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Falling for Mala (2015)
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Falling for Mala (2015)
Original name: A la mala
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
Style: sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, unlikely couple, cons and scams, couples, infidelity, dishonesty, society, manipulation, friendship, drinking alcohol, bare chested male, alcohol, legs, manipulations, leg, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico, latin america

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, friendship, family relations and disorder mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Falling for Mala: 4 Wedding Planners (2011), Romantic Debtors (2010), Making Mr. Right (2008), Mr. Fix It (2006), Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
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Romantic Debtors (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A policeman in debt is constantly called by a woman working to collect his debt. When they meet by accident they attracted to each other, and does not realize they already have a hostile phone-relationship.
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Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a ...
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Time: 21st century
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Mr. Fix It (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lance Valenteen (David Boreanaz) makes a living as "Mr. Fix It," a man who gets hired by men that have just recently been dumped by their girlfriend. Lance dates the guys' ex-girlfriend and becomes the worst date possible, sending the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, rom com
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: deception, fall in love, couples, wooing, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cupid, blonde, voyeur, voyeurism ...
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Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)
Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 103 min.
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Duration: 83 min.
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