Movies like Driving Miss Daisy

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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those types of relationships where shunned upon. Oscar winning tragic comedy with a star-studded cast and based on a play of the same name by Alfred Uhry.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational, emotional, witty, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: racism, friendship, elderly, master and servant, civil rights, old age, african american, racial segregation, chauffeur, prejudice, stereotypes, black, cemetery, gardening, social differences, segregation, black history, senior citizen, culture clash, self discovery, aging, bittersweet, car accident, interracial relations, summer ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 70s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1989, 60s ...
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
Keyword: jewish, gangsters, educational film, feminist film, buddy movie, atlanta, challenge, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, feel good and semi serious films with plots about friendship, family relations, friends, society, african american, bittersweet and black mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Driving Miss Daisy: The Help (2011), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Nobody's Fool (1994), Corrina, Corrina (1994), Green Book (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style: touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place: mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Nobody's Fool (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town, father son relationship, redemption, thanksgiving, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, aging, elderly, retirement, family reunited ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, new york state, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, gothic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: interracial romance, nanny, friendship, self discovery, interracial relations, starting over, couples, interracial love, single father, interracial couple, white male black female relationship, housekeeper ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Green Book (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style: road movie, feel good, uplifting, funny, captivating ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: racism, road trip, travel, musician, interracial friendship, driver, friendship, racial prejudice, on the road, journey, black american, friend ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: bronx new york city, southern usa, america, new york, nebraska ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, disability, friendship between men, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, disabled person, lifestyle change, human relationship, handicapped, culture clash, friends, interracial friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sudie and Simpson (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: youth, black, false accusation, racism, interracial relations, small town, friendship, small town life, discrimination, coming of age, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time: 1940s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: senior citizen, thanksgiving, buddy, small town, snow, winter, beautiful scenery, aging, friendship, old age, fall in love, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, 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%
Remember the Titans (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: racism, african american, civil rights, american football, high school, racial tension, racial prejudice, football, against the odds, racial slur, prejudice, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place: virginia, boston, america, africa, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Style: sweet, sentimental, feel good, bad ending, melancholic ...
Plot: hotel, elderly lovers, elderly, aging, wedding, twists and turns, culture clash, honest, mistaken identity, mentor, love story, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, uplifting, independent film, compassionate ...
Plot: racism, civil rights, discrimination, interracial relations, racial segregation, social differences, injustice, life is a bitch, youth, society, family life, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place: mississippi, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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5 Flights Up (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: real estate, couples, couple relations, elderly, love and romance, society, aging, interracial relations, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, aged person, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 35K
On Golden Pond (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, realistic, touching, witty ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, elderly, aging, love story, family holiday, daughter, marriage, summer, alienation, couples, bittersweet, passion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new hampshire, new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 253K
Hidden Figures (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, motivational, touching, factual ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night, teens ...
Plot: racism, mathematics, nasa, space program, african american, stereotypes, prejudice, sexism, strong female character, scientist, genius, racial segregation ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, year 2016, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: persia, indiana, virginia, usa, langley virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style: sentimental, touching, compassionate, intense, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, adult
Plot: interracial relations, racism, culture clash, miscegenation, african american, social commentary, interracial marriage, doctor, liberal, prejudice, widower, interracial love ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, california, america, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
Style: touching, sincere, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family outing
Plot: writers, friendship, writer's life, dog, single parent, redemption, family relations, vacation, hopes, alcohol abuse, misfit, disability ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
 88K
My Girl (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sad ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenager, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, single parent, children, kids and family, single father, family relations, love ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1991, year 1972, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 2K
Used People (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: funeral, cinema, wedding, family relations, eccentric family, family life, couples, parents and children, one more chance, siblings relations, urban, love and romance ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, 60s, 20th century, year 1969 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
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The Inkwell (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Style: humorous, touching, sex comedy, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, black, blaxploitation, african american, imaginary friend, friendship, urban, teenager, dysfunctional family, love, gangster, black lives matter ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 5K
The Brothers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to ...
Style: romantic, light, melancholic, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, african american, relationships, black, marriage, women, brothers, stereotypes, lifestyle, hip hop, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Harry and Tonto (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, ...
Style: road movie, depressing, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: cat, aging, runaway, elderly, friendship, on the road, old age, redemption, bittersweet, senior citizen, american history, chess ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, new york state, new york, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 272K
The Intern (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, prejudice, fashion, workplace situations, intern, internet ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.2
 8K
Car Wash (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, blaxploitation, car wash, black, culture clash, misfit, ambition, interracial relations, workplace situations, car, muslim, fired from the job ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
 14K
Something New (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
Style: romantic, sexy, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racism, opposites attract, career woman, prejudice, culture clash, blacks and whites, hot and sexy, looking for love ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles, east africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Dear White People (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Four black students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post-racial' America ...
Style: witty, stylized, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, interracial relations, college, college life, prejudice, obsession, black, unlikely friendships, dysfunctional family, friendship, african american, student life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2016, year 2013, year 1972 ...
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 13K
Ten Inch Hero (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four friends search for love and happiness while working at a California sandwich shop.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, witty, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: friends, friendship, looking for love, happy ending, love story, fall in love, shyness, self discovery, workplace, supportive coworker, hippie, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.0
 10K
The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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