Movies like Two Weeks in Another Town

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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Style: retro, meta, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized, soap opera
Plot: filmmaking, drug addiction, infidelity, alcoholism, ambition, first love, hospital, missing person, telephone call, airport, casino, street artist, limousine, sleeping pill, american abroad, ex husband ex wife relationship, recording studio, heart attack, mentor protege relationship, mental institution, older man younger woman relationship, redemption, hollywood star, washed up star, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, usa, connecticut, europe, united states, united states of america
Keyword: retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and psychological films with plots about telephone call, cigarette smoking, drinking, drink, dancing, food and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Two Weeks in Another Town: August (2008), Beauty Spot (2011), A Burning Hot Summer (2011), Eight and a Half (1963), The Cincinnati Kid (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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August (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: August is a 2008 drama film directed by Austin Chick and produced by 57th & Irving. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman focuses on two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs attempting to keep their company afloat as the stock market ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, touching
Plot: brother brother relationship, wall street, family relations, siblings relations, workplace, ambition, rise and fall, economics, parents and children, down on your luck, life is a bitch, finance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
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100%
A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, breakup, fall in love, human nature, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, friendship between men, affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Style: tense, clever, realistic, retro, light ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gambling, poker, blackmail, mind game, gambler, casino, adultery, jazz, gangster, friendship, card playing, hustler ...
Time: 1930s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: new orleans, ohio, usa, los angeles, southern usa ...
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Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a ...
Style: melancholic, psychological, serious, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: redemption, secrets, actor's life, funeral, alcoholic, artists and showbiz, teenage life, haunted by the past, destiny, older woman teenage boy sex, personal growth, youth ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, usa
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31%
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, emotional, retro ...
Plot: hollywood, coming of age, showbiz, rise and fall, family relations, lifestyle, human nature, ambition, rising to stardom, rags to riches, secret relationship, tomboy ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1936
Place: california, los angeles, usa, arizona
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30%
Play It As It Lays (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: mental institution, mental breakdown, mental illness, best friend, family relations, hollywood, showbiz, infidelity, filmmaking, drug abuse, alienation, forced abortion ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, las vegas, california
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30%
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: fashion, model, photographer, fashion industry, fashion model, mental illness, photograph, modeling, photography, drug addiction, character study, sex crime ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, jamaica, paris france
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29%
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My Mother (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: actor, filmmaking, brother sister relationship, factory, death, singer, doctor, pneumonia, anxiety, father daughter relationship, old woman, birthday ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: rome italy, italy
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: actress, aging, lesbian, skinny dipping, midlife crisis, divorce, women, loneliness, character study, suicide, obsession, suicide attempt ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, alps, swiss alps, london, zurich switzerland
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The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
Style: black and white, talky, atmospheric, psychological, tense ...
Plot: church, mental illness, priest, hotel, redemption, iguana, clergy, bishop, tour guide, self discovery, human nature, nymphet ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: mexico, usa, virginia, latin america, tennessee
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28%
Dangerous Game (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Style: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, redemption, drug, obsession, multiple storylines, addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, downfall, showbiz, human nature, infidelity ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, israel, california, middle east, usa
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Delta of Venus (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Style: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, postmodern ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian sex, sexually dissatisfied wife, erotica, nudity, art, sex, obsession, male nudity, infidelity, world war two, poetry, threesome ...
Time: 1940s
Place: paris france, england, france, europe, new york ...
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The Wife (2017)
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Country: UK, Sweden, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, serious, sad ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, father son relationship, family relations, novelist, professor, twists and turns, adulterous husband, love affair, award ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, 60s, 2010s, year 1992 ...
Place: stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
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Savage Grace (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, controversial, talky, emotional ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, gay, murder, mother son relationship, adultery, sexual relations, older woman younger man, incestuous relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: europe, london, new york, spain, england ...
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The Dynamiter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, youth, family relations, family problems, american football, social relations, innocence lost, small town life, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style: sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, drinking alcohol, new life, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, mexico
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Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot: released from prison, infidelity, prison, going straight, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, prison life, confined, husband wife relationship, hot and sexy, pregnancy ...
Time: 60s
Place: mississippi
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The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
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Place: okinawa japan, san francisco
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The Benefactor (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
Style: tricky, melancholic, contemplative, psychological
Plot: philanthropist, older man younger woman relationship, guilty conscience, death of friend, obsession, friends, lifestyle, antisocial behavior, mysterious character, manipulation, unfulfillment, young woman ...
Place: philadelphia
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An American Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place: hungary, california, europe, austria, usa ...
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Julia (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Style: factual, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: world war two, writers, friendship, politics, childhood, nazi, fascism, culture clash, fighting the system, adaptation, character study, playwright ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1977, year 1934, pre world war two
Place: germany, europe, vienna, london, oxford university ...
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About Alex (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences ...
Style: independent film, inspirational, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, suicide attempt, depression, relationships, suicide, friends, group of friends, life philosophy, writer's block, anxiety, introspection, college graduate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state, new york
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Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, writers, eccentricity, character study, buddies, writer's life, human nature, secret, reporter, philosophy, drinking, death ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
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22%
Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
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22%
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Walkout (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the students decide to stage a peaceful walkout to protest the injustices of the public school system. ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, political ...
Plot: politics, discrimination, society, righting the wronged, fighting the system, teachers and students, lifestyle, rebelliousness, dedicated educator, activism, resistance, high school ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
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22%
I Love Your Work (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, self defense, actor's life, showbiz, couples, desire for fame, lifestyle, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa
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22%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
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22%
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