Movies like The Baxter

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The Baxter (2005)
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The Baxter (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem.
Style: humorous, stylized, touching, feel good, witty, funny, romantic, clever, talky, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, friendship, love triangle, accountant, love and romance, couples, looking for love, couple relations, event planner, love, office, death, marriage, drinking, cupid, social anxiety, satire, dating, wedding planner, twists and turns, unfulfilled love, silly humor, underdog, journal, dog ...
Time: year 2005, contemporary
Place: new york, connecticut, usa, moscow russia, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, cincinnati ohio ...
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Most similar movies to The Baxter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, marriage, love, kiss, couple relations and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Baxter: Just Married (2003), Made of Honor (2008), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Town & Country (2001), License to Wed (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just Married (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, newlyweds, love and romance, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, battle of the sexes, disorder, fall in love, farce, american football, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: europe, france, venice, italy, alps ...
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 5.8
 76K
Made of Honor (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: wedding, best friends in love, love and romance, love story, best friend, friendship, relationships, male female friendship, love triangle, opposites attract, marriage, bridesmaid ...
Time: year 2008, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who ...
Style: humorous, funny, parody, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: summer camp, love triangle, lifeguard, camp, farce, rescue, coming of age, stoner, looking for sex, teenager, satire, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2000s, year 1981
Place: maine, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Town & Country (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, farce, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, architect, relationship vs career, family problems, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, new york, mississippi, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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License to Wed (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, marriage, love, priest, happy ending, love and romance, nothing goes right, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, farce, disorder, women ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.1
 19K
The Bachelor (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to ...
Style: romantic, clever, smart, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, love, happy ending, greed, farce, dating, fall in love, true love, marriage, alien invasion, law, interracial ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.4
 2K
Ira & Abby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, humorous, smart ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, fall in love, breakup, opposites attract, unlikely couple, eccentric family, family problems, newlyweds, love affair, therapy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.8
 1K
Little City (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on the side! And if this triangle wasn't crowded enough, the arrival of a seductive newcomer ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: threesome, rock, friendship, infidelity, lesbian, priest, mob boss, confession, catholic church, painter, painting, couples ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, california, usa, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: sleepwalking, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, mental disorder, road trip, biopic ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia, ohio, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Buying the Cow (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
Style: feel good, sexy, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: engagement, fear of commitment, dating, friends, love, commitment, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, dog sex, party, sex crime, wedding ...
Place: new york, usa, caribbean, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
I'm with Lucy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her ...
Style: sweet, light, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, sex on first date, relationships, marriage, women, looking for love, dating, wedding, sex, pillow talk, chess, meme ...
Place: new york, tahiti, usa, manhattan new york city, madagascar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Wedding Planner (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Mary Fiore, San Francisco's premiere wedding planner is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client, wealthy Fran Donnolly. As Mary continues making the ...
Style: romantic, light, rom com, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: wedding, love and romance, wedding planner, love story, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love, love triangle, bride and groom, destiny, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.1
 174K
27 Dresses (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love, opposites attract, wedding planner, love and romance, women, bridesmaid, couple relations, unlikely couple, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, rhode island, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, love triangle, breakup, looking for love, comedy of errors, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, hip hop, dating ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.6
 65K
Monster-in-Law (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. ...
Style: romantic, funny, entertaining, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: wedding, mother in law daughter in law relationship, meet the parents, domineering mother, love and romance, manipulation, rivalry, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, marriage, mother son relationship, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.5
 115K
Bride Wars (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
Style: romantic, feel good, humorous, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, wedding preparations and rituals, women, couple relations, friendship, couples, fiancee, wedding ceremony, rivalry, female friendship, love and romance, wedding planning ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is ...
Style: romantic, funny, cute, talky, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: marriage, lawyer, hotel, honeymoon, opposites attract, husband wife relationship, love story, drunkenness, attic, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, urban setting ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 33K
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, stylized, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: dog, dating, single father, divorce, pets, looking for love, children, dog lover, couples, family life, singleness, women ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her ...
Style: light, melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional marriage, brother sister relationship, adultery, marriage, wedding, infidelity, marital problem, self discovery, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
50%
The Very Thought of You (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sweet, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, friendship, relationships, best friend, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, infidelity, looking for love, couple relations, comedy of errors, destiny ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: london, england, europe, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
They Came Together (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Style: parody, humorous, spoof, light, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: stupidity, cliche, disagreement, restaurant, satire, group sex, wife, gang bang, train, book, accountant, halloween ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Daltry Calhoun (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, workplace situations, family relations, rise to the top, businessman, redneck, long lost daughter, volunteer, bad father, redemption, estrangement ...
Time: year 2005
Place: tennessee, usa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 816
True Love (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's immaturity. ...
Style: funny, independent film, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, family relations, true love, friendship, argument, friends, couples, love and romance, introspection, human nature, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: bronx new york city, new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 216K
I Love You, Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify ...
Style: feel good, funny, romantic, romantic comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: bromance, wedding, friendship, friendship between men, gay interest, marriage, homosexual subtext, mentor, life philosophy, best man, nerd, couple relations ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, chicago, venice beach california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random ...
Style: funny, sex comedy, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: wedding, seduction, fiance fiancee relationship, wedding party, love and romance, looking for sex, marriage, love story, stereotypes, twists and turns, party, friends ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa, salt lake city utah, denver colorado, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
New York, I Love You (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, interracial relations, multiple storylines, couples, fall in love, young lovers, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, city life, friendship, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Forces of Nature (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an ...
Style: road movie, light, romantic, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, unlikely couple, travel, opposites attract, looking for love, disorder, nothing goes right, fall in love, beautiful scenery, writers, women, love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, miami, hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Along Came Polly (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: honeymoon, love and romance, opposites attract, ferret, wedding, infidelity, divorce, marriage, relationships, life philosophy, commitment, chance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, new york, long island, usa, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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