Movies like The Last Five Years

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The Last Five Years (2014)
 5.8
 11K
The Last Five Years (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Style: melancholic, romantic, surreal, lyrical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic drama, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: love affair, marriage, husband wife relationship, writer's life, depression, artists and showbiz, wife, bittersweet, marital problem, breakup, memory, aspiring writer, audition, living together, love, dancing, theater, divorce, jazz, dating, love and romance, sex, ship, snake, wedding ...
Time: year 2011, year 2009, year 2010, year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, ohio
Keyword: jewish, keys, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, romantic, realistic and semi serious films with plots about kiss, telephone call, marriage, love, drinking, drink and dancing mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Last Five Years: Table 19 (2017), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Playing by Heart (1998), Before We Go (2014), Comet (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Table 19 (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
Style: funny, light, feel good, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: wedding, confession, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, misfit, name calling, marital problem, male objectification, up and down relationship, guest, reluctant partners, intergenerational friendship ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 63K
Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, chance meeting, love, stranger, hopes, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, husband wife relationship, nothing goes right ...
Time: y2k, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
 20K
Comet (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time-from a meteor shower in LA, to an encounter ...
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, surreal, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: parallel universe, love affair, love story, unlikely couple, love, couples, love and romance, american football, bittersweet, philosophy, fall in love, time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, wisconsin, orlando florida, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 661K
La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: romantic, sad, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens, date night
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, traffic jam, pianist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 36K
On the Rocks (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, sincere, romantic ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, marriage, playboy, infidelity, flirting, wealth, suspicion of adultery, lesbian, husband wife relationship, adultery, love, party ...
Place: canada, los angeles, manhattan new york city, new york, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 7.1
 21K
5 to 7 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Style: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: adultery, fall in love, unfaithful wife, love and romance, extramarital affair, polyamory, cheating on husband, couples, cheating wife, relationships, love affair, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 42K
Prime (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style: sweet, light, sentimental, romantic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, relationships, love story, therapy, artist, love, older woman younger man sex, family relations, life philosophy, doctors and patients, love of one's life ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, salt lake city utah, panama, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.4
 25K
Funny Girl (1968)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style: light, witty, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showbiz, love story, marriage, ambition, desire for fame, performer's life, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, baltimore, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Rumor Has It... (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest ...
Style: light, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, love affair, dysfunctional family, love story, relationships, writers, infidelity, love and romance, life is a bitch, young lovers, youth, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1997
Place: california, usa, pasadena california, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style: melancholic, stylized, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.4
 348K
Up in the Air (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in "downsizing". Ryan lives out of his suitcase, traveling the country for the sole purpose terminating unwanted employees day after day. Just as ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, travel, loneliness, business, couples, business trip, hotel, airport, downsizing, introspection, love affair, airplane ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, las vegas, iran, dallas texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
In the Land of Women (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, love story, love, suburban life, teenager, depression, neighbor, self discovery, believe in yourself, homecoming, passion ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: california, detroit, michigan, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 4K
The Lovers (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot: lovers, middle aged woman, love triangle, adultery, marriage, infidelity, secret, marital problem, father son relationship, name calling, sex scene, love ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 2K
All I Wish (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.
Style: captivating, romantic, light, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: birthday, dating, surprise birthday party, birthday party, birthday present, dancer, wedding, self doubt, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, living together, marriage proposal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: santa monica california, usa, california, las vegas, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Only Game in Town (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
Style: realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous, touching ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, gambling, chorus girl, bride and groom, bittersweet, couples, hotel, addiction, love and romance, unfulfillment, couple relations, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: las vegas, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Living Out Loud (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style: realistic, clever, touching, romantic drama, surreal ...
Plot: masseur, infidelity, divorce, marriage, massage, brooklyn bridge, loneliness, female protagonist, elevator operator, relationships, strong female presence, couples ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
Style: romantic, sexy, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: women, love story, love affair, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, singleness, infidelity, single woman, best friends in love, dating, mentor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 14K
The Meddler (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Style: romantic, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: wedding, loss of father, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, friend, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead ...
Time: year 1969
Place: los angeles, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 8K
The Comedian (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
Style: captivating, melancholic, light, romantic comedy, entertaining ...
Plot: comedian, aging, insult, stand up comedy, comeback, comedy club, brother brother relationship, jail, judaism, ghost hunter, hunter, fish ...
Time: year 1985
Place: somalia, new york, italy, wisconsin, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
New York, I Love You (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, interracial relations, multiple storylines, couples, fall in love, young lovers, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, city life, friendship, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.3
 5K
Permission (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.
Style: sentimental, captivating, psychological, humorous, surprise ending ...
Plot: open relationship, sex scene, gay, orgasm, sexual promiscuity, marriage proposal, gay relationship, jealousy, male objectification, open marriage, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: naples italy, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: sleepwalking, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, mental disorder, road trip, biopic ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia, ohio, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: sweet, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, breakup, relationships, couples, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, heartache, fall in love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Drinking Buddies (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really ...
Style: mumblecore, independent film, melancholic, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: group of friends, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, relationships, beer, adaptation, profanity, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, weekend ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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