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Shanghai Calling (2012)
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Shanghai Calling (2012)
Original name: 纽约客@上海
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 street-smart legal assistant, Sam might just save his job, find romance, and learn to appreciate the beauty and wonders of Shanghai. Written by Anonymous (IMDB.com).
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: asian man white woman relationship, misfit, love and romance, fall in love, legal, workplace romance, disorder, fish out of water, workplace situations, business, interracial romance, legal action, society, urban, culture clash, workplace, manners, shrewd, romance, search
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: china, america

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, disorder, fish out of water, society, couples and workplace mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Shanghai Calling: Dr. Cabbie (2014), The Wedding Photographer (2009), Americanizing Shelley (2007), Tea & Sangria (2014), The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dr. Cabbie (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An unemployed doctor turned cab driver becomes a local hero when he converts his taxi into a mobile clinic. Dr. CABBIE is the heart warming journey of a young Indian Doctor who immigrates to Canada with the selfless ambition of healing others while ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: taxi, doctor, fish out of water, disorder, workplace, follow your dream, hopes, buddies, misfit, love and romance, workplace situations, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Wedding Photographer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When the factory in Molkom shuts down, Robin leaves his beloved hometown to try his luck in Stockholm as a wedding photographer. This experience changes not merely his outlook on life but also his hairstyle.
Style: feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: career change, fall in love, fish out of water, disorder, starting over, love and romance, meet the parents, misfit, hopes, social differences, wedding, photographer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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73%
Americanizing Shelley (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, opposites attract, fall in love, disorder, social differences, misfit, celebrity culture, filmmaking, teaching the ways of the world, fish out of water, country, immigration ...
Place: usa, himalaya, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Tea & Sangria (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: life turned upside down, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, society, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
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: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives, the Chao's for a vacation. The clash of cultures, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: interracial romance, family relations, culture clash, disorder, society, misfit, family life, road not taken, fish out of water, immigrant, asian man white woman relationship, chinese american
Time: 80s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light hearted
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, misfit, love and romance, fish out of water, bookstore, book ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, taiwan, paris france, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Dorfman in Love (2011)
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, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, self discovery, unrequited love, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, daydreamer, disorder, misfit, singleness, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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66%
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Outsourced (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: workplace, self discovery, arts and culture, human nature, travel, office, call center, fish out of water, love and romance, boss and employee, corporate world, manager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, seattle, asia, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Office Romance. Our time (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: workplace romance, fall in love, love affair, strong female lead, unlikely couple, relationship vs career, boss and employee, love and romance, rivalry, workplace intrigue, workplace, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Love in a Puff (2010)
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: love and romance, workplace, lifestyle, rules and policies, workplace romance, wooing, misfit, couples, love, asian prostitute, social misfits, twentysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
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 ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: life turned upside down, friendship, fall in love, looking for love, society, buddies, disorder, love and romance, interracial relations, profanity, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Break-Up Artist (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: breakup, couples, love and romance, rivalry, fall in love, workplace, wooing, workplace situations, career change, teenager, win over, rules ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Falling Up (2009)
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: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: opposites attract, buddies, student life, concierge, workplace situations, love and romance, workplace, rich and poor, boss and employee, teenager, in love, doorman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, business trip, cultural difference, coffee shop, self discovery, fall in love, disorder, fish out of water, lifestyle, village, food, estranged father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, love triangle, couples, couple relations, friendship between men
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Triumph in the Skies (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, fall in love, lovers reunited, workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
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62%
Hong Kong Confidential (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Latvia, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 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: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, couple relations, introspection, interracial relations, society, couples, city life, alone in the world, workplace situations, lifestyle, urban, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, latvia, asia
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62%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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61%
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, fall in love, countryside, isolation, lone wolves, love and romance, confined, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, love and romance, hopes, society, workplace situations, workplace romance, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time: 21st century
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61%
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Jatt & Juliet 2 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A sequel to the hit Punjabi romantic comedy.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic, fun
Plot: punjabi, disorder, unlikely couple, law enforcement, couples, love and romance, fall in love, opposites attract, mission, chase, fish out of water, misfit
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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60%
Window Wonderland (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: With the Christmas season fast approaching, department store window decorator Sloan Van Doren is hoping to take over the recently-vacated head window designer spot but finds she has to prove herself by going up against rival Jake Dooley. As the two ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, workplace romance, family holiday, opposites attract, love triangle, rivalry, fall in love, workplace, workplace situations, contests and competitions, christmas romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Paradise (2013)
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: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: culture clash, self discovery, love and romance, crumbling marriage, physical appearance, society, couples, couple relations, discrimination, misfit, supportive spouse, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, mexico city
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60%
Straight Talk (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call ...
Style: emotional, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fish out of water, mistaken identity, radio, rise and fall, cons and scams, looking for love, rise to the top, journalism, media, workplace, downfall, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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In the Weeds (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, sex comedy ...
Plot: restaurant, waitress, food, workplace, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, workplace romance, workplace situations, couples, love and romance, city life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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60%
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Marigold (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, India, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film follows the story of Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, love triangle, showbiz, looking for love, disorder, love affair, workplace romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love, actor's life, love and romance, politics ...
Time: year 2007
Place: usa, asia, india
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59%
My Faraway Bride (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, fall in love, writer's life, society, tragic love, fish out of water, friendship, infidelity ...
Place: california, asia, usa, india
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59%
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