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Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
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Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Original name: Čovek nije tica
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
Style: black and white, sex comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, cynical, semi serious, crying
Plot: circus, love triangle, hypnosis, love, engineer, machinery, black, drinking, factory, politics, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, sexual content, unfulfilled love, political unrest, wooing, dishonesty, unfulfillment, sex, thief, fight, snake ...
Time: 60s
Place: balkan, eastern europe, belgrade, serbia, former yugoslavia, belgrade serbia
Keyword: marketplace, serbian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about love and romance, couples, husband wife relationship, infidelity, couple relations, love and extramarital affair mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Man Is Not a Bird: It Rains in My Village (1968), Moscow, Belgium (2008), WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), Cape of Good Hope (2004), Sleep with Me (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After many adventures, young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes. When the boyfriend returns, he gets into ...
Style: experimental, black and white, educational, controversial, non-linear ...
Plot: rat, female nudity, surrealism, lust, black, morgue, exterminator, female corpse, nudity, bare butt, corpse, violent content ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
It Rains in My Village (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Style: black and white, realistic, serious
Plot: gypsy, black, village, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, mentally challenged, vengeance, clergy, village life, small town, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Moscow, Belgium (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: ‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: family relations, working class, fall in love, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, love affair, mother daughter relationship, drinking ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: ghent, belgium, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, experimental, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erection, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, satire, trippy, communism, mature, badass, sexology, porn ...
Time: year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Sleep with Me (1994)
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, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, marriage, sexual relations, marriage proposal, redemption, lgbt, relationships, lesbian, poker, wedding, friendship ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Blume in Love (1973)
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: divorce, marriage, lawyer, satire, law, infidelity, love triangle, female nudity, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, couples, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, los angeles, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Ham Ham (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose ...
Style: erotic, humorous, dark comedy, sensual, talky ...
Plot: sexuality, prostitute, passion, jealousy, male nudity, sex, matador, infidelity, sensuality, erotica, pregnancy, social differences ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Montenegro (1981)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she ...
Style: dark comedy, sexy, cult classic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: mad woman, immigrant, male nudity, sexuality, erotica, dark humor, nudity, death, insanity, adultery, storytelling, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: balkan, europe, stockholm sweden, former yugoslavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Style: parody, humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: fall in love, coming of age, cold war, summer, traumatic childhood, family relations, revolution, domineering father, grandfather grandson relationship, teenage life, political unrest, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 1984, 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, balkan, europe, serbia, prague ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Night of Love (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Style: political, grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, sexual ...
Plot: small town, revolution, sex, female nudity, seduction, bare breasts, nudity, village, village life, small town life, political unrest, assassination ...
Time: 1920s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Lawless Heart (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner
Style: melancholic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: adultery, gay, infidelity, eccentricity, relationships, love and romance, love affair, sex, multiple storylines, couple relations, sex in car, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: europe, england, prague, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Adam & Eva (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Adam and Eva have been married for four years. But the romance has disappeared from their relationship and has been replaced by boredom and old routine. When Adam meets his brother's baby-sitter, Jackie, he is immediately attracted to her. They ...
Style: sentimental, witty, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, infidelity, rescue, family problems, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, love triangle, breakup, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Serious Moonlight (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.
Style: not serious, witty, humorous, realistic, cynical ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: marriage, love triangle, infidelity, family problems, love and romance, dishonesty, woman, hostage, mistress, couples, robbery, love ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, touching, clever, sexy ...
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, betrayal ...
Time: year 2001
Place: santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
Style: funny, talky, witty, humorous, clever ...
Plot: honeymoon, obsessive love, love triangle, wedding, marriage, bride and groom, adultery, bittersweet, infidelity, cheating, love, restaurant ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: florida, minnesota, miami, middle east, minneapolis minnesota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style: sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
34%
Separation City (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mate swapping, love triangle, family relations, battle of the sexes, fall in love, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, buddies, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Shake It All About (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, infidelity, gay relationship, family relations, fall in love, friendship, pregnancy, love triangle, looking for love, couple relations, gay couple ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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My Man (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot ...
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, talky, cynical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, prostitution, nymphomania, sex, prostitute, voyeur, love, playboy, infidelity, eroticism, temptation, sexy girl ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: lyon, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: infidelity, feminist, love triangle, satire, women, child abuse, domestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, adultery, housewife, marital problem ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Love, etc. (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he ...
Style: romantic, talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, infidelity, love triangle, friendship, couples, friends, unemployment, urban, unfulfilled love, looking for love, city life, twentysomething life ...
Time: 90s
Place: english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Style: black comedy, humorous, witty, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: divorce, murder, cousin cousin relationship, manipulation, sicilian, husband wife relationship, marriage, forbidden love, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
I Like It Like That (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, independent film, romantic drama ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: couples, family relations, culture clash, storytelling, hopes, dark humor, stereotypes, love affair, human nature, eccentric family, parents and children, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: usa, indiana, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Dry Spell (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
Style: sex comedy, realistic, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: divorce, couples, couple relations, love and romance, battle of the sexes, sexual relations, curses spells and rituals, sex scene, love, sex, husband wife relationship, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied ...
Style: aesthetic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, daily life, crazy love, passion, love letter, summer, teenager, love, suburbs, tennis, cafe, secret ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Heartbeat (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, pregnancy, family relations, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, forbidden love, unfulfillment, producer, passion, love, dilemma, parents ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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