Movies like Barefoot 2005
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Barefoot (2005)
12K
Original name: Barfuß
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A hedonistic bachelor, falls for an escaped mental patient. Til Schweiger comes up with a slickly-made off-the-wall romantic comedy drama "Barfuss" (Barefoot), his first solo directing effort in nearly a decade. Punchy, anti-establishment tone, with Schweiger playing a hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - who falls for a suicidal mental patient (Johanna Wokalek). An offbeat, strangely tender love story develops as Nick struggles with responsibility for the first time in his life.
Style:
sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, road movie, romantic, psychological, semi serious, crying, clever
Plot:
social misfits, opposites attract, mental illness, love affair, runaway, psychiatry, fall in love, couples, hopes, monkey, illness, happiness, mental institution, destruction, love story, feeling, relationships, dysfunctional family, changing lives, suffering, pretense, life turned upside down, power relations, family relations, starting over ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, europe
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Most similar movies to Barefoot
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, touching and semi serious films with plots about couples, love and romance, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, love and hopes mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Barefoot: Benny & Joon (1993), Middle of Nowhere (2008), Rabbit Without Ears (2007), All About You (2001), Numb (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
29K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding an improbable romance blooms, as she ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, cute, feel good, teen ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, love and romance, fall in love, mental illness, twists and turns, relationships, happy ending, love affair, naive young woman, runaway, prejudice, hospital ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa, california, new orleans
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48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style:
sweet, feel good, melancholic, cute, compassionate ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, seattle, washington state
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67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, indie film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, summer job, fall in love, teenage love, marijuana, friendship, teenage life, ambition, family problems, parents and children, youth, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him.
Style:
witty, light, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
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date night, chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
woman urinating, love story, happy ending, unlikely couple, one night stand, friendship, kindergarten, love of one's life, love and romance, couple relations, buddies, fish out of water ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, london, hawaii, berlin germany
Similarity:
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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
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9K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a ...
Style:
psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, therapy, misfit, mental health, couple relations, family relations, unfulfillment, writers, estrangement, depression, fall in love, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
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:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man finds out he's in an open marriage.
Style:
psychological, emotional, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Plot:
open marriage, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, family relations, fall in love, love, relationships, youth, couple relations, love affair, young lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, divorce, marriage, relationships, writers, long term relationship, bittersweet, family drama, husband wife relationship, breakup, fall in love, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bed and Breakfast is a romantic comedy about a saleswoman from a large department store in Rio who discovers she has inherited property in the wine country of California. She could never expect what she would find in "Webster", a small ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, comedy of errors, opposites attract, love and romance, couples, small town, inheritance, male female relationship, fall in love, love story, in love, money problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, brazil
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
hospital, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, terminal illness, against the odds, life is a bitch, workplace, introspection, fall in love, family problems, dark humor ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, couples, life is a bitch, cancer, love affair, best friends in love, couple relations, dying, love, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, sentimental, touching, compassionate ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mentally challenged, wedding, mental retardation, women, disability, family relations, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, justice, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
39%
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, humorous, touching, sexual, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
church, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love and romance, religions or cults, divorce, mormon, male female relationship, love affair, fall in love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Norway, UK, Montenegro
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on a failed American writer who enters into an affair after a chance encounter with a European dancer.
Style:
romantic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, couples, friendship, writers, love story, dancehall girl, self discovery, friends, love and romance, couple relations, best friend, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, montenegro, europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, thirtysomething life, couple relations, cougar, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, couples, hopes, lifestyle, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, hawaii
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fish out of water, opposites attract, marriage proposal, love and romance, couples, male female relationship, relationships, love story, love triangle, tragic love, love affair, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wyoming, new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style:
sincere, witty, humorous, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, starting over, society, relationship vs career, midlife crisis, looking for love, buddies, lifestyle, human nature, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
457
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot:
couple relations, schizophrenic, opposites attract, introspection, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, hopes, prodigy, couples, doctors and patients, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nervous breakdown ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who ...
Style:
humorous, witty, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
wedding, island, wedding ceremony, unlikely couple, family feud, love affair, buddies, hopes, love and romance, couple relations, starting over, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, iceland
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style:
talky, psychological, realistic, serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
haunted by the past, couples, family relations, looking for love, introspection, couple relations, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
gambling, starting over, love affair, parents and children, opposites attract, teenage life, small town, death in the family, grief, bittersweet, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
Style:
sincere, humorous, touching, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
self discovery, fall in love, lifestyle, adulthood, workplace, social misfits, misfit, shyness, workplace romance, self involved, singleness, love ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Style:
sweet, emotional, touching, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, mathematics, taxi driver, hopes, couple relations, disability, eccentricity, loneliness, bird, support group ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ashley Scott plays an executive for a company that produces pet supplies. Just after getting into a fight with her boyfriend about their relationship status, she takes up with the company's mascot and the company president's son on a road ...
Style:
psychological, humorous, touching, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, road trip, opposites attract, fall in love, motor home, on the road, couple relations, love and romance, lovers, family relations, love story, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A traffic accident brings together Deborah, a high-strung businesswoman, and Veg, successful owner of a fast food shop that specializes in bull organ soup. Fiercely combative about the accident, they end up in bed after too much drinking one night. ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
couples, parents and children, love affair, womanizer, opposites attract, sexual relations, love and romance, hotshot hero, hopes, contests and competitions, road not taken, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
37%
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