love, showbiz ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies like Sense and Sensibility
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style:
realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
love triangle, colonialism, extramarital affair, british empire, self discovery, interracial relations, prince, flashback, orgasm, scandal, breaking the fourth wall, post colonialism ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style:
semi serious, witty, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, love and romance, youth, battle of the sexes, obsession, college life, looking for love, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style:
feel good, realistic, gothic, romantic, humorous ...
Plot:
love and romance, estate, aristocracy, fall in love, family relations, society, friendship, love, countryside, world war one, summer, love story ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 50s ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
taxi, friendship, filmmaking, satire, couples, dull life, thirtysomething life, friends, underdog, lifestyle, desire for fame, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, semi serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
musician, sexuality, love affair, young lovers, youth, fall in love, couple relations, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Place:
texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Movies like Maurice
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A director's (Yves Montand) wife (Shirley MacLaine) poses as a geisha to win the lead in his Japanese production of "Madame Butterfly."
Style:
semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, clever ...
Plot:
fall in love, disguise, jealousy, mistaken identity, filmmaking, opera, sumo, love triangle, comedy of errors, showbiz, disorder, couples ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, actor's life, crumbling marriage, couple relations, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, witty, romantic, semi serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, love and romance, family relations, couple relations, couples, class differences, society, fall in love, social differences, unfulfilled love, estate, hypocrisy ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor's life, love triangle, couples, obsession, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dysfunctional family, unhappiness ...
Place:
france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Paula McFadden knows: In romance, actors all follow the same stage instruction: Exit. Without warning, her actor boyfriend split today for a movie role and sublet their Manhattan apartment. The new tenant's name: Elliot Garfield. Profession: ...
Style:
funny, sweet, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
single mother, love story, love, audition, dancer, actor, women, happy ending, divorce, fall in love, aspiring actor, true love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, california, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, stylized
Audience:
date night
Plot:
farm, female singer, sex scene, friends, couples, stalking, rise and fall, self discovery, music band, desire for fame, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, europe, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, crazy love, midlife crisis, couples, family problems, family relations, city life, family gatherings, love triangle, celebrity culture, fall in love, looking for love ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, nebraska, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of two college graduates from the Midwest who move to Los Angeles, where their love is tested for the first time.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, romantic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
relationship problems, love triangle, unlikely couple, looking for love, youth, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, single, love, relocation, ice cream ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. He uses it to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
cheerleader, hollywood, small town, homecoming, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, redemption, love triangle, unfulfilled love, celebrity culture, small town life, racism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
missouri, cuba, latin america, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
college graduate, college, friendship, old friends, slacker, flirting, friendship between men, youth, partners, love and romance, lifestyle, workplace situations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hope is tasked with teaching Manhattan's former "Most Eligible Bachelor" how to dance for his extravagant, society wedding. But as the dance lessons progress, complications ensue when feelings begin to develop between student and ...
Style:
romantic, entertaining, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
happy ending, dancing, wedding, fiance fiancee relationship, follow your dream, fall in love, moral dilemma, teacher student relationship, love and romance, couples, male female relationship, lifestyle ...
Place:
london, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, cynical, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
paparazzi, rise to the top, obsession, desire for fame, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, vengeance, opposites attract, love and romance, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Place:
new york, usa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Liverpool. 1947. A star-struck young girl learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Style:
bleak, clever, sexy, talky, disturbing ...
Plot:
age difference, older man younger woman relationship, coming of age, nymphet, suspense, death, gay, nude, first contact, crime gone awry, mentor, fantasy world ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947, post world war two
Place:
england, europe, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hidden identity, lifestyle, opposites attract, couples, fall in love, disorder, dating, neighbor, making love, sex scene, newspaper, online dating ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, feel good, semi serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, christmas, golden years, elderly, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, family values, angst, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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