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August (1996)
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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, unrequited love, anton chekhov, family relations, 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 ...
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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, friendship, couple relations, love and fall in love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like August: Moonlight and Valentino (1995), Something to Talk About (1995), God Said, 'Ha!' (1998), Almost Perfect (2011), Suzie Gold (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style:
sentimental, touching, happy, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
grief, death of husband, widow, friendship, bittersweet, female protagonist, house painter, sister sister relationship, sisterhood, rock, female friendship, bereavement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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:
satirical, talky, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, southern belle, women, family problems, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
savannah georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, humorous, witty, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, dark humor, couples, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ego clash, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 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, sincere, light ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, couples, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, fall in love, friendship, single parent, family problems, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
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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:
realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, unrequited love, love and romance, society, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, love triangle, family gatherings, interracial relations, judaism, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, middle east, london
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, 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, cerebral, sincere, stylized, clever ...
Plot:
theater, life philosophy, relationships, character study, artists and showbiz, family problems, human nature, art, longing, family gatherings, existentialism, anton chekhov ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, russia, usa, manhattan new york city, st. petersburg russia ...
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34%
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:
costume drama, gothic, romantic, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, estate, fall in love, aristocracy, love, friendship, passionate love, family relations, abbey, literary, passion, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
literary, marriage proposal, passionate love, abbey, young lovers, unlikely couple, couple relations, unrequited love, girl, age difference, young love, friends in love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1810s, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
30%
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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 ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
unlikely couple, road trip, family relations, eccentricity, opposites attract, introspection, love triangle, looking for love, fall in love, love affair, friendship, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, nigeria
Similarity:
29%
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, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, coming of age, youth, friendship, social relations, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, siblings relations, fish out of water, estate, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
29%
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, feel good, costume drama, witty ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mistaken identity, country estate, love story, happy ending, comedy of manners, false identity, twists and turns, couples, social differences, friendship, comedy of errors, disorder ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s, year 2002 ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
27%
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:
humorous, touching, light, intense, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, death, family drama, eccentric family, family problems, introspection, parents and children, family in crisis, self discovery, hip hop, african american, urban ...
Time:
year 2001
Similarity:
26%
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, costume drama, independent film, romantic, realistic ...
Plot:
oxford, age-gap relationship, love triangle, love and romance, self discovery, couples, family relations, adoption, love affair, funeral, tour guide, middle aged man ...
Time:
19th century, year 1991, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
oxford university, england, switzerland, europe, alps ...
Similarity:
25%
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:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, couples, couple relations, siblings relations, eccentric family, family relations, family business, love and romance, adultery, hotel, estate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
25%
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, minefield, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, love and romance, human nature, single parent, family problems, couples ...
Time:
80s, year 1996, 90s
Place:
texas, los angeles
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two people run from the pain of their broken past. When they discover each other, they find themselves at a crossroad where the only thing that stands between them and a second chance is each other.
Style:
semi serious, sincere, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
fall in love, starting over, breakup, friendship, couples, infidelity, estrangement, love and romance, hopes, women of color, black, relationships ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco, los angeles
Similarity:
25%
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, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, obsession, master and servant, marriage of convenience, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, love, extramarital affair, winter, mother son relationship, unfulfilled love, looking for love, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1979, 60s, 70s
Place:
usa, salt lake city utah, utah
Similarity:
25%
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, touching, sincere, sentimental, 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:
23%
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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:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, opposites attract, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, lifestyle, single parent, unlikely couple, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love ...
Similarity:
23%
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:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
love story, dysfunctional family, couples, love, female protagonist, fall in love, marriage proposal, full moon, love triangle, love and romance, brother brother relationship, wedding ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
23%
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, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, looking for love, family life, homecoming, family problems, family relations, college, estrangement, couples, starting over, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, france, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Nate Shepherd, late 40's, and Jenny Sparks, early 30's, meet in a fancy New York eatery. Complete strangers who have had a rotten day, waiting for their better halves, they reveal to one another that they are going to meet new people ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, funny, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, couples, couple relations, friends, love and romance, love triangle, rivalry, young lovers, love, intrigue, relationships, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
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, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, fall in love, black, couple relations, couples, unemployment, friendship, family relations, black american, african american, amor, black romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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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, humorous, touching, feel good, spiritual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, starting over, love triangle, fish out of water, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, friends, disorder, mine ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
22%
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, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
fall in love, love triangle, couples, looking for love, opposites attract, dating, dinner, christmas, rivalry, friendship, society, cheating girlfriend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ecuador
Similarity:
22%
355
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
marriage, mental disorder, breakup, relationship vs career, dysfunctional family, suburban life, suburbs, pregnancy, midlife crisis, infidelity, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
22%
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, semi serious, sincere, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, hopes, looking for love, against the odds, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, holiday, christmas time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
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, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
estate, inheritance, sister sister relationship, wealthy family, country house, aristocrat, rich snob, family drama, passion, sword, arrest, terminal illness ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, year 1992, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, london
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his ...
Style:
funny, independent film, realistic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, young lovers, catholic, adultery, family relations, dysfunctional family, friends, couples, lifestyle, dishonesty, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
21%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, fall in love, love and romance, family problems, friends, life turned upside down, family life, disorder, age difference, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
21%
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