Movies like The Movie Hero

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The Movie Hero (2003)
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The Movie Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.In his feature film debut, director Brad T. Gottfred delivers a spoof of cinema cliches with a memorable protagonist named Blake Gardner (Jeremy Sisto), who believes his life is a movie. Playing to an audience only he perceives -- and determined to entertain them. Blake recruits a comical black sidekick (Brian J. White), attempts to apprehend the bad guy (Peter Stormare) and begins romancing his court-appointed psychotherapist (Dina Meyer).
Style: humorous, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, independent film, offbeat, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: delusion, impossible love, unemployment, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mental illness, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, humour, autism, filmmaking, couples, artists and showbiz, love, fight, prostitute, police officer, police, friendship, obsession, stalker, love triangle, racism, beach, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: movie theatre

Most similar movies to The Movie Hero

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, male female relationship, couple relations, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship and relationships mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Movie Hero: Life's an Itch (2012), Lust for Love (2014), Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998), This Is Not a Film (2003), Soup of the Day (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life's an Itch (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise when his wife invites her open-minded (and very sexy) yoga instructor to stay in the guest house ...
Style: humorous, funny, romantic, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: husband wife relationship, love triangle, couples, love and romance, romantic relationship, love story, crumbling marriage, love, yoga, love affair, relationships, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Lust for Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.
Style: romantic, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, couples, best friend, male female relationship, romantic triangle, love affair, sexual humor, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, humour ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Billy, a struggling young gay photographer (who likes Polaroids), tired of being the "other man", falls in love with Gabriel, a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. Billy tries to get ...
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, erotic, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, hollywood, relationships, stereotypes, artists and showbiz, fall in love, lgbtq, lifestyle, celebrity culture, gender, gay interest ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, indiana, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
This Is Not a Film (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, breakup, couples, couple relations, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, obsession, artists and showbiz, urban, actress, reenactment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Soup of the Day (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story: Brandon Craig is a regular guy who loves split pea soup and happens to be in monogamous relationships with three amazing women: Monique, his photo editor boss; Wendy, an undercover cop; and Franki, host of the popular Internet show Missleblast. ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, love and romance, lifestyle, womanizer, dishonesty, couple relations, twentysomething life, love triangle, food, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Modern Romance (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
Style: humorous, melancholic, disturbing, intense, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: obsession, love, character study, honest, love and romance, couples, self discovery, breakup, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, doomed romance, crazy love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, accountant, couples, family relations, friends, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, human nature, musician's life, actor's life, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Baxter (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who ...
Style: humorous, stylized, witty, feel good, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, friendship, love triangle, accountant, couples, looking for love, love and romance, couple relations, event planner, love, office, marriage ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, connecticut, usa, manhattan new york city, cincinnati ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Hairshirt (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Danny Reilly (Dean Paras) is a self-obsessed man who, after dumping Renee Weber (Neve Campbell), falls in love again with Corey Wells (Katie Wright). But Renee makes it her mission to see that Danny never falls in love again and sets out for attack ...
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, looking for sex, love triangle, youth, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, roommate, prank, looking for love, fall in love, wooing, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
America's Sweethearts (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
Style: funny, feel good, romantic, satirical, light ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: hollywood, love triangle, breakup, couples, hotel, infidelity, divorce, showbiz, paparazzi, desire for fame, dishonesty, marriage crisis ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.0
 3K
Choose Love (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The steady boyfriend. The one who got away. The charming rock star. Who will Cami choose? In this interactive rom-com, her love life is in your hands.
Style: entertaining, humorous, romantic, funny, exciting ...
Plot: love, life, marriage, friend, female protagonist, couples, love affair, relationships, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Merry Ex-Mas (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story: Two unwitting ex-high school sweethearts who, while stranded at a random hotel bar during a snowstorm, discover their first love memories may be more than that after revisiting their past and present lives.
Style: entertaining, funny, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: hotel, love and romance, couple relations, relationships, love story, christmas, storm, love, couples, male female relationship, snow
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 1K
