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Chances Are (1989)
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Chances Are (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, funny, light, sweet, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, reincarnation, older woman younger man relationship, heaven, ghost, death, love, paradise, life & death, love story, dysfunctional family, unlikely couple, angel, eternal love, daughter, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, lovers reunited, body swapping, lawyer, wedding, women, supernatural ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 60s, 80s, 1960s
Place: usa, washington d.c., yale university, cleveland ohio
Keyword: oldies, gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, romantic and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, love, fall in love, couples, supernatural, love story and afterlife mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Chances Are: Heaven Can Wait (1978), Heart and Souls (1993), Splash (1983), Down to Earth (2001), 13 Going on 30 (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, angel, american football, supernatural, heaven, body swap, soul transference, football, love, secrets, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
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100%
Heart and Souls (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: afterlife, angel, ghost, supernatural, fear of commitment, imaginary friend, love, friendship, redemption, reincarnation, life philosophy, happy ending ...
Time: year 1959, 90s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Splash (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Style: feel good, sentimental, fairy tale, touching, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mermaid, happy ending, transformation, fish out of water, scientist, public nudity, cape cod massachusetts, love, chase, obsession, sea, boat ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 25K
Down to Earth (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After dying before his time, an aspiring comic gets a second shot at life... by being reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likable businessman.
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, redemption, mistaken identity, disorder, fish out of water, supernatural, couple relations, fall in love, angel, black, millionaire ...
Place: usa, new york, new zealand, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, body swapping, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true, body swap, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Switch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall ...
Style: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body swapping, afterlife, fish out of water, murder, reincarnation, gender, gender bending, switching bodies, blonde, womanizer, transsexual, redemption ...
Time: 80s, year 1991
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Ghost Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, haunted by the past, doctor, psychic, selflessness, self involved, untimely death, supernatural ability, character change ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit psychic Ashley and gives her Kate's diary. Ashley uses the journal's details to ...
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, melancholic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, love story, ghost, wedding, love triangle, fall in love, psychic, impossible love, haunted by the past, angel, looking for love, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Defending Your Life (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, heaven, life & death, reincarnation, death, fall in love, courage, destiny, courtroom, life, starting over, past life ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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City of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When guardian angel Seth -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, tear jerker, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: angel, afterlife, life & death, heaven and hell, fall in love, supernatural romance, love and romance, medical, love, love story, destiny, self sacrifice ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style: romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: ghost, afterlife, love story, unlikely couple, impossible love, coma, initially antagonists, supernatural romance, supernatural, doctor, happy ending, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Made in Heaven (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A romantic, occasionally funny, drama about two souls who consummate their marriage literally in "Heaven". Mike Shea, in his first life dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. Shortly after arriving in "Heaven" he meets a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, spiritual, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heaven, afterlife, reincarnation, destiny, love, angel, meeting, hate, fall in love, eternal life, religion, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time: year 1987
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also ...
Style: sex comedy, sad, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: ghost, love triangle, heaven, afterlife, true love, grief, widow, haunting, family relations, couples, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: year 1982
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kate & Leopold (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, light, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: time travel, love story, fall in love, love, love and romance, fish out of water, manners, couple relations, dating, duke, supernatural romance, destiny ...
Time: 19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. Max accepts, and returns to earth, ...
Style: rom com, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: chick flick
Plot: devil, deal with the devil, redemption, children, destiny, heaven, happy ending, chess, afterlife, in love, fall in love, profanity ...
Time: year 1981
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
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Palm Springs (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Style: romantic, funny, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: time loop, time travel, time, love and romance, time traveler, wedding, repeated event, dark humor, earthquake, drug use, groundhog day, family relations ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s
Place: california, palm springs california, hawaii, texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Style: emotional, sweet, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, supernatural, body swap, couples, couple relations, aging, opposites attract, ghost, wedding, fall in love, magic realism ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Always (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young ...
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: afterlife, airplane, aviation, ghost, rescue, guardian angel, supernatural, grief, love, firefighter, pilot, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: usa, colorado, montana
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37%
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. The experience ...
Style: romantic, sweet, romantic comedy, rom com, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
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Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 221K
What Women Want (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, clever, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: women, workplace romance, love and romance, fall in love, womanizer, love story, battle of the sexes, telepathy, psychic power, life philosophy, seducer, initially antagonists ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how ...
Style: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
Style: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: pregnancy, marriage, women, self discovery, parent child relationship, couple relations, love, babies and infants, family drama, farce, parenthood, baby ...
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Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie ...
Style: romantic, humorous, sentimental, offbeat, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, ghost, death, grief, love, love story, bittersweet, life after death, rat, trauma, mythology, ghost story ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, surreal, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: magic realism, movie star, daydreamer, writers, love story, imagination, surrealism, life turned upside down, fish out of water, real world, couples, unlikely couple ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1985, 1900s, year 1935
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Wedding Date (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place: europe, england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 5K
Cousins (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
Style: humorous, sexy, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, infidelity, love affair, love story, adultery, family drama, happy ending, family relations, fall in love, love, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by ...
Style: talky, humorous, funny, melancholic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family drama, stereotypes, happy ending, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, construction worker, parents and children, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Blithe Spirit (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Style: light, dark comedy, period piece, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: comedy of manners, love, supernatural, ghost, afterlife, true love, power of love, resurrection, loss of loved one, writer's life, writers, love story ...
Time: 20th century, future, 2020s, year 1937
Place: dover england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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 ⇓
34%
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