Movies like Bending All the Rules

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Bending All the Rules (2002)
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Bending All the Rules (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sexy, sincere, humorous, independent film
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, couples, ambition, lifestyle, wooing, bartender, carnival, art exhibition, radio dj, profanity, singleness, sexual content, urban, artists and showbiz, performer's life, sex, male nudity, sexual intercourse, nudity, nude, nudity (full frontal - brief), romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love triangle, female nudity and nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Bending All the Rules: Red Meat (1997), An American in Hollywood (2014), A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy (2008), Dancing in September (2000), Fairfield Road (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Red Meat (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chris and Stefan invite Victor to join their group where they talk about their experiences with women over a meal of red meat. As the night progresses, Stefan relates his wild encounters with fleeting sex, Chris talks about his need for intellectual ...
Style: sexy, erotic, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friends, thirtysomething life, lifestyle, relationships, love and romance, couples, infidelity, sex, discussion, women, dishonesty, restaurant ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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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87%
A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: couples, teenage life, sexual relations, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, society, city life, teenage love, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Dancing in September (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, independent film
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, ambition, love and romance, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, media satire, workplace romance, journalism, society, hollywood, african american ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Love Chronicles, a romantic “dramedy”, is set at Los Angeles radio station KLUV, where callers air their dirty laundry over the airwaves for all to hear. Over the course of one crazy day, show host and "relationship expert" Darren ...
Style: semi serious, talky, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, media, family problems, love and romance, society, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, ambition, radio show
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Fairfield Road (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ him and that his girlfriend has been cheating on him. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, fall in love, couples, couple relations, love triangle, politics, social relations, ambition, career change, infidelity, love and romance, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
More Sex & the Single Mom (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family gatherings, parents and children, looking for love, family relations, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, youth, couples, teenage life, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Recently divorced, aspiring filmmaker Helen (Jennifer Rubin) enters into a love triangle fueled by sexual hunger and manipulation. But as she attempts to define herself and fulfill her wants and needs, she must choose between her independence and ...
Style: sexy, independent film, contemplative, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: open marriage, sexuality, human relationship, infidelity, love affair, filmmaking, love triangle, breakup, couples, human spirit, moral dilemma, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Last International Playboy (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When playboy and one-hit-wonder novelist Jack Frost (Jason Behr) learns that his childhood sweetheart is getting married, he tries to drown his sorrows by dramatically escalating his self-destructive drinking and womanizing. Frost's pals try to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sex comedy
Audience: adult
Plot: best friend, friends, couples, love affair, introspection, lifestyle, love triangle, love and romance, looking for love, human nature, haunted by the past, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, india, asia, new york
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82%
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Twenty-One (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Style: manga, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nudity, violent content, infidelity, twentysomething life, love affair, parents and children, sexual relations, strong sexual content, self discovery, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, london, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Crashing (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of ...
Style: sexy, realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: writers, love triangle, writer's block, love and romance, couples, infidelity, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, young romance, college, sexual tension, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Family Hero (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, offbeat
Plot: sexual content, family relations, introspection, love and romance, lifestyle, workplace, hopes, nightclub, jazz, wooing, family business, nightlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: french riviera, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Premium (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, wedding, couples, follow your dream, race against time, ambition, showbiz, nothing goes right, filmmaking, black, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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80%
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Bar Girls (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The life and loves of gay women hanging out at a local tavern are examined in this slice of life film.
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, nudity, bare breasts, couples, love triangle, looking for love, nightlife, love affair, self discovery ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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78%
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Chance (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, wooing, mother daughter relationship, women, relationships, gays and lesbians, love and romance, twentysomething life, singleness, family relations ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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78%
A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica (Karen Allen), Leo (Brad Davis) and Nick (Jameson Parker) grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, open relationship, polygamy, polyamory, college life, anti war protest, bare chested male, friends, dull life, couples, youth, idealism ...
Time: year 1980, 60s, 70s
Place: asia, vietnam
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77%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, rivalry, friendship, nude women, nudity, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Full Body Massage (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has sent a replacement named Fitch. The pair develop an easy rapport during the session, with talk about past relationships. As Nina ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, talky, sincere ...
Plot: massage, erotica, masseur, female nudity, love and romance, lifestyle, starting over, femme fatale, dishonesty, love affair, infidelity, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Midsummer Night's Rave is a modern rave take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream released in 2002
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: rave, clubbing, party, shakespeare, dj, tragic love, club, drug use, profanity, sexual content, stoner, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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King Kelly (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kelly strips – her best friend Jordan captures the event on her mobile phone. Kelly’s name is well known among the visitors of (in)appropriate online portals. The two teenagers digitally record anything and everything that crosses their paths ...
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: found footage, desire for fame, lifestyle, nightlife, on the road, satire, profanity, ambition, computers and web, coming of age, best friend, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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City Baby (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sexy. Style-conscious. Extreme love affairs. Complicated friendships. Life happens all too quickly when Cloey is reluctantly plucked from her comfort zone and complete reliance on others is overturned – a secure relationship with her boyfriend ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, infidelity, love triangle, youth, friends, dishonesty, twentysomething life, city life, grownups, hipster, party, apathy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, portland oregon, oregon, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Sunset Strip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, musician, desire for fame, ambition, rising to stardom, music band, lifestyle, love triangle, nightlife, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 1972
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot: showbiz, ambition, desire for fame, rise to the top, love and romance, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, musician's life, lifestyle, music band, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 70s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Behind Bedroom Doors (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: New-girl-in-town Abby is already dating two guys--one's a doctor, the other is running for district attorney. She also has some dirt on both of them---but when they find that she may potentially blackmail them, Abby discovers just how important ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, sexual, erotic ...
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, couples, femme fatale, blackmail, political candidate, threesome, oral sex, legal, gender, gays and lesbians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.9
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Summer Nights (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Michele and Helene seem to be the perfect couple. However, on weekends, Michele steps into a secret life, as a transvestite, Mylene, in a hidden French forest. There, Mylene meets with a lover, Flavia, another transvestite who once fought alongside ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, sexy ...
Plot: hidden identity, forbidden love, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, love and romance, couples, under the surface, lgbt, double life, gay subtext, transvestism ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.0
 685
Restaurant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community.
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: restaurant, food, interracial, writers, interracial relations, couples, life is a bitch, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, writer's life, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Living on Love Alone (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, youth, love and romance, college graduate, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, couples, rebelliousness, clubbing, twentysomething life, nudity, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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