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Sex & Mrs. X (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman regains her sense of self through a sexual reawakening after her husband leaves her for another woman.
Style:
humorous, sexy, sentimental, semi serious, sexual, inspirational, realistic, contemplative
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
breakup, self confidence, self esteem, starting over, self discovery, seduction, journalist, infidelity, love and romance, battle of the sexes, journalism, marital problem, divorce, inspiration, lost girl, prostitute, couples, media, strong female presence, switching roles, reporter, interview, reflection, dysfunctional marriage, feminism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and sexy films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, breakup, couple relations, lifestyle and crumbling marriage mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Sex & Mrs. X: The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), An Unmarried Woman (1978), The Women (2008), He Said, She Said (1991), Adam & Eva (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female nudity, divorce, sex scene, marital separation, midlife crisis, breakup, voyeur, feminist, self discovery, betrayal, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into ...
Style:
sexy, witty, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
women, infidelity, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, fashion show, lesbian, woman in labor, female friendship, cheating ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, san francisco
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a ...
Style:
entertaining, emotional, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
battle of the sexes, journalism, opposites attract, dating, couple relations, workplace, couples, media, unlikely couple, destiny, women, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
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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, semi serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, love affair, rescue, infidelity, family problems, couples, couple relations, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, love triangle, breakup, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, sexual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, looking for sex, friendship, outdoor sex, cheating girlfriend, singleness, sexual relations, love affair, dishonesty, unfaithful husband, womanizer ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
guru, sex scene, battle of the sexes, woman urinating, religion, adultery, female nudity, brainwashing, strong sexual content, psychology, tourist, female pubic hair ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
australia, india, delhi, sydney australia, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
battle of the sexes, elderly lovers, hopes, starting over, love and romance, love affair, teenage love, fall in love, looking for love, couples, optimism, sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two people run from the pain of their broken past. When they discover each other, they find themselves at a crossroad where the only thing that stands between them and a second chance is each other.
Style:
semi serious, sincere, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
fall in love, starting over, breakup, friendship, couples, infidelity, estrangement, love and romance, hopes, women of color, black, relationships ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco, los angeles
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Jennifer Carpenter, Kristen Connolly and Alexander Poe star in a comedy about three New Yorkers struggling to uncover the truth behind their romantic entanglements. Disheartened by his latest relationship catastrophe, Graham (Poe) attempts to ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, dishonesty, love and romance, singleness, couples, lifestyle, urban, dating, ex girlfriend, romantic rivalry, cheating ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, family problems, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family relations, couples, happiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee ...
Style:
semi serious, emotional, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, life turned upside down, hopes, dishonesty, couple relations, human spirit, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, breakup, estate, madea ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
502
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
gender, master and servant, battle of the sexes, love triangle, power relations, odd couple, love and romance, doctors and patients, couples, hospital, society, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
love affair, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family problems, couples, thirtysomething life, human nature, love and romance, relationship vs career, lovers reunited, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
starting over, divorce, friends, dating, self discovery, breakup, singleness, writer's life, marriage, middle aged, relationship problems, character change ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, life turned upside down, lovers reunited, obsessive quest, disorder, couples, pregnancy, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, screwball, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
29%
505
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a ...
Style:
sex comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
professor, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, love, writers, breakup, love triangle, friendship, older woman younger man relationship, friends, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
best friend, couples, starting over, singleness, disorder, introspection, hopes, lifestyle, life turned upside down, ex boyfriend, coming of age, grieving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style:
independent film, satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative ...
Plot:
dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, crumbling marriage, society, self discovery, filmmaking, love and romance, couple relations, starting over, rise and fall ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Four friends are facing problems like infidelity, infertility and disease. But together, they can solve every single problem.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
best friend, infidelity, battle of the sexes, couples, sexual relations, gender, love and romance, dishonesty, city life, thirtysomething life, strong female presence, new year ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
28%
13K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living ...
Style:
lyrical, melancholic, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
divorce, journalism, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, wedding, unfaithful husband, journalist, battle of the sexes, food, marriage, writers, cheating ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
50%
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:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot:
infidelity, couples, lifestyle, writer's life, gender, jazz, ex husband ex wife relationship, jazz singer, extramarital affair, television, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, lyon, france
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
Style:
sexy, talky, captivating, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
sex, making love, sexuality, dark humor, sexual relations, looking for sex, lifestyle, destructive relationship, sex scene, female nudity, erotica, voyeur ...
Time:
year 2001, year 1929, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A handful of insults and fighting best friends, not quite the Birthday presents every girl hopes for. Melissa s not every girl. She is determined to collect insults from all of her past boyfriends before her birthday night is over. But her journey ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, f word
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, love and romance, best friend, friends, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, lovers reunited, alcohol abuse, birthday, breakup, twentysomething life, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Yearning to be married Fran Goldman is forced to reassess his strategy of love after being dumped by his fiancée four weeks before the wedding.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
looking for love, breakup, starting over, couples, couple relations, singleness, battle of the sexes, friends, buddies, hopes, love and romance, rabbi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, anthology, absurd ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, society, infidelity, midlife crisis, tragic love, dull life, dalmatian, semi nudity, minefield, erotica ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, clever, feel good ...
Plot:
journalist, record producer, couples, family problems, family relations, journalism, unfulfillment, feminism, crumbling marriage, gender, media, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
canary islands, spain
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Plot:
prostitute, paraplegic, self discovery, couples, misfit, sexual relations, biker, obstacle, handicapped, male female relationship, disabled, caravan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Laura San Giacomo stars in this sexy comedy about adultery. When Nina's (San Giacomo) husband goes out of town for several weeks on a business trip, Nina hooks up with a photographer. Told from a reporter's point of view, his interviews ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
true love, infidelity, impossible love, male nudity, love, loneliness, lost love, passion, women, best friend, sexual content, family problems ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
oakland california, san francisco
Similarity:
27%
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