Movies like Arthur 1981
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Arthur (1981)
33K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Style:
funny, clever, romantic comedy, slapstick, romantic, hilarious, sentimental, humorous, witty, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
love, true love, butler, addiction, culture clash, screwball, servant, fall in love, bittersweet, drunk, wedding, friendship, death, grief, drinking, forbidden love, inheritance, heir, drunkenness, class differences, christmas, drug addict, women, rich man, hotel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about fall in love, love and romance, culture clash, couples, mentor, dialogue and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Arthur: Overboard (1987), The Bachelor (1999), Strictly Business (1991), Pretty Woman (1990), Serendipity (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
75K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
rich woman poor man, memory loss, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, destiny, carpenter, pretend relationship, personality change, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to ...
Style:
clever, romantic, romantic comedy, smart, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, inheritance, happy ending, true love, marriage proposal, love, greed, dating, wedding planning, farce, fall in love, marriage ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Arthur (Dudley Moore), that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up -- and get a job -- in this sequel to the 1981 smash hit. Meanwhile, the father of the girl Arthur stood up at the altar in the first film is conniving to trick the hapless boozer ...
Style:
slapstick, romantic, humorous, sincere, hilarious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, alcoholic, vengeance, love affair, revenge, alcoholism, butler, video arcade, christmas, riches to rags, ghost, baby ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to ...
Style:
black comedy, rom com, hood, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
urban, african american, black, hip hop, black romance, ambition, nightclub, friendship, sabotage, intern, breakup, real estate ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, harlem
Similarity:
100%
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400K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, rom com, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, prostitute, fall in love, cinderella story, social differences, opposites attract, hooker, rich man poor woman, rags to riches, character change ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, usa, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
50%
131K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
destiny, fall in love, coincidence, serendipity, christmas, true love, love and romance, friendship, looking for love, fate, love, friends ...
Time:
year 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, leaves the tropical paradise kingdom in search of his queen. What better place than Queens, New York, to find his bride? Joined by his loyal servant and friend, Semmi, Akeem attempts to blend in as an ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, african american, heir to the throne, love, comedy of errors, royalty, wedding, fall in love, hidden identity, prince, fictional country, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, new york, america, usa, new york state ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style:
funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his ...
Style:
rom com, feel good, romantic comedy, existential, sad ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, time loop, fish out of water, time travel, childhood, misfit, rags to riches, alternate history, lost love, baseball coach, time jump, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style:
feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
male female friendship, friendship, fall in love, autumn, love and romance, love, love story, unlikely couple, initially antagonists, best friends in love, friends, life philosophy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Similarity:
24%
50K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style:
sexy, humorous, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
unrequited love, love story, fall in love, public nudity, love triangle, small town, happy ending, female nudity, passion, rivalry, wooing, physical appearance ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, fall in love, hotel, breakup, starting over, love and romance, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, lifestyle, beautiful scenery, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, new jersey, england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
small town, breakup, lie, love story, destiny, architect, screwball, happy ending, farce, employer employee relationship, marriage proposal, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s
Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
23%
187K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, love, wedding dress, opposites attract, wedding planner, bridesmaid, love and romance, women, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, rhode island, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
23%
110K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
wedding, small town, fiance fiancee relationship, love and romance, journalist, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, enemies to lovers, fear of commitment, reporter, breakup, canceled wedding ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, maryland, san francisco
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, semi serious, witty, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
politics, fall in love, farce, society, love and romance, journalism, social differences, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, couples, women, corruption ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, san francisco, las vegas
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Movie in collections
135K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Style:
romantic, feel good, humorous, light, funny ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
best friends in love, teenager, christmas, love and romance, high school crush, true love, couples, fall in love, holiday, love, cheerleader, friends in love ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1995, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying father happy. Things quickly get out of hand with their two boisterous families, and a series ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, semi serious, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, best friends in love, engagement, pretend relationship, couples, relationships, fake relationship, love and romance, happy ending, true love, romantic relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An Indian-American surprises his family when he announces his desire for an arranged marriage with an Indian woman, though his affection for a longtime American friend complicate his plan.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, looking for love, true love, couples, immigrant, unlikely couple, society, wedding preparations and rituals, friendship, interracial love, sexual content, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, asia, india
Similarity:
21%
290K
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:
comedian, breakup, neurosis, love and romance, relationships, dating, love story, passion, sarcasm, marriage, divorce, pessimism ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 20th century, year 1977, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, los angeles, california, usa ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Movie in collections
163K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
inheritance, justice, happy ending, love and romance, rags to riches, lone hero, greed, rise to the top, small town life, fall in love, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new hampshire, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
365K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
holiday, christmas, love and romance, love, happy ending, love story, couples, fall in love, multiple storylines, snow, looking for love, christmas spirit ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, england, london, california, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
support group, starting over, dating, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
116K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, funny, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love and romance, road trip, opposites attract, marriage proposal, beautiful scenery, initially antagonists, relationships, wedding, love affair, love story ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, wales, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, love and romance, thirtysomething life, couple relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, unfulfilled love, eligible bachelor, dating ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult ...
Plot:
fashion, small town, homecoming, love and romance, husband wife relationship, couples, marriage proposal, wedding, lovers reunited, lifestyle, hopes, love ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, new york, southern usa, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, intense, funny, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
obsession, love, honest, character study, love and romance, couples, self discovery, breakup, fall in love, doomed romance, crazy love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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