Movies like Benny & Joon
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Benny & Joon (1993)
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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, feel good, melancholic, humorous, sweet, compassionate, realistic, romantic, sexy, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
mental illness, social misfits, brother sister relationship, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, fall in love, disability, love and romance, dysfunctional family, psychiatrist, psychology, psychoanalysis, affection, sibling, siblings living together, first love, family relations, siblings relations, relationships, happy ending, poker, mental disorder, autism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, feel good and romantic films with plots about relationships, love, love and romance, dialogue, life philosophy, mentor and culture clash mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Benny & Joon: The Other Sister (1999), Harold and Maude (1971), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Moonstruck (1987), Edward Scissorhands (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
sentimental, touching, feel good, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mentally challenged, wedding, women, disability, family relations, justice, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, fall in love, looking for love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
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100%
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:
feel good, touching, funny, depressing, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, funeral, misfit, existentialism, eccentricity, death, depression, old age, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, psychological, humorous, melancholic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
mental illness, loneliness, shyness, sex doll, introvert, delusion, small town, forbidden love, young man, doll, psychologist, psychology ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, girls' night, date night, family outing
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, female protagonist, marriage, dysfunctional family, wedding, relationships, adaptation, life philosophy ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, italy, usa, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, surreal, fairy tale, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, freak, social misfits, christmas, love and romance, inventor, fall in love, love story, castle ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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:
mental illness, love story, surrealism, mental institution, psychology, escape from reality, androids and robots, love, relationships, mental disorder, misfit, antisocial behavior ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
india, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
disability, dysfunctional family, mentally challenged, self discovery, small town, mental illness, responsibility, coming of age, brothers, family problems, life philosophy, countryside ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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:
sweet, romantic, feel good, semi serious, road movie ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, mental illness, love story, love affair, runaway, relationships, road trip, twists and turns, teenager, destiny, manipulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, louisiana, southern usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
touching, romantic, emotional, realistic, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mental illness, love, bipolar disorder, depression, life philosophy, social misfits, supportive parent, gambling, male female friendship, football, psychology, adaptation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia, new jersey, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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, emotional, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, taxi driver, mathematics, disability, loneliness, bird, hopes, couple relations, support group, love story ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Flipped
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:
sweet, sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
dog, friendship, mental illness, writers, neighbor, older man younger woman relationship, gay, unlikely friendships, waitress, couples, age difference, psychology ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, teenager, friendship, women, food, commitment, siblings relations, small town life, teenage life, love and romance, adultery ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, london, england, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
love, fall in love, happy ending, bookstore, internet, destiny, unlikely couple, online dating, rivalry, christmas, hidden identity, love story ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, preschoolers
Plot:
autism, asperger's syndrome, shyness, mental illness, fall in love, loneliness, disability, neighbor, love affair, depression, psychology, communication problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, depression, friendship, psychiatric ward, teenage love, adolescence, teenage life, anxiety, mental institution, teenage boy, supportive friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Films like 50 First Dates
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems ...
Style:
romantic, fairy tale, feel good, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
florist, magic, love, love story, women, fall in love, hotel, death, adultery, runaway, childhood, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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, sweet, thought provoking, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
writer's block, love, magic realism, bittersweet, loneliness, writers, dream, mental illness, destiny, life philosophy, novelist, imaginary character ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style:
realistic, touching, clever, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
masseur, infidelity, marriage, divorce, relationships, massage, brooklyn bridge, loneliness, stereotypes, nude, life & death, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, divorce, couples, love story, dysfunctional family, happy ending, honest, best friends, love, starting over, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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:
realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, relationships, women, divorce, happy ending, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, first contact, destiny, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental illness, high school, bipolar disorder, coming of age, love, teenage love, mental institution, hitchhiking, psychology, lovers on the run, depression, suicide attempt ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, seattle, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, love and romance, love, happy ending, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, best friends in love, loneliness, travel, small town, encounter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, california, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, couple relations, fall in love, love triangle, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, new jersey, vancouver, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, chance meeting, love, hopes, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, nothing goes right, friendship, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
romantic, sincere, emotional, sexy, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
relationships, lesbian, love, love triangle, love affair, twists and turns, life philosophy, sex, sister sister relationship, friendship, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies like 500 Days of Summer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her ...
Style:
feel good, light, sweet, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
single parent, opposites attract, one day, love and romance, architect, screwball, fall in love, love, girl, single mother, disorder, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, cons and scams, looking for love, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, older man younger woman relationship, irish, life, childhood, catholicism, catastrophe, runaway, relationships ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ireland, illinois, california, chicago illinois, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot:
first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, school, adolescence, childhood sweetheart, young love, teenage life, teenage love, neighbor, crush ...
Time:
60s, 50s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1957 ...
Place:
usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, horse, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love, divorce, horse ranch, single mother, single parent, starting over, bachelor, runaway ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, texas, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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