Movies like The Closer You Get

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The Closer You Get (2000)
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The Closer You Get (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy
Plot: village, small town, couples, isolation, couple relations, family relations, village life, battle of the sexes, small town life, love, friendship between men, male female relationship, friendship, friends, love and romance, journalism, society, clergy, social relations, priest, virgin, fisherman, bachelor, sheep, british ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, europe
Keyword: irish

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Most similar movies to The Closer You Get

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about couples, couple relations, friendship, friends, love and romance, society and family relations mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Closer You Get: The MatchMaker (1997), Waking Ned Devine (1998), Postmark Paradise (2000), Irish Jam (2006), Raising Flagg (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The MatchMaker (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she ...
Style: touching, humorous, witty, feel good, black and white ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, destiny, love story, politics, love and romance, fall in love, small town, culture clash, small town life, dog, politician, election campaign ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, boston, europe, usa
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100%
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Style: humorous, feel good, dark comedy, black comedy, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, friends, countryside, gambling, lottery winner, death, greed, casino, caper, old age, landscape ...
Time: future, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Postmark Paradise (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, fish out of water, starting over, society, love and romance, couple relations, couples, culture clash, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Irish Jam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, black comedy ...
Plot: friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, contests and competitions, rise to the top, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, dishonesty, fall in love, ambition ...
Place: ireland, europe, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
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36%
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Loners (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, sexual ...
Plot: couple relations, friendship, love, love and romance, couples, ufo, mother daughter relationship, marijuana, radio, tourist, stoner, stalking ...
Time: 90s
Place: prague, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Sidetracked (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: couples, journalism, starting over, hopes, midlife crisis, countryside, group of friends, couple relations, friendship, friends, marriage, love ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Welcome to the South (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the ...
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: fish out of water, friendship, workplace situations, couple relations, misfit, workplace, social relations, culture clash, supportive coworker, disorder, society, cultural difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Herman U.S.A. (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this quirky romantic comedy inspired by a true story, an influx of women invade the small town of Herman, Minn., to get their hands on a surplus of bachelors yearning for female companionship. When the persuasive "cry from the heart" of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, looking for love, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, singleness, love, male female relationship, dating, gender, love and romance, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Runway (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. ...
Style: emotional, touching, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: social relations, hopes, village life, village, getting home, foreigner, friendship, airplane, youth, biopic, negligence, adoption ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Lost in Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friendship, escapades, fall in love, couples, disorder, island, rivalry, excavation, spirituality, diving, artifact ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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V.O.S. (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, meta ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, introspection, love affair, love triangle, couples, battle of the sexes, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, lifestyle, pregnancy, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Zonad (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space…probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet. The Cassidys and the people of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty, black comedy ...
Plot: family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, social relations, cons and scams, family life, dishonesty, disorder, village, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
My Best Holidays (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: couples, culture clash, village life, social relations, society, children, countryside, coming of age, couple relations, summer vacation, teenage love, village ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: meet the parents, fish out of water, culture clash, couple relations, disorder, society, parents and children, misfit, couples, silly humor, migration, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Hallelujah! (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot: priest, fake priest, mistaken identity, small town, village, church, disorder, social relations, hidden identity, farce, cons and scams, ex convict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Puckoon (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, black comedy, realistic ...
Plot: border, life turned upside down, comedy of errors, satire, political unrest, cons and scams, society, politics, disorder, social relations, village life, village ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Yank (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: friends, family relations, culture clash, buddies, fall in love, love and romance, parents and children, disorder, bar fight
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: village life, summer, magic realism, village, mental retardation, working class, provincial life, love and romance, misfit, society, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: balkan, czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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27%
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Masquerades (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, brother sister relationship, small town, small town life, couples, love and romance, cons and scams, village, siblings relations, arab, husband wife relationship, lie ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: algeria, middle east, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Relative Values (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, stylized, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: master and servant, family relations, couple relations, social differences, couples, power relations, intrigue, fall in love, parents and children, servant, best friend, risk ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1950s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Santa Maradona (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, fall in love, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, human nature, twentysomething life, unemployment ...
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Sex After Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An edgy comedy about the sexual adventures in parenthood.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: parents and children, family relations, sexual relations, family life, couple relations, couples, sexually dissatisfied wife, kids and family, social satire, parenthood, lesbian, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Break Up Man (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining, sincere ...
Plot: breakup, love, friendship, odd couple, workplace situations, disorder, workplace, problem solving, relationship problems, male female relationship, romantic relationship, travel ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
I Love You Too (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, buddies, couple relations, breakup, wooing, society, thirtysomething life, love and romance, lifestyle, friends, couples, women
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Love & Slaps (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, not serious ...
Plot: family relations, friendship, couples, parents and children, family life, countryside, friends, disorder, society, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: birthday, friendship, family relations, friends, society, lifestyle, physical appearance, misfit, party, love, couples, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Welcome to the North (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: society, friendship, workplace, culture clash, couple relations, workplace situations, disorder, social satire, fish out of water, postman, couples, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
An Everlasting Piece (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Colin (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic and George (Brian O'Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the ...
Style: humorous, psychological, absurd, stylized, feel good ...
Plot: ira, friendship, society, rivalry, politics, religions or cults, food, hunting, trouble, criminal heroes, contests and competitions, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Caffeine (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
Style: talky, semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, twentysomething life, couple relations, disorder, couples, family relations ...
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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