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In a World... (2013)
34K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Style:
clever, humorous, witty, talky, sincere, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, romantic comedy, hilarious ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, girls' night
Plot:
sexism, female empowerment, workplace, love and romance, shyness, siblings relations, hopes, workplace situations, father daughter relationship, feminist, dysfunctional family, women, feminism, eccentricity, character study, unlikely friendships, infidelity, woman, sister sister relationship, strong female lead, art, actor, girl power, threat, woman urinating ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles, ireland, california, san francisco, new jersey, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, witty and clever films with plots about couples, adaptation, runaway, satire, dialogue, mentor and catastrophe mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like In a World...: Crash Pad (2017), For Your Consideration (2006), P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! (2002), I Do... Until I Don't (2017), The Assistants (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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67%
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, hilarious, melancholic, stylized, talky ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, seattle
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62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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60%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
58%
43K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
58%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
58%
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Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, humorous, touching, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, massachusetts, beverly hills, usa ...
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, funny, light ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, new jersey
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, funny, laugh out loud, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Time:
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new york, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, sincere, humorous, light, captivating ...
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girls' night, date night
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Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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53%
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