Movies like Mermaids

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Mermaids (1990)
 6.7
 36K
Mermaids (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Style: touching, sweet, teen, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, teenager, love story, mother daughter relationship, young adult, loneliness, father daughter relationship, single parent, mother, fall in love, couple relations, loss of virginity, sister sister relationship, mermaid, parents and children, love and romance, generation gap, eccentric family, friendship, adolescence, self discovery, dysfunctional family, teen angst ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1964, year 1963, 20th century, 1960s
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts, texas, dallas texas
Keyword: jewish, americana, bell tower, oldies, loud

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Most similar movies to Mermaids

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about coming of age, family relations, love, love and romance, love story, teenager and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Mermaids: Moonstruck (1987), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Uptown Girls (2003), Mystic Pizza (1988), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.2
 67K
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%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 43K
Uptown Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: nanny, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, girl, teenage girl, friends, family relations, self discovery, initially antagonists, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 32K
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%
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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, adolescence, family relations, teenage life, eccentric family, social differences, parents and children, self discovery, single parent, sex aid ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, year 1976, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 6.7
 10K
The Party (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style: emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, crumbling marriage, puberty, teenage love, family problems, love, love and romance, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style: emotional, romantic, cute, period piece, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, corporal punishment, first love, age difference, childhood, love story, love, sisters, small town, farm, bittersweet, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1991, year 1957, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style: satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, age difference, fall in love, divorce, single mother, couple relations, family relations, love affair, parents and children, writers, generation gap ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, period piece, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens, date night ...
Plot: cinderella story, love and romance, female protagonist, cinderella, prince, royalty, love, class differences, arranged marriage, legends and myths, step siblings, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 16th century, 90s, 50s, year 1998, ancient times
Place: france, europe
⇓ 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 ⇓
67%
 6.8
 168K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 10K
How to Deal (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who's convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her ...
Style: romantic, sweet, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, teenage love, teenage pregnancy, wedding, true love, coming of age, pregnancy, bullying, love and romance, youth, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
 73K
The First Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 5K
Once Around (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, true love, marriage, love, in love, family relations, pregnancy, couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston, new england, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
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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 6.5
 272K
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot: wedding, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, dancing, greek island, dance, single mother, broadway, single parent, parents and children, meet the parents, free spirited ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, italy, fictional island, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 16K
Ashby (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a ...
Style: melancholic, talky, touching, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, bullying, coming of age, assassin, classmate, friendship, mentor, relationships, redemption, existentialism, storytelling, stereotypes ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, women, rags to riches, enemies to lovers, rise to the top, fall in love, society, couple relations, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his ...
Style: touching, sentimental, disturbing, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: single father, friendship, happy ending, parenthood, unlikely friendships, widower, single parent, lone hero, adolescence, mentor, family relations, wooing ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
20%
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 6.6
 53K
Reality Bites (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize ...
Style: realistic, talky, romantic, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, love, coming of age, friendship, best friends in love, graduation, roommate, unlikely friendships, slacker, best friend, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: usa, seattle, chicago, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first ...
Style: romantic, feel good, teen, touching, cute ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first love, friendship, teenager, summer, female friendship, teenage love, teen romance, group of friends, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, south carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 88K
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it ...
Style: romantic, teen, sexy, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, teen romance, bullying, class differences, father daughter relationship, relationships, love story, high school life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, rom com, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teenage life, teen romance, love and romance, initially antagonists, school, enemies to lovers ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
Style: romantic, touching, sincere, light, sweet ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, pretend relationship, love and romance, first love, love letter, couples, high school student, teen romance, youth, teenage girl, happy ending, sisterhood ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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