Movies like The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, bad ending, melancholic, witty, talky, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly lovers, hotel, elderly, aging, wedding, twists and turns, romance, mentor, love story, mistaken identity, culture clash, honest, friendship, disorder, retirement home, travel, adventure, prejudice, unlikely friendships, old woman, love, catastrophe, indians, natural disaster, relationships ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
india, london, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, feel good and touching films with plots about catastrophe, destiny, mentor, storytelling, life philosophy, dialogue and culture clash mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Quartet (2012), My Old Lady (2014), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Ladies in Lavender (2004), The Girl in the Café (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
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feel good, touching, uplifting, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
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Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
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100%
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Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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workplace, friendship, mentor, life philosophy, elderly, office, unlikely friendships, business, fashion, prejudice, workplace situations, family ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her ...
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Plot:
elderly lovers, romance, friendship, aging, relationships, depression, life, loneliness, family, solitude, widow, weed ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. ...
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
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