Movies like Chinese Puzzle

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Chinese Puzzle (2013)
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Chinese Puzzle (2013)
Original name: Casse-TĂȘte Chinois
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, romantic, unusual plot structure, sweet, entertaining, realistic, witty, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, friendship, midlife crisis, relationships, starting over, love, life, parenthood, life philosophy, lesbian, fall in love, old love, longing, male female friendship, parents and children, couples, family problems, infidelity, artificial insemination, marital separation, love and romance, couple relations, travel, writers, separated parents ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, somalia, usa, paris france, france, new jersey
Keyword: chinese, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, friendship, family relations, love and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Chinese Puzzle: The Spanish Apartment (2002), Friends with Kids (2011), One Fine Day (1996), Enough Said (2013), Raising Helen (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Spanish Apartment (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, romantic, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: travel, friendship, infidelity, student, roommate, prejudice, relationships, youth, college life, coming of age, college, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, spain, barcelona, paris france, europe ...
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Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 48K
One Fine Day (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her ...
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: single parent, opposites attract, architect, one day, couples, love, single mother, girl, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, disorder ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 66K
Enough Said (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dating, loneliness, masseuse, poet, relationships, divorce, sexual activity, parenthood, goodhearted, couple relations, single parent, middle aged ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.0
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Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: adoption, happy ending, custody, orphan, couple relations, couples, parents and children, fashion, love, teenage girl, parenthood, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.8
 13K
Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, city life, friendship, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, dancer, siblings, lsd ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
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100%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dinner with Friends (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, family problems, secrets, introspection, marriage, crumbling marriage, love and romance, food, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 1988, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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30 Years to Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style: witty, touching, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, love and romance, human nature, midlife crisis, society, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, buddies, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Four-Faced Liar (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Four Faced Liar is a story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City... A story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City. A pair of best friends and a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, gender, lesbian love, lgbt, infidelity, love and romance, friendship, lgbtq, couples, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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100%
 5.1
 1K
All About E (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A beautiful sexy DJ is forced to run when she stumbles on a stash of cash. Can she keep the money, conquer her demons, AND get the girl?
Style: humorous, feel good, contemplative, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, female nudity, female orgasm, lgbt, lesbianism, lgbtq, family relations, on the run, money, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, ...
Style: melancholic, touching, independent film, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: relationships, friendship, coming of age, multiple storylines, couples, writers, love, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, writer's life, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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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%
 5.3
 813
Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 13K
Saving Face (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Style: touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lgbtq, sapphic, lesbian sex, gay, gays and lesbians, loneliness, marriage ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: indiana, new york, usa, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
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100%
The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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That's Not Us (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
Style: psychological, sexy, humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lesbian, lgbtq, couples, couple relations, lgbtqi, love, love and romance, friendship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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This Is 40 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Style: funny, humorous, emotional, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, birthday, 40 year old, aging, relationships, family relations, family drama, family bonds, life philosophy, depression, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, year 1974, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Then She Found Me (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with ...
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: midlife crisis, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, love and romance, betrayal, jewish american, unfulfillment, parents and children, birth mother, love, pregnancy ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Your Sister's Sister (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style: romantic, sincere, emotional, independent film, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: relationships, love, lesbian, casual sex, sisters, love triangle, sex, love affair, life philosophy, sister sister relationship, friendship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.7
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Go Fish (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?
Style: independent film, black and white, sexual, clever, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, feminist, sexuality, gender, lgbtqi, sapphic, women of color, advocate, transgender ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 2K
All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ 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%
 5.6
 468
Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 112K
The Switch (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
Style: romantic, humorous, feel good, cute, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: pregnancy, male female friendship, best friend, couples, best friends in love, love story, parenthood, single parent, unfulfilled love, childbirth, father son relationship, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 21K
Russian Dolls (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Style: romantic, humorous, feel good, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: friendship, lesbian, male nudity, writers, relationships, looking for love, love triangle, lifestyle, understanding, writer's life, old love, culture clash ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, scenic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: writers, small town, divorce, passion, tourist, friendship, life, middle aged woman, male female relationship, starting over, love, journey ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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