Movies like Ice House

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Ice House (1989)
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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 he meets her, she is with her fiancee. He is a Greek immigrant who desperately needs to marry Kay in order to become a permanent resident in this country. However his plans are in trouble because of Pake trying to convince Kay to go back to Texas with him and get married.
Style: independent film
Plot: love, love triangle, singer, bum, male female relationship, marriage proposal, nightmare, monologue, hotel room, flashback, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, oil field, wife and husband lead actors
Place: texas, los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, captivating and humorous films with plots about love, male female relationship, love triangle, couples, flashback, love and romance and marriage mostly in Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Ice House: Heartbreaker (1983), Her Own Rules (1998), The Perfect Christmas Present (2017), Lovin' Molly (1974), Othello (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
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 195
Her Own Rules (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her ...
Plot: wedding, party, flashback, mother daughter relationship, childhood memory, businesswoman, mother daughter reunion, countryside, cancer, adoption, female protagonist, death of friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Perfect Christmas Present (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Tom Jacobs is Mr Christmas! He's built an entire business around helping clients find the perfect gift. But what happens when he falls for one lucky recipient?
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, sweet
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, love, christmas romance, christmas present, fall in love, male female relationship, love affair, opposites attract, escapades, love triangle, lifestyle, friendship ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, open relationship, polygamy, suburbs, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Othello (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style: independent film
Plot: triumph, courage, tragedy, false accusation, maniac, racism, espionage, shakespeare's othello, deception, conspiracy, jealousy, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Orpheus Descending (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Style: southern gothic
Plot: drifter, age-gap relationship, passion, sex, small town, death, extramarital affair, infidelity, love, lust, adultery, age difference ...
Time: 1940s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, family relations, male female relationship, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Felix and Lola (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: couples, romantic obsession, relationship problems, obsession, couple relations, relationships, male female relationship, flashback, singer, love, murder, harmonica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.8
 70
Too Saved (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Lisa is a young, Christian woman. Bobby, her boyfriend, however, is a street hoodlum. Lisa prays constantly that Bobby will accept God in his life. She soon gets what she wants, but discovers that Bobby's conversion means that she has to get ...
Style: independent film, spiritual
Plot: love, addiction, couples, church, black cast, african american
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.8
 112
Sugar Orange (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lukas is Sugar, Clemens is Orange. Together, they are two ten-year-old boys who are inseparable. More than just playmates, they share a unique bond which seems predestined to last a lifetime. Until, that is, powerful emotions come to the fore and a ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: childhood friend, gay, lgbtq, lgbt, love triangle, fear of commitment, gay subtext, love, brother brother relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flashback, jealousy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
Plot: polygamy, open relationship, misandry, affair, romantic triangle, disease, boarder, womanizer, family relations, disability, marriage, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Affair in the Snow (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
Plot: love triangle, love, woman, mountain, memory, unrequited love, sex scene, teacher, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, snow, suicide, extramarital affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Crazy from the Heart (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: high school, interracial relations, couples, workplace romance, social differences, love affair, looking for love, small town, small town life, opposites attract, society, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Christmas in Mississippi (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Photographer Holly Logan returns to her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi for Christmas. The town is resurrecting their traditional holiday light show for the first time since a terrible hurricane struck five years earlier. Holly volunteers to pitch ...
Style: romantic, light, humorous, feel good, entertaining
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, true love, photographer, uncle nephew relationship, male female relationship, small town, second chance, goodhearted, hopes, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, holiday, homecoming ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Satellite of Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake are best friends. When Samuel decides not to attend their wedding under some pretense that no one ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, friendship, romantic triangle, couple relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unrequited love, relationships, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Threesome (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker (Stephen Collins) introduces a girlfriend (Deborah Raffin) to his buddy (Joel Higgins) from out of town, then regrets it.
Style: sex comedy
Plot: love triangle, friendship, flashback, intimacy, breakup, moving, stock broker, foot chase
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Theera Kadhal (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two ex-lovers meet after a long time and their romance gets rekindled briefly. Though they ensure that their newly-found love shouldn't affect their respective families, one of them believes they are meant to be together, leaves the life of ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, love, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, marital problem, relationships, relationship problems, male female relationship, family relations, family problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, marriage ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves ...
Plot: woman, love, flashback, suicide, marriage, college, love triangle, prank, professor, dysfunctional marriage, paralysis, depression ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Good Hope (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, love, drowning, male female relationship, shipwreck, fishing, village, sea, storm, loss of husband, death of husband, ship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Safe Harbour (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: love affair, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, love and romance, hopes, fall in love, lifestyle, death of husband, love, serial killer, embezzlement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Heaven None Missed 3 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Meirose strives to create heaven in her family, with her husband and their two children. One day, Ray, a man from her past, returns and wants to build his lost paradise with Meirose and Akbar.
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, family problems, family life, ex couple relations, tragic love, male female relationship, troubled past, relationships, confronting the past, husband wife relationship, love interest, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 481
Ex (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Zhou Yi is about to leave on holiday with her boyfriend Woody, until an argument makes Zhou Yi to dump him at the airport. Their breakup is being witnessed by her ex-boyfriend.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: ex boyfriend, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, male female relationship, ex couple relations, couple relations, love triangle, ex girlfriend, couples, relationships, love affair, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 78
The Falling (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Karis (Nicole Oliver) is a clothing store owner who picks up a handsome music executive, Lars (Christopher Shyer), in a bar and immediately engages him in some very hot sex that leads to an ongoing physical relationship. One morning Lars encounters ...
Style: independent film, experimental, realistic, serious
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, campaign, love and romance, stalking, vengeance, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, obsession, love triangle, infidelity, breakup, true love ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Two for the Seesaw (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, crazy love, midlife crisis, unlikely couple, love and romance, hopes, young lovers, society, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, nebraska, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Nikaah (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Nikaah is a 1982 Hindi film produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Raj Babbar, Deepak Parashar and Salma Agha in her Hindi movie debut role. The film also had Asrani, Iftekhar and Gufi Paintal in support roles. The films music is by ...
Plot: indian woman, wedding night, remorse, workaholic, muslim, newspaper editor, divorce, love triangle, social commentary, dysfunctional marriage, failed marriage, remarry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, touching, clever, sexy ...
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, betrayal ...
Time: year 2001
Place: santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Paso Doble (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Drama directed by Dan Pita.
Plot: betrayal, marriage, love, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, roommate, love triangle, male female relationship, fall in love, engagement, factory worker ...
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Lou Didn't Say No (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 78 min.
Story: "Inspired by the correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his psychoanalyst paramour Lou Andreas-Salomé, Miévilleés sophisticated study of modern love charts the turbulent relationship between a filmmaker (Bunel) and a volatile actor ...
Style: crying
Plot: rehearsal, dancing, dancer, classical music, love triangle, love, telephone call, jealousy, violence, ex lover, modern dance, actor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 267
Dark Victory (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Plot: terminal illness, female friendship, dying young, producer, doctor, anger, doctor patient relationship, love, marriage, brain tumor
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sleeping and Waking (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: If you had a second chance at life, would you take it? Sullivan Daniels (Jeff Allin), an artist known for his harsh religious paintings, chose a bizarre experimental surgery over his faith to save him from terminal cancer. Now his hands can't ...
Plot: identity, existentialism, nightmare, health, religion, acceptance, widower, art, gardening, pain, fertility, human experiment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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