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He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)
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He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)
Original name: 金枝玉葉
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wing is a devoted fan of popular singer Rose who is involved in a topsy-turvy relationship with her charismatic producer Sam. Willing to go to any length to meet Rose, the willowy Wing disguises herself as a man, and with a twist of fate is chosen to be the next budding star for the record company.
Style: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: woman dressed as man, gender, time loop, lgbt, impostor, asian lgbt, obsession, love triangle, friends, love and romance, gender bending, fall in love, couples, tragic love, gays and lesbians, showbiz, opposites attract, lifestyle, hidden identity, actor's life, unfulfilled love, disorder, musician's life, switching roles, farce ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, gender, gays and lesbians and opposites attract mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like He's a Woman, She's a Man: Who's the Man, Who's the Woman (1996), All's Well, Ends Well (1992), Look for a Star (2009), A Couch in New York (1996), The Night We Never Met (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Who's the Man, Who's the Woman (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The sequel to the blockbuster comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Who's the Woman, Who's the Man picks up right where the original left off! Music producer Sam (Leslie Cheung) and his cross-dressing protege Wing (Anita Yuen) have ...
Style: captivating, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: impostor, lgbt, switching roles, transsexual, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, hidden identity, artists and showbiz, gender, lifestyle, performer's life, transvestism ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
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95%
All's Well, Ends Well (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A romantic Chinese New Year comedy about the three Shang brothers. Eldest brother Shang Moon is a philandering businessman who treats his hideous yet hard-working wife like dirt. Middle brother Shang Foon is a disc jockey/playboy who tries to score ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: lesbian, housewife, family relations, disorder, couples, mental illness, siblings relations, instructor, down on your luck, ballet, gender bending, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Look for a Star (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Wealthy construction mogul Sam Ching (Andy Lau) and cabaret dancer Milan Sit (Qi Shu) fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Sit doesn't know is that Ching is the man ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, looking for love, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couples, dancer's life, singleness, cabaret, unfulfillment, love
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Couch in New York (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply ...
Style: melancholic, sweet, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, couple relations, opposites attract, nothing goes right, love and romance, unlikely couple, misfit, fall in love, infidelity, looking for love, love triangle, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, paris france, usa, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Night We Never Met (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style: offbeat, semi serious, realistic, feel good, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boarding house, love, exodus, mistaken identity, partner, couples, disorder, friends, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Lie Down with Dogs (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Wayward mid-20's NYC guy goes to the Pines for a change of pace for the summer.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gender bending, glbt, gay subtext, friends, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Alex and Leo (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leo, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, falls in love with Alex who's just gotten out of a long-term relationship. While Alex doesn't quite know how to react to Leo's advances, Leo's facing trouble with Alex's oddball ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, fall in love, gender, breakup, lgbt, male nudity, drunk, male objectification
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The King of Comedy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village's community center.
Style: inspirational, cult classic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: wuxia, time loop, friends, love and romance, fall in love, unfulfillment, lifestyle, opposites attract, artists and showbiz, friendship, actor's life, road not taken ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Butch Jamie (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film. The main plot is a romantic comedy between Jamie's male alter-ego, "Male Jamie," and Jill, a heterosexual woman on set. The ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, hollywood, gender bending, showbiz, actor's life, lesbian relationship, couples, gender, switching roles, lgbtq, transsexual, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Men to Kiss (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The gay couple Tobi and Ernie are being visited by Ernie's old friend Uta. What at first looks like an innocent house-call, turns into an insidious attack on the couple's relationship.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay relationship, love and romance, couples, opposites attract, fall in love, nightlife, lgbtq, twentysomething life, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that someone else would try ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, house fire, teenage crush, arsonist, jealousy, silly humor, opposites attract, unfulfillment, love and romance, disorder, family relations, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Emperor (Chang Chen) is desperate for the free-spirited life of a wanderer, and tries to escape from the royal palace with his sister, the Princess (Faye Wong). He's caught and returned to his angry mother by the royal guards, but the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, parody, spoof ...
Plot: martial arts, true love, emperor, palace, fall in love, family relations, hidden identity, gender, royal family, parents and children, comedy of errors, gender bending ...
