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Amaya (2010)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Latvia, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
One week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, psychological, sincere, touching, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, interracial relations, couples, society, introspection, couple relations, city life, alone in the world, teachers and students, urban, lifestyle, disorder, fish out of water, workplace, unfulfillment, workplace situations, dull life, romance
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
hong kong, latvia, asia
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Most similar movies to Amaya
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, urban, couple relations, society, city life and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Amaya: Love in a Puff (2010), Paradise (2013), Love on the Rocks (2004), Hot Summer Days (2010), Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jimmy is a mild mannered advertising executive in his twenties. While smoking in an alley packed with booming loudmouth co-workers and sharing explicit gossips and horror stories, he befriends a misfit cosmetics salesgirl Cherie who also likes to ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rules and policies, love and romance, workplace, lifestyle, wooing, workplace romance, couples, misfit, love, asian prostitute, social misfits, advertising ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
777
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Carmen and Alfredo live a happy, quiet life in the suburbs surrounded by friends and family. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move away to Mexico City where they immediately feel the social pressure of being overweight in a bustling ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
culture clash, self discovery, society, couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance, misfit, discrimination, couple relations, physical appearance, supportive spouse, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Wong is shocked to learn from his girlfriend Annie (Leung) that she wants to break up. He decides to go online and seek help from love experts on the net. He finds Crystal, a 19-year old self-proclaimed love advisor who has never been actually ...
Style:
humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
breakup, introspection, couples, couple relations, fall in love, youth, love and romance, wooing, nothing goes right, college life, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In "Hot Summer Days" a hot summer heat wave engulfs the Chinese territory, while the movie covers the lives of various characters during that time. There's chaffeur Wah who tries to woo foot masseur Li Yan via text messages, air ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, couples, obsession, couple relations, wooing, singleness, summer, holiday, city life, multiple storylines, child, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem ...
Style:
realistic, art house, emotional, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, asian history, street life, gangster, gay, love letter, couples, friends, disorder, society, couple relations, misfit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, china, new york, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sex or love, which is more important? There are three female flat mates: Vivian is frivolous, Kitty is prim and proper, and Mei Wah is ditsy. Through new experiences of love and sex, they find themselves. Three women, with three different love and ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, breakup, unfulfillment, city life, sexual relations, singleness, gender, lifestyle, college, loneliness, love, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A traffic accident brings together Deborah, a high-strung businesswoman, and Veg, successful owner of a fast food shop that specializes in bull organ soup. Fiercely combative about the accident, they end up in bed after too much drinking one night. ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
couples, parents and children, love affair, womanizer, opposites attract, sexual relations, love and romance, hotshot hero, hopes, contests and competitions, road not taken, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial relations, identity crisis, couple relations, audition, moral dilemma, actor's life, parents and children, family reunited, couples, family relations, society, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, pakistan
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The follow-up to 2009's All's Well Ends Well, with returning stars Louis Koo, Sandra Ng, and Ronald Cheng delivering Lunar New Year period comedy shenanigans for 2010. Angelababy makes a cute appearance in this farce about mistaken ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous
Plot:
couples, fall in love, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, looking for love, silly humor, love and romance, wooing, once promising, self discovery, artists and showbiz, computers and web ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hong Kong actress and pop star Miriam Yeung stars as an eligible bachelorette who reluctantly takes a job as a fishmonger to pay off her father's debts. But her stinky job gets stinkier when a brutish rival fisherman enters the scene.
Style:
touching, humorous, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
gambling, looking for love, friends, love, debt, death of father, salesman, society, rivalry, true love, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style:
talky, psychological, realistic, serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
haunted by the past, couples, family relations, looking for love, introspection, couple relations, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an ...
Style:
humorous, sincere, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
introspection, life turned upside down, unlikely couple, family relations, fall in love, couples, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, dogma, sexual content, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When old flames reunite, will it be second time's the charm or a case of once bitten twice shy? Jimmy and Cherie, two ex-lovers from Hong Kong, cross paths in Beijing and can't seem to forget each other, despite being involved with someone ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
starting over, couples, relationship vs career, hopes, relationships, friendship, city life, urban, chemistry, romantic reunion, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, beijing china, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Truly reflecting Hong Kong people's attitudes of love and marriage, "Itchy Heart" tells a story of a married man who wants to look for excitement out of marriage by meeting someone new. As his wife going out for a trip, Chi-man's ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, couples, midlife crisis, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, family problems, wooing, disorder, crumbling marriage, nothing goes right, unfulfillment ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
asian man white woman relationship, fall in love, workplace romance, legal, love and romance, workplace situations, disorder, fish out of water, misfit, business, interracial romance, shrewd ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, life is a bitch, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When playboy and one-hit-wonder novelist Jack Frost (Jason Behr) learns that his childhood sweetheart is getting married, he tries to drown his sorrows by dramatically escalating his self-destructive drinking and womanizing. Frost's pals try to ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sex comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
best friend, friends, couples, love affair, love triangle, lifestyle, introspection, looking for love, human nature, haunted by the past, love and romance, city life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, asia, india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story centers around a group of friends (and girlfriends) who have been playing football together for over 10 years, and who are now getting everything ready for their 500th match.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
couples, friendship, ambition, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, sport team, friends, group, football, male protagonist, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear ...
Plot:
looking for love, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, misfit, society, buddies, social differences, nightlife ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, disorder, society, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, dealer, meet the parents, culture clash, parents and children, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
Style:
sexy, captivating, atmospheric, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, couple relations, fall in love, culture clash, love affair, friendship, city life, sexual relations, sexual content, love and romance
Time:
21st century
Place:
tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hyun-Ju is a woman in her late twenties who keeps waiting for her boyfriend–So-Hun, a professional exterminator–to pop the big question. Yet he doesn’t. We soon learn that he’s caught between the desires of two women and Hyun-Ju's rival ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
nothing goes right, fall in love, love triangle, opposites attract, best friend, love and romance, obsessive quest, society, disorder, couples, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Naina's story as she grapples with heartbreak, and a crisis in her advertising career in the face of her 30th birthday. And as she fights her anxiety and fears about being 30 years old, Naina realises there's a lot of growing up to be ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
city life, couples, breakup, female protagonist, fired from the job, fall in love, career, feminist, rivalry, friendship, society, erotica ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A love story between a middle aged professor, a young female student who prepares a movie and a student/filmmaker who drinks too much.
Style:
captivating, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, love affair, hopes, filmmaking, unrequited love, teacher student relationship, society, rivalry, fall in love, student, youth, asian prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, family life, self discovery, introspection, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Vince and Shonda have come to the proverbial end of their ropes with one another. Set in Atlanta during the 2008 Presidential Election season, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is the touching story of what happens when two people feel they have nothing ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, romantic drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
breakup, introspection, couple relations, couples, fall in love, relationships, therapy, confrontation, realism, personal growth, intimate, everyday life ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, couple relations, love and romance, friendship, love affair, city life, culture clash, meaning of life, women, lgbt, atheist, motivation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
19%
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