Movies like Populaire

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Populaire (2012)
 6.8
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Populaire (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Set in 1958, Populaire focuses on Rose Pamphyle, who lives with her widowed father and is destined to marry a son of the local mechanic. Rose travels out of town and applies for a secretarial job with an insurance agency run by Louis Échard. Louis learns that Rose can type with extraordinary speed -- using only two fingers -- and he tells her to compete in a speed-typing competition if she wants the job.
Style: romantic, sweet, sentimental, sexy, light, feel good, realistic, stylized, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: secretary, boss and employee, fall in love, receptionist, employer employee relationship, love and romance, workplace, competition, ambition, love story, contests and competitions, happy ending, workplace romance, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rise to the top, relationship vs career, manipulation, mentor, destiny, lady, post war, couples, flirting, humour ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1959, year 1958, 1920s
Place: france, paris france, new york, normandy
Keyword: movie theatre, rose, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and romantic films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, fall in love, love story, teenager and family relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Populaire: Chalet Girl (2011), Employee of the Month (2006), Romantics Anonymous (2010), Heartbreaker (2010), Cuban Fury (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chalet Girl (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated ...
Style: feel good, witty, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: snowboarding, love and romance, cinderella story, fall in love, skiing, resort, new job, ski resort, workplace, boss and employee, contests and competitions, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: alps, austria, europe, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Employee of the Month (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.
Style: romantic, light, funny, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: store, workplace, love, boss and employee, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, life philosophy, love triangle, chase, transformation, stereotypes, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Romantics Anonymous (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story: What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly ...
Style: feel good, romantic, touching, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: shyness, workplace romance, chocolate, group therapy, food, socially awkward, love and romance, odd couple, overcoming, couples, awkwardness, chef ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 28K
Heartbreaker (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Monaco, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, fall in love, love story, wooing, womanizer, couples, farce, stereotypes, cons and scams, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, hotshot ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, monte carlo, french riviera, monaco, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cuban Fury (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.
Style: light, sweet, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: salsa, dancing, dance, storytelling, mentor, comeback, love and romance, workplace, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, workplace romance, bullying ...
Time: 80s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, disability, friendship between men, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, disabled person, lifestyle change, human relationship, handicapped, culture clash, friends, interracial friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 66K
Wimbledon (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, inspirational, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: tennis, tennis player, underdog, ambition, love, competition, love story, couple relations, motivation, secret relationship, career, fall in love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, big ben london, new york, brighton ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 74K
Just Married (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, newlyweds, love and romance, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, battle of the sexes, disorder, fall in love, farce, american football, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: europe, france, venice, italy, alps ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Let's Get Those English Girls (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Cote D'azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: beach party, topless woman, high school, party, group of friends, practical joke, drunkenness, teenager, beach, holiday, teenage sexuality, group of teenagers ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1959
Place: england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
What Happens in Vegas (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, couples, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, love and romance, happy ending, newlyweds, life turned upside down, initially antagonists, party, hotel ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Failure to Launch (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are ...
Style: feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: relationships, battle of the sexes, pretend relationship, love and romance, opposites attract, unlikely couple, love story, life philosophy, family relations, happy ending, family life, dating ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
 13K
Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, city life, friendship, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, dancer, siblings, lsd ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, funny, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love story, unlikely couple, opposites attract, looking for love, boss and employee, workplace romance, lawyer, love and romance, women, enemies to lovers, billionaire ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.9
 321K
The Holiday (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, love, love story, love and romance, happy ending, couples, fall in love, multiple storylines, snow, looking for love, unrequited love ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, england, california, london, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
No Strings Attached (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Style: romantic, sexy, sweet, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: sex, love story, couples, love and romance, best friends in love, fall in love, couple relations, sexual relations, opposites attract, sexual attraction, casual sex, friends in love ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 6K
The Hammer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underdog, olympics, mentor, ex athlete, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete's life, friends, couples, love affair, comeback, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Cutting Edge (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Style: sweet, feel good, light, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: figure skating, skating, opposites attract, underdog, happy ending, olympics, fall in love, competition, love, hockey, winter, couples ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, minnesota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Wedding Date (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place: europe, england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt decides to go ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, light, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
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Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
 17K
Little Italy (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Style: romantic, light, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
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21%
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27 Dresses (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love, opposites attract, wedding planner, love and romance, women, bridesmaid, couple relations, unlikely couple, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min.
Story: To win back his girlfriend after an unfortunate misunderstanding, a hopeless romantic decides to recreate grand gestures from famous movies.
Style: touching, psychological, humorous, talky, gaming ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend conflict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, seductive man, plan gone wrong, manipulative person, socially awkward, jealous man, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, female sexual predator, jealous boyfriend, shop owner ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 63K
Set It Up (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two overworked assistants with nasty bosses try to get their supervisors out of their hair.
Style: romantic, entertaining, humorous, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: happy ending, fall in love, employer employee relationship, enemies to lovers, love and romance, dating, boss, assistant, plan, new york yankees, love, coming of age ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Wedding Unplanner (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marina is a woman in her thirties who works organizing weddings. Not because she is an inveterate romantic just because, as she says, "when people are in love, they don't care about money". Unlike her customers, she enjoys a life ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Plot: wedding, adultery, fiance fiancee relationship, female alcoholic, father in law, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, love triangle, wedding planning, relationships, love interest, romantic triangle ...
Place: canary islands, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Style: feel good, sweet, romantic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, love triangle, love and romance, couples, love story, thirtysomething life, christmas, looking for love, opposites attract, holiday, workplace romance, happy ending ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Playing for Keeps (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Style: romantic, funny, sexy, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, eligible bachelor, relationships, mentor, parents, family drama, athlete, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
 53K
Tin Cup (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.
Style: sexy, entertaining, light, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: golf, underdog, love, psychologist, competition, redemption, multiple storylines, rivalry, happy ending, love and romance, desert, man-woman relation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas, usa, north carolina, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Christmas Kiss (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Wendy Walton is the best designer in Boston... but no one knows it yet. Hoping to kick-start her career, Wendy has left work with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, the most prestigious designer in the city. Ms. Hall ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, obnoxious boss, love triangle, christmas romance, boss and employee, fall in love, love and romance, christmas present, misunderstanding, romantic relationship, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 357K
The Proposal (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Style: feel good, romantic, light, funny, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love, love story, wedding, happy ending, love and romance, relationships, initially antagonists, couples, opposites attract, unlikely couple, workplace romance, pretend relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
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Leap Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, touching, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, love and romance, road trip, opposites attract, wedding, beautiful scenery, initially antagonists, marriage proposal, love story, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, wales, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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