Movies like The Great New Wonderful

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The Great New Wonderful (2005)
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The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
Style: sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, witty, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot: 9/11, therapy, family relations, mental illness, office, terrorism, misfit, parents and children, love and romance, rise to the top, ambition, bittersweet, immigrant, racial slur, college, suicide, homosexual, psychiatrist, psychotherapy, alzheimer's disease, multiple storylines, husband wife relationship, old love, misogynist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2002, september 11 2001, year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, italy, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
Keyword: americana, new yorker, jewish

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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, husband wife relationship, couples, restaurant, sex, father son relationship and family relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Great New Wonderful: Playing by Heart (1998), Prime (2005), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), It Runs in the Family (2003), An Unmarried Woman (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
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95%
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Prime (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style: sweet, light, sentimental, romantic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, relationships, love story, therapy, artist, love, older woman younger man sex, family relations, life philosophy, doctors and patients, love of one's life ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, salt lake city utah, panama, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: suicide attempt, depression, redemption, love triangle, mental illness, suicide, fall in love, family relations, human nature, hopes, dark humor, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, gangster, courage, brutality, eccentric family, redemption, human nature, aging, couples, money, lawyer, marriage ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style: talky, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: divorce, holocaust, world war two, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, pregnancy, bigamy, peasant, self discovery, human nature, dark humor ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1989
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Trust the Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, sex addict, battle of the sexes, introspection, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, friendship, loneliness, adultery, sex, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Burning Annie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: college, lifestyle, couples, obsession, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Happy Endings (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An ensemble cast telling 10 stories with intertwining characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman . Another features a woman who long ago gave her baby up for adoption but is now being blackmailed by a documentary ...
Style: semi serious, clever, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: multiple storylines, sexual relations, adoption, gay teenager, dysfunctional family, gay, lesbian, lesbian couple, gays and lesbians, relationships, family relations, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: year 2005, year 1983, 21st century
Place: phoenix arizona, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, humorous, smart ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, fall in love, breakup, opposites attract, unlikely couple, eccentric family, family problems, newlyweds, love affair, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Broken English (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her ...
Style: light, emotional, sweet, sexy, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: dating, loneliness, older woman younger man relationship, friendship, self discovery, looking for love, single, cliche, thirtysomething life, coming of age, relationships, hotel ...
Time: year 2007
Place: paris france, france, croatia, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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A Silent Love (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: interracial relations, love triangle, family relations, looking for love, human nature, couple relations, society, love and romance, fall in love, couples, parents and children, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montreal, mexico, canada, latin america, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style: melancholic, stylized, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, prague, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
In Good Company (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, romantic comedy, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: workplace, advertising, business, father daughter relationship, boss, father son relationship, unlikely friendships, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, rivalry, new job ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Puffy Chair (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Josh's life is pretty much in the toilet. He's a failed NYC indie rocker, and a failing booking agent. But he finds the potential of a small victory in a really bad idea. He decides to purchase a 1985 Lazy Boy on eBay, just like the one ...
Style: mumblecore, road movie, melancholic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, wedding, on the road, family relations, introspection, parents and children, hopes, self discovery, love and romance, brother brother relationship, gift, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, atlanta georgia
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42%
Walking and Talking (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the help of Andrew, Frank, Laura, and a brief romance with Bill ...
Style: humorous, touching, romantic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: female friendship, women, sex, friendship, loneliness, life philosophy, youth, bittersweet, obsession, psychologist, cat, stalking ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce ...
Style: humorous, clever, witty, anthology, realistic ...
Plot: wedding, hotel, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, anniversary, looking for love ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
New York, I Love You (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, interracial relations, multiple storylines, couples, fall in love, young lovers, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, city life, friendship, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Entropy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Entropy is the semi-autobiographical film by director which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, dating, true love, passion, talking cat, model, wedding, pregnancy, nudity, sex, female nudity, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, las vegas, usa, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style: mumblecore, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, looking for love, college graduate, female nudity, female pubic hair, college, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Greenberg (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style: psychological, independent film, semi serious, mumblecore, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, personal assistant, depression, starting over, self fulfillment, fall in love, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies, escape from reality ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marriage, infidelity, love triangle, marital problem, midlife crisis, family relations, black, family life, love affair, sexual relations, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
According to Spencer (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: According to Spencer, She's the one... Everyone else thinks so too!
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, workplace, fall in love, porn industry, couples, buddies, love and romance, workplace romance, unfulfilled love, love triangle, workplace situations, husband wife relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, family relations, prank, honest, high school, parents and children, american football, teenage life, student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
Place: usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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