Movies like Strangers Kiss

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Strangers Kiss (1983)
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Strangers Kiss (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the off-set relationship between the actress and her unknown male lead.
Style: neo noir, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, eighties
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, couples, showbiz, actor's life, realism, underdog, artists and showbiz, gangster, blonde, waitress, nylons, stockings
Time: year 1983, 80s, 1950s, 50s
Place: usa, california
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz, showbiz, hollywood, lifestyle and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Strangers Kiss: An American in Hollywood (2014), Beautiful Girl (2014), Hope for Love (2013), 2nd Take (2011), Guilty Hearts (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, ambition, follow your dream, fall in love, hopes, buddies, showbiz, love and romance, hollywood, friends, artists and showbiz, young
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, california
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95%
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Beautiful Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: porn star, ambition, impossible love, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, love and romance, sexual content, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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84%
Hope for Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman is faced with a tough decision to stay with her husband and father of her son who is cheating on her. She takes a vacation where she runs into an old flame and begins to rekindle their chemistry. Torn between the two, she intends to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, dishonesty, couples, introspection, betrayal, self discovery, relocation, love and romance, urban, escape
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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77%
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2nd Take (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, showbiz, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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73%
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Broken Windows (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological
Plot: interracial relations, love triangle, sibling relationship, couples, actor's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, brother sister relationship, party
Time: 21st century
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63%
3 Nights in the Desert (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all wonder if the cave has real power.
Style: talky, sincere, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: desert, friendship, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, twentysomething life, love and romance, bittersweet, art, coming of age, best friend, road not taken ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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59%
Queen of the Lot (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, alcohol abuse, love triangle, paparazzi, unstoppable, couples, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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53%
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Stand-ins (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six women who came to Hollywood with the dream of becoming famous find themselves working as stand-ins for the glamorous stars of the late 1930s. Gathering for a birthday celebration at their local watering hole, they introduce a new member to the ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, twists and turns, doppelganger, bigger dreams ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, pre world war two
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52%
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Anna (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna (Sally Kirkland). After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, talky ...
Plot: girl, aging, strong female presence, immigrant, lifestyle, actor's life, follow your dream, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, midlife crisis, nightlife ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: czechoslovakia, new york, usa
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50%
There Must Be a Pony (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, stylized
Plot: parent child relationship, hopes, love and romance, mentally unstable, artists and showbiz, mysterious character, misfit, starting over, mental institution, hospital, hollywood, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Missing William (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story follows Abby, a thirty-something artist living in Rhode Island caring for her husband William after he's tragically injured in a bar fight. As she attempts to coax him back to health, James, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, sentimental, indie film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: renewed love, love triangle, moral dilemma, lovers reunited, life turned upside down, infidelity, couples, wounded, friendship, choice, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
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47%
Di Di Hollywood (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bar worker Diana Diaz (Elsa Pataky) leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for fame.
Style: captivating, realistic, cynical, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: sex scene, hollywood, showbiz, desire for fame, actor's life, follow your dream, ambition, rising to stardom, agent, infidelity, casting couch, erotic scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
After the Rehearsal (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: theater, art, relationships, actor, dialogue, crazy love, nordic, memory, dull life, couples, aging, actor's life ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
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46%
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom
Plot: rising to stardom, ambition, actor's life, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, couple relations, showbiz, workplace, filmmaking, hollywood, comedian, celebrity culture ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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46%
The Lonely Lady (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, rough
Plot: lesbian, female nudity, screenwriter, misogyny, sex scene, hollywood, rape, film industry, price of fame, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, casting couch ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: usa, california
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Cherry. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sexy, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, youth, escapades, revenge, love and romance, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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42%
Man of the Year (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best friend, Stuart, hosts the party at his ritzy ultra modern Hollywood Hills home. During the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Plot: hollywood, lifestyle, love and romance, infidelity, filmmaking, friendship, nightlife, showbiz, couples, dishonesty, bookies, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, obsession, actor's life, addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media ...
Time: 90s
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40%
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The Tic Code (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, independent film, serious ...
Plot: disability, jazz, youth, music, illness, musician's life, fall in love, hopes, coming of age, love and romance, prodigy, misfit ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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40%
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Heartbreakers (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Best friends Eli and Blue, both at a crossroads in their professional lives, find their friendship put to the test when they become preoccupied with the same woman
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Audience: adult
Plot: german history, extreme, gay interest, nudity, profanity, sexual content, friendship, love and romance, betrayal, friends, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
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39%
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God's Ears (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Noah Connelly is a boxer with a tireless opponent: Autism. But when he meets a dancer named Alexia, the two discover together that the toughest fight may be not be of the body, but of the heart.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Plot: autism, love affair, unlikely couple, true love, athlete's life, social differences, friendship, fall in love, couples, society, mentally challenged, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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38%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
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37%
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An Unremarkable Life (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
Style: independent film, uplifting, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, starting over, aging, fall in love, elderly, love and romance, forbidden love, family life, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, old woman ...
Time: 80s
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36%
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I'm Losing You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style: realistic, talky, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: aids, hollywood, family relations, father son relationship, terminal illness, showbiz, infidelity, family problems, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, family in crisis, family life ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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35%
The Music Teacher (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because of district budget cuts. In an effort to spare the program, Daley's former students band ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: couples, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, teachers and students, strong female presence, high school, hopes, family relations, dedicated educator, artists and showbiz, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri
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35%
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.2
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Barrymore (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: As John Barrymore reckons with the ravages of his life of excess, he rents an old theatre to rehearse for a backer's audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III.
Style: realistic, sincere, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, actor's life, theater, showbiz, performer's life, introspection, actor, rivalry, society, hollywood, art, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1920s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 15
Tangled 8 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, talky, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, unfulfilled love, sexual content, dealing with death, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Refuge (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love triangle are brought together by fate.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, touching, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, youth, dedicated educator, addiction, high school life, love
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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