Movies like The Big Bad Swim

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The Big Bad Swim (2006)
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The Big Bad Swim (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers -- inextricably connected through personal heartbreak -- find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in -- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.
Style: independent film, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, realistic, mockumentary, documentary filmmaking
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, self discovery, thirtysomething life, love and romance, midlife crisis, introspection, teacher, lifestyle, swimming, stripper, life, swimming pool, gambling, female nudity, sex scene, adultery, fear, infidelity, casual sex, husband wife relationship, therapy, extramarital affair, socially awkward, strip club, lap dance ...
Time: contemporary
Place: connecticut, usa

Most similar movies to The Big Bad Swim

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, lifestyle, friendship, friends, couple relations and twentysomething life mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Big Bad Swim: 35 and Ticking (2011), Life's an Itch (2012), 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2004), Never Again (2001), Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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35 and Ticking (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Clevon, and Phil -- all friends approaching the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, midlife crisis, comedy of errors, love and romance, buddies, couple relations, couples, wooing, disorder, thirtysomething life, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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95%
 4.1
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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 ⇓
74%
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: s after an earthquake convince Owen, a writer of hack "as told to" autobiographies, to leave L.A. He burns his bridges telling people what he really thinks, quits his current client (a randy astronaut), and heads for the airport. Waiting ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: infidelity, lifestyle, looking for love, couples, love and romance, introspection, friends, unfulfillment, lesbian, lesbian lover, airport, womanizer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.2
 970
Never Again (2001)
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: witty, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, wooing, sexual relations, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A ...
Style: surreal, witty, not serious, talky, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, love and romance, fall in love, buddies, workplace, couple relations, friends, couples, farce, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, hipster ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Wives and Lovers (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Wives and Lovers is a 1963 film directed by John Rich. It stars Janet Leigh and Van Johnson. Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, sex comedy ...
Plot: thirtysomething life, dull life, couples, friends, family relations, family problems, unsupportive spouse, writer's life, actor's life, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: connecticut, new england, new york, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Friends (With Benefits) (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Meet Chloe and Owen: best buds since their sandbox days. Now, in med school as they attempt to balance the weight of their studies, his job, her band, their parents, their friends (their sanity), they find little time for relationships...but lots of ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, friends, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, sexual relations, singleness, medical school, sexual content, teacher student sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Boynton Beach Club (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A handful of men and women of a certain age pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly, support group, friendship, looking for love, couples, fall in love, midlife crisis, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, single parent, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Town & Country (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, farce, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, architect, relationship vs career, family problems, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, new york, mississippi, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiance. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, entertaining, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: job interview, love and romance, lifestyle, self discovery, male female relationship, new job, society, mentor, friendship, tennis player, beach, runner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Sidewalks of New York (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a ...
Style: stylized, witty, sexy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, divorce, life philosophy, multiple storylines, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, looking for love, human nature, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.4
 4K
Ceremony (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, wedding, couple relations, buddies, lifestyle, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, wooing, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.2
 3K
The Favor (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kathy is married to Peter. Now she can't help but wonder how things could have been if she got together with her old boyfriend, Tom. Being married prevents from doing that so she asks her friend, Emily to go to him and see if she can sleep with ...
Style: sexy, light, humorous, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, battle of the sexes, high school, infidelity, love affair, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, love triangle, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, looking for love ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: cleveland ohio, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.8
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Sam the Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, dishonesty, womanizer, estrangement, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.3
 137
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 ⇓
51%
Young, Single & Angry (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Since girlhood, TAYLOR has believed that love and marriage are the most important events in every woman's life. Now she's 35 and single with no prospects in sight. As Taylor and her friends wade through the mire of the L.A. dating pool, ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: phone sex, friendship, looking for love, lifestyle, dating, thirtysomething life, couples, singleness, one night stand, friends, love and romance, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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What Love Is (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's Valentine's Day and Tomhas big plans. He's about to get engaged and has a surprise party planned to share the good news with friends. But things take a turn for the worse. Tom returns home only to discover his girlfriend has ...
Style: talky, realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: valentine's day, fall in love, battle of the sexes, friendship, looking for love, sexual relations, thirtysomething life, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, buddies, gender ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Loving Jezebel (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: black, infidelity, best friend, goofy hero, fall in love, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, love and romance, friends, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.8
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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 ⇓
47%
 5.6
 986
Strange Planet (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, friends, roommate, marriage, pregnancy, friendship, unfaithfulness, coitus, divorce, dating, one night stand, marital problem ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.3
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Denial (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, looking for love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, thirtysomething life, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, unlikely couple, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Baby on Board (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Angela -an ambitious, image-conscious businesswoman working for over-demanding boss Mary. When Angela becomes unexpectedly pregnant at the peak of her career, her life with her divorce attorney husband, Curtis, is turned upside-down.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, battle of the sexes, workplace, relationship vs career, obnoxious boss, lifestyle, family relations, babies and infants, lawyer, sexual content, silly humor, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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See You in September (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay (Estella Warren) gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: support group, couple relations, friendship, doctors and patients, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, power relations, group therapy, waiter, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.5
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What a Man (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), which after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie Hörbiger), begins a journey to know himself. But how do you overcome the difficulties of a man ...
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, realistic
Plot: lifestyle, self discovery, looking for love, introspection, hopes, love and romance, breakup, manhood, singleness, thirtysomething life, fall in love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.4
 1K
Coach (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coach, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, direction and purpose, slacker, misfit, football, soccer, buddies, athlete and trainer, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sex, Politics & Cocktails (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Latin American filmmaker Sebastian Cortez (Julien Hernandez) is unable to commit to his girlfriend and, at age 30, finds himself alone and never in love in this irreverent comedy. On a mission to find the love of his life, he solicits help from his ...
Style: witty, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay stereotype, looking for love, culture clash, fall in love, friendship, couples, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, best friend, sex shop ...
Place: los angeles, latin america, cuba, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Spring Breakdown (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: sorority, spring break, woman in a bikini, party, friendship, college student, farce, love and romance, twentysomething life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.4
 2K
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 ⇓
42%
 6.0
 816
True Love (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's immaturity. ...
Style: funny, independent film, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, family relations, true love, friendship, argument, friends, couples, love and romance, introspection, human nature, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: bronx new york city, new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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