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Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015)
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Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015)
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, humorous, semi serious, telenovela
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, parallel world, family relations, fish out of water, imaginary, disorder, switching roles, twentysomething life, woman, romance, tv show, female director
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, california, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, fall in love, disorder, couple relations and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Ana Maria in Novela Land: Dorfman in Love (2011), Still Breathing (1997), Shirin in Love (2014), The Prince and the Surfer (1999), All Relative (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Still Breathing (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, self discovery, destiny, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, eccentric family, dream, magic, relationships, passion, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1997
Place: los angeles, texas, usa, california, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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Shirin in Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, culture clash, family relations, fall in love, society, interracial marriage, love and romance, couples, friendship, parents and children, persian
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, persia, california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The classic Twain story "The Prince and the Pauper" gets a modern slant when Prince Edward of Gelfland switches places with Southern California surfer Cash Canty. Both discover a new world of romance, danger, and adventure beyond their ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, friends, couples, disorder, switching roles, buddies, betrayal, hidden identity, coming of age, youth, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
My Future Boyfriend (2011)
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 ...
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, fish out of water, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, obsessive quest, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, disorder, misfit, time jump, girl ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Keeping Up with the Randalls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alicia Crosby is a hugely successful children's fashion designer based in Los Angeles. Her personal life is equally successful as Alicia suspects her boyfriend Will Randall is going to pop the question any day now. But first, Alicia must ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eccentric family, fashion, contests and competitions, couples, family relations, family gatherings, couple relations, holiday, love and romance, ambition, working the system
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Shades of Ray (2008)
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: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, identity crisis, interracial relations, family reunited, audition, family relations, moral dilemma, actor's life, couples, parents and children, society, proposal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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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 ⇓
64%
 8.3
 594
Do Over (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Do Over is an American comedy-drama/fantasy series created by Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener about a man who gets a chance to relive his childhood. The series, which was originally broadcast on The WB in 2002, stars Penn Badgley.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, retro ...
Plot: high school, fish out of water, starting over, one more chance, changing the past or future, youth, love and romance, dysfunctional family, disorder, adulthood, family relations, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.2
 429
Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.3
 587
Santa, Jr. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While delivering toys, Santa's son (Nick Stabile) is arrested for trespassing. Dispirited, he turns for help to a public defender (Lauren Holly).
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: santa claus, christmas, family relations, disorder, love and romance, legal, family life, wish come true, hopes, christmas romance, holiday, xmas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Darling Companion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, pets, family problems, couple relations, family life, disorder, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, lifestyle, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, accountant, couples, family relations, friends, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, couple relations, human nature, musician's life, actor's life, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.6
 2K
Miss Match (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Miss Match is a 2003 American television series created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star and produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. It aired in the U.S. on NBC, Australia on Network Seven, Arena and FOX8, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, sex comedy
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: matchmaking, workplace romance, looking for love, couples, lawyer, parents and children, lifestyle, workplace, workplace situations, family relations, women, legal ...
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Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
 6.8
 1K
Chance (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, wooing, mother daughter relationship, women, relationships, gays and lesbians, love and romance, twentysomething life, singleness, family relations ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.6
 988
Some Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, brother sister relationship, twentysomething life, love affair, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, free spirited, heartache ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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All Night Long (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, love affair, nightlife, human nature, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, unsupportive spouse, unfulfillment, jealousy, adultery ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.3
 754
Coming & Going (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside ...
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, light, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
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, semi serious, sincere, feel good, touching ...
Plot: dogme 95, life turned upside down, unlikely couple, introspection, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, disorder, dogma, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.6
 569
Bridal Fever (2008)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couple relations, writer's life, couples, fall in love, looking for love, boss and employee, power relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
For Better or For Worse (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Wendy is finally settling in to single life after the death of her husband. She runs a successful wedding planning company with the help of her friend Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged when Marco, a charming but irritating ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unlikely couple, couples, opposites attract, family business, family relations, disorder, wedding, fall in love, holiday, singleness, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, couples, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, love and romance, marriage, art, on the road, travel, karaoke
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Christmas Do-Over (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A ne'er do well father and ex-husband who always raced his way through the holidays is forced to relive Christmas Day time and again until he gets it right in this family oriented fantasy comedy starring Jay Mohr. It's Christmas time once ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: time loop, christmas, holiday, hopes, love and romance, couples, disorder, family relations, obnoxious boss, time, time travel, xmas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
I Love You, Don't Touch Me! (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story of a 25 year old virgin girl, looking for the right boyfriend, not realizing that "the one" has been next to her for many years.
Style: sexy, witty, sexual, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: relationships, betrayal, virginity, virgin, friendship, first love, best friend, looking for love, love triangle, friends, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Muffin Top: A Love Story (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "Muffin Top: A Love Story" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon) a Women's Studies Pop Culture professor at Malibu University, who studies images of women in the media for a living, and yet is made insecure by the constant parade ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Audience: girls' night
Plot: looking for love, singleness, couples, love and romance, physical appearance, sexual content, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Prince Charming (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cinderella story, frog, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, royal family, fish out of water, wooing, disorder, wish come true, opposites attract, magic ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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