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The Comedian (2016)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
Style:
captivating, light, melancholic, romantic, entertaining, experimental, romantic comedy, independent film, f word, comic
Plot:
comedian, aging, insult, stand up comedy, comeback, comedy club, brother brother relationship, jail, dating, casanova, fish, lesbian daughter, hunter, ghost hunter, judaism, love, christmas, sex, new year, dog, prison, dancing, school, lawyer, attorney ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
somalia, africa, italy, new york, texas, london, florida ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and sexy films with plots about kiss, drinking, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, drinking alcohol, friendship and drink mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Comedian: On the Rocks (2020), Barry Munday (2010), Gloria Bell (2018), The Meddler (2015), Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, light, sentimental ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, marriage, playboy, infidelity, affair, businessman, suspicion of adultery, lesbian, husband wife relationship, love, adultery, flirting ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, canada, paris france, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, offbeat, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
castration, family relations, pregnancy, doctor, self discovery, eccentric family, meet the parents, couples, disorder, fatherhood, male female relationship, childbirth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
middle age romance, dancing, dating, middle aged man, dysfunctional relationship, drinking, ex husband ex wife relationship, breakup, friend, lie, friendship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2019, year 1986
Place:
los angeles, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Style:
romantic, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, loss of father, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, party, father son relationship, friend, wedding ceremony, retired cop, marijuana ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.
Style:
homoerotic, lgbt cinema, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
gay relationship, sex scene, open relationship, infidelity, male objectification, orgasm, marriage proposal, sexual promiscuity, monogamy, open marriage, jealousy, male nudity ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, naples italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
sexy, psychological, semi serious, independent film, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, fall in love, depression, musician, starting over, self fulfillment, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the ...
Style:
sentimental, dark comedy, raunchy comedy, black comedy, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
sex worker, lap dance, marriage, mansion, hedonism, sex work, male female relationship, priest, swimming pool, husband wife relationship, new year's eve, baptism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, las vegas, new york, nevada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, clever, touching, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
masseur, infidelity, marriage, divorce, brooklyn bridge, massage, lesbian, loneliness, drinking, female pubic hair, impossible love, envy ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Avi Rosen knows what's really funny: the laughs come with dollar signs in Hollywood. Bidding farewell to his crotchety grandmother, who wishes he'd find a nice Jewish girl and open a pharmacy, Avi leaves the Big Apple and heads West to ...
Style:
f word
Plot:
name calling, contract, living together, marriage proposal, waiter, mother daughter relationship, woman in a bikini, fall in love, love, love triangle, hospital, father son relationship ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Style:
melancholic, surreal, lyrical, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, marriage, writer's life, depression, artists and showbiz, wife, bittersweet, marital problem, breakup, memory, aspiring writer, living together ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2009, year 2013, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa, ohio, new jersey, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
30%
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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.
Style:
funny, rom com, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
wedding, wedding planning, confession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, male objectification, name calling, marital problem, up and down relationship, guest, reluctant partners, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, young lovers, interracial relations, multiple storylines, looking for love, city life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, first love, love affair ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style:
sexy, teen, sex comedy, clever, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
womanizer, sex, relationships, infidelity, couples, friendship, obsession, friends to lovers, dating, friends, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, france, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla ...
Style:
light, stylized, sex comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, orgasm, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, fall in love, high school, female masturbation, age difference, couples, unfaithfulness, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
ohio, cleveland ohio, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, talky, stylized, sentimental ...
Plot:
writers, stepmother, relationships, marriage, divorce, hotel, friendship, marxism, blended family, narcissist, character study, eccentricity ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, quebec, brooklyn new york city, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style:
sexy, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot:
sleepwalking, mental disorder, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, sleeping, road trip ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, pennsylvania, maryland ...
Similarity:
27%
43K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, love story, relationships, sex, older woman younger man sex, artist, therapy, therapist, family relations, impossible love, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
wedding, couples, family gatherings, twists and turns, parents and children, marriage, farce, family relations, family reunited, couple relations, family feud, in-laws ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Style:
sensual, captivating, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
lovers, middle aged woman, sex scene, marital problem, love triangle, marriage, secret, name calling, father son relationship, love, amor, aged person ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Style:
sexy, independent film, relaxing, cult classic, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, loneliness, divorce, womanizer, sex addict, family drama, obsession, drinking, business, character study, bankrupt, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, macau, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Style:
sexy, humorous, touching, romantic comedy, eros ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian love, woman woman relationship, lesbian romance, gender, lgbtq, relationships, hospital, lesbian sex ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
indiana, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
Similarity:
26%
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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, friendship, fall in love, city life, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, single mother, heart disease, parisian ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style:
cute, humorous, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, age difference, divorce, single mother, family relations, parents and children, love affair, fall in love, writers, generation gap ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, san francisco
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
bipolar disorder, mental illness, father daughter relationship, mental disorder, mental health, absent mother, parents and children, illness, poverty, husband wife relationship, youth, trust ...
Time:
year 2014, future, 60s, year 1967, year 1978 ...
Place:
boston, usa, new york, new england, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In San Francisco, Kira has a day job at a warehouse, writes jokes for her sister (who does stand-up back East), wants to perform her own material, hangs out with best friend Sydney (who writes food reviews), and sleeps once with every woman she can. ...
Style:
independent film, queer cinema
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, food, restaurant, stand up comedy, drag queen, nudity, mother daughter relationship, neighbor, singing, cafe ...
Place:
san francisco, milwaukee wisconsin
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left ...
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, humorous, light, cute ...
Plot:
comedian, illness, pregnancy, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, death, mother son relationship, eccentric family, haunted by the past, hospital, brain tumor, medical, new year's eve ...
Place:
new york, ohio
Similarity:
25%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, touching, road movie, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, chase, child molestation, sexual promiscuity, teenager, 17 year old, teenage girl, absent father, pervert, teenage boy, relationships, murder ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
paris france, mexico
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
single parent, disability, family relations, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, youth, divorced parents, siblings relations, sexual relations, mentally challenged, misfit ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
Style:
romantic, sexy, light, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
singleness, women, breakup, love and romance, couple relations, love story, drinking, single, love, multiple storylines, fall in love, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
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