Movies like Train Man 2005

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Train Man (2005)
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Train Man (2005)
Original name: 電車男
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Densha Otoko (translated as Train Man) is a Japanese movie based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, existential, offbeat, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, fish out of water, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, lifestyle, disorder, socially awkward, social anxiety, loneliness, isolation, bravery, railway, mental illness, existentialism, computers and web, power relations, friendship, internet, insecurity, train, first sexual experience, live action, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: reboot

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, disorder, couples, fish out of water, lifestyle and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Train Man: Cyborg She (2008), 30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004), Love on a Diet (2001), Nola (2003), Americanizing Shelley (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cyborg She (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Cyborg She follows the burgeoning romance between an ordinary college student and his sassy love interest - who happens to be a time-traveling cyborg with superhuman powers. One day, a beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university ...
Style: humorous, romantic, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, earthquake, changing lives, fish out of water, college, high school life, couples, supernatural, fall in love ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, future, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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100%
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 ⇓
70%
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 ⇓
70%
 5.4
 500
Nola (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biological father. Once there, she finds more than she expected.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Plot: nothing goes right, lifestyle, fish out of water, disorder, mysterious character, love and romance, parents and children, prostitute, father daughter reunion, teen romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Americanizing Shelley (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, opposites attract, fall in love, disorder, social differences, misfit, celebrity culture, filmmaking, teaching the ways of the world, fish out of water, country, immigration ...
Place: usa, himalaya, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Happily Ever After (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, dark humor, misfit, social misfits, peplum, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Love Jacked (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: parents and children, looking for love, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, friendship, african american protagonist, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, vacation, love affair, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
My Future Boyfriend (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” , a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year ...
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, fish out of water, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, obsessive quest, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, disorder, misfit, time jump, girl ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Tea & Sangria (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: life turned upside down, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, society, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Cherry on the Cake (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way ...
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, couples, best friend, mistaken identity, new year, looking for love, friendship, comedy of errors, singleness, dishonesty, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
61%
 5.5
 323
Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, business trip, cultural difference, coffee shop, self discovery, fall in love, disorder, fish out of water, lifestyle, village, food, estranged father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.4
 8K
Hope Springs (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, fall in love, hotel, love and romance, starting over, love affair, looking for love, breakup, couple relations, lifestyle, love triangle, beautiful scenery ...
Time: year 2003
Place: vermont, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Why Me, Sweetie?! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this film, Louis Koo tries to woo a Beijing theater student (Cherry Ying), but he suffers from memory loss, and he keeps forgetting who she is.
Style: humorous, not serious, touching, feel good, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, youth, love and romance, couple relations, young lovers, fall in love, disorder, true love, memory loss, race against time
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Style: romantic, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, valentine's day, love affair, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, couple relations, unfulfillment, couples, thirtysomething life, fall in love, looking for love, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
61%
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Style: ironic, tragicomedy, captivating, romantic, social ...
Plot: society, fall in love, family relations, dishonesty, hidden identity, couples, power relations, disorder, love and romance, snobbism, parents and children, woman ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, england, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
60%
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The Art of Seduction (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, doctor patient relationship, disorder, wooing, nothing goes right, misfit, couples, friendship, therapy, flowers, fish, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Book of Love (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, high school, teenage love, friendship, fish out of water, youth, self discovery, couple relations, fall in love, friends, college life, college ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Love Hurts (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage love, fall in love, lifestyle, doctor, looking for love, friendship, self discovery, only child, couples, renewed love ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.2
 845
Remember Me? (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sharing the same psychologist, a kleptomaniac (Robert) that writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic (Beatrice) that documents everything in her life, begin to see that love can be a cure for their ailments. But ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love affair, obsession, memory loss, fall in love, misfit, social misfits, atmosphere, love and romance, love
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.0
 12K
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find ...
Style: feel good, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, racing, abroad, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water, power relations, disorder, athlete and trainer, society, self discovery, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.0
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Love Birds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Love Birds is a hilarious charming romantic comedy that tells the story of a regular Kiwi bloke who finds himself on a quest to find true love – all with the help of a native New Zealand Shelduck. Comedian Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, The ...
Style: humorous, feel good, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, looking for love, family relations, journey, friendship, society, rock, love and romance, bird
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.2
 238
Lost and Found (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: TV writer Ji-ho (Jin-hie Park) has been secretly in love with Min-woo (Ki-woo Lee) for the last 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find that she has just gotten fired for low ...
Style: captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: memory loss, couples, hidden identity, disorder, love, wooing, fall in love, accident, rehabilitation, friendship, love story, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.0
 24
Go, Masao! (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: unlikely partners, friends, ambition, animal life, rising to stardom, pets, partner, nothing goes right, disorder, human animal relationship, struggling actor, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Pyaar Impossible (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: romantic comedy in which a geek and the most sought-after college beauty are paired together by a twist of fate. And under all odds, an impossible love story begins.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, college, goofy hero, couples, unlikely couple, youth, disorder, nerd, student, tragic love, drowning, indians ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Dorfman in Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, self discovery, unrequited love, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, daydreamer, disorder, misfit, singleness, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
57%
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