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Nola (2003)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biological father. Once there, she finds more than she expected.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy
Plot:
nothing goes right, lifestyle, fish out of water, parents and children, love and romance, disorder, mysterious character, prostitute, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen romance, father daughter reunion, father daughter estrangement, biological father, city life, drug addict, journalist, escort, singer, transvestite, teenage girl, sadist, sexual perversion, job seeking, foot fetish ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, kansas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, disorder, looking for love and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Nola: Train Man (2005), Ed's Next Move (1996), Love Simple (2009), The Sweeter Side of Life (2013), Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Densha Otoko (translated as Train Man) is a Japanese movie based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, teaching the ways of the world, fish out of water, disorder, love and romance, lifestyle, socially awkward, social anxiety, bravery, loneliness, isolation, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ed lives in Wisconsin. He's just been dumped by his girlfriend, so he moves to New York City for a big change...but will he ever find love again? He loves his new job studying the genetics of different strains of rice. Then Ed meets Lee, a ...
Style:
independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
genetics, diner, disorder, solitary, couples, misfit, introspection, hopes, fall in love, survival, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, wisconsin, usa, california, san francisco ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Adam and Seta fall madly in love after meeting in a Brooklyn laundromat. She suffers from Lupus, he's stuck at home caring for his chronically ill father. Both lie through their teeth to avoid having to reveal they are anything but perfect. ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, dishonesty, human nature, hidden identity, couples, city life, disorder, uncertainty, couple relations, urban, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, ...
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romantic, humorous, captivating, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
bakery, homecoming, love and romance, starting over, romantic relationship, couples, family relations, looking for love, housewife, misfit, couple relations, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york
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24%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, hidden identity, starting over, hopes, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, urban, male female relationship, first date, sexy woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two parents fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children's college tour.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
middle age romance, college, fall in love, opposites attract, college campus, father son relationship, tour guide, self discovery, self fulfillment, love and romance, disorder, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
valentine's day, love and romance, childhood trauma, love affair, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couple relations, thirtysomething life, couples, fall in love, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, filmmaking, couples, hidden identity, actor's life, disorder, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, frame up, dishonesty, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, rom com, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
win over, writer's life, fall in love, looking for love, disorder, dishonesty, hidden identity, writers, cupid, false identity, social network, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic's demand to lead a seniors men's group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiatrist's daughter.
Style:
humorous, sincere, touching, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug addict, fall in love, rehabilitation, doctors and patients, wooing, addiction, clinic, lifestyle, hopes, psychiatrist, support group, christmas ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two strangers meet and fall in love during the weekend that they are planning their respective weddings.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
fall in love, wedding, forbidden love, battle of the sexes, looking for love, love affair, couples, lifestyle, unlikely couple, infidelity, getting married, love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, couples, fall in love, love and romance, singleness, couple relations, imaginary, boy, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, marital argument, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, love and romance, thirtysomething life, couple relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, unfulfilled love, eligible bachelor, dating ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, family relations, hopes, couple relations, disorder, couples, introspection, nothing goes right, love and romance, battle of the sexes, romantic relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, tense, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
disorder, couples, fall in love, couple relations, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, parents and children, love, male female relationship, graduate student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, emotional, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, unrequited love, self discovery, lifestyle, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, disorder, daydreamer, misfit, singleness, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage love, fall in love, lifestyle, doctor, looking for love, friendship, renewed love, self discovery, only child, dentist ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style:
humorous, witty, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, introspection, starting over, looking for love, hopes, sexual relations, wooing, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style:
offbeat, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, boarding house, mistaken identity, partner, nosy, couples, disorder, friends, buddies, fall in love, opposites attract, gender ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, business trip, cultural difference, coffee shop, self discovery, fall in love, lifestyle, disorder, fish out of water, village, food, inspiration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous, sex comedy ...
Plot:
restaurant, waitress, food, lifestyle, workplace, looking for love, workplace situations, workplace romance, relationship vs career, couples, love and romance, urban ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Arthur (Dudley Moore), that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up -- and get a job -- in this sequel to the 1981 smash hit. Meanwhile, the father of the girl Arthur stood up at the altar in the first film is conniving to trick the hapless boozer ...
Style:
slapstick, romantic, humorous, sincere, hilarious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, alcoholic, vengeance, love affair, revenge, alcoholism, butler, video arcade, christmas, riches to rags, ghost, baby ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, looking for love, friends, fish out of water, love, love at first sight, journey, culture clash, society, couples, love story, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
puerto rico, new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...
Style:
romantic, humorous, feel good, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, opposites attract, self discovery, love and romance, on the road, parents and children, disorder, family relations, character change, lifestyle change, father daughter relationship, businessman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
father daughter relationship, looking for love, parents and children, friendship, couple relations, vacation, family relations, fall in love, lifestyle, female protagonist, love and romance, african american protagonist ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He's got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples, looking for love, wooing, true love, woman peeing, woman urinating, superhero ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Style:
sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
closeted homosexual, loneliness, dating, best friend, support group, stereotypes, neighbor, single parent, parent child relationship, looking for love, unfulfilled love, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
breakup, couples, love and romance, workplace, rivalry, fall in love, wooing, workplace situations, career change, teenager, win over, failing business ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Successful New York journalist and single mom Julie Davidson's (Vanessa Williams) six-year old son Jake (Jeremy Gumbs) is acting up, so she finds his sperm-donor father Paul Cooper (Kevin Daniels), who's a struggling actor and law-school ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, uncover truth, parents and children, family problems, family relations, mischievous children, lifestyle, love and romance, unlikely couple, single parent, family life, artificial insemination ...
Place:
usa, new york, boston
Similarity:
19%
437
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find true love. But when a mysterious stranger named Vernon Gart shows up on the set claiming to work for ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, valentine's day, looking for love, couples, fall in love, wooing, media, lifestyle, matchmaking, workaholic, tv host, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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