Movies like Man of the Century

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Man of the Century (1999)
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Man of the Century (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Fantasy-comedy about a young man who lives as if it is 1928 or so, and his encounters with modern-day women and modern-day criminals.
Style: black and white, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: newspaper, profanity, fish out of water, mugging, time travel, misfit, love and romance, society, media, urban, disorder, dishonesty, artist, women, police, escape, bodyguard, photographer, dream, mansion, interracial relations, drug addiction, director, nightclub, butler ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s, 1920s, 1990s
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: chinese, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, urban and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Man of the Century: Born Yesterday (1993), Piccadilly Jim (2004), The Night We Never Met (1993), This Is Not a Film (2003), Pipe Dream (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Born Yesterday (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. ...
Style: humorous, satirical, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, farce, society, fall in love, love and romance, journalism, social differences, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, couples, women, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
86%
The Night We Never Met (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style: offbeat, semi serious, realistic, feel good, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boarding house, love, exodus, mistaken identity, partner, couples, disorder, friends, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
This Is Not a Film (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, breakup, couples, couple relations, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, obsession, artists and showbiz, urban, actress, reenactment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Pipe Dream (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, couple relations, hidden identity, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, frame up, fall in love, disorder, artists and showbiz, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.6
 275
Meeting Daddy (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, family relations, love affair, fish out of water, eccentric family, opposites attract, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family gatherings, breakup ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia, california, usa, los angeles, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Sprung (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes ...
Style: black comedy, humorous, slapstick, independent film, biting ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hip hop, black, urban, friendship, sex, black american, gangster, women, dating, wedding, best friend, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single ...
Style: black and white, sexy, erotic, independent film, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: black, blaxploitation, thanksgiving, adultery, love and romance, urban, hip hop, love, sex, peace, strength, african ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, indiana, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Style: humorous, hilarious, romantic comedy, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: mafia, mistaken identity, fish out of water, marriage proposal, fbi, family relations, comedy of errors, fall in love, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.3
 478
Ed's Next Move (1996)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ed lives in Wisconsin. He's just been dumped by his girlfriend, so he moves to New York City for a big change...but will he ever find love again? He loves his new job studying the genetics of different strains of rice. Then Ed meets Lee, a ...
Style: independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: genetics, diner, couples, disorder, solitary, hopes, unlikely couple, opposites attract, starting over, misfit, introspection, love and romance ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, wisconsin, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
A Couch in New York (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply ...
Style: melancholic, sweet, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, couple relations, opposites attract, nothing goes right, love and romance, unlikely couple, misfit, fall in love, infidelity, looking for love, love triangle, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, paris france, usa, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he ...
Style: independent film, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teacher, obsession, love and romance, jealousy, substitute teacher, pop culture, infidelity, wooing, singleness, looking for love, comedy of errors, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, iowa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.2
 729
Kettle of Fish (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: opposites attract, jazz, unlikely couple, friendship, fall in love, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love and romance, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
56%
 6.0
 443
In the Weeds (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, sex comedy ...
Plot: restaurant, waitress, food, workplace, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, workplace romance, workplace situations, couples, love and romance, city life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.5
 7K
Party Girl (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. ...
Style: independent film, rom com, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: librarian, library, nightclub, female protagonist, friendship, bail, gay, party, prejudice, dj, drug, lgbtq ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.0
 189
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 ⇓
54%
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Top Five (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.
Style: funny, humorous, light, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: comedian, hip hop, showbiz, interview, opposites attract, desire for fame, media, black, love and romance, addiction, introspection, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Off Beat (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: law enforcement, impersonating a police officer, love and romance, switching roles, friendship, disorder, mistaken identity, police officer, misfit, contests and competitions, fish out of water, partner ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
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Loving Jezebel (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: black, infidelity, best friend, goofy hero, fall in love, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, love and romance, friends, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Get Well Soon (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After having a nervous breakdown, a popular talk-show host confronts his ex-girlfriend who is dating a cross-dresser.
Style: talky, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: fish out of water, gender, media, lifestyle, disorder, nervous breakdown, male nudity, male to female cross dressing, bare chested male, talk show, crossdresser, unlikely couple ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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If Lucy Fell (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, melancholic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, best friend, roommate, destiny, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, happy ending, love story, brooklyn bridge, suicide attempt, looking for love, couples ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jewish Jack-the-lad David seriously fancies smart, rich Anglo-Saxon Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still says she finds him appalling he works on it and they are soon together. ...
Style: romantic comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, best friend, friends, couples, religions or cults, wooing, looking for love, love affair, social differences, society, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Little City (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on the side! And if this triangle wasn't crowded enough, the arrival of a seductive newcomer ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: threesome, rock, friendship, infidelity, lesbian, priest, mob boss, confession, catholic church, painter, painting, couples ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, california, usa, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.6
 474
Hank and Asha (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An Indian student in Prague and a lonely New Yorker correspond online through video letters. A voyeuristic love story about aching for human connection in a hyper-connected world.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: interracial romance, impossible love, love and romance, looking for love, cyberspace, dishonesty, computers and web, interracial relations, filmmaker, computer, love, internet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: prague, new york, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.3
 9K
Soul Man (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, ...
Style: humorous, controversial, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: racism, college, high school, mentor, teenager, culture clash, happy ending, coming of age, black, teenage sex, black man, interracial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, los angeles, usa, hawaii, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Love Conquers Paul (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story: Comedy - Brendan Bradley, Russell Garofalo, Elizabeth Wood
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, voyeurism, misfit, dishonesty, love and romance, stalking, social misfits, looking for love, small town, twentysomething life, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: librarian, library, sexual content, family relations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, family life, urban, parents and children, men hatred, city life ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.5
 643
Let It Snow (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Our two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school. Years later they reconnect in Manhattan, but life is more complicated. Sarah sleeps with her beeper. James goes to "open-mike therapy". As Sarah plans her wedding to ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: christmas, dating, bittersweet, wedding, fall in love, young lovers, youth, love and romance, coming of age, gender, family relations, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, europe, usa, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.7
 3K
Choose Me (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
Style: neo noir, offbeat, surreal, sex comedy, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: media, love, roommate, seduction, mental health, interracial, conversation, nightclub owner, couples, love affair, passionate interest, urban ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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