Movies and TV shows like Highway to Heaven

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Highway to Heaven (1984)
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Highway to Heaven (1984)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The series aired for five seasons, running a total of 111 episodes. It was shot entirely in California.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, game show, feel good, telenovela
Plot: angel, guardian angel, redemption, odd couple, friendship, supernatural, fish out of water, good deed, family life, partner, human nature, hopes, unlikely partners, friendship between men, afterlife, religious, superhero, devil, heaven, faith, fugitives, christian, visitor, miraculous event, divine intervention ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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Most similar movies to Highway to Heaven

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, realistic and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, hopes, parents and children, family life, friendship, supernatural and redemption mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Highway to Heaven: Touched by an Angel (1994), Life Goes On (1989), A Gifted Man (2011), Judging Amy (1999), Heaven Sent (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Touched by an Angel (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars ...
Style: inspirational, spiritual, semi serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: angel, religion, hopes, faith, supernatural, good deed, religions or cults, miraculous event, working undercover, destiny, human spirit, christian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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86%
 7.1
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Life Goes On (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, contemplative
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, protective parent, misfit, teenage life, family life, parents and children, couples, supportive parent, mentally challenged, couple relations, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestial being named Yvette, who enlists Kevin with a ...
Style: funny, sincere, captivating, uplifting, colorful ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: good deed, angel, sister, niece, mission, escapades, life philosophy, friendship, family relations, small town, twists and turns, disorder ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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A Gifted Man (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A talented but self-absorbed surgeon starts questioning his purpose in life when he is visited by the spirit of his deceased ex-wife.
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot: medical, hospital, ghost, afterlife, supernatural romance, supernatural, ambition, teaching the ways of the world, surgery, life turned upside down, good deed, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Judging Amy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, serious, touching
Plot: legal, judiciary, judge, family relations, parents and children, starting over, single mother, couples, love and romance, courtroom drama, living with parents, female judge ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Heaven Sent (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: heaven, teen rebel, juvenile delinquent, youth, meeting, miraculous event, bad influence, death, handgun, divorced mother, basketball, fire ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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What If... (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: spirituality, fish out of water, angel, faith, christian, religious, family relations, disorder, family life, lifestyle, miraculous event, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Cleaner (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William Banks strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: addiction, belief, rescue, hopes, going straight, life is a bitch, family life, family relations, human nature, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, drug rehab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Resurrection (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott that follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths.
Style: serious, atmospheric, captivating, mind bending, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resurrection, afterlife, back from the dead, miraculous event, investigation, supernatural, uncover truth, parents and children, surprising revelation, haunted by the past, priest, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Da (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Style: independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: ghost, human nature, unfulfillment, elderly, hopes, love and romance, single parent, dealing with death, family problems, family relations, tragic love, family life ...
Time: 80s
Place: ireland, new york, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Toothless (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, stylized ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: afterlife, youth, dentist, hopes, supernatural, heroes, young heroes, friendship, legends and myths, family life, family relations, tooth fairy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Joan of Arcadia (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi, who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8–9 p.m. on CBS and CTV for two ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: teenage life, chosen one, friendship, supernatural, youth, first love, small town, parents and children, high school, belief, strong female character, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, sentimental, tense
Plot: angel, parent child relationship, religions or cults, supernatural ability, politics, murder, attempted murder, supernatural, hopes, love triangle, miraculous event, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, israel, cuba, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Promised Land (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.
Style: realistic, serious, touching
Plot: christian, good deed, family relations, social relations, unemployment, family life, on the road, society, follow your dream, human nature, hopes, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Letters to God (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style: christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: god, faith, letter, cancer, pastor, hopes, terminal illness, brain tumor, christian, friendship, salvation, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: hopes, friendship, family relations, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, destiny, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place: usa, north carolina, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Angel or Demon (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Valeria is a 17-year-old girl leading a normal life in Madrid until one night, after arguing with her parents about her report card, she is seemingly tempted by a mysterious young woman named Isis into committing a horrible act. Afterward, a ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, demonic, sentimental ...
Plot: angel, good versus evil, changing lives, hopes, heroic mission, manipulation, heaven, devil, impossible love, hell, supernatural, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Summerland (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Summerland is an American drama television series created by Stephen Tolkin and Lori Loughlin. It is centered on a clothing designer in her 30s, Ava Gregory, raising her niece and nephews after their parents die in a tragic accident. They live in ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, siblings relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, high school, beach, childhood, young adult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Returned (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind ...
Style: captivating, mind bending, touching, surreal, tense ...
Plot: afterlife, resurrection, back from the dead, supernatural, small town life, uncover truth, life turned upside down, family relations, parents and children, dealing with death, miraculous event, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Part of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Two women share a tragic and supernatural destiny that binds them together even after death. Monica Serrano, a world-renowned pianist with an impressive fortune, dies after the betrayal of her ambitious niece and the man she loves. But by way of a ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, serious, telenovela
Plot: uncover truth, afterlife, spirit, parents and children, love and romance, family relations, supernatural romance, vengeance, supernatural, rich and poor, revenge, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Venice the Series (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, gender, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, strong female presence, lesbian love, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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God's Army (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: missionary, couples, working class, terminal illness, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, disorder, culture clash, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Wool Cap (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, redemption, misfit, human nature, hopes, family life, custody, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, addiction, elderly ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Wonderfalls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004. The show centers on Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, surreal, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, good deed, niagara falls, disorder, young woman, youth, imaginary, heroine, