Movies like Benny & Joon

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Benny & Joon (1993)
 7.1
 62K
Benny & Joon (1993)
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: touching, melancholic, sweet, feel good, compassionate, offbeat, realistic, humorous, romantic, cute ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, brother sister relationship, social misfits, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, disability, love and romance, mental health, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental disorder, illness, autism, psychoanalysis, affection, siblings living together, first love, family relations, siblings relations, relationships, happy ending, sibling relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 1990s
Place: usa, seattle, washington state, united states of america
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, romantic and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, love, love story, couples, family relations and coming of age mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Benny & Joon: The Other Sister (1999), Harold and Maude (1971), Moonstruck (1987), Barefoot (2014), Ruby Sparks (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Other Sister (1999)
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: touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, compassionate ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mentally challenged, wedding, women, disability, family relations, justice, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, parents and children, fall in love, mental retardation, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Harold and Maude (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, suicide, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, funeral, eccentricity, existentialism, misfit, alienation, old age, depression, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Moonstruck (1987)
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: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: love story, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, love, couples, full moon, infidelity, love and romance, moon, self discovery, marriage proposal, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 27K
Barefoot (2014)
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, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, love and romance, fall in love, mental illness, love affair, relationships, road trip, runaway, twists and turns, manipulation, hospital, prejudice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ruby Sparks (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style: feel good, psychological, romantic, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: loneliness, writer's block, bittersweet, writers, dream, redheaded woman, life philosophy, mental illness, novelist, manic pixie dream girl, family relations, success ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style: melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place: iowa, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, freak, social misfits, love and romance, inventor, love story, teenage girl, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another ...
Style: surreal, touching, psychological, emotional, sweet ...
Plot: love story, surrealism, mental institution, psychology, escape from reality, cyborgs, mental illness, androids and robots, love, relationships, mental disorder, misfit ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
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, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
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: touching, inspirational, sweet, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, taxi driver, mathematics, disability, loneliness, bird, hopes, couple relations, support group, love story ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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You've Got Mail (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, sentimental, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: love, fall in love, bookstore, happy ending, destiny, online dating, unlikely couple, rivalry, christmas, internet, hidden identity, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, small town, coming of age, teenage pregnancy, single parent, friendship, youth, love and romance, power of love, family relations, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style: touching, depressing, humorous, melancholic, cute ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: mental illness, loneliness, sex doll, shyness, doll, introvert, delusion, small town, young man, forbidden love, grief, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.0
 680K
Groundhog Day (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style: feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot: time loop, existentialism, small town, groundhog day, winter, time travel, time warp, time, life philosophy, redemption, fall in love, repeated event ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, persia, america, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Electric Dreams (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with ...
Style: offbeat, surreal, cult classic, rom com, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: artificial intelligence, computer, internet, robot, cello, blonde girl, hacker, technology, love, blonde, memory, architect ...
Place: san francisco, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
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Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker (Edward Albert) moves away from his overprotective mother (Eileen Heckart, who won an Oscar). After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner (Goldie ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: blindness, blind man, disability, neighbor, overprotective mother, fall in love, happy ending, love story, manic pixie dream girl, couple relations, actress, blonde ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: san francisco, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style: touching, sentimental, independent film, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, depression, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, psychiatric ward, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, anxiety, suicidal, psychiatrist ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Adam (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night, preschool
Plot: autism, asperger's syndrome, fall in love, shyness, mental illness, disability, neighbor, love affair, love, depression, psychology, loneliness ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, california, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
Style: surreal, romantic, dark comedy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: true love, depression, shyness, asperger's syndrome, brother sister relationship, mental illness, love and romance, insanity, eccentricity, complex characters, love story, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, los angeles, california, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.7
 97K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, young love, adolescence, teen romance, childhood sweetheart, school, teenage love, neighbor, unrequited love ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, 1950s, year 1957, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Mr. Jones (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, psychiatrist, psychology, hospital, loneliness, adaptation, addiction, love affair, forbidden love, rehabilitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Say Anything... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, couples, first love, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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: sweet, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, breakup, relationships, couples, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, heartache, fall in love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.8
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50 First Dates (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: memory loss, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, love, memory, relationships, wooing, dating, life philosophy, dream ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Story of Luke (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot: autism, disability, job seeking, looking for love, self discovery, power relations, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, workplace situations, boss and employee, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.3
 7K
Mad Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental ...
Style: romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, high school, love, bipolar disorder, on the road, mental institution, manic depression, obsessive love, coming of age, teenage love, hitchhiking, psychology ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: seattle, latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 8K
Good Dick (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her ...
Style: realistic, humorous, offbeat, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, relationships, fall in love, looking for love, family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, sex, dysfunctional couple, seductive ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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