Movies like Cannery Row

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Cannery Row (1982)
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Cannery Row (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A depressed section of Monterey, California is the backdrop for an offbeat romantic comedy about a pair of mismatched lovers. Doc is a lonely marine biologist and former baseball star. Suzy is a scrappy, abrasive drifter who can't even succeed as a prostitute. Add Cannery Row's band of resident drunken derelicts to the mix and fireworks result, though not the romantic kind.
Style: romantic, sweet, surreal, stylized, humorous, semi serious, touching, anime, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prostitute, friendship, couples, relationships, brothel, depression, surrealism, adaptation, eccentricity, youth, misfit, love and romance, love affair, society, rich and poor, fall in love, loneliness, brothel madam, stripper, great depression, drifter, costume party, dancing, snake, mental disorder ...
Time: 1940s, year 1982, 80s, 1930s
Place: california, monterey california, ireland
Keyword: americana

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Most similar movies to Cannery Row

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, romantic and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love affair, love, friendship and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Cannery Row: Love The Way You Are (2019), Tbilisi, I Love You (2014), My One & Only (2019), Falling Like This (2001), Me Before You (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love The Way You Are (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Opposites clash when spunky girl next door Lin Lin meets eccentric nerd Yuke. Despite being neighbors and schoolmates since childhood, Lin Lin and Yuke barely know each other. When the pair are both admitted into the same university, Lin Lin ...
Style: uplifting, touching, romantic, sweet, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: couples, love affair, love, fall in love, friendship, love and romance, youth, society, couple relations, destiny, reunion
Place: china, east asia
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Tbilisi, I Love You (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
Style: captivating, sexy, atmospheric, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, friendship, love affair, couples, fall in love, couple relations, city life, sexual relations, sexual content, love and romance
Time: 21st century
Place: tbilisi, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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My One & Only (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Contestants on the popular reality dating TV show "The One" try to determine if they're fated to be together. Meanwhile, sparks fly between the female contestant and the handsome ranch owner who acts as their guide.
Style: sweet, sentimental, touching, romantic, uplifting
Audience: chick flick
Plot: couples, couple relations, fall in love, love, love affair, adaptation, hopes, love and romance, youth, destiny, friendship, life philosophy ...
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Falling Like This (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, on the run, love and romance, youth, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, fall in love, couples, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
A Bird of the Air (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
Style: realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: basset hound, bird, orphan, love and romance, love affair, hopes, self discovery, couples, unlikely couple, library, waitress, highway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Nagata works as a writer and director for theater company Oroka. His work has not received positive responses and ticket sales has not increased. Making things worse, his relationship with the theatrical troupe is not good. Nagata feels lonely. One ...
Style: romantic, touching, talky, psychological, romantic drama
Plot: japanese girl, love and romance, relationships, love story, couple relations, young lovers, fall in love, teenage love, teenager, true love, friendship, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Shopgirl (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: depression, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, artist, salesman, love, love story, honest, couples, age difference, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Straight From the Heart (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, fish out of water, couples, love and romance, relationships, male female relationship, marriage proposal, love affair, romantic triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style: romantic, costume drama, realistic, feel good, period piece ...
Plot: love and romance, estate, aristocracy, fall in love, family relations, love, friendship, countryside, abbey, summer, lady, in love ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: travel, dog, grief, depression, dysfunctional marriage, loss of son, writers, dysfunctional family, death of son, loneliness, eccentricity, breakup ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: usa, paris france, maryland, london, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
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For Both of Us (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Çiçek is a girl who grew up in a small village. She has so many questions about her own life with no answers. And then her life is changed by Dogan, her literature teacher.
Style: sentimental, psychological, sweet, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, love, destiny, couples, couple relations, male female relationship, hopes, teacher, love affair, love and romance, relationships, loneliness ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Love O2O (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
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Place: china
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A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, love triangle, betrayal, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, female protagonist, masturbation, aunt, stealing ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, high school sweetheart, true love, love affair, lovers reunited, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, young love, couples ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, sad, therapeutic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, psychiatrist, psychiatry, love, haunted by the past, rape, sexual abuse, women, memory, suicide attempt, love story, transformation ...
Time: 90s
Place: south carolina, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Desert Hearts (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, divorce, gender, self discovery, lesbianism, gay, lesbian sex, lgbtq, desert ...
Time: 50s, year 1985, year 1959, 60s, 1950s
Place: nevada, indiana, usa, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Bottled with Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After being stood up, Abbey gets inspired to open her heart in a letter, put it in a bottle and toss it out to sea. Months later, a man fishing discovers it and opts to reach out.
Style: touching, tear jerker, sweet, realistic, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: message in a bottle, dating, love, relationships, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, destiny, unfulfillment, workplace intrigue, love letter, anonymous letter ...
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All the Bright Places (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean ...
Style: romantic, sweet, uplifting, teen, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, interracial romance, love story, love and romance, teen romance, coming of age, true love, young adult, love affair, teenage crush, traumatic experience, mental illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, fall in love, true love, youth, memory loss, love of one's life, power of love, love triangle, young lovers, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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White Palace (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, relationships, erotica, obsession, older woman younger man, love, infidelity, bittersweet, dating, seductive ...
Time: 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school.
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, cute, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, best friend, tomboy, love triangle, love, friendship, teenager, teenage love, teen romance, friends to lovers, love story ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Her Pen Pal (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Event planner Victoria can’t wait to attend –- and plan –- her best friend’s wedding in Paris. But when she finds out her ex is bringing a date, Victoria reconnects with her French childhood pen pal.
Style: talky, touching, romantic
Plot: wedding, correspondence, pen pal, couple relations, love and romance, wedding planning, wedding preparations and rituals, couples, fall in love, relationships, love affair, lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Sandpiper (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A free-spirited artist (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives near California's Big Sur, meets the administrator (Richard Burton) of the parochial school that her young son attends and lures the cleric away from his wife (Eva Marie Saint).
Style: sentimental, retro, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: love, adultery, infidelity, clergy, marriage, guilt, artist, daily life, temptation, unwed mother, love triangle, beach ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, usa, monterey california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond ...
Style: realistic, sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, date night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: officers and cadets, love, military life, love story, navy, u.s. navy, military, u.s. military, military officer, love of one's life, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Fall (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous ...
Style: sexy, romantic, melancholic, intense, sweet ...
Plot: fall in love, writers, storytelling, honest, loneliness, love story, extramarital affair, infidelity, love affair, love and romance, couples, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Oh, My Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Orphaned and homeless Ranbir Raj re-locates to a small town and orders a glass of milk in the RK Bar. He befriends a prostitute by the name of Gulabji, who invites him to spend the night with her, and when he refuses, she re-directs him to Lillian ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: unrequited love, couples, friendship, love and romance, prostitute, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, tragic love, hopes, idealism, small town life ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Meet Prince Charming (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, hidden identity, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, disorder, dating, neighbor, making love, sex scene, newspaper, online dating ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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