Movies like Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975)
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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
Plot: love story, love and romance, couples, infidelity, elderly, aging, bittersweet, dealing with death, adultery, singing, senior citizen, makeover, widow, postman, grandmother, infatuation, dance, dancing, tiara, dance hall, romance
Time: future

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, bittersweet, love affair, fall in love, infidelity and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Queen of the Stardust Ballroom: Lost in Time (2003), Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), Falling in Love (1984), Tangled 8 (2015), A Small September Affair (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lost in Time (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
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95%
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, light, captivating ...
Plot: aging, senior citizen, friendship, sea captain, buddies, hopes, summer, barber, alcoholic, old age, retirement, wrestling ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Falling in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, love and romance, christmas, love story, adultery, bookstore, friendship, extramarital affair, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Tangled 8 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, talky, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, unfulfilled love, sexual content, dealing with death, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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A Small September Affair (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A beautiful girl who has everything. Charming, playful, in her own words: 'too joyful to fall in love.' A sudden car crash, and her heart stops for a few minutes. When she wakes up, everyone assures 'every-thing's alright.' ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, accident, couples, fall in love, true love, twists and turns, love and romance, sleepover
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece
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73%
For the Love of Grace (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love, fire, infidelity, daring rescue, couples, estrangement, love triangle, loss of wife, society, friendship, cooking, firefighter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
One Special Night (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night ...
Style: contemplative, talky, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: christmas, thanksgiving, snow, mature, holiday, father daughter relationship, alzheimer's disease, husband wife separation, widow, loneliness, friendship, stranded ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, parents and children, hospital, boarding school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style: sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sailing, small town, high school, destiny, bittersweet, love, photojournalism, sea voyage, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, friends ...
Time: year 1986, future
Place: maryland
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65%
Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, infidelity, lovers reunited, fall in love, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
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63%
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Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: hotel, summer, couples, family relations, friends, elderly, ambition, aging, hopes, love and romance, small town, love affair ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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61%
Autumn in New York (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: love story, love, true love, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, older man young girl relationship, autumn, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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60%
An Unremarkable Life (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
Style: independent film, uplifting, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, starting over, aging, fall in love, elderly, love and romance, forbidden love, family life, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, old woman ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Circle of Love (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style: art house, contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, lifestyle, assassination, love and romance, unfulfillment, love affair ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
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58%
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April Snow (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident and learn that they've been having an affair.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, unlikely couple, couples, solace, human nature, dishonesty, adultery, hospital, car accident, coma, entertainment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, korea
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58%
Iddari Lokam Okate (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A series of coincidences brings two star-crossed lovers together, but fate pulls them apart until they encounter each other again in Hyderabad.
Style: entertaining, touching, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Plot: female protagonist, couple relations, male female relationship, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love and romance, love affair, love, relationships
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The Salesman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, aging, working class, bittersweet, retiring, workplace situations, small town, society, elderly, social relations, countryside, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Lost Valentine (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war separates lovers on their wedding anniversary Feb. 14, 1944 at LA Union Train Station, Navy pilot ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, romantic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, love and romance, uncover truth, lovers apart, aging, elderly, navy, anniversary, valentine's day, hopes, adaptation, love story ...
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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53%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The House of Smiles (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot: retirement home life, couples, aging, power relations, social relations, human spirit, society, love and romance, elderly lovers, misfit, elderly, mural ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, italy
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46%
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
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46%
Lover's Concerto (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating ...
Plot: love story, love triangle, couples, friendship, friends, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, terminal illness, lesbian ...
Time: year 1996, 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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A Perfect Man (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A philandering husband unknowingly falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, captivating, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, couples, infidelity, couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, marriage, unfaithful husband, marital infidelity, fall in love, urban, husband wife separation, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Tempted (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, fall in love, love triangle, family relations, parents and children, couples, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Para Para Sakura (2001)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Story: Phillip (Aaron Kwok) is a dance instructor who holds a class devoted to the latest dance craze, Para Para. While in Shanghai, he meets Yee (Cecilia Cheung), a spoiled rich girl who is running away from her impending arranged marriage. Soon, Yee ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, fall in love, couples, love affair, dancer's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, twists and turns, wedding, bittersweet, love, dance
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Elsa & Fred (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa ...
Style: touching, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly, elderly lovers, couples, fall in love, starting over, self fulfillment, aging, dying woman, destiny, partner, flirting, old age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Beijing Love Story (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, young lovers, infidelity, love triangle, renewed love
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, love, inn, family drama ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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