Movies like Wu yen

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Wu yen (2001)
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Wu yen (2001)
Original name: 鍾無艷
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi (Anita Mui) stumbles across local chief Wu Yen (Sammi Cheng), his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy (Cecilia Cheung) who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her/him first.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale
Plot: love triangle, tragic love, love affair, martial arts, battles, bounty hunter, destiny, fall in love, state affairs, marriage of convenience, heroes, hitman, love and romance, master warrior, gender bending, gays and lesbians, rivalry, looking for love, unfulfilled love, gender, supernatural romance, farce, hopes, unfulfillment, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: hong kong

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, captivating and realistic films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, rivalry, unfulfillment, love affair, couples and martial arts mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like Wu yen: My Lucky Star (2003), Love for All Seasons (2003), Flying Dagger (1993), Just Another Pandora's Box (2010), My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Lucky Star (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yip is attractive but for some strange reason, no man has ever been interested in her. Yip meets Lai, a famous feng shui expert and she thinks that Lai can change her luck. But Duen, also a famous feng shui expert continually cast all kinds of ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, love affair, love triangle, workplace romance, couples, nothing goes right, curses spells and rituals, fall in love, horoscope, luck, down on your luck, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
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95%
Love for All Seasons (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: May is a martial artist and Chinese medicine practitioner who resides in a temple in Omei mountain. Under the threat of her lovelorn master, Misery, she decides to seek the help of infamous womanizer, Tiger Hung, who she had helped earlier, in order ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic
Plot: reluctant partners, love affair, womanizer, heroic mission, true love, heroes, couples, love and romance, rivalry, martial arts, religions or cults, supernatural romance
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Flying Dagger (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The well-known "Flying Dagger" Chung and his nephew Lam lived on rewards from apprehending bandits. Chung refused the love of "Great Coquette" Lady Fung. Therefore, Fung always mess up Chung's business for revenge. Flying ...
Style: slapstick, fast, exciting, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot: bounty hunter, wuxia, martial arts, chase, chases and races, love and romance, rivalry, criminal heroes, fall in love, lone wolves, heroes, prostitute ...
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, tense
Plot: time travel, legends and myths, escapades, mistaken identity, battles, disorder, rivalry, heroes, dishonesty, imaginary, prophecy, chosen one ...
Place: hong kong, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.
Style: emotional, sincere, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: afterlife, ghost, unfulfilled love, friendship, supernatural, hopes, last wish, twists and turns, love and romance, obsessive quest, escapades, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Love on a Diet (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sammi Cheng plays Mimi Mo, a young exchange student to Japan who met and fell in love with a budding pianist, Kurokawa, played by Rikiya Kurokawa. Kurokawa eventually leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a famous musician. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, sad
Plot: fall in love, unlikely couple, looking for love, against the odds, farce, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, woman, fat suit
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 15 year old Brendan Willy hates himself for being un-cool when he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. Enter Mr. Five, a no good tempter from hell, which in his last attempt to ensnare a soul before being fried for eternity, transforms Brendan ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
Audience: teens
Plot: wish come true, deal with the devil, teenage life, teenage love, family life, destiny, youth, hopes, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, high school, loss of virginity ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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2002 (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Hong Kong, the special force of the police known as 2002 is composed of the twenty-two year-old cop Chiu and his ghost partner and they fight against supernatural phenomena under the guidance of the mystic Paper Chan. When his partner ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspense, captivating, dark
Plot: afterlife, special agent, ghost, reincarnation, martial arts, supernatural, good versus evil, vengeance, danger, fall in love, rivalry, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The White Dragon (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this swordfighting comedy, a young noblewoman falls in love with a prince of the Imperial House. By accident, she acquires the martial arts skills of the White Dragon. New in her power, she learns that there are definite advantages in performing ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, tragic hero, good versus evil, heroic mission, love affair, intrigue, fall in love, rivalry, escapades, daring rescue, danger, medieval ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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GamerZ (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A quirky love triangle comedy set in Glasgow in the weird, wonderful world of fantasy role-playing games.
Style: semi serious, futuristic, captivating, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: university, love triangle, teenage life, rivalry, social misfits, fall in love, misfit, love and romance, youth, college life, parallel world, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A re-imagining of the classic Japanese comedy "Yaji and Kita's Travel Journey", this is the story of two samurai in Edo period Japan who are in love. One is married, the other is a drug addict. They decide to go on a trip to Ise ...
