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Anything Else (2003)
34K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
Style:
melancholic, witty, sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic, rom com ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
young lovers, mentor, dysfunctional family, writers, psychoanalysis, relationship problems, advice, love and romance, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couple relations, bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, comedian, love, paranoia, eccentricity, women, art, basement, femme fatale, hipster, religious ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and clever films with plots about couples, love and romance, writers, couple relations, relationships, life philosophy and mentor mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Anything Else: Wedding Daze (2006), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Hollywood Ending (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, couple relations, marriage proposal, fall in love, proposal, couples, hopes, eccentric family, marriage, arrest, wedding planning, jail ...
Time:
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Place:
atlantic city, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style:
philosophical, funny, romantic comedy, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 70s, 20th century, year 1977, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, los angeles, california, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
153K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
romantic, intellectual, visually stunning, humorous, meditative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dating, couples, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love and romance, teenage girl, dachshund, lolita, sarcasm, relationships, divorce, 17 year old ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, talky, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
chess, summer, shakespeare, farce, infidelity, couples, lovers, older man younger woman relationship, marriage, love, male female relationship, professor ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new york state
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
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Plot:
movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, satire, dysfunctional family, justice, adultery, one more chance, showbiz, disorder, blind character, comedy of errors ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
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51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, unusual plot structure, romantic, suspense, sexy ...
Plot:
professor, murder, russian roulette, philosophy, relationships, plot twist, teachers and students, college, attempted murder, poisoning, judge, character study ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, rhode island, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style:
sexy, funny, surreal, talky, humorous ...
Plot:
adopted son, adoption, adoptive mother, sex spoof, adultery, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, italy, ancient greece
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Style:
sexy, light, romantic, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, love story, destiny, couple relations, satire, family drama, beautiful scenery, family life, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, infidelity, marriage proposal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996, 1930s
Place:
new york, paris france, venice, europe, italy ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into ...
Style:
philosophical, romantic, funny, cynical, talky ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, suicide attempt, lifestyle change, eccentricity, polyamory, atheism, closeted homosexual, love and romance, storytelling, unlikely couple, character change ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style:
black and white, funny, talky, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
screwball, showbiz, gangster, thanksgiving, comedy of errors, mafia, comedian, art, female protagonist, blacks and whites, artist, girlfriend ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 80s, 70s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
talky, realistic, philosophical, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, marital separation, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he ...
Style:
independent film, talky, witty, clever, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
male male relationship, teacher, obsession, love and romance, jealousy, substitute teacher, school teacher, romantic triangle, infidelity, screwball, disorder, couples ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, iowa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, greece, usa, athens greece, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of ...
Style:
funny, parody, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dating, nymphomaniac, love, infidelity, divorce, imaginary friend, adultery, farce, art, friendship, filmmaking, best friend ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
san francisco, usa, new york
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, womanizer, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, estrangement, dishonesty, lifestyle, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, writer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sexy, surreal, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
love story, art, culture clash, meet the parents, adultery, farce, life philosophy, marriage, newlyweds, architect, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time:
year 2012, 1920s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, paris france, london ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, satirical, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
battle of the sexes, black romance, dating, black, mentor, looking for love, cheating, buddies, contests and competitions, couple relations, lifestyle, guru ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him ...
Style:
cult classic, talky, witty, humorous, cynical ...
Plot:
art, writers, relationships, satire, psychiatrist, writer's life, human nature, alienation, philosophy, eternal love, depression, prostitution ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, filmmaking, couples, hidden identity, actor's life, disorder, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, frame up, dishonesty, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sexy, surreal, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love story, movie star, magic realism, daydreamer, satire, writers, surrealism, imagination, unlikely couple, life turned upside down, fish out of water, real world ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1985, 1900s, year 1935
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.
Style:
witty, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
opposites attract, jazz, unlikely couple, fall in love, lifestyle, friendship, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, couple relations, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. ...
Style:
romantic, funny, sentimental, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
long distance relationship, couples, intern, love, lovers apart, true love, male nudity, love story, sex, power of love, stereotypes, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, new york, usa, california, vancouver
Similarity:
34%
16K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, melancholic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
infidelity, invisible man, happy ending, magic, self discovery, female protagonist, magic realism, bored housewife, death, destiny, relationships, identity crisis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Style:
sexy, humorous, witty, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
sex, sexual fantasy, male prostitute, friendship, partner, unrequited love, milf, money problems, mentor, pimp, fish out of water, sexual relations ...
Time:
2010s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, ireland, california ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, writers, dishonesty, single parent, human nature, love and romance, self discovery, couple relations, writer's life, family relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
Style:
rom com, touching, sweet, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
pregnancy, marriage, babies and infants, women, self discovery, parent child relationship, couple relations, love, husband and wife, baby born, family drama, farce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to ...
Style:
sexy, cynical, witty, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
midlife crisis, destiny, unrequited love, obsession, writers, human nature, couples, crumbling relationship, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, divorce, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two strangers meet and fall in love during the weekend that they are planning their respective weddings.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
fall in love, wedding, forbidden love, battle of the sexes, looking for love, love affair, couples, lifestyle, unlikely couple, infidelity, getting married, love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
32%
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