Movies like Lightbulb

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Lightbulb (2009)
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Lightbulb (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, light, clever, offbeat, humorous, motivational
Plot: entrepreneur, friends, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, couple relations, gambling, business, scientist, stewardess, life is a bitch, rise to the top, couples, down on your luck, partner, buddies, airplane, friendship, female nudity, sex scene, inventor, invention, best friend, creator, beer ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, arizona
Keyword: partners, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about couples, friendship, friends, couple relations, love and romance, buddies and best friend mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Lightbulb: Bleacher Bums (2001), Frenchmen 3 (2013), An American Reunion (2003), Moola (2007), Bigger Than the Sky (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bleacher Bums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
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95%
 5.6
 468
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
An American Reunion (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
Style: captivating, touching, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: friendship, best friend, homecoming, friends, couples, introspection, couple relations, old love, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 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 ⇓
92%
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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
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Togetherness (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
Style: sitcom, humorous, offbeat, light, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, couple relations, relationship vs career, couples, buddies, ambition, hopes, follow your dream, love and romance, family relations, depression, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Two Family House (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. His latest is buying a two-family ...
Style: touching, sincere, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: working class, friendship, culture clash, love and romance, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, couples, down on your luck, pregnancy, love, ambition ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, road trip, self discovery, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, escapades, new life, danger, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot: couples, pregnancy, infidelity, couple relations, best friend, friends, thirtysomething life, introspection, crumbling marriage, adultery, divorce, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.1
 548
Good Luck (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bernard "Bern" Lemly (Gregory Hines) is fed up with being in a wheelchair and wants more out of life. Meanwhile, former football player Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio) is stewing after recently losing his sight. The ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, partner, hostage, friends, disability, ambition, misfit, human spirit, hopes, buddies, self discovery ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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 ⇓
89%
All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes.
Style: sincere, semi serious, talky, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, unfulfillment, introspection, destiny, hopes, male female relationship, travel, first love, human relationship, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, montreal, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.5
 688
Girls' Night (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: holiday, hospital, gambling, bingo, marriage, terminal illness, bittersweet, strong female presence, best friend, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
One Too Many Mornings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, mumblecore, captivating, light ...
Plot: wedding, church, self discovery, friendship, odd couple, buddies, redemption, addiction, coming of age, alcoholism, vandalism, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Team Spirit (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story centers around a group of friends (and girlfriends) who have been playing football together for over 10 years, and who are now getting everything ready for their 500th match.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: couples, friendship, ambition, sport team, couple relations, buddies, lifestyle, friends, football team, football, group, friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Changing Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, love, looking for love, couple relations, terminal illness, dealing with death, best friend, hopes, hospital, cancer, girl, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
This Thing with Sarah (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual - or so she thinks - rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: couples, down on your luck, writers, love, friendship, porn, love and romance, beach, surfing, narration
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Old Fashioned (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, opposites attract, friendship, buddies, fall in love, couples, hopes, introspection, christian, faith based, faith, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Mona (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
Style: semi serious, humorous, emotional, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, looking for love, city life, buddies, lifestyle, rivalry, society, partner, couples, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Baby Mama's Club (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: James, a consummate womanizer, and Randall, a devoted husband, are unlikely best friends. But when Randall becomes a father for the first time and James for the 17th time, they both seek out an unconventional form of counseling to aid them in their ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, independent film
Plot: love and romance, couples, friends, lifestyle, womanizer, couple relations, manhood, buddies, support group, silly humor, african american, urban setting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Roundabout American (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young French chef with a fondness for America and a life in shambles pushes the limits of the American Dream by converting a Chicago pizza shop into an escort-service for the super-rich with the help of a suburban slacker who dwells in his ...
Style: semi serious, sexy, realistic, independent film, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female nudity, sex party, divorce, disorder, rise to the top, sexual relations, friends, overnight success, escort, american culture, food poisoning, corrupt politician ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Luke and Brie Are on a First Date (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: It is the first date of Luke and Brie. They will spend the night together at bars, parties and streets of Los Angeles. The risk of a first encounter, and the relentless pursuit of naturalness, will make their relationship dance between flirting and ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, dating, love, society, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, first date, hipster, bar, date
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Amanda (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A successful businessman meets the woman of his dreams, Amanda, only to discover she harbors a shocking little secret about her past.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, couple relations, looking for love, gender, gender bending, breaking the fourth wall, friendship, inheritance, true love, lgbt, masturbation, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indianapolis indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.1
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The Dogwalker (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sleep in his car. When he quite literally stumbles upon an old lady and her dog, he suddenly finds ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, offbeat
Plot: family relations, friendship, friends, undisciplined, couples, drug abuse, down on your luck, wooing, addiction, adoption, family life, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Buddy System (1984)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, parents and children, infidelity, love and romance, couples, single parent, family relations, self discovery, buddies, school, friendship, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Expecting (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: friends, baby, best friend, life turned upside down, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, woman, father, husband, adoption, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Premium (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, wedding, couples, follow your dream, race against time, ambition, showbiz, nothing goes right, filmmaking, black, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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