Movies like Now Chinatown

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Now Chinatown (2000)
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Now Chinatown (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Film from Steve Dunning
Style: independent film
Plot: restaurant, bus, immigration, chinese new year, mahjong, cross cultural relations, chinese restaurant
Place: los angeles

Most similar movies to Now Chinatown

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, touching and serious films with plots about love, restaurant, love and romance, sex, kiss, couples and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Now Chinatown: A Better Life (2011), Honky (1971), Shopgirl (2005), Wishing for a Dream (2016), Love and Love Not (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
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Honky (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: interracial romance, blaxploitation, black, interracial, interracial relations, teenager, racial tension, white male black female relationship, interracial sex, interracial couple, drug, automobile ...
Time: year 1971
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Shopgirl (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: depression, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, artist, salesman, love, love story, honest, couples, age difference, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Wishing for a Dream (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Actress Mika Andrews and her filmmaker boyfriend, Louis Digman struggle through the stresses, hopes, desires and disappointments of the entertainment industry to succeed in 'Hollywood.'
Plot: hollywood, hamster, filmmaking, insomnia, actor, dream, audition, female nudity, smoking, drug, bare breasts, studio ...
Place: los angeles
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Love and Love Not (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: There are two places Nicky Leandro calls home each reinforcing a particular facet of his personality: the red-blooded New Yorker and the L.A. transplant. Up until now each have done a fine job of compartmentalizing themselves. That is until Lily, an ...
Style: feel good, romantic, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: restaurant, relationships, male female relationship, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, womanizer, love, love and romance, couples, couple relations, woman
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ice House (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and with no money in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He sets up a meeting with his old girlfriend Kay. When ...
Style: independent film
Plot: male female relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, singer, flashback, monologue, love, hotel room, love triangle, marriage proposal, oil field, bum, nightmare ...
Place: texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Expecting a Miracle (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: L.A. engineer Pete Stanhope wants to stop expensive, frustrating IVF treatment with his wife, Donna, and consider adoption but his wife disagrees. In the hopes of defusing the marital tension they go on a a romantic holiday to Mexico. Car trouble ...
Style: captivating, sincere, thought provoking, sentimental, hispanic
Plot: car trouble, marital problem, husband wife relationship, intergenerational friendship, interracial friendship, road trip, priest, little boy, small town, troubled marriage, man boy relationship, childless couple ...
Place: los angeles, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Sandcastles (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.
Plot: restaurant, ghost, car accident, life after death, violinist, supernatural power, crooked businessman, spirit, supernatural romance, love, money, beach ...
Time: 70s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 35
Diamond Stud (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A train mogul thinks on his life and loves as he rides his own train.
Style: independent film
Plot: girl fight, love, nudity, mogul, railway, brawl, smuggling, meal, sex scene, restaurant, singer, gambling ...
Time: 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Heartbreaker (1983)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Car clubs in East LA provide the background for gang rivalry and a blossoming romance between Beto (Fernando Allende in his first English-speaking role) and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim (Dawn Dunlap)
Style: intercultural, independent film
Plot: auto racing, gang, car, car racing, female nudity, male female relationship, african american, love triangle, sex, rivalry, chicano, love ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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A Rising Tide (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An inspirational story of redemption, Hell of a View tells the tale of a young chef, Sam Rama. After the destruction of his family's well-established Atlantic City restaurant during Hurricane Sandy, Sam must grow up quickly, taking the biggest ...
Style: touching, suspense, motivational
Plot: restaurant, redemption, hurricane, family relations, food, human relationship, forces of nature, natural disaster, family bonds, fear, overcoming, bravery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: working class, opposites attract, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, school ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Crooked Hearts (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot: voyeur, dysfunctional family, infidelity, shakespeare, affair, family relations, pregnancy, adultery, extramarital affair, bare breasts, family secret, nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, virginia, los angeles, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Open Tables (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Within the walls of the trendiest restaurants, behind the closed doors of private dinner parties, and on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Open Tables, uses the the exploding foodie scene as the backdrop for intertwining stories of true love, love ...
Plot: wine, restaurant, love, party, improv, food
Place: paris france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Anything (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.
Style: independent film
Plot: lgbt, transgender, gay, transsexual, suicide attempt, neighbor, beach, flashback sequence, love, moving, loss of wife, skinny dipping ...
Place: mississippi, los angeles
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53%
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Bounce (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Style: emotional, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: widow, redemption, betrayal, starting over, love and romance, haunted by the past, hopes, advertising, love, aviation, husband wife relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Love in Winterland (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ally, a final contestant on a dating show, must face her high school sweetheart when she is chosen for the Hometown Date.
Style: touching, uplifting, feel good, sentimental, sweet
Plot: couples, christmas, friendship, hopes, high school sweetheart, workaholic, ski resort, youth, breakup, male female relationship, hugging, entrepreneur ...
Place: los angeles, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Apart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 'Apart' follows several entangled lives in Los Angeles: Mario, a young man who feels rejected by an older man named Saleheddine; John, a jaded hustler and drug dealer who keeps happiness at bay, and who works closely with Christine, the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: gay, gay relationship, drug dealer, interracial relations, couple relations, multiple storylines, breaking up with girlfriend, lgbt, hustler, kiss, gay kiss
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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August (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides to phone Jonathan and meet for coffee. A seemingly innocent ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gay couple, love triangle, gender, gay interest, lovers reunited, couples, introspection, male pubic hair, gay romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 63K
Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style: sincere, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, couples, bittersweet, immigration, love, parents, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, usa, los angeles
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50%
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The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
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50%
Beyond Paradise (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Haunted by a tragic past, a stunning music student flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, romantic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot: passion, forbidden love, love triangle, female empowerment, husband wife relationship, friendship, star crossed lovers, marital problem, unrequited love, cross cultural relations, haunted by the past, husband wife estrangement ...
Place: kurdistan, barcelona, malibu california, los angeles, paris france ...
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No Future (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.
Style: crying
Plot: older woman younger man sex, secret relationship, sex starved woman, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drug overdose, dancing, kindergarten, addiction, drug, funeral, cheating boyfriend, grief ...
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48%
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DĂ©jĂ  Vu (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Style: romantic, romantic drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: destiny, love, true love, storytelling, death, memory, adultery, stranger, ruby, infidelity, couples, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1997
Place: paris france, middle east, london, israel, montmartre paris ...
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48%
Hester Street (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by ...
Style: black and white, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic, independent film ...
Plot: culture clash, infidelity, rabbi, immigration, woman, religious, gilded age, women, judaism, social issues, studying, migration ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 1890s, 1900s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa, america, egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Bleeding Hearts (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult, male, white tutor (Mark Evan Jacobs) and his 17-year-old, African-American, female student (Karen Kirkland).
Style: tragic ending, independent film
Plot: interracial, abortion, sexually transmitted disease, student, teacher, love, father, teenage girl, teenager, male teacher female student affair, cross cultural relations, tragedy ...
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48%
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The Boost (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give ...
Style: bleak, independent film, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug, recovery, alcoholism, drug abuse, drug addict, cautionary tale, substance abuse, couples, life is a bitch, downfall ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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David and Lisa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: split personality, love hurts, social relations, power relations, family relations, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, misfit, unlikely couple, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Happy Birthday (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As a common birthday approaches, five very different people are faced with very similar problems. Jim, a gay, overweight telemarketer (for a weight loss program) faces his self esteem issues. Ron, is a minister who preaches about conversion but ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sexual ...
Plot: gay, introspection, looking for love, youth, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, friendship, sexual relations, deportation, lgbt, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, texas, pakistan, portland oregon, taiwan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Wall of Noise (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura ...
Plot: horse race, extramarital affair, adultery, racehorse, romantic reunion, bare chested male, wife, ambulance, arrogant man, ambition, employer employee relationship, loan ...
Time: year 1963
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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