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Dinner with Friends (2001)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style:
sincere, witty, realistic, romantic drama, clever, entertaining, stylized, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationships, friendship, honest, food, betrayal, family problems, dialogue, secrets, introspection, marriage, love and romance, crumbling marriage, midlife crisis, starting over, dinner, divorce, female nudity, restaurant, cooking, friends, profanity, couples, sexual content, suburbs, yuppie ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, california, san francisco, poland, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and talky films with plots about couple relations, couples, friendship, infidelity, love and romance, husband wife relationship and adultery mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Dinner with Friends: Trust the Man (2005), Chinese Puzzle (2013), Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), Love in the Afternoon (1972), Peter's Friends (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marital separation, artificial insemination, marriage of convenience, infidelity, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, somalia, usa, france, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, couple relations, crumbling marriage, family problems, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, unfulfillment, lifestyle, infidelity, remarry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bahamas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style:
clever, anthology, art house, contemplative, talky ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female nudity, passion, love and romance, infidelity, crazy love, glamour, affair, illicit affair, marriage, love, love affair, desire ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common ...
Style:
sentimental, witty, touching, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
new year's eve, aids, friends, friendship, redemption, justice, weekend, thirtysomething life, adulthood, family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1992
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.
Style:
inspirational, atmospheric, sincere, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, musician's life, couple relations, love affair, music fan, introspection, bisexual woman, romantic relationship, female protagonist, friendship, mishap, ex lover ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style:
sincere, emotional, visually stunning, stylized, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, homosexuality, infidelity, gay husband, racism, lgbtq, crumbling marriage, housewife, closeted homosexual, forbidden love, gay, divorce ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2000s, year 1958, year 2002 ...
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa, miami, baltimore ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style:
sincere, witty, humorous, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, starting over, society, relationship vs career, midlife crisis, looking for love, buddies, lifestyle, human nature, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
talky, realistic, philosophical, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, marital separation, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
marriage, mental disorder, breakup, relationship vs career, dysfunctional family, suburban life, suburbs, pregnancy, midlife crisis, infidelity, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, best friend, homecoming, friends, old love, couples, introspection, couple relations, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, womanizer, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, estrangement, dishonesty, lifestyle, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, writer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, couple relations, black, introspection, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, human nature, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2007, 80s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, georgia, indiana, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style:
sitcom, talky, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, looking for love, family life, homecoming, family problems, family relations, college, estrangement, couples, starting over, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, france, paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, skinny dipping, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, love and romance, introspection, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love affair, chef, looking for love, haunted by the past, introspection, love and romance, couples, love triangle, lifestyle, unlikely couple, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place:
new york, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
Style:
romantic comedy, funny, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ex husband ex wife relationship, female nudity, satire, law, lawyer, marriage, divorce, infidelity, love triangle, unfulfillment, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, venice, los angeles, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style:
humorous, witty, melancholic, cult classic, philosophical ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, sex, dialogue, food ...
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
22%
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:
anthology, witty, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, multiple storylines, luxury hotel, adultery, marriage, hotel, bittersweet, couples, family problems, family relations, midlife crisis, honeymoon ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style:
satirical, talky, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, southern belle, women, family problems, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
savannah georgia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Style:
sexy, witty, melancholic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, shopping, midlife crisis, nervous breakdown, money problems, maid, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, looking for love ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style:
sentimental, rom com, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, friendship, divorce, love story, happy ending, breakup, passion, dysfunctional family, honest, best friend, love, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, san francisco, california, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot:
couples, couple relations, infidelity, pregnancy, best friend, thirtysomething life, friends, introspection, crumbling marriage, divorce, adultery, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style:
sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
wedding, couples, love story, infidelity, destiny, bittersweet, sex, ex husband ex wife relationship, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Newlyweds Alex and Alice host a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. However, when an unexpected guest shows up, the group's facades begin to crumble.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Plot:
divorce, newlyweds, couple relations, couples, bittersweet, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, friends, thirtysomething life, friendship, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, light, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, relationships, african american, marriage, black, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, love, hip hop, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. ...
Style:
sexy, talky, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, marriage proposal, love triangle, sexual relations, young lovers, lgbt, redemption, relationships, lesbian, romantic triangle, poker ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Style:
melancholic, romantic, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
elderly, couple relations, happy ending, marriage counselor, therapist, therapy, relationships, depression, honest, doctors and patients, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style:
sexy, sincere, clever, independent film, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, lesbian, love affair, fall in love, casual sex, passion, sister sister relationship, sisters, love triangle, life philosophy, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa, seattle
Similarity:
19%
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