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Syrup (2013)
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Syrup (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, funny, light, romantic, heartbreaking, family comedy, romantic comedy ...
Plot: boss and employee, workplace, betrayal, dishonesty, workplace situations, power relations, inventions and discoveries, marketing, advertising, entrepreneurship, advertising agency, fall in love, coming of age, love, lesbian, passion, election, satire, profanity, sexual content, college graduate, suicide, celebrity, elevator, evacuation ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and romantic films with plots about love and romance, couples, workplace, fall in love, love, power relations and workplace situations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Syrup: The Joneses (2009), Cocktail (1988), Falling Up (2009), Lay the Favorite (2012), Picture Perfect (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Joneses (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Style: romantic, melancholic, satirical, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: materialism, advertising, envy, suburban life, dysfunctional family, stereotypes, manipulation, business, marketing, suburbs, twists and turns, pretense ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
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Cocktail (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style. Brian ...
Style: sexy, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, manly, girls' night ...
Plot: bartender, ambition, betrayal, college, love and romance, love, rise to the top, business, love affair, stereotypes, love triangle, punched in the face ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: jamaica, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Falling Up (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
Style: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: opposites attract, buddies, student life, concierge, workplace situations, love and romance, workplace, rich and poor, boss and employee, teenager, in love, doorman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lay the Favorite (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: gambling, bet, prodigy, unlikely partners, partner, dishonesty, career change, cons and scams, nudity, casino, erection, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Picture Perfect (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, workplace romance, manipulation, happy ending, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, unlikely couple, dishonesty, nothing goes right, fall in love, workplace, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 82K
Morning Glory (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: workaholic, journalism, hotshot, media, work ethic, female protagonist, life philosophy, reporter, journalist, showbiz, relationship vs career, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
For Love or Money (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, talky, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: hotel, concierge, betrayal, mistress, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, couples, dishonesty, rise to the top, infidelity, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, ireland, usa, europe
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26%
 4.9
 1K
Side Effects (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, clever
Plot: public health, corporate crime, ambition, introspection, fighting the system, love affair, workplace, boss and employee, obsession, dishonesty, society, rise and fall ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Staten Island Summer (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Style: funny, humorous, light, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lifeguard, summer, teenager, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, party, beach, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 31K
Boomerang (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes ...
Style: funny, witty, talky, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot: womanizer, african american protagonist, battle of the sexes, dating, black, love story, mentor, advertising, opposites attract, boss and employee, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marketing, advertising, rise to the top, boss and employee, dishonesty, workplace, love and romance, student life, workplace situations, job interview, campaign, career ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, independent film, mumblecore, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, friendship, divorce, breakup, love story, dysfunctional family, honest, happy ending, best friend, love, lifestyle, starting over ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
Style: funny, light, romantic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: workplace, family life, relationship vs career, workaholic, gender, pregnancy, parents and children, workplace situations, ambition, in-laws, best friend, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
 27K
10 Years (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.
Style: sincere, romantic, sweet, melancholic, light ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: high school reunion, coming of age, friends, nerd, relationships, unlikely friendships, destiny, love, love story, buddies, teenage sex, avenger ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Love & Other Drugs (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sexual, emotional, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: love, sex, love story, womanizer, couple relations, sexual relations, parkinson's disease, nudity, doctor, casual sex, workplace situations, destiny ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place: usa, pittsburgh, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.0
 30K
Pushing Tin (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Style: humorous, intense, feel good, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: air traffic controller, workplace, aviation, justice, character study, corruption, contests and competitions, ambition, competition, workplace situations, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, long island, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Story of Luke (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot: autism, disability, job seeking, looking for love, self discovery, power relations, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, workplace situations, boss and employee, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
How Do You Know (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Style: romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: fall in love, baseball, love story, destiny, life philosophy, twists and turns, writers, shopping, love affair, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Social satire based on the best-seller by Adele Lang humorously chronicles the life of Katya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec who won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: workplace romance, boss and employee, socialite, love, gay friend, dream, rise to the top, unlikely couple, blind ambition, looking for love, party, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
In Good Company (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, romantic comedy, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: workplace, advertising, business, father daughter relationship, boss, father son relationship, unlikely friendships, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, rivalry, new job ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
Style: sincere, humorous, feel good, touching, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: self discovery, lifestyle, fall in love, misfit, shyness, workplace romance, workplace, adulthood, social misfits, self involved, singleness, love ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.8
 168K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
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Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
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24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
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Time: y2k, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
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24%
 6.2
 20K
My Sassy Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
Style: romantic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: chance meeting, love and romance, manic pixie dream girl, young lovers, opposites attract, unlikely couple, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, small town life, love, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Middle of Nowhere (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, summer job, friendship, teenage life, fall in love, ambition, family problems, parents and children, drug dealing, youth, rebelliousness ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.0
 5K
Crazy People (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Style: funny, satirical, black comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: advertising, mental illness, marketing, advertising agency, advertising executive, mental institution, business, insanity, office work, talk show host, mental disorder, illness ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 299
Cupid's Arrow (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An innocent college couple unknowingly become involved in their Professor's illicit research into the manipulation of love and his recreation of the elusive "Cupid's Arrow".
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: love, couples, college, experimenting, teachers and students, looking for love, power relations, disorder, fall in love, mad scientist, inventions and discoveries, science ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
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Outsourced (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: workplace, self discovery, arts and culture, human nature, travel, office, call center, fish out of water, love and romance, boss and employee, corporate world, manager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, seattle, asia, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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