Movies like Dream World

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Dream World (2012)
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Dream World (2012)
Original name: Dreamworld
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Oliver Hayes, an aspiring animator whose confidence is at a low point, meets the captivating and impulsive Lily Blush, who encourages him to drop everything and go with her to Northern California in the hopes of fulfilling his fantasy of working for Pixar Animation Studios. As they travel up the coast, Oliver falls deeply in love but upon making certain startling discoveries he must decide if he wants to face reality or stay in dreamworld.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, sentimental, offbeat, semi serious, crying, 2d animation
Plot: fall in love, starting over, hopes, road trip, best friend, love and romance, inventions and discoveries, performer's life, fight, love triangle, bully, beach, heroin, redhead, breakup, stranger, animator, argument, cartoonist, stopped by police, suicide of father, life changing, short man, changing lives, kiss ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: san francisco, usa, california

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Most similar movies to Dream World

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, hopes, family relations, starting over and friendship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Dream World: Sequoia (2014), This Thing with Sarah (2013), Bigger Than the Sky (2005), Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (2010), All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sequoia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, fall in love, death wish, bittersweet, family relations, obsession, illness, cancer, suicide, life is a bitch, love and romance, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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95%
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
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89%
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 ⇓
85%
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Vince and Shonda have come to the proverbial end of their ropes with one another. Set in Atlanta during the 2008 Presidential Election season, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is the touching story of what happens when two people feel they have nothing ...
Style: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, breakup, couples, fall in love, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, african american
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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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
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81%
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Dopamine (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Rand is a computer animator, who has created an artificial intelligence creature designed to interact with children and teach them responsibility. When his prototype is forced into practice at a school, Rand encounters Sarah, a teacher he was ...
Style: emotional, humorous, independent film, clever, captivating ...
Plot: love, fall in love, loneliness, science, technology, stereotypes, destiny, looking for love, love affair, pets, scientist, love hurts ...
Time: future, year 2003
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007)
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, hopes, starting over, disorder, fall in love, love and romance, dishonesty, urban, male female relationship, first date, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Stranded in Paradise (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a driven HR exec loses her high-powered job, she travels to Puerto Rico in an attempt to save her career at a business conference. But as the trip quickly becomes a disaster and a hurricane shuts down the whole island, she meets a handsome ...
Style: touching, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, isolation, fall in love, starting over, hopes, nothing goes right, disorder, holiday, strong female presence, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, hurricane ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, latin america, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
61%
The Wedding Photographer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When the factory in Molkom shuts down, Robin leaves his beloved hometown to try his luck in Stockholm as a wedding photographer. This experience changes not merely his outlook on life but also his hairstyle.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: career change, fall in love, fish out of water, disorder, starting over, love and romance, meet the parents, misfit, hopes, social differences, wedding, photographer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Too Young to Marry (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lovers reunited, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, wish come true, college life, unfulfilled love, coming of age, youth, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Jesus, Mary and Joey (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, true love, starting over, faith, hopes, miraculous event, eccentric family, couples, wish come true, terminal illness, disagreement ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
52%
The Young Kieslowski (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he ...
Style: humorous, emotional, captivating, light, romantic ...
Plot: youth, young lovers, pregnancy, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, college, disorder, life turned upside down, relationships, college freshman, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
51%
Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three people, each having different aspirations from life, are caught in a tangle of emotions and don’t know the way out. There’s a husband and wife with love eroding from their life. And there’s a single, happy-go-lucky dude who falls in love ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, humorous
Plot: couples, love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, hopes, love and romance, family problems, unemployment, women, hindu, businessman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia, india, new delhi, australia
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51%
Divine Intervention (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Matthews recovers from a stroke. While trying to impress Reverend Matthews, Gibbs has to win the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, christian film, spiritual ...
Plot: church, going straight, introspection, downfall, dishonesty, society, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, fall in love, clergy, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Love in the Buff (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When old flames reunite, will it be second time's the charm or a case of once bitten twice shy? Jimmy and Cherie, two ex-lovers from Hong Kong, cross paths in Beijing and can't seem to forget each other, despite being involved with someone ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: starting over, couples, relationship vs career, hopes, friendship, asian, love and romance, dare, woman wearing a miniskirt
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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 ⇓
49%
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Elsa & Fred (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa ...
Style: touching, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly, elderly lovers, couples, fall in love, starting over, self fulfillment, aging, dying woman, destiny, partner, flirting, old age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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48%
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Some Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, brother sister relationship, twentysomething life, love affair, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, free spirited, heartache ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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47%
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Puppy Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, single parent, pets, hopes, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
American Fusion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family. Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance ...
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, fall in love, couples, immigrant, interracial relations, hopes, culture clash, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, eccentric family, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, fall in love, friendship, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family in crisis, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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44%
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Ball & Chain (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, couples, eccentric family, family gatherings, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, love, wedding planning, society, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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43%
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Seasons Of Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
Style: humorous, uplifting, semi serious, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, against the odds, hopes, looking for love, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, black, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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