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The Matchbreaker (2016)
 5.6
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The Matchbreaker
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an idealistic romantic gets fired from his day job, he is offered a "one-time gig" to break up a girl's relationship for her disapproving parents. This "one-time" gig spreads through word-of-mouth and he ends up becoming a professional match-breaker. However, he ends up falling for one of his clients and must figure out how to balance his secret job with his love-life.
Plot: iguana, domineering mother, landlord, breakup, brother sister relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, jazz, deception, singer, mother son relationship

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother sister relationship, singer, friendship, romance, love and romance and couples mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Matchbreaker: Suburban Girl (2007), Table 19 (2017), Soulmate (2006), Cola, Candy, Chocolate (1979), Sparkle (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Suburban Girl (2007)
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Suburban Girl
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of ...
Style: semi serious, clever, talky, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unlikely couple, romance, suburbs, couple relations, friendship, infidelity, looking for love, love triangle, advice, library, seduction, deception ...
Time: contemporary
Place: new york, usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city
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Table 19 (2017)
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Table 19
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
Plot: misfit, wedding reception, wedding, man wearing a tuxedo, grandparent, falling to the ground, prison, prostitute, wedding cake, confession, waiter, drug use ...
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Soulmate (2006)
 7.2
 37
Soulmate
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Dong-wook, a playboy who no one can even dare to follow.“My boyfriend of 5 years!! He is definitely my soulmate!!”Soo-kyung, a girl who only looks at one man like a sunflower; a perfect, pure hearted character.Two people who have never seen each ...
Plot: romance, love, stalking, coworker relationship, breakup, destiny, first love, soul mate, female friendship, brother sister relationship, bar, restaurant ...
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System:   88%
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Cola, Candy, Chocolate (1979)
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Cola, Candy, Chocolate
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a nasty argument with her boyfriend Carl, young Gaby spontaneously accepts her girlfriend invitation to join her on a vacation to Manila. Her plans to forget about Carl succeed very rapidly as she meets Dr. Andreas Witzig, a young scholar who ...
Plot: beach, island, vacation, hit over the head with a bottle, bungalow, hotel receptionist, bishop, hammock, barefoot male, hysterical woman, gay stereotype, feet on table ...
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Sparkle (2007)
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Sparkle
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
Style: talky, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, single parent, romance, boss and employee, love affair, workplace romance, fall in love, family relations, power relations, workplace, funeral, waiter ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: england, london
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Johnny Suede (1991)
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Johnny Suede
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
Style: semi serious, humorous, surreal, offbeat, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician's life, romance, celebrity culture, showbiz, artists and showbiz, couples, nightclub, musician, song, liar, sex, rent ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, wyoming
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Now You Know (2002)
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Now You Know
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night
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Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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Sunday in New York (1963)
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Sunday in New York
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, jazz, city life, romance, urban, battle of the sexes, bus, looking for sex, singleness, wooing, twentysomething life, virgin ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa
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System:   72%
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Get Over It (2001)
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Get Over It
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring ...
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Western (1997)
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Western
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: on the road, buddies, romance, opposites attract, countryside, self discovery, friendship, couple relations, culture clash, fall in love, fish out of water, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france, galicia
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Cool as Ice (1991)
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Cool as Ice
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Johnny, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician, rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy's father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally found by the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, ridiculous, awful ...
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Time: 90s, 80s, future, 1990s
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System:   67%
    User:   65%
 
About Adam (2000)
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About Adam
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.
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She's All That (1999)
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She's All That
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 1990s
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Ira & Abby
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Country: USA
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Style: talky, humorous, not serious, offbeat, realistic ...
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View from the Top (2003)
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View from the Top
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
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Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: romance, small town, mentor, destiny, follow your dream, stewardess, airplane, workplace situations, ambition, dreams, happy ending, workplace ...
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All or Nothing (2017)
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All or Nothing
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.
Plot: female protagonist, crying, hand kissing, christmas tree, christmas, crying man, mother daughter relationship, telephone call, photograph, secretary, birthday cake, gift ...
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A Silent Agreement (2017)
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A Silent Agreement
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Reuben, a sensitive writer, grapples with a speech impediment as his boyfriend, Derek, a profoundly deaf Human Rights activist, provides strategies to restore his confidence and communication skills. When Reuben approaches an over-the-hill film ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: helplessness, femininity, troubled past, apathy, cerebral palsy, conflict, middle aged, mobile phone, opening a door, lying on bed, sexual fantasy, document ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
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Rendezvous in Paris
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
Style: talky, clever, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: romance, swedish, nothing goes right, relationships, art, city life, hotel, friendship, british, love, young lovers, new wave ...
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Three Friends (1972)
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Three Friends
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Directed by Memduh Ün.
Plot: boy, friendship, crying, friendship between men, singer, fortune teller, hospital, photographer, doctor, taking a photograph, nurse, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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Sordid Lives (2000)
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Sordid Lives
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed ...
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Their Finest (2016)
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Their Finest
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and ...
Style: propaganda film
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Time: 1940s, year 1940, 20th century
Place: britain, america, england
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Telling You (1998)
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Telling You
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
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All About Christmas Eve (2012)
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All About Christmas Eve
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: 'Tis the Season for Evelyn Wright...literally, she is a party planner in NYC. At the last minute Eve finds out that one of her agency's top clients is throwing a HUGE Christmas event, in LA, on Christmas Eve! Eve must decide whether to ...
Plot: career change, alternate reality, alternate timeline, miniature golf, mistletoe, career, airplane trip, cheating boyfriend, christmas eve, christmas season, caught having sex, breakup ...
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Leap of Faith (1992)
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Leap of Faith
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage. One of their ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, dramatic ...
Plot: small town, redemption, cons and scams, con artists, religion, bus, dishonesty, con men, hopes, romance, mentor, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
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: emotional, touching, semi serious, gloomy, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, mental illness, depression, runaway, dysfunctional family, starting over, friendship, suicide attempt, relationships, guilt, adoption, hospital ...
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Place: new york, usa, new jersey
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. ...
Style: funny, absurd, ridiculous, idiotic, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wedding, dumb, stupidity, parody, foul language, pornography, chase, drinking, brothers, catastrophe, sisters, stereotypes ...
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This Christmas (2007)
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This Christmas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: human nature, parents and children, urban ghetto, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, family gatherings, estrangement, family life, couples, family problems, family relations ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago illinois
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Woo (1998)
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Woo
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Gorgeous and extraverted Woo meets insecure and straight-laced law clerk Tim at a blind date.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, romance, friendship, battle of the sexes, male nudity, stereotypes, opposites attract, urban, restaurant, looking for love, dialogue, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan, new york city, manhattan new york city
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System:   41%
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
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Love in the Time of Money
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Style: clever, serious, realistic, humorous, talky ...
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Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
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Monkeys, Go Home!
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sexy
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: farm, village life, family, nothing goes right, village, clergy, down on your luck, animal life, social relations, chimpanzee, olive, disorder ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
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