Movies like August 1996

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August (1996)
 5.8
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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 Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."
Style: light, melancholic, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere, independent film, clever, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, friendship, love triangle, self discovery, family problems, siblings relations, love and romance, fall in love, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, family relations, unrequited love, rural area, alcohol abuse, couples, family in crisis, unfulfilled love, estate, unfulfillment, family gatherings, road not taken, age difference, doctor, career ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, year 1996, victorian era, 1890s, future
Place: wales, england, europe, london, scotland, california, israel ...
Keyword: dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, fall in love, friendship, couple relations and love mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like August: Almost Perfect (2011), Suzie Gold (2004), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Howards End (1992), Northanger Abbey (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, couples, eccentric family, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, fall in love, friendship, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family in crisis, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.6
 658
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 ⇓
75%
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to ...
Style: melancholic, sincere, cerebral, talky, stylized ...
Plot: theater, loneliness, relationships, character study, artists and showbiz, family problems, human nature, art, existentialism, family gatherings, anton chekhov, drinking ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 1890s, turn of the century
Place: new york, russia, usa, manhattan new york city, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.4
 36K
Howards End (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, family drama, infidelity, inheritance, dysfunctional family, greed, character study, country house, rich snob ...
Time: 1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1992 ...
Place: england, britain, oxford university, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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 ⇓
100%
 7.0
 6K
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 ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
51%
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 ...
Style: touching, independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, love triangle, oxford, family relations, couples, self discovery, love and romance, love affair, adoption, academy, cottage, reverend ...
Time: year 1991, 19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place: switzerland, oxford university, europe, england, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 5.5
 2K
Kingdom Come (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
Style: touching, humorous, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, death, family drama, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, family in crisis, parents and children, self discovery, hip hop, african american, urban ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
 7.2
 67K
Moonstruck (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: love story, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, love, couples, full moon, infidelity, love and romance, moon, self discovery, marriage proposal, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Evening Star (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style: touching, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, single parent, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 13K
The Oranges (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film, romantic ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, family relations, age difference, fall in love, love and romance, friends, family problems, life turned upside down, family life, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
 6.1
 2K
Expired (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, fall in love, opposites attract, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, unlikely couple, single parent, lifestyle, family relations, couples, unfulfilled love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 127
The Blue Diner (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, starting over, self discovery, estrangement, hopes, forbidden love, social decay, relationship vs career, betrayal, society, parents and children, pregnancy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
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Something to Talk About (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style: talky, satirical, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, family relations, family problems, women, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, southern belle ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Wish List (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. After finding the perfect man, she falls for a guy who meets none of her criteria and ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, couples, looking for love, opposites attract, dating, dinner, christmas, rivalry, society, friendship, cooking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ecuador
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 807
Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.0
 453
Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Seasons Of Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
Style: humorous, uplifting, semi serious, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, against the odds, hopes, looking for love, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, black, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
31%
 4.2
 6K
Tiptoes (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, family problems, couples, siblings relations, family life, sex, couple relations, introspection, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
With Your Permission (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente is on the verge of a breakdown. Jan's boss finally sends him into group therapy where an ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, dark humor, couples, power relations, love and romance, misfit, domestic disturbance, social misfits, crumbling marriage, workplace, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A man falls for a separated woman but can't cope when she returns to her husband.
Style: romantic, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, obsession, master and servant, love, extramarital affair, stepdaughter, winter, mother son relationship, parents and children, midlife crisis, unfulfilled love, looking for love ...
Time: year 1979, 60s, 70s
Place: usa, salt lake city utah, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style: touching, sentimental, happy, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, bittersweet, death of husband, widow, grief, sisterhood, rock, female friendship, female protagonist, house painter, sister sister relationship, bereavement ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 978
Among Giants (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian ...
Style: melancholic, intense, sincere, emotional, social ...
Plot: working class, friends, life, love triangle, society, human nature, friendship, male nudity, age difference, age-gap relationship, older man younger woman relationship, love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Singles Ward (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Jonathan Jordan gets divorced he's thrust back into the world of being a single Mormon - a world who's ultimate goal is eternal marriage. Struggling to fit in, Jonathan decides to stop going to church only to be pursued by the members ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: church, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love and romance, religions or cults, mormon, divorce, love affair, male female relationship, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: salt lake city utah, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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