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The Spanish Apartment (2002)
44K
Original name: L'Auberge espagnole
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, romantic, realistic, romantic comedy, intense, road movie, sweet, epic ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, travel, relationships, prejudice, youth, roommate, college life, student, coming of age, college, love triangle, lifestyle, group of friends, wanderlust, adultery, affair, illicit affair, lgbt, infidelity, lesbian sex, european, campus, economist, lesbian, cheating wife ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, spain, barcelona, catalonia, paris france, europe, germany ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, friendship, storytelling, life philosophy and relationships mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Spanish Apartment: Chinese Puzzle (2013), Good Old Daze (1994), Love Me If You Dare (2003), Sideways (2004), 2 Days in Paris (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marital separation, artificial insemination, marriage of convenience, infidelity, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
non-linear, realistic, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
deaf, coming of age, parisian, adolescence, hospital, high school, memory, friendship, high school reunion, best friend, friends, overdose ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, heartbreaking, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lovers, friendship, youth, love hate relationship, game, love story, best friends in love, friends, relationships, childhood love, first love, music box ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, belgium, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style:
road movie, sentimental, dark comedy, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
road trip, wine, couples, vineyard, on the road, vacation, divorce, infidelity, food, affair, midlife crisis, wedding ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, romantic, witty, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, profanity, parenthood, fish out of water, society, lifestyle, relationship problems, relationships, hipster, taxi driver, lovers, vacation ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
Style:
teen, sentimental, avant garde, grindhouse, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, venice, france, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, friendship, fall in love, city life, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, single mother, heart disease, parisian ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
Style:
romantic, intense, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, midlife crisis, power of love, adultery, friendship, unhappy marriage, bachelor party, cheating wife, introspection, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
polynesia, wisconsin, usa, sydney australia, australia ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
20%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, relationships, love story, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, tokyo, germany
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, love, holiday, multiple storylines, love story, love and romance, couples, fall in love, relationships, marriage, first love, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, drinking, gay, loneliness, cat, family relations, friends, couples, gays and lesbians, human nature, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
paris france, france, europe, tokyo, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Style:
romantic, humorous, feel good, witty, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, london, france, england, europe ...
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10%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, touching, independent film, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, touching, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
loneliness, love, fall in love, imagination, cafe, lifestyle change, life, optimism, female protagonist, love story, love and romance, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 70s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance, obsession, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, sapphic, friendship, blind date, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, lgbt, glbt, looking for love, lifestyle, sex ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Four Faced Liar is a story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City... A story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City. A pair of best friends and a ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gender, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, lesbian couple, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian sex, infidelity, love and romance, friendship, couples, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they ...
Style:
teen, romantic, rom com, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, college, young lovers, lovers, love and romance, teenage love, best friends in love, lesbian sex, chance meeting, teenager, wooing, singleness ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, erotic, cute ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, love triangle, wedding, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lgbtq, sapphic, gays and lesbians, love affair ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
london, idaho, europe, tower bridge london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
wedding, closeted homosexual, male nudity, college, lesbian, estrangement, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, youth, love and romance, lesbianism ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet?
Style:
melancholic, stylized, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
destiny, coincidence, chance meeting, butterfly effect, chaos, love and romance, couples, couple relations, naked man, old woman, stranger, depression ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new jersey, california
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Style:
funny, sexual, independent film, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
bisexuality, lgbtq, lesbian, jealousy, bisexual, twists and turns, friendship, lesbian love, happy ending, sexuality, glbt, comic book ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting ...
Style:
sexy, touching, sexual, independent film, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
lesbian, gender, coming of age, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, glbt, lgbt, sapphic, family relations, biological father, lesbian couple ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, buenos aires argentina, southern california, california
Similarity:
19%
14K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sensual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, cafe, unlikely couple, love triangle, loss of loved one, office romance, love affair, bereavement, grief, death of husband, employer employee relationship, elevator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style:
romantic, touching, inspirational, erotic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love, lesbian, sex scene, adultery, female nudity, female pubic hair, woman on top, sex on first date, divorce, american football, bare butt ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Style:
romantic, talky, sentimental, romantic comedy, retro ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, love, sex, friendship, high school, dating, new year's eve, bittersweet, nudity, young lovers, thanksgiving, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, independent film, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, slacker, graduation, drinking, campus, lone hero, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a ...
Style:
romantic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
college, love, fall in love, college life, artist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, argument, chef, depression, flashback, painter, breakup ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco, france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, teen, romantic comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
fashion, happy ending, wedding, friendship, lifestyle, female protagonist, lesbian interest, outdoor sex, no bra, shopping, lasciviousness, female chauvinism ...
Time:
2010s, year 1989, year 2010, 80s, year 1988 ...
Place:
new york, middle east, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
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