Movies like Chinaman
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Chinaman (2005)
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Original name: Kinamand
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life's diversity.
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, divorce, culture clash, life turned upside down, misfit, couples, unlikely couple, couple relations, matchmaking, marriage for money, love and romance, society, immigrants, bittersweet, communication problem, chess, chinese, moving, father son relationship, male female relationship, interracial marriage, immigration, cooking, chinese culture, heart disease ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
denmark
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, couple relations, society, family relations and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Chinaman: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003), Amira & Sam (2014), A Foreign Affair (2003), Paradise (2013), Tea & Sangria (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, introspection, unlikely couple, couples, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, family relations, disorder, dogma, sexual content, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, veteran, interracial relations, opposites attract, unlikely couple, life is a bitch, fall in love, culture clash, love and romance, misfit, love affair, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minded wife.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, social
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
looking for love, singleness, goofy hero, couple relations, dealing with death, lifestyle, misfit, unlikely couple, family life, eccentric family, culture clash, siblings relations ...
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Carmen and Alfredo live a happy, quiet life in the suburbs surrounded by friends and family. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move away to Mexico City where they immediately feel the social pressure of being overweight in a bustling ...
Style:
humorous, sincere, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, physical appearance, couples, misfit, discrimination, love and romance, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, supportive spouse, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fish out of water, life turned upside down, culture clash, society, love and romance, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, opposites attract, disorder, fall in love, social differences, misfit, country, teaching the ways of the world, celebrity culture, fish out of water, filmmaking, immigration ...
Place:
usa, himalaya, asia
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, couples, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, track down, friendship between men
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.
Style:
semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, infidelity, family problems, teenage life, terminal illness, estrangement, adultery, family crisis, dying, husband wife relationship, teenage rebellion, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues ...
Style:
touching, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, battle of the sexes, love, wedding, flying
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, identity crisis, interracial relations, couples, moral dilemma, audition, parents and children, family relations, family reunited, actor's life, society, ethnic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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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:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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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:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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date night
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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date night
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Time:
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Place:
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32%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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