Movies like Barcelona
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Barcelona (1994)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
Style:
clever, humorous, witty, talky, light, philosophical, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cold war, culture clash, writers, hospital, catastrophe, gangsters, twists and turns, distopia, relationships, dark humor, women, loneliness, friendship, depression, obsession, economics, suspense, fantasy world, philosophy, brutality, runaway, sexualized violence, mentor, multiple storylines, stereotypes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, chicago illinois, pentagon, madrid, milan italy ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, talky, witty and clever films with plots about catastrophe, dialogue, pornography, mentor, life philosophy, writers and storytelling mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Barcelona: Metropolitan (1990), The Unbelievable Truth (1989), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), Mr. Jealousy (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, talky, witty, ironic, stylized ...
Audience:
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Plot:
ex convict, mechanic, redemption, depression, obsession, literature, high school, friendship, prison, greed, anarchist, gossip ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
disco, nightclub, friendship, yuppie, pretending to be gay, jealousy, nightlife, drugs, venereal disease, cynicism, love triangle, unemployment ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed ...
Style:
talky, romantic, sexy, thought provoking, satirical ...
Plot:
college, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, relationships, best friends, college life, self discovery, female friendship, social relations, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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:
talky, humorous, clever, witty, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
teacher, obsession, love and romance, writers, life philosophy, multiple storylines, mentor, relationships, redemption, sarcasm, unlikely friendships, gangsters ...
Time:
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21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Style:
feel good, clever, sexy, heartfelt, non-linear ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
destiny, love, writers, fall in love, loneliness, love story, multiple storylines, idealism, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, betrayal, brutality ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new jersey, chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style:
humorous, intellectual, witty, melancholic, philosophical ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Story:
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize ...
Style:
realistic, talky, romantic, humorous, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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usa, california, new jersey, chicago illinois, houston texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, humorous, depressing, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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18%
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Story:
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Country: France, USA
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Story:
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18%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Style:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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