Movies like Being Julia
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Being Julia (2004)
13K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
Style:
period piece, entertaining, stylized, sincere, witty, touching, romantic, historical drama, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, adaptation, women, loneliness, complex characters, actor's life, love, adultery, art, male female relationship, backstage, infidelity, vengeance, hallucination, mental illness, revenge, teacher, friendship, mentor, actress, open marriage, unfaithfulness, world war one ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1950s, 30s
Place:
england, london, europe, west end london, canada, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, clever, sexy and romantic films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, relationships, drinking, drinking alcohol and dialogue mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Being Julia: A Good Woman (2004), My Wife Is an Actress (2001), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), The Taste of Others (2000), Cheri (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar ...
Style:
witty, period piece, clever, semi serious, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
femme fatale, infidelity, slut, high society, justice, betrayal, farce, rich man, marriage proposal, love and romance, social differences, women ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, europe, new york, southern italy, england ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style:
stylized, disturbing, melancholic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, female nudity, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, couple relations, journalism, couples, relationship vs career, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, light, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, social differences, couples, fall in love, friendship, high society, farce, actress, fish out of water, destiny, happy ending ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939, 1900s, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy ...
Style:
biting, meditative, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot:
infidelity, midlife crisis, bohemian life, extramarital affair, opposites attract, fish out of water, disorder, snobbism, fall in love, couple relations, illicit affair, storytelling ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Style:
sexy, costume drama, sexual, period piece, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, older woman younger man sex, lovers, lost love, longing, prostitution, desire, prostitute, love story, male female relationship, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, period piece, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, wedding day, bride and groom, unrequited love, lovers reunited, under the surface, introspection, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, passion ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, virgin, couple relations, manipulation, seduction, hypocrisy, virginity, tragedy, manipulative woman, love triangle, marriage ...
Time:
18th century, year 1989, georgian era, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, France, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional ...
Style:
romantic, romantic comedy, funny, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, love, infidelity, adultery, love and romance, marriage, wedding, writers, unfaithfulness, nudity, marriage proposal, carnival ...
Time:
year 1998
Place:
london, india
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
blackmail, widow, marriage proposal, refugee, vacation, fall in love, destructive relationship, couples, false accusation, dishonesty, seduction, loveless marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, pre world war two, 19th century
Place:
italy, florence, europe, rome italy, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, emotional, period piece, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, closeted homosexual, brutality, unwanted pregnancy, showbiz, couples, art, friendship, nobility, chorus line, audition, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005, year 1937
Place:
london, england, france, europe, west end london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style:
light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, perversion, slut, revenge, sex scene, nobility, seamstress, adultery, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, love ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, lake, forbidden love, hotel, love, summer, age-gap relationship, lesbian love, summer vacation, interwar period, love triangle, resort ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1937, pre world war two
Place:
italy, switzerland, europe, venice
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
32%
14K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, touching, realistic, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
art, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, elderly, friendship, art class, nude model, peeping tom, older man younger woman romance, teenage life, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
london
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style:
cute, humorous, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, age difference, divorce, single mother, family relations, parents and children, love affair, fall in love, writers, generation gap ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, san francisco
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style:
sincere, independent film, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
multiple storylines, love story, gay, love, divorce, adultery, illicit affair, affair, hotel, bittersweet, lgbt, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, chicago, california ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style:
entertaining, sweet, melancholic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, couple relations, fall in love, love triangle, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, usa, oakland california, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, inspirational, period piece, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, cross dressing, love and romance, shakespeare, lovers, gender disguise, couples, writer's life, tudors, literary, passionate love, monarchy ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, 90s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
Similarity:
30%
44K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, affectionate, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, matchmaker, love and romance, couples, fall in love, looking for love, countryside, wooing, social differences, love, male female friendship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1810s, year 1996 ...
Place:
england, britain, seattle, london
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with ...
Style:
sweet, semi serious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, husband wife relationship, love triangle, seduction, love affair, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, actor's life, artists and showbiz, family problems ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
england, london, europe, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Style:
talky, emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
coming of age, art, historical figure, youth, actor's life, teenage life, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, boss and employee, fall in love, mentor, self discovery ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, england ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Style:
humorous, witty, talky, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bookstore, book, rescue, couples, environmentalism, against the rules, ocean, loneliness, eccentricity, turtle, friendship, writer's block ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe, atlantic ocean, new jersey
Similarity:
30%
4K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, friendship, fall in love, wedding, manipulation, looking for love, midlife crisis, human nature, couple relations, women, pregnancy, doomed love ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
england, europe, paris france, london, san francisco
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
talky, realistic, philosophical, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, marital separation, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
Style:
humorous, witty, erotic, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coma, sister sister relationship, lifestyle, love affair, love, society, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, women, nudity, bittersweet, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, sex addict, introspection, battle of the sexes, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, sex, friendship, loneliness, adultery, actress ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
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