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Adopt a Sailor (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Adopt A Sailor is about Patricia and Richard, a successful and hip couple from New York City who inadvertently "adopt a sailor" during Fleet Week in New York City and the young man form Turkey Scratch, Arkansas who changes their lives forever.
Style:
witty, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, cynical, independent film
Plot:
couples, friends, family problems, couple relations, relationship problems, love and romance, lifestyle, city life, crumbling marriage, unsupportive spouse, husband wife relationship, u.s. navy, sailor, friendship, urban, unfulfillment, inadvertently, dancing, wine, ambulance, childhood sweetheart, pianist, aircraft carrier, navy, smoking ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, friendship, friends and unfulfillment mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Adopt a Sailor: Newlyweds (2011), Bastards of Young (2013), Now, Forager (2012), All You Need (2001), Kill the Poor (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, love and romance, couples, siblings relations, city life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, wedding, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot:
couples, couple relations, infidelity, pregnancy, best friend, thirtysomething life, friends, introspection, crumbling marriage, divorce, adultery, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucien and Regina are foragers - they gather wild mushrooms and sell them to New York restaurants. They live simply, according to the seasons. When Regina seeks more stability, their marriage is put to a test.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, culinary ...
Plot:
couple relations, lifestyle, ambition, relationship vs career, couples, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage, life turned upside down, unfulfilled love, disorder, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Love Chronicles, a romantic “dramedy”, is set at Los Angeles radio station KLUV, where callers air their dirty laundry over the airwaves for all to hear. Over the course of one crazy day, show host and "relationship expert" Darren ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, family problems, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, media, love and romance, society, marriage crisis, radio station, infidelity, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, emotional, talky
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, lifestyle, social decay, couple relations, society, human nature, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, family life ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical, clever ...
Plot:
pregnancy, social differences, lifestyle, couples, social decay, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, rise to the top, nothing goes right, social misfits, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous
Plot:
friends, friendship, partner, love and romance, lifestyle, self discovery, odd couple, disorder, couples, infidelity, nothing goes right, dishonesty ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
best friend, family life, friendship, disorder, family relations, friends, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, skinny dipping, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, love and romance, introspection, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, party, love, girlfriend, society, hipster, human relationship, lifestyle, urban ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
United States Senator, Andrew Ladd, revisits his life after a woman he loved, but only wrote letters to, dies. Having met as children the two grow apart as he enters politics and she aspires to be an artist. While success follows him, she has a more ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
fall in love, female artist, unfaithful husband, death of lover, passionate kiss, in love, senator, love, best friend, unfulfilled love, love affair, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, family problems, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family relations, couples, happiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Style:
psychological, emotional, talky, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
adultery, couple relations, imaginary friend, dysfunctional family, character study, human nature, jealous spouse, lifestyle, dishonesty, family problems, couples, society ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
100%
923
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Style:
mumblecore, talky, humorous, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
looking for love, lifestyle, friendship, youth, introspection, computers and web, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, misfit, social network, human relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
749
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.
Style:
realistic, psychological, mumblecore, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
profanity, introspection, couples, boss and employee, couple relations, parents and children, power relations, family relations, lifestyle, unfulfillment, coming of age, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, portland oregon, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
Style:
mumblecore, clever, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
friends, cons and scams, criminal heroes, friendship, thief, city life, lifestyle, dishonesty, female protagonist, character study, loneliness, slice of life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
infidelity, couples, looking for love, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, redemption, haunted by the past, bittersweet, heartbreak, troubled marriage, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, tense, touching ...
Plot:
couples, success, friendship, marriage, love, conversation, crumbling marriage, resentment, couple relations, happiness, anger, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story is of a married woman who, grieving her inability to have children, finds comfort and healing in her friendship with another man. It's about discovering grace in darkness and the unexpected places we find healing.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
friendship, human nature, couples, family problems, mysterious character, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, married, friends, woman, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, sex comedy ...
Plot:
fashion, rise and fall, relationship vs career, love and romance, couple relations, terminal illness, infidelity, estrangement, fashion show, couples, modeling, photographer ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
966
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, fall in love, couple relations, self discovery, teenage life, small town life, teenage love, best friend, human nature, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, female bonding, housekeeper, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, hopes, human nature, couple relations, society, master and servant, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, midlife crisis, starting over, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, human nature, society, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate ...
Style:
cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever ...
Plot:
introspection, dysfunctional family, family problems, crumbling marriage, unsupportive spouse, women, couples, city life, unfulfillment, urban, couple relations, young woman ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, human nature, couple relations, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, couples, friends, cellist, paranoia, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Style:
rom com, biting, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
writers, sex, older woman younger man, female writer, novelist, age difference, media, house, college, love triangle, strong female presence, couples ...
Time:
80s, year 1959, year 1975, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
new york, usa, beverly hills, california, new york state ...
Similarity:
100%
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