Style: surreal, not serious, humorous, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: love affair, samurai, heroes, life is a bitch, love and romance, escapades, danger, drug abuse, heroic mission, addiction, disorder, martial arts ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Having slept for a century, the monstrous Tree Devil is now awaken and starts finding lost souls again. One stormy night, a wise High Priest and his student Fong pass by the Orchid Temple and realize that it is haunted. Fong encounters two evil ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, atmospheric, tense, stylized
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: ghost, medieval, martial arts, kung fu, macabre, wuxia, vampire, fate, hiking, debt, temple, storm ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Luck (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Plot: hopes, hockey, obsession, unfulfillment, ambition, small town, gambling debt, fall in love, ice hockey, wooing, rivalry, love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Magic Kitchen (2004)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Yau (Sammi Cheng) is a successful chef and owner of a restaurant which is located in a flat called Magical Kitchen which is more like a home rather than like a restaurant. In a tale told by Yau's mother, that she would be haunted by a family ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Plot: restaurant, rivalry, love triangle, food, vengeance, couples, friends, family curse, cooking, love, looking for love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Dance of a Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.
Style: captivating, humorous, semi serious, touching, stylized ...
Plot: rivalry, performer's life, follow your dream, cinderella story, society, hopes, social differences, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, love and romance, artists and showbiz, dancing ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Chasuke's Journey (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, romantic ...
Plot: fall in love, impossible love, fish out of water, supernatural, love and romance, supernatural romance, misfit, disorder, religion, heaven, love story, angel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Holy Flame of the Martial World (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This internationally popular tale of a brother and sister seeking vengeance for the death of their parents through the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame technique is an eye-filling epic. Kuo Chue (a.k.a. Philip Kwok), famous as the star of Chang ...
Style: romantic, psychedelic, scenic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, violent content, supernatural ability, vengeance, rivalry, master warrior, supernatural, orphan, heroes, tough heroes, family relations ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Bizarre Love Triangle (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Yet she somehow manages to be loved by both her husband, Doo-chan, and Keum-sook, a childhood female ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, family problems, lifestyle, forbidden love, true love, love affair, friendship, lovers reunited, breakup, gays and lesbians, female homosexuality, wedding ...
Time: future
Place: seoul, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kei's eldest sister Sandra is a hot-tempered magazine editor and her temperament has left her single all this while. One of the family rules is that none of the siblings could get married before their eldest sister. Kei seeks help from the ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, romantic, satirical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, womanizer, relationships, love story, love and romance, male female relationship, looking for love, couple relations, romantic relationship, fall in love, eccentric family, love affair ...
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33%
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V.O.S. (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, meta ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, introspection, love affair, love triangle, couples, battle of the sexes, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, lifestyle, pregnancy, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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32%
All's Well, Ends Well (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Romantic comedy following four couples who meet through a dating website. Four men go on a heroic mission to help four women and wind up experiencing a series of mishaps.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, disorder, looking for love, couple relations, self discovery, couples, silly humor, hopes, nothing goes right, fall in love, farce, once promising ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, stylized, tense ...
Plot: martial arts, female warrior, wizards and magicians, tragic love, betrayal, supernatural ability, wuxia, witch, heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, escapades ...
Place: china, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Invisible Woman (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: platonic, fall in love, friendship, obsession, unlikely couple, impossible love, breakup, best friend, imaginary character, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Love On The Cloud (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, best friend, ambition, follow your dream, actor's life, couples, love and romance, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wing is a devoted fan of popular singer Rose who is involved in a topsy-turvy relationship with her charismatic producer Sam. Willing to go to any length to meet Rose, the willowy Wing disguises herself as a man, and with a twist of fate is chosen ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, offbeat, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: woman dressed as man, gender, impostor, time loop, lgbt, asian lgbt, unfulfilled love, tragic love, showbiz, celebrity culture, farce, gender bending ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (2001)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 91 min.
Story: По мотивам одноименной повоести Н.В.Гоголя. История о всепобеждающей любви Вакулы и Оксаны разворачиваются в живописной Диканьке и в ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, captivating
Plot: couple relations, fall in love, love affair, father son relationship, buddies, escapades, unlikely friendships, heroes, drinking, infidelity, husband wife relationship, drinking alcohol ...
Place: russia, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Gorgeous (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: martial arts, friendship, love and romance, love triangle, fall in love, looking for love, love affair, fight, combat, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, kung fu, homosexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Look for a Star (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Wealthy construction mogul Sam Ching (Andy Lau) and cabaret dancer Milan Sit (Qi Shu) fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Sit doesn't know is that Ching is the man ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, looking for love, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couples, dancer's life, singleness, cabaret, unfulfillment, love
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Gallants (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Master Law awakes from a 30-year coma without memories, but his martial arts skills are intact. His renowned kung fu academy is now a teahouse, and greedy developers are trying to steamroll it to make way for condos
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, light ...
Plot: martial arts, athlete and trainer, save the day, rivalry, master warrior, hopes, ambition, martial arts tournament, society, friendship, violent content, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Cat and Mouse (2003)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Zhan Zhao (Andy Lau) is a court officer who learns of a plot to assassinate Judge Bao (Anthony Wong). While on holiday he meets a young man named Bai (Cecilia Cheung) who turns out to be a woman. Zhan Zhao tries to recruit Bai to help him stop the ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rivalry, heroes, vigilantism, secret identity, love affair, battles, folk hero, love and romance, escapades, hidden identity, dishonesty, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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