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The Great New Wonderful (2005)
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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, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, witty, contemplative, semi serious, sad ...
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, elevator, bodyguard, college, suicide, homosexual, psychiatrist, psychotherapy, alzheimer's disease, multiple storylines, husband wife relationship, old love ...
Time:
year 2002, september 11 2001, year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, italy, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
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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, drinking, drinking alcohol, restaurant, husband wife relationship, 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), Enemies: A Love Story (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, independent film, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
multiple storylines, love story, gay, love, divorce, adultery, illicit affair, affair, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
Similarity:
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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, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, love story, relationships, sex, older woman younger man sex, artist, therapy, therapist, family relations, impossible love, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 109 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:
humorous, sentimental, touching, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
suicide attempt, depression, love triangle, redemption, mental health, mental illness, family relations, fall in love, dark humor, hopes, human nature, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, ireland, california
Similarity:
79%
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, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brutality, gangster, courage, eccentric family, redemption, human nature, aging, couples, campus, money, marriage ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
79%
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, dark humor, holocaust, world war two, pregnancy, bigamy, peasant, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, self discovery, human nature ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1989
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
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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, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female nudity, divorce, sex scene, marital separation, midlife crisis, breakup, voyeur, feminist, self discovery, betrayal, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
75%
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, sensual, sweet, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
age difference, mental illness, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional family, love and romance, starting over, parents and children, haunted by the past, family problems, retirement ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 2000s, year 2009, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
75%
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, witty, humorous, touching, smart ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, fall in love, breakup, unlikely couple, opposites attract, eccentric family, newlyweds, family problems, love affair, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
75%
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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, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance, obsession, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
73%
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 ...
Plot:
interracial relations, love triangle, family relations, looking for love, society, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, parents and children, social differences, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal, canada, mexico, latin america, denver colorado
Similarity:
73%
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:
touching, emotional, intense, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, eccentric family, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, dealing with death, estrangement, book, snow ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
Similarity:
72%
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, introspection, battle of the sexes, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, sex, friendship, loneliness, adultery, actress ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 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:
sexy, emotional, sweet, light, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
dating, loneliness, friendship, self discovery, looking for love, single, cliche, thirtysomething life, hotel, drinking, coming of age, relationships ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
croatia, paris france, france, new york, europe ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 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:
sex, love, fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, siblings relations, family life, couple relations, introspection, youth, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
71%
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, parents and children, introspection, hopes, love and romance, self discovery, brother brother relationship, gift, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
69%
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:
sexy, melancholic, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, young lovers, interracial relations, multiple storylines, looking for love, city life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, first love, love affair ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
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, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
female friendship, sex, women, friendship, life philosophy, youth, bittersweet, obsession, cat, psychologist, stalking, strong female lead ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania, new jersey ...
Similarity:
67%
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, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, slacker, graduation, drinking, campus, lone hero, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 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, sexy, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
workplace, advertising, business, father daughter relationship, boss, father son relationship, unlikely friendships, love and romance, couple relations, 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:
66%
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:
sexy, romantic, unusual plot structure, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, toddlers, teens, kids ...
Plot:
sex, friendship, happy ending, best friends in love, relationships, love and romance, breast feeding, best friend, love story, relationship problems, pregnancy, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont, new jersey ...
Similarity:
66%
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, feel good, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
porn industry, friendship, workplace, fall in love, couples, love and romance, buddies, love triangle, workplace romance, unfulfilled love, workplace situations, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 90 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, sexual, talky, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, love triangle, midlife crisis, family relations, black, love affair, family life, sexual relations, moral dilemma, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2007, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
66%
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, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
true love, nudity, female nudity, filmmaking, passion, dating, marriage proposal, talking cat, model, wedding, pregnancy, fall in love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, las vegas, usa, europe, new york
Similarity:
65%
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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:
sexy, semi serious, dark comedy, clever, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sexual relations, closeted homosexual, multiple storylines, dysfunctional family, relationships, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, lesbian couple, male female relationship, abortion clinic, gay son, abortion ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1983, 21st century
Place:
phoenix arizona, los angeles, california
Similarity:
65%
40K
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:
sexy, psychological, semi serious, independent film, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, fall in love, depression, musician, starting over, self fulfillment, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
65%
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:
sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, divorce, marriage, relationships, writers, long term relationship, bittersweet, family drama, husband wife relationship, breakup, fall in love, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
65%
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:
humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school life, teenager, father son relationship, american football, adaptation, high school, family relations, prank, honest, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, y2k, year 1999
Place:
usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, opposites attract, love story, love, cooking and food, fall in love, initially antagonists, love and romance, guardian, food ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
Style:
humorous, witty, erotic, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coma, sister sister relationship, lifestyle, love affair, love, society, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, women, nudity, bittersweet, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. ...
Style:
sweet, humorous, melancholic, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, family drama, dysfunctional family, honest, love, starting over, parents and children, family life, couples, human nature, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
england, europe, glasgow scotland
Similarity:
64%
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