Movies like The Dogwalker
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The Dogwalker (1999)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sleep in his car. When he quite literally stumbles upon an old lady and her dog, he suddenly finds himself caught up in her life and over her head in a twisted mix of class, race, age, sex, drugs, dog leashes, inheritances and contract bridge.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, family relations, friends, addiction, beach, hospital, family life, love and romance, fall in love, adoption, best friends, couples, showbiz, down on your luck, starting over, collision, drug abuse, wooing, golden years, couple relations, undisciplined, sex, dog, love triangle, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, friendship, fall in love, couple relations and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Dogwalker: Bigger Than the Sky (2005), Mary and Rhoda (2000), Chapter Two (1979), Bed & Breakfast (1991), This Thing with Sarah (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
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Place:
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72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Life changes for three woman who run a failing hotel, when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.
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Plot:
parents and children, mysterious character, family problems, family life, beach, generation gap, fall in love, parent child relationship, love and romance, mad scientist, on the run, teleportation ...
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Place:
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69%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual - or so she thinks - rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
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couples, down on your luck, writers, love, friendship, porn, love and romance, beach, surfing
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Place:
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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 ...
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date night, girls' night
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Time:
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62%
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.
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Place:
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61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
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Time:
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Place:
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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