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The Photographer (2000)
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The Photographer (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Style: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: photographer, friendship, prodigy, starting over, obsessive quest, addiction, lifestyle, race against time, mysterious character, dull life, nightlife, city life, photograph, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, photography, mugging, wizards and magicians, friends, down on your luck, urban, artists and showbiz, performer's life, thief, agent, writers ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and independent film films with plots about friends, lifestyle, friendship, urban, city life, love and romance and couples mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Photographer: Smoke (1995), 2 B Perfectly Honest (2004), 1999 (1997), Highball (1997), Grad Night (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Smoke (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, intellectual, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: writers, multiple storylines, photography, smoking, photographer, photograph, melancholy, friendship, redemption, dark humor, summer, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, year 1990
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city
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2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
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29%
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1999 (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The century is coming to an end, and New York City is freaking out. "1999" takes place at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. As a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to ...
Style: neurotic, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: new year's eve, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, youth, lifestyle, misfit partners, young lovers, artists and showbiz, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.6
 933
Highball (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A newly-married couple tries to build their social life.
Style: independent film, cynical, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: couples, partner, looking for love, looking for sex, singleness, twentysomething life, teenage love, nightlife, new year, celebrity culture, friendship, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
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24%
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Grad Night (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends celebrates their graduation from Crispus Attucks High School with a jammin' party. It's hormones on overdrive, recreational drugs and lap dancing galore as the Class of 2005 goes out in style.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: tolerance, friends, youth, lifestyle, nightlife, high school life, city life, high school, love, acceptance, fight, black ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: ego clash, friendship, best friend, rivalry, filmmaking, showbiz, performer's life, criticism, screenwriter, magazine editor, friends, unsupportive friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Frownland (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen, FROWNLAND centers on social misfit and self-labeled "troll from under the bridge" Keith Sontag (Dore Mann). When he's not trying to sell coupons ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: friends, buddies, misfit, society, lifestyle, fall in love, social misfits, love and romance, suburbs, city life, frustration, insecurity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Slaves of New York (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style: ironic, sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: adaptation, artist, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, society, bittersweet, ambition, love, loneliness, art, fashion ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa
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23%
Mistress America (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, depressing, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, writers, betrayal, eccentric family, prank, follow your dream, hopes, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Looking for Kitty (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, disturbing ...
Plot: bittersweet, friendship, introspection, crumbling marriage, fish out of water, odd couple, private detective, unfulfillment, couples, dream, private investigator, down on your luck ...
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Somebody to Love (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: transvestism, celebrity culture, down on your luck, hollywood, nightlife, showbiz, city life, unfulfilled love, social differences, urban, friendship, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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22%
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Jackpot (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sunny Holiday, an aspiring singing star, abandons his wife and young baby to set off on a nine-month tour of bleak western towns. He takes off with his road manager in a pink Chrysler in search of their own version of the American Dream: a country ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot: relationship vs career, ambition, obsessive quest, performer's life, lifestyle, musician's life, showbiz, on the road, family problems, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, road trip ...
Time: year 2001
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.7
 658
Lily & Kat (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in New York City, the film follows a naive fashion school graduate named Lily who finds her world turned upside down when her reckless best friend Kat announces she’s moving away to London in a matter of days. At a Lower East Side art opening ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, light, independent film
Plot: threesome, best friend, nightlife, friends, love triangle, twentysomething life, city life, strong female presence, coming of age, psychopath, lesbian, radical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
Place: usa, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
Style: mumblecore, clever, uplifting, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: cons and scams, criminal heroes, friends, friendship, thief, city life, lifestyle, dishonesty, self discovery, resistance, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Man of the Year (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Plot: hollywood, lifestyle, love and romance, infidelity, filmmaking, friendship, nightlife, showbiz, couples, dishonesty, bookies, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: friends, self discovery, society, friendship, dull life, lifestyle, ambition, youth, twentysomething life, farce, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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22%
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Echo Park (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dream, stripper, single parent, actor's life, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, family relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, human nature, gender ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Life's in Turnaround (1993)
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: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: satire, taxi, best friend, friendship, filmmaking, dating, couples, thirtysomething life, dull life, friends, underdog, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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21%
30 Years to Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style: witty, touching, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, love and romance, human nature, midlife crisis, society, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, buddies, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Real Blonde (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
Style: light, satirical, melancholic, humorous, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, sexual dysfunction, loneliness, showbiz, actor's life, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, workplace, lifestyle, unsuccessful, waiter, dog ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. It has to be closed down for development reasons but one of the regular customers, Cowboy, seems to have friends in high places.
Style: indie film, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: friendship, friends, nightlife, working class, against the odds, lifestyle, driving, fight, pickup truck, slice of life, friend, telephone call ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, performer's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, twentysomething life, down on your luck, urban, male female relationship, dog ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 2K
Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 2K
Queens Logic (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, rock, gay subtext, buddies, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, gender, human nature, couples, friends ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.7
 914
LOL (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Style: mumblecore, talky, humorous, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, lifestyle, introspection, youth, friendship, computers and web, love and romance, couple relations, human nature, misfit, social network, human relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, rise to the top, desire for fame, workplace romance, filmmaking, workplace situations, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, workplace, rising to stardom, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.0
 426
Moola (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot: friendship, friends, best friend, obsessive quest, betrayal, down on your luck, partner, buddies, sexual content, profanity, beach, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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