Movies like Cry for Happy

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Cry for Happy (1961)
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Cry for Happy (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Plot: korean war, world war two, geisha, navy, war photographer, love, military, house, orphan, elevator, adoption, tradition, filmmaking, department store, shyness, modernism, american culture, bathing, japanese american, movie making
Time: year 1961
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love, love and romance, couples, fall in love, male female relationship, couple relations and love affair mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Cry for Happy: Love Is a Ball (1963), A Majority of One (1961), Standing on Fishes (1999), The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961), Crazy in Love (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love Is a Ball (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: royal family, screwball, poor, naive girl, fall in love, couples, disorder, power relations, eligible bachelor, social differences, rich and poor, society ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: french riviera, france, europe, switzerland
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95%
A Majority of One (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
Style: intercultural
Plot: widower, interracial romance, ship, world war two, aging, widow, love, interracial relations, businessman, interracial couple, holiday, hanukkah ...
Time: year 1961
Place: brooklyn new york city, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Standing on Fishes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A romantic comedy
Plot: sexual frustration, filmmaking, sculptor, love, artist, film industry, girlfriend, actress, boyfriend, hollywood, male female relationship, filmmaker ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic
Plot: world war two, military, colonialism, foreign legion, legion, air force, military life, soldier, showbiz, wartime life, cons and scams, down on your luck ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Crazy in Love (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.
Plot: adultery, love
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, witty, black and white, cute ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime, love, satire, world war, war, u.s. navy, naval officer, love affair, mental illness, swing ...
Place: london, england, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
That Funny Feeling (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy ...
Style: retro, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: bachelor, roommate, screwball, mistaken identity, opposites attract, silly humor, impossible love, humble, love affair, workplace romance, couples, disorder ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Mrs. Hanka's Diary (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs. (telemagazyn.pl)
Style: detective
Plot: female protagonist, world war two, blackmail, society, affair, marriage, spy, boredom, party
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Moriah's Lighthouse (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Moriah is a woodworking artisan living in a French, seaside town, who dreams of restoring the local lighthouse. When Ben, an American architect, comes to town, it seems as though her dreams will never become reality after she learns he’s there to ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, captivating, exciting, funny ...
Plot: couple relations, town, seaside town, relationships, couples, male female relationship, female protagonist, architect, love, lighthouse, small town life, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Love and Other Troubles (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, contemplative, feel good
Plot: love, father son relationship, singer, shyness, coming of age, dancing, childhood trauma, death, funeral, dance, singing competition, ashes ...
Place: finland
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52%
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Love in Taipei (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.
Style: psychological, thrilling, semi serious, satirical, captivating
Plot: love, teenager, lifestyle, teen romance, love affair, satire, adolescence, teenage life, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, teenage love, relationships ...
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52%
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
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50%
They All Laughed (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.
Style: rom com, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, private detective, taxi driver, adultery, country singer, female singer, surveillance, country music, clumsiness, older man younger woman relationship, taxi, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Baptists at Our Barbecue (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: "Baptists at Our Barbecue" is the comedic story of the small town of Longwinded, USA, a divided, feuding town of 262 Mormons and 262 Baptists. It's also a love story, about one man who will try anything to end the ridiculous feud, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, contemplative, offbeat ...
Plot: small town, feud, love and romance, love affair, religions or cults, family relations, couples, church, culture clash, adoption, mormon, latter day saints ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Ramona! (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ramona travels the highways and backroads to Las Vegas and discovers that sometimes love is the greatest adventure of all.
Style: independent film
Plot: clinic, love, entrepreneur
Place: tijuana mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Made in Paris (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.
Style: romantic comedy, rom com, sex comedy
Plot: fashion show, music and dance, love, fashion, jazz, redheaded woman, nightclub, puritanism, young love, drunkenness, girl, car theft ...
Time: year 1966
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Move Over, Darling (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen ...
Style: technicolor, slapstick comedy, semi serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: presumed dead, love, honeymoon, marriage, judge, house, rescue, family relations, homecoming, missing wife, love and romance, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1963
Place: monterey california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Starting Over (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, support group, dating, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: boston, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Rosaline (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Style: entertaining, period piece, funny, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, love, famous, life, castle, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, discovery, best friend, friend, couples, parents, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Kissing Booth 3 (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. Elle has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matriculating, and also Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is headed and has to decide if she should stay or ...
Style: realistic, tear jerker, thought provoking, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: friendship between teens, college, love, contests and competitions, best friend, female protagonist, bucket list, happy ending, couple relations, new life, rivalry, choice ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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40%
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Less Than 30 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alexa Cavender, pressured to find a relationship, takes an interesting approach by only dating those matched at less than 30%.
Plot: dating, friend, love, writers
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Professor Albeit (1998)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story: High school teacher falls in love with his "best" female student.
Plot: school, school trip, high school student, age difference, high school teacher, high school, teacher student relationship, teacher, mother, teenage girl, love, director ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Will... I Will... For Now (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer (Paul Sorvino). When Katie's sister Sally (Candy ...
Style: independent film
Plot: lawyer, love, marriage, husband wife relationship, divorce, contract
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Film is based on one of the most popular novels of N. Dumbadze.
Style: crying
Plot: european, ambition, studying, eye surgery, fall in love, research, love, neighbor, poem, ambitious woman, countryside, optimism ...
Time: future
Place: georgia, soviet union, ussr, russia, tbilisi
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Watching the Detectives (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: interracial romance, femme fatale, love and romance, video store, filmmaking, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, manic pixie dream girl, love, libertine, nature, prank ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
All in a Night's Work (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine star in this sweet 1961 comedy about Tony Ryder (Martin), who takes over the duties of magazine publisher when his uncle dies suddenly, supposedly while spending time with a mistress. Worried that the news will ...
Style: retro, technicolor, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: fall in love, mistaken identity, in love, veterinarian, extortion, blackmail, publishing house, inheritance, drowning, sudden death, investigation, publisher ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Noel Diary (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?
Style: entertaining, light, dramatic, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: holiday, christmas, life, house, love, child, mother, new york times, love and romance, diary, mother and son, new year ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. ...
Style: romantic comedy, witty, clever, retro, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: screenwriter, love, weekend, writer's block, fashion, writers, drinking, couples, love and romance, vampire, filmmaking, writer's life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place: paris france, france, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro ...
Style: witty, independent film, retro, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, radio, radio station, age difference, aunt, past, older woman younger man sex, couples, parents and children, infidelity, love affair, college ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 1951
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Raising Waylon (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Waylon is a nine year old boy who, after losing their parents, begins to live with her ​​godparents, couples in the past but now separated and with little appetite for adoption. The boy's arrival will be the ultimate test to confirm whether ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, custody, godparent, unlikely couple, couples, adoption, lawyer, orphan, youth, parenting, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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