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Permission (2017)
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Permission (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.
Style: sentimental, captivating, psychological, humorous, romantic, surprise ending, romantic comedy, lgbt cinema, sex comedy, homoerotic ...
Plot: open relationship, sex scene, gay, orgasm, sexual promiscuity, marriage proposal, gay relationship, jealousy, male objectification, open marriage, infidelity, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage, secret, monogamy, male nudity, women, hunting, erotica, dancer, brother sister relationship, business partner, unfaithfulness, dog ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, naples italy
Keyword: movie theatre, norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about friend, telephone call, friendship, kiss, drink, drinking and cell phone mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Permission: The Lovers (2017), On the Rocks (2020), Table 19 (2017), Those People (2015), 5 to 7 (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lovers (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot: lovers, middle aged woman, love triangle, adultery, marriage, infidelity, secret, marital problem, father son relationship, name calling, sex scene, love ...
Time: 90s
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On the Rocks (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, sincere, romantic ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, marriage, playboy, infidelity, flirting, wealth, suspicion of adultery, lesbian, husband wife relationship, adultery, love, party ...
Place: canada, los angeles, manhattan new york city, new york, london ...
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Table 19 (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
Style: funny, light, feel good, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: wedding, confession, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, misfit, name calling, marital problem, male objectification, up and down relationship, guest, reluctant partners, intergenerational friendship ...
Time: year 2017
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100%
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Those People (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Style: tense, bleak, enigmatic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: gay, gay love, gay relationship, gay romance, gay best friend, painter, lgbt, best friend, male male relationship, homosexuality, gay sex, pianist ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, beirut lebanon, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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5 to 7 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Style: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: adultery, fall in love, unfaithful wife, love and romance, extramarital affair, polyamory, cheating on husband, couples, cheating wife, relationships, love affair, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. ...
Style: feel good, sexy, funny, romantic, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: breakup, vacation, love and romance, resort, nudity, male nudity, surfing, friendship, female nudity, sex, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, betrayal ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, los angeles, usa, oceania
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100%
The Thing About Harry (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.
Style: feel good, lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic comedy, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay lead character, youth, couples, road trip, teenager, young adult, love, gay romance, wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: 2000s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Style: romantic, sexy, sexual, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: artist, polyamory, love triangle, women, art, summer, love and romance, love, bohemian life, love story, painter, open relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, europe, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rumor Has It... (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest ...
Style: light, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, love affair, dysfunctional family, love story, relationships, writers, infidelity, love and romance, life is a bitch, young lovers, youth, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1997
Place: california, usa, pasadena california, new york, los angeles ...
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100%
Love After Love (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: mother son relationship, middle aged woman, family relations, humiliation, death of father, brother brother relationship, writers, grief, coming of age, unfaithfulness, nudity, bare butt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friends with Money (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Style: sexy, melancholic, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, shopping, midlife crisis, maid, money problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, looking for love, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california
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100%
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Esteros (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.
Style: light, captivating, sincere, cute, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay lead character, friendship, male homosexuality, closeted gay, friendship between boys, gay love, homoeroticism, puberty, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, memories ...
Time: 2000s
Place: argentina
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100%
Shake It All About (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, infidelity, gay relationship, family relations, fall in love, friendship, pregnancy, love triangle, looking for love, couple relations, gay couple ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.1
 898
Slutty Summer (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Hunky writer Markus returns home to find his boyfriend of four years naked with another man. Newly single, he begins waiting tables at a swinging Chelsea hotspot where the indelible supporting cast of co-workers offers conflicting directions on the ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, friendship, infidelity, lifestyle, youth, womanizer, opposites attract, unlikely couple, love triangle, looking for love, lgbtq ...
Place: new york, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 42K
Spread (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house ...
Style: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, fall in love, seduction, sex, infidelity, relationships, manipulation, gigolo, party, battle of the sexes, love and romance, in love ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Last Straight Man (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, independent film, homoerotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, closeted homosexual, gay romance, friendship, male nudity, lgbt, infidelity, male homosexuality, gay relationship, lovers reunited, friendship between men, double life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 6K
Eating Out (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After getting dumped by his girlfriend Tiffani (Rebekah Kochan), Caleb (Scott Lunsford) commiserates with his roommate Kyle (Jim Verraros), who notes that while he has trouble getting the men he wants he could get any woman because he's gay.
Style: witty, erotic, lgbt cinema, independent film, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, phone sex, fall in love, looking for love, teenage love, best friend, couples, gay sex, lgbtqi ...
Place: tucson arizona
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32%
 5.2
 2K
All I Wish (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.
Style: captivating, romantic, light, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: birthday, dating, surprise birthday party, birthday party, birthday present, dancer, wedding, self doubt, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, living together, marriage proposal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: santa monica california, usa, california, las vegas, boston ...
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32%
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Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
 35K
Bros (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
Style: raunchy comedy, art house, funny, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbtq, bare chested male, sex, screenwriter, gay slur, gay sex, gay lead character, sex scene ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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32%
The Last Five Years (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Style: melancholic, lyrical, surreal, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: love affair, marriage, husband wife relationship, writer's life, depression, artists and showbiz, wife, bittersweet, marital problem, breakup, aspiring writer, memory ...
Time: year 2009, year 2011, year 2013, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, ohio, manhattan new york city, new york
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31%
 5.8
 4K
Barry Munday (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
Style: semi serious, humorous, offbeat, captivating, light ...
Plot: castration, family relations, pregnancy, doctor, self discovery, meet the parents, eccentric family, disorder, couples, fatherhood, male female relationship, childbirth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.8
 790
The One (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Providing the romantic comedy genre with a decidedly queer twist, THE ONE is an effortlessly charming tale which proves that love is never simple! Hunky Daniel couldn’t have it better: great parents, a successful career and his beautiful fiancée ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: gay, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, gay husband, first gay sexual experience, gay father, love triangle, repressed homosexual, marital problem, marriage, friendship between men, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 6.2
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Maggie's Plan (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and ...
Style: romantic, melancholic, satirical, stylized, talky ...
Plot: writers, marriage, relationships, divorce, friendship, hotel, loneliness, blended family, marxism, ex husband ex wife relationship, character study, eccentricity ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, quebec
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31%
 5.8
 3K
Adam & Steve (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
Style: feel good, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: gay, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lgbt, gay relationship, family relations, one night stand, nothing goes right, disorder, gay wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1987, year 2004, 80s
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 25K
Starter for 10 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a ...
Style: feel good, witty, sweet, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: university, coming of age, college, politics, social differences, unlikely friendships, happy ending, love triangle, student, buddies, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2000s, year 1985
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Style: talky, humorous, sexy, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, love and romance, sexual relations, lifestyle, oral sex, crumbling marriage, curses spells and rituals, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, erotica ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, san francisco, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Forgive and Forget (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, unrequited love, best friend, lgbt, closeted homosexual, love triangle, friendship, gay slur, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, buddies, looking for love ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
 750
The Skinny (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Feature film from award-winning writer/director Patrik-Ian Polk, tells the story of five black Brown University classmate s- four gay men and one lesbian - reuniting in the Big Apple for a weekend of sin, fun, secrets, lies and drama.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: gay, black lgbt, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, homosexual, friendship, friendship between men, lgbtq, gay interest, gay slur, dancing, lesbian interest ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Goodbye to All That (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search for answers, desperate attempts to stay connected to his daughter, and his fateful reentry into the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: single parent, starting over, looking for love, dating, hopes, parents and children, disorder, suburbs, divorce, lie, friendship, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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