Sol Goode (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run out; faced with eviction from his hipster apartment, totaling his car, and the threat of having to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, self discovery, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, ejaculation, couples, singleness, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Tug (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, small town, couples, friends, rivalry, choice, love, ex girlfriend, dishonesty, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Enemies of Laughter (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot: couple relations, couples, writer's life, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, love affair, midlife crisis, male female relationship, father son relationship, love, mother son relationship, curse ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 1K
Groundswell (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On the heels of a professional and personal setback, Atlanta chef Emma travels to Hawaii, where she meets Ben, a reclusive surf instructor.
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot: female protagonist, chef, love affair, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pacific island, male female relationship, surfer, fall in love, relationships, surfing, ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
When Christmas Was Young (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story follows a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, funny
Plot: christmas, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, love affair, love, couples, relationships, couple relations, music manager, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Right One (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sara, a novelist struggling with writer's block, needs inspiration — and finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down-on-his-luck oddball who constantly changes personas and alter egos in order to cope with his past and avoid ...
Style: funny, romantic, light, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: writers, male female relationship, writer's life, love interest, creative block, relationships, love and romance, couple relations, romantic relationship, love story, humour, relationship problems ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Relationship Status: It's Complicated (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Thirty-year-old Ben is about to marry Juliette. His quiet, ordered life will fall to pieces when he meets up again with the person he secretly wants to see the most: Vanessa, the high school bombshell who never so much as looked in his direction. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, couples, love and romance, obsession, thirtysomething life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, romantic relationship, relationships, romantic rivalry, love story ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Story of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, captivating, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: humour, introspection, ambition, rise to the top, relationship vs career, love triangle, lifestyle, writer's life, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Apartment 12 (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this goofy comedy, Mark Ruffalo (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) stars as Alex, a struggling painter going through a particularly bad patch. Dumped by his girlfriend and unable to get work, Alex finds his life taking a rare upswing when he ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film
Plot: love and romance, prostitute, friends, couples, mentally unstable, male female relationship, art, performer's life, artists and showbiz, creative process, pizzeria, call girl ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Dry Spell (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
Style: sex comedy, realistic, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: divorce, couples, couple relations, love and romance, battle of the sexes, sexual relations, curses spells and rituals, sex scene, love, sex, husband wife relationship, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Mr. Pride vs. Miss Prejudice (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Online writer Tang Nan Nan crosses path with Zhu Hou, a second-generation rich boy “sea turtle”, resulting in hilarious situations and face-offs.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, love affair, love interest, couple relations, rich and poor, male female relationship, relationships, love story, humour, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic friendship ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Confessions of an American Bride (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young career woman Samantha 'Sam' Hoyt gets swept off her feet by Benjamin 'Ben' Rosen, who romances her better then anyone before, so she jumps at the offer of becoming his fiancée. If Ben thought a girls typical obsession with ...
Style: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, rom com
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, true love, rabbi, disorder, obsession, nothing goes right, love and romance, couples, culture clash, love triangle, breakup, love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Since You've Been Gone (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up by a fellow graduate.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, witty, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: cheerleader, lgbt, high school, psychopath, friendship, student life, singleness, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, anniversary, twentysomething life, high school life ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.2
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My God Father (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Got, a young and energetic racing man who hates his father. There is a reason for him to warp back in the year 1998, just a year before he was born, Got met his young father when he was Godfather.
Style: light, funny, captivating, romantic, feel good ...
Plot: father, friends, father and son, friendship, humour, love and romance, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, father son relationship, romantic relationship, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)
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, ...
Style: humorous, romantic, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Plot: bakery, starting over, love and romance, homecoming, couples, family relations, looking for love, romantic relationship, disorder, hopes, fish out of water, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Lost & Found (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, romantic, sweet, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: neighbor, love story, happy ending, justice, love and romance, buddies, unfulfilled love, friendship, looking for love, nothing goes right, couples, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
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Now You Know (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, melancholic
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, wedding, breakup, family relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, buddies, flirting, male female relationship, father son relationship, prank, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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