Movies like American Friends

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American Friends (1991)
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American Friends (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Style: touching, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, period drama
Plot: age-gap relationship, love triangle, oxford, family relations, love and romance, adoption, couples, self discovery, love affair, mountain, vacation, holiday, bachelor, fall in love, academy, shyness, minister, american abroad, englishman abroad, cottage, reverend, rumor, celibacy, adoptive mother adopted daughter relationship, may december romance ...
Time: year 1991, 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place: switzerland, oxford university, england, europe, alps
Keyword: american

Most similar movies to American Friends

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, fall in love, couple relations, family relations, love triangle and love affair mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like American Friends: Suzie Gold (2004), Love Among the Ruins (1975), Tuscan Wedding (2014), August (1996), The Mystery of Happiness (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Suzie Gold (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Suzie Gold is a twentysomething torn between the nice Jewish boy her family is keen on and the non-Jewish boy she loves.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, unrequited love, love and romance, society, fall in love, family relations, love triangle, family gatherings, parents and children, interracial relations, judaism, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, middle east, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Love Among the Ruins (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her assets is to ...
Style: thrilling, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lawyer, mature, age-gap relationship, lovers reunited, family relations, couples, family gatherings, courtroom drama, love affair, love triangle, looking for love, showbiz ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Tuscan Wedding (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tuscan Wedding, the new romantic comedy from the creators of Loving Ibiza. Together with her father Tom and stepmother Marla, Sanne runs Casa Matrimonio, a luxurious villa in sunkissed Italy. The estate is located in Tuscany, a beautiful region ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, siblings relations, love and romance, family business, family relations, adultery, hotel, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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August (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton ...
Style: melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, self discovery, friendship, love triangle, family problems, siblings relations, fall in love, love and romance, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, edwardian era, victorian era, 1890s
Place: wales, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, love triangle, couples, couple relations, friendship between men
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
This Year's Love (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, lust, marriage, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, friendship, dishonesty, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard ...
Style: humorous, sweet, romantic, feel good, touching ...
Plot: unlikely couple, road trip, eccentricity, introspection, opposites attract, love triangle, looking for love, family relations, fall in love, friendship, comedy of errors, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Emma (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: literary, couple relations, unlikely couple, marriage proposal, age difference, girl, control, young love, abbey, matchmaking, unrequited love, nothing goes right ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1810s, regency period
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light hearted
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, misfit, love and romance, fish out of water, bookstore, book ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, taiwan, paris france, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Namastey London (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth ...
Style: romantic, realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: culture clash, family relations, couples, love triangle, looking for love, parents and children, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, wedding planning, tragic love, diaspora ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, london, england, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Buddy System (1984)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, parents and children, infidelity, love and romance, couples, single parent, family relations, self discovery, buddies, school, friendship, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Every Blessed Day (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when ...
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: love and romance, love affair, couples, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, young lovers, young love, hotel
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, feel good, touching ...
Plot: dogme 95, life turned upside down, unlikely couple, introspection, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, disorder, dogma, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
A Previous Engagement (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, lovers reunited, love and romance, couple relations, dull life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, adultery, love, male female relationship, mediterranean, chorus girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, malta
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 ⇓
75%
Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: life turned upside down, friendship, fall in love, looking for love, society, buddies, disorder, love and romance, interracial relations, profanity, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
When the Sea Rises (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, feel good, realistic
Plot: opposites attract, starting over, family life, love affair, painter, ocean, fall in love, artists and showbiz, stalking, love and romance, actor's life, impossible love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Italian Key (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, young lovers, social relations, love and romance, self discovery, fall in love, fish out of water, siblings relations, estate, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Lola (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
Style: grindhouse, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, age difference, sex, girl, age-gap relationship, young love, older man young girl relationship, may december romance, teenage girl, lolita, couples ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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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 ⇓
73%
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On the Edge (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
Style: sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, unlikely couple, fall in love, couples, wooing, love affair, disorder, looking for love, love and romance, age-gap relationship, older woman younger man relationship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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I Do...Knot (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: couples, fall in love, womanizer, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, wedding, love story, singleness, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Style: entertaining, period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: mistaken identity, false identity, love story, happy ending, twists and turns, couples, social differences, comedy of errors, friendship, comedy of manners, disorder, farce ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1800s, year 2002 ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style: romantic, costume drama, realistic, feel good, period piece ...
Plot: love and romance, estate, aristocracy, fall in love, family relations, love, friendship, countryside, abbey, summer, lady, in love ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Just Like a Woman (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Gerald is a smart, young, high-flying American banker. Everything is great until his wife finds another woman's underwear in their bedroom and subsequently throws him out. He finds lodgings with Monica, a recently divorced 50-year old ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: transvestism, transvestite, gender bending, transsexual, transgender, lgbt, crossdresser, may december romance, landlady, business deal, couples, friends ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Trouble with Men and Women (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A bitter-sweet romantic tale set in London, depicting the sentimental education of a young man who is absurdly confused about women.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: love affair, couples, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, buddies, wooing, love triangle, friendship, breakup, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
A Business Affair (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, relationship vs career, couples, infidelity, fall in love, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, extramarital affair, love of one's life, strong female presence, feminism ...
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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