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How to Be (2008)
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How to Be (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, melancholic, postmodern, indie film, clever, witty, talky ...
Plot: self discovery, introspection, coming of age, unfulfillment, youth, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hopes, musician, psychology, musician's life, teenager, depression, breakup, love and romance, midlife crisis, couples, twentysomething life, thirtysomething life, therapist, self-help, guru, young, postmodernism, coming-of-age ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, london, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about love and romance, couples, lifestyle, unfulfillment, friends, friendship and introspection mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like How to Be: I Really Hate My Job (2007), Twice Upon a Time (2006), Mind the Gap (2004), This Year's Love (1999), The Trouble with Bliss (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, fast ...
Plot: partner, introspection, self discovery, odd couple, job seeking, fish out of water, working class, dark humor, blind ambition, reluctant partners, workplace, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sexy woman, workplace, waitress, friendship, love and romance, aging, introspection, midlife crisis, workplace romance, public nudity, female nudity, restaurant ...
Place: england, london, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Twice Upon a Time (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, UK, Romania
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thirty years ago they were lovers. Their affair fascinated a nation. Louis was a director and Alice was his muse. Then came the breakup It too, was public and painful. They have not met since. But Alice, who has established herself as a first lady ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty
Audience: date night
Plot: introspection, aging, screwball, couples, lifestyle, movie business, parent child relationship, infidelity, love of one's life, artists and showbiz, lovers reunited, actor's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.0
 1K
Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
26%
The Trouble with Bliss (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and the premature death of ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, thirtysomething life, dull life, couples, disorder, coming of age, unfulfillment, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family relations, unlikely couple, age difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Monster in a Box (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.
Style: independent film, witty, clever, talky, realistic ...
Plot: writers, live performance, concert, one-man show, biopic, creative block, performer's life, media satire, showbiz, midlife crisis, musician's life, writer's life ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.7
 914
LOL (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Style: mumblecore, talky, humorous, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, lifestyle, introspection, youth, friendship, computers and web, love and romance, couple relations, human nature, misfit, social network, human relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Les Jours venus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, filmmaking, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the time to send a message to the last five women ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: breakup, looking for love, wooing, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, thirtysomething life, love and romance, unfulfilled love, couple relations, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, paris france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
 6.3
 327
American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 3K
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Unsure of what to do next, 23-year-old Marnie tries her best to navigate life after college in this romantic comedy. Still partying like there's no tomorrow, Marnie drags herself out of bed for her miserable temp job and can't decide ...
Style: mumblecore, humorous, touching, clever, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, lifestyle, looking for love, friendship, college, self discovery, coming of age, teenager, survival, relationships, graduation, hipster ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Lather Effect (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, friends, couples, looking for love, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, unfulfilled love, adolescence vs adulthood, hopes, unfulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 626
Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.5
 485
Lovelife (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: professor, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, love, writers, love triangle, friendship, breakup, older woman younger man relationship, couples, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.1
 133
1234 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, friendship, music band, hopes, buddies, music, artists and showbiz, rock, friends, drummer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
 726
Echo Park (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dream, stripper, single parent, actor's life, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, family relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, human nature, gender ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.6
 933
Highball (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A newly-married couple tries to build their social life.
Style: independent film, cynical, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: couples, partner, looking for love, looking for sex, singleness, twentysomething life, teenage love, nightlife, new year, celebrity culture, friendship, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 3K
Viper's Nest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dishonesty, friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, couples, family relations, social relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family problems, happiness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes.
Style: sincere, semi serious, talky, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, unfulfillment, introspection, destiny, hopes, male female relationship, travel, first love, human relationship, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, montreal, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 6.7
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
 922
Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 549
Hidden Secrets (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man finds himself torn between his current girlfriend and an old flame at a funeral of friend where lifestyles and attitudes clash over a long weekend in this faith-based dramedy.
Style: christian film, contemplative, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: faith, christian, religion, introspection, couples, society, youth, hopes, lifestyle, college, thirtysomething life, religions or cults ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Cemetery Junction (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When ...
Style: witty, inspirational, stylized, funny, humorous ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, friends, old love, love, relationships, profanity, society, love and romance, social differences, factory ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 527
No Shame (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A script fell to Isabel by chance. In reading it you realize it's the same story of the romance she had with the film director Mario Fabra, author of the script. Isabel decides appointment with Mario, who was not seen again, but at the moment ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, biting, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, lovers reunited, ego clash, love and romance, rise to the top, ambition, lifestyle, filmmaking, showbiz, youth, actor's life, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.5
 670
Blockbuster (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, black and white
Plot: introspection, artists and showbiz, redemption, unfulfillment, actor's life, filmmaking, elderly, hopes, aging, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 16K
Alfie (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a young man who leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Style: witty, ironic, intense, emotional, talky ...
Plot: womanizer, playboy, abortion, infidelity, character study, jazz, promiscuity, self discovery, lifestyle, coming of age, morality, love and romance ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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