Movies like My Best Friend's Wife

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   Agatha and the Storm

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 125 min · Comedy · Romance

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   The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   After Midnight

   Similar atmosphere

   2004 · 92 min · Comedy · Romance

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   A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Don't Move

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 125 min · Drama · Romance

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   While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   Mia moglie è una bestia

   Strong story similarity

   1988 · 104 min · Comedy

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   Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course she retained all of her young beauty and immediately Gianni is attracted to her, but after he begins thinking she is best left behind she follows him around creating havoc in his normal life. Gianni believes he can transform her into a beautiful modern day woman.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared production studio: Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica

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   Infelici e contenti

   Strong story similarity

   1992 · 101 min · Comedy

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   Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Rich and Poor

   Strong story similarity

   1983 · 92 min · Comedy · Romance

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   Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   P.O. Box Tinto Brass

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 81 min · Comedy

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   A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans seeking his advice on how to spice up their sex lives. Thanks to his years of experience in both the film business and the sex industry, he has all sorts of tips at the ready and, in an emergency, is happy to make a house call himself to demonstrate his qualities in person.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Consequences of Love

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 100 min · Drama · Thriller

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   Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   Malena

   Strong story similarity

   2000 · 108 min · Drama

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   12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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    The Raffle

    Strong story similarity

    1991 · 93 min · Drama

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    Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.

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    • strong story and style similarity

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