Time: 15th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Straight-Jacket (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1950's Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sham, though, and turns Guy's life upside-down. Then he falls in love.
Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, witty, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, hollywood, movie star, lgbt, lifestyle, fall in love, actor's life, love affair, couples, couple relations, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: rising to stardom, musician's life, ambition, starting over, fall in love, teenage life, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, wooing, couples, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hollywood, je t'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Recently broken up and barely enduring a dreary winter, gay Parisian Jérôme Beaunez impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. While there he meets some colorful locals and pursues a dormant desire to become a movie star - but ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, prostitute, transvestism, lifestyle, lgbt, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Just Write (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Style: witty, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, social differences, bus, writers, actress, hidden identity, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: beverly hills, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Love on the Rocks (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Wong is shocked to learn from his girlfriend Annie (Leung) that she wants to break up. He decides to go online and seek help from love experts on the net. He finds Crystal, a 19-year old self-proclaimed love advisor who has never been actually ...
Style: witty, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, wooing, youth, college, couple relations, love and romance, introspection, fall in love, college life, nothing goes right, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At the suggestion of a friend, gay Leo (Kevin McKidd) enters therapy after many failed relationships make him fear for his social life. In a group session (led by Simon Callow), Leo comes clean about his feelings for a straight member of the group ...
Style: witty, independent film, homoerotic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay interest, homosexuality, friendship, lgbtq, meditation, sexuality, sex, love, lgbtqi ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, indiana, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Splendor (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does ...
Style: erotic, sex comedy, witty, aesthetic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, women, relationships, open relationship, threesome, gender, menage a trois, woman peeing, lgbt, triad, erotica, polygamy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Love on a Diet (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sammi Cheng plays Mimi Mo, a young exchange student to Japan who met and fell in love with a budding pianist, Kurokawa, played by Rikiya Kurokawa. Kurokawa eventually leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a famous musician. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, sad
Plot: fall in love, unlikely couple, looking for love, against the odds, farce, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, woman, fat suit
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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A NY Thing (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, mumblecore ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, lifestyle, love and romance, dishonesty, obsession, unfulfilled love, wooing, bittersweet, hidden identity, male female relationship, unfulfillment, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
26%
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Under One Roof (2002)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: It's Sex and the City meets The Wedding Banquet for young San Franciscan Daniel Chang, living at home with his clueless, traditional mother. Desperate for a grandchild, she's eager to see him married and spends much of her time planning ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, family relations, opposites attract, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children, male nudity, social differences, lgbt, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Mango Kiss (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: "Mango Kiss" is a story about Lou whose world turns upside-down when she falls in love with her best friend Sassafras. They journey to San Francisco and stumble into the wild world of role-playing and non-monogamous S/M dykes. Comedy ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian relationship, couples, lesbian, gender, dominatrix, friends, fall in love, love and romance, open relationship, twentysomething life, sexual relations, wooing ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, producer, audition, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Shut Up and Kiss Me (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ben is 35, facing the unsatisfying suburban dating world, and looking for more then just sex. Nightmarish attempts with video dating, bad gym run-ins, and his uproarious friends signing him up with online match-making sites have got him nowhere. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: gay, dating, looking for love, lgbt, male pubic hair, couples, thirtysomething life, couple relations, opposites attract, lifestyle, gender, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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He's My Girl (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dix ans après L'Homme est une femme comme les autres, Simon Eskenazy est devenu un grand interprète de musique traditionnelle juive. Il voit successivement débarquer sa mère envahissante, son ex-femme, son fils de 10 ans qu'il n'a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, couples, family relations, transvestite, homosexual, parents and children, couple relations, society, musician's life, gender, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
23%
Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross dress to find his knight in shining armour.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, witty, biting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, friendship, aging, self discovery, looking for love, betrayal, starting over, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, infidelity, road not taken ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia, dubai, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he ...
Style: independent film, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teacher, obsession, love and romance, jealousy, substitute teacher, pop culture, infidelity, wooing, singleness, looking for love, comedy of errors, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, iowa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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