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Dorfman in Love (2011)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, romantic, realistic
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, self discovery, lifestyle, looking for love, fish out of water, life turned upside down, misfit, daydreamer, disorder, singleness, love triangle, unrequited love, love and romance, neighbor, love, happy ending, sexual content, city life, twentysomething life, artist, young woman, family relations, office, father daughter relationship, accountant ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, disorder, love and looking for love mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Dorfman in Love: The Giant Mechanical Man (2012), The Longest Week (2014), Bigger Than the Sky (2005), Everything You Want (2006), Shanghai Calling (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
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sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
self discovery, fall in love, lifestyle, shyness, social misfits, workplace, misfit, adulthood, workplace romance, self involved, singleness, love ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As he eases into adulthood at the age of forty, Conrad Valmont, the over-educated, under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune, is cut off from his allowance following his parents abrupt divorce and tossed out into the unforgiving streets of ...
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romantic, sentimental, humorous, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
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love triangle, love, fall in love, down on your luck, love and romance, secret, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, looking for love, singleness, disorder ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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 ...
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humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
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date night
Plot:
fall in love, legal, workplace situations, disorder, misfit, love and romance, fish out of water, workplace romance, interracial romance, asian man white woman relationship, manners, legal action ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
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humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, opposites attract, disorder, fall in love, social differences, misfit, country, teaching the ways of the world, celebrity culture, fish out of water, filmmaking, immigration ...
Place:
usa, himalaya, asia
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” , a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year ...
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Plot:
time travel, fish out of water, obsessive quest, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, misfit, destiny, escapades, disorder, teaching the ways of the world, time jump ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ana Maria is having a bad day until she magically switches places with the main character of her favorite telenovela. As she struggles to escape from Novela Land, Ana Maria finally understands why her real life was such a mess.
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carolina is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the ...
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Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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teens
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45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Place:
usa, california
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minded wife.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, social
Audience:
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Plot:
looking for love, singleness, goofy hero, couple relations, dealing with death, lifestyle, misfit, unlikely couple, family life, eccentric family, culture clash, siblings relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the ...
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semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
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usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
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semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, looking for love, city life, lifestyle, buddies, rivalry, society, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic
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chick flick, date night
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21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Story:
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