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Navigating the Heart (2000)
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Navigating the Heart (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry, she butts heads with local fisherman and notorious loner, John Daly. While she thrives on the fast-paced life of Manhattan, he loathes pretension and could go days without speaking to anyone. But when the two are caught in a perilous situation, they are forced to put aside their pettiness and re-examine their lives. With external factors stripped away, they begin to fall in love. Ultimately, Edith must decide between staying in the glamorous world she has always cherished or leaving it all behind for a chance at love.
Style: realistic, semi serious, romantic, sincere, factual
Audience: chick flick
Plot: couples, opposites attract, fall in love, journalism, small town, true love, unlikely couple, love and romance, love affair, society, writer's life, environmentalism, fisherman, female reporter, loner, rescue, regret, love, small town life, workplace romance, media, artists and showbiz, dancing, wedding, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, british columbia, vancouver, vancouver british columbia canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, touching and romantic films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love, love affair, opposites attract and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Navigating the Heart: Perfect (1985), Autumn in New York (2000), The Choice (2016), The Last Word (2008), Picnic (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Perfect (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight. This film contains one of the greatest scenes of the '80s, an across the room sexual dance-off between the two main ...
Style: cult classic, sexy, retro, sex comedy, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: aerobics, fitness, dancing, journalism, gym, courtroom, happy ending, stoned, workout, couples, uncover truth, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 70s
Place: morocco
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Autumn in New York (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: love story, love, true love, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, older man young girl relationship, autumn, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
 6.5
 45K
The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Last Word (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck (Wes Bentley, 'American Beauty') makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte (Winona Ryder, 'Girl, Interrupted'), the free-spirited sister of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: writer's life, love and romance, family problems, fall in love, opposites attract, artists and showbiz, mentally unstable, unlikely couple, dysfunctional family, writers, crisis, composer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Jersey Girl (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love, working class, diner, family life, small town life, friendship, witness protection, opposites attract, yuppie, love and romance, stalking, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Meet Prince Charming (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, hidden identity, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, disorder, dating, neighbor, making love, sex scene, newspaper, online dating ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 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 ⇓
48%
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 6K
Love Jones (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with ...
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: sex, black romance, love affair, love, friendship, black, women, hip hop, life philosophy, lifestyle, writer's life, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Something Borrowed (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to ...
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sexy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, best friends in love, wedding preparations and rituals, love story, fall in love, best friend, friendship, love and romance, destiny, friends, love triangle, lie ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Straight From the Heart (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, fish out of water, couples, love and romance, relationships, male female relationship, marriage proposal, love affair, romantic triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Up Close & Personal (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sad, bad ending ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: journalism, love, love story, journalist, reporter, media, unrequited love, age difference, mentor, female journalist, media industry, unhappy ending ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, miami, usa, florida, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
My Faraway Bride (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, fall in love, writer's life, society, tragic love, fish out of water, friendship, infidelity ...
Place: california, asia, usa, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Love at First Dance (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Hope is tasked with teaching Manhattan's former "Most Eligible Bachelor" how to dance for his extravagant, society wedding. But as the dance lessons progress, complications ensue when feelings begin to develop between student and ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dancing, happy ending, love and romance, fall in love, follow your dream, love story, lifestyle, dance teacher, wedding, fiance fiancee relationship, couples, teacher student relationship ...
Place: new york, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
For the Love of Grace (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love, fire, infidelity, daring rescue, couples, estrangement, love triangle, loss of wife, society, friendship, cooking, firefighter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Fall (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous ...
Style: sexy, romantic, melancholic, intense, sweet ...
Plot: fall in love, writers, storytelling, honest, loneliness, love story, extramarital affair, infidelity, love affair, love and romance, couples, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Good Morning Christmas! (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two competing TV hosts are sent to a festive small town over Christmas. While pretending to get along for the sake of appearances, they discover that there’s more to each other than they thought.
Style: sweet, disturbing, captivating, light, entertaining
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, christmas eve, unlikely couple, opposites attract, love affair, small town, love, love story, friendship ...
Place: maine, new york
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47%
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced ...
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: love, friendship, true love, irish catholic, guilt, marriage, high school, bad father, bromance, loss of father, abusive father, best friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Finding You (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight ...
Style: sincere, captivating, rom com, feel good, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing
Plot: musician, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, romantic friendship, love interest, female protagonist, love story, relationships, fall in love, male female relationship, love and romance, couples ...
Place: ireland, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Loving Leah (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, death in the family, religions or cults, society, cardiologist, family relations, family tradition, friendship, love and romance, hopeless romantic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
47%
Old Fashioned (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, opposites attract, friendship, buddies, fall in love, couples, hopes, introspection, christian, faith based, faith, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Finding Christmas (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, captivating, sincere, christmas special ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, love and romance, fall in love, couples, single parent, family relations, christmas romance, xmas, love, holiday, christmas season, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north carolina, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 6K
Not Cool (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: NOT COOL follows former prom king and college freshman Scott (Shane Dawson) who has just returned home for Thanksgiving break only to be dumped by his eccentric, long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, scenic, teen ...
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, college life, youth, couples, unlikely couple, friends, small town, homecoming, love, college, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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46%
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 1K
Mercy (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: asthma, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couples, novelist, society, in love, womanizer, sexual content ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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