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The French Dispatch (2021)
 7.1
 149K
The French Dispatch (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Style: anthology, funny, visual, light, realistic, erotic, atmospheric, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: journalist, magazine, artist, chef, bicycle, police, voice over narration, journalism, unrequited love, hostage, mental illness, chase, teenage boy, absurdism, love and romance, prostitute, world war two, kidnapping, death, writers, father son relationship, riot, lecture, poisoning, art collector ...
Time: 70s, 2020s, post world war two, 60s, 20th century, year 1975, 1960s
Place: kansas, france
Keyword: french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and independent film films with plots about love, love and romance, couples, voice over narration, hipster, coming of age and kiss mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The French Dispatch: The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Paris, I Love You (2006), Rushmore (1998), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Art School Confidential (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, dysfunctional family, introspection, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, travel, magic realism, wanderlust, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, himalaya, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Paris, I Love You (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include ...
Style: anthology, stylized, talky, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: tourist, multiple storylines, dating, fall in love, love story, love, new love, looking for love, justice, love affair, lifestyle, human nature ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, montmartre paris, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rushmore (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the ...
Style: funny, dark comedy, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, depression, student, jealousy, adolescence, love triangle, teacher, teen angst, friendship, youth, mentor ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, y2k, year 1998
Place: usa, midwest, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style: atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, surreal, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: children, coming of age, adolescence, camp, first love, boy scout, orphan, youth, island, search party, summer camp, journey ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965
Place: new england, nebraska, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
Style: fairy tale, philosophical, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: genie, djinn, mythology, desire, storytelling, magic, lonely, self discovery, wizards and magicians, changing lives, female protagonist, problem ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century, 2020s, future, 1800s
Place: istanbul turkey, ottoman empire, turkey, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Art School Confidential (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: artist, art school, teenage girl, painting, murder, art, nude model, coming of age, painter, investigation, ambition, serial killer ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Style: atmospheric, artsy, melancholic, stylized, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, goth, love, supernatural, eternal life, immortality, blood, vampirism, family relations, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place: tangier morocco, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: hotel, prison escape, art theft, mentor protege relationship, murder, luxury hotel, escapades, painting, gunfight, greed, fictional country, mentor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, road movie, atmospheric, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
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Time: 70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.0
 24K
I Am Love (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Style: sexy, stylized, meditative, intense, atmospheric ...
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Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, nice france, london, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.1
 91K
Cashback (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Style: sexy, humorous, surreal, meditative, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: breakup, supermarket, introspection, artist, stopped time, nudity, sexual attraction, girlfriend, workplace, insomnia, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, time freeze ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: britain, united kingdom, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 8.3
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Amelie (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
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Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: loneliness, love, magic realism, fall in love, imagination, female protagonist, cafe, love and romance, optimism, lifestyle change, surrealism, life ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
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Licorice Pizza (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
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Style: period piece, captivating, comedy drama, teen, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, actor, first love, teenage boy, jealousy, closeted homosexual, political campaign, age difference, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, friendship, wrongful arrest ...
Time: year 1973, 2020s, 70s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, pasadena california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sexual, erotic drama ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 90s, year 1990, 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Regular Lovers (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 183 min.
Story: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about ...
Style: realistic, serious, black and white, touching, suspenseful ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.6
 530K
Love Actually (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
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Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: dark comedy, funny, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, eccentric family, writers, forbidden love, parents and children, deadpan, incest, uptight character, reconciliation, love, satire ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.8
 147K
Manhattan (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style: black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 223K
Garden State (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, independent film, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: depression, self discovery, coming of age, funeral, melancholy, friendship, psychiatrist, cat, family relations, drug, dysfunctional family, small town ...
Time: year 2004, near future, medieval times, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style: talky, stylized, independent film, retro, erotic ...
Plot: writers, beat generation, friendship, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, suicide attempt, art, poet, sex scene, making love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 6.1
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The Rum Diary (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden ...
Style: stylized, sexy, light, surreal, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, eccentricity, gangster, addiction, lifestyle, alcoholic, profanity ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Science of Sleep (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, meditative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dream, surrealism, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, existentialism, insanity, magic realism, imagination, love story, friendship ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
Style: humorous, touching, erotic, realistic, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: sister sister relationship, lifestyle, love affair, love, older woman younger man relationship, society, parents and children, coma, cigarette smoking, women, nudity, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style: touching, philosophical, dramatic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: destiny, true love, life & death, life philosophy, aging, existentialism, love and romance, fictional biography, melancholy, puzzle, tragic love, old age ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 1950s ...
Place: new orleans, cambodia, usa, pearl harbor, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 3K
Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.3
 72K
Elizabethtown (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his ...
Style: emotional, sweet, melancholic, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, love story, suicide attempt, stewardess, road trip, love, bittersweet, life philosophy, self discovery, on the road, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa, oklahoma city, louisville kentucky, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
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Arizona Dream (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to ...
Style: surreal, art house, melancholic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surrealism, self discovery, car salesman, magic realism, nervous breakdown, fall in love, american dream, family relations, love and romance, on the road, eccentric family, love triangle ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: arizona, usa, new york, papua new guinea, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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