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When the Sea Rises (2004)
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When the Sea Rises (2004)
Original name: Quand la mer monte
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot: opposites attract, starting over, family life, love affair, painter, ocean, stalking, on the road, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, impossible love, infidelity, actor's life, artists and showbiz, giant, female nudity, unrequited love, beach, theater, photograph, beauty pageant, actress, backstage ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe, belgium, flanders
Keyword: ocean or sea

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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, couples, fall in love, love affair, couple relations, family relations and infidelity mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like When the Sea Rises: My Faraway Bride (2006), Mademoiselle (2001), Frenchmen 3 (2013), Gaby Baby Doll (2014), Not My Type (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, love affair, pregnancy, comedy of errors, looking for love, opposites attract, couples, infidelity, breakup, love and romance, hotel, beach ...
Time: 21st century
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My Faraway Bride (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, fall in love, writer's life, society, tragic love, fish out of water, friendship, infidelity ...
Place: california, asia, usa, india
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Mademoiselle (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Style: sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, love and romance, opposites attract, lovers reunited, love affair, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, couples, disorder, husband wife relationship, one night stand ...
Time: 21st century
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, fall in love, countryside, isolation, lone wolves, love and romance, confined, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Not My Type (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, social differences, couples, society, young lovers, beauty salon, provincial life, professor, unrequited love, giant, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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The Housekeeper (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, midlife crisis, housekeeper, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, beach volleyball, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
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Caprice (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love, couples, friends, actor's life, girl, school teacher, theater, school principal, actress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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A Perfect Match (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, retirement home life, fall in love, couples, love and romance, nothing goes right, disorder, maid, internet dating, retirement home, solitary, retiring ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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Moscow, Belgium (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: ‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: family relations, working class, fall in love, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, love affair, mother daughter relationship, drinking ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: ghent, belgium, italy
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Tuscan Wedding (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tuscan Wedding, the new romantic comedy from the creators of Loving Ibiza. Together with her father Tom and stepmother Marla, Sanne runs Casa Matrimonio, a luxurious villa in sunkissed Italy. The estate is located in Tuscany, a beautiful region ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, siblings relations, love and romance, family business, family relations, adultery, hotel, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Take-Away Romance (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Amelle and Noom are two young thirties are total opposites and that fate will bring. Serious She manager at Starbucks, and dynamic IT dilettante, smart, and apprentice comic. Both victims disappointments in love, they swore that it does take ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, couples, fall in love, love and romance, friendship, youth, society, hopes, happy ending, thirtysomething life
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Feelings (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic, sensitive ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, fall in love, starting over, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, family life, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france
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I Do...Knot (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: couples, fall in love, womanizer, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, wedding, love story, singleness, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, love triangle, couples, couple relations, friendship between men
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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Paris-Manhattan (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In Paris, the pharmacist Alice has been an obsessed Woody Allen fan since she was fifteen and has seen all his movies and talks to him alone in her room. When she meets Pierre in a night-club, she finds that he loves jazz and she believes he is her ...
Style: humorous, feel good, romantic, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: thirtysomething life, love and romance, obsession, love triangle, love affair, lifestyle, love, looking for love, opposites attract, male objectification, teaching the ways of the world, flirting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Merry Widow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, couples, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, family gatherings, eccentric family, infidelity, mother son relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
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Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
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Place: portland oregon
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Phileine Says Sorry (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, new york, holland, usa
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Olive Juice (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Comedy - Leighanne Littrell, James Berlau, Michael Hartson
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: couples, love affair, love and romance, infidelity, workplace romance, store, pets, nightclub, dog, pet shop, juice, olive
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Chicken Tikka Masala (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jimi (Chris Bisson), the Chopra family's only son, gets caught off guard when his high-handed parents (Saeed Jaffrey and Jamila Massey) announce an arranged marriage to Simran (Jinder Mahal), a lovely girl from a respectable family. Problem is, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: gay, forbidden love, love affair, opposites attract, lifestyle, fall in love, society, couples, family gatherings, family life, culture clash, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london
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Orange (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Orange is a 2010 Telugu romantic comedy film directed by Bhaskar, in his third venture after Bommarillu and Parugu. The film features Ram Charan Teja and Genelia D'Souza with Shazahn Padamsee playing a pivotal role. The film, which has music ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, looking for love, love and romance, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, graffiti, young lovers, fall in love, telugu
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, australia
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Delicacy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cafe, unlikely couple, love and romance, love triangle, office romance, love affair, loss of loved one, elevator, death of husband, employer employee relationship, cemetery, bereavement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Cocktail (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beach, love triangle, friendship, beach party, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love affair, love and romance, nightlife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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Just Desserts (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, sex comedy
Audience: date night
Plot: restaurant, food, cooking and food, cooking, contest, ambition, lifestyle, relationship vs career, workplace, rivalry, love affair, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Tanu Weds Manu (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Manu comes to India to find a bride for himself and falls for Tanu at first sight but Tanu, a free spirited girl has no plans of marrying him.
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, rebelliousness, fall in love, rebellion, couples, rejection, wedding, anthropology, femininity, middle class, feminist, punjabi ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: asia, india, delhi
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