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Chinese Puzzle (2013)
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Original name: Casse-Tête 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, sweet, romantic, unusual plot structure, entertaining, realistic, witty, intense, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marriage of convenience, infidelity, artificial insemination, marital separation, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship, love, life, parenthood, life philosophy, old love, parents and children, couples, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, travel, writers, immigration ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, somalia, usa, paris france, france, new jersey
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Most similar movies to Chinese Puzzle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, couple relations, friendship, fall in love and relationships mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Chinese Puzzle: The Spanish Apartment (2002), Raising Helen (2004), Friends with Kids (2011), The Four-Faced Liar (2010), One Fine Day (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
feel good, humorous, touching, romantic, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, travel, relationships, prejudice, youth, roommate, college life, student, coming of age, college, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france, spain, barcelona, catalonia, paris france ...
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100%
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, feel good, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, custody, happy ending, couple relations, parents and children, couples, teenage girl, destiny, family bonds, orphan, love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, romantic, unusual plot structure, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, toddlers, teens, kids ...
Plot:
sex, friendship, happy ending, best friends in love, relationships, love and romance, breast feeding, best friend, love story, relationship problems, pregnancy, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gender, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, lesbian couple, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian sex, infidelity, love and romance, friendship, couples, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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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:
feel good, entertaining, light, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
single parent, architect, opposites attract, couples, love and romance, nothing goes right, parents and children, one day, single mother, father daughter relationship, girl, love ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, feel good, clever, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dating, masseuse, relationships, poet, single parent, couple relations, sexual activity, divorce, parenthood, goodhearted, encounter, middle aged ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, new jersey, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, sexual, black and white, lgbt cinema, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
lgbtq, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, lesbian love, feminist, sexuality, gender, sapphic, lgbtqi, dating, lesbian sex ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
indiana, usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
159K
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, emotional, humorous, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, 40 year old, relationships, husband wife relationship, family bonds, family drama, life philosophy, depression, midlife crisis, high maintenance, adulthood, family life ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 70s, year 1974 ...
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, divorce, marriage, relationships, writers, long term relationship, bittersweet, family drama, husband wife relationship, breakup, fall in love, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
100%
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, humorous, touching, feel good, spiritual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, starting over, love triangle, fish out of water, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, friends, disorder, mine ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
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, touching, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
small town, writers, divorce, love, passion, life, tourist, starting over, male female relationship, middle aged woman, friendship, vineyard ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, friendship, fall in love, city life, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, single mother, heart disease, parisian ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
Similarity:
100%
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, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
100%
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, sweet, touching, independent film, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, relationships, coming of age, friendship, love, writers, multiple storylines, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, writer's life, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, entertaining, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lgbtq, female orgasm, female nudity, lesbian teen, lesbianism, lgbt, family relations, on the run, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, humorous, touching, romantic comedy, eros ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian love, woman woman relationship, lesbian romance, gender, lgbtq, relationships, hospital, lesbian sex ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
indiana, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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, rom com, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, sapphic, friendship, blind date, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, lgbt, glbt, looking for love, lifestyle, sex ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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:
sincere, witty, humorous, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, starting over, society, relationship vs career, midlife crisis, looking for love, buddies, lifestyle, human nature, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sincere, witty, realistic, romantic drama, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationships, friendship, honest, food, betrayal, family problems, dialogue, secrets, introspection, marriage, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, california, poland ...
Similarity:
100%
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, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female nudity, divorce, sex scene, marital separation, midlife crisis, breakup, voyeur, feminist, self discovery, betrayal, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
romantic, touching, sweet, rom com, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, love, chance meeting, hopes, stranger, passion, husband wife relationship, jazz musician, life philosophy, love story, honest, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2014, y2k, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
Similarity:
100%
819
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
100%
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:
humorous, touching, semi serious, tense, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
disorder, couples, fall in love, couple relations, wooing, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, parents and children, love, male female relationship, graduate student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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, romantic comedy, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, jewish wedding, mother daughter conflict, jewish american, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, love and romance, betrayal, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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, feel good, sentimental, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, love story, single father, true love, storytelling, daughter, father, love, best friends in love, fall in love, male female friendship, relationships ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1994, year 1992, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, wisconsin, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, lesbian, lgbtq, couples, couple relations, lgbtqi, love and romance, friendship, love, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, sincere, clever, independent film, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, lesbian, love affair, fall in love, casual sex, passion, sister sister relationship, sisters, love triangle, life philosophy, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
117K
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, rom com, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids
Plot:
pregnancy, male female friendship, best friend, best friends in love, couples, love story, destiny, father son relationship, parenthood, single parent, unfulfilled love, childbirth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, michigan, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, witty, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens
Plot:
male nudity, writers, lesbian, relationships, friendship, summer, public nudity, looking for love, love triangle, lifestyle, understanding, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, london, france, england, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet?
Style:
melancholic, stylized, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
destiny, coincidence, chance meeting, butterfly effect, chaos, love and romance, couples, couple relations, naked man, old woman, stranger, depression ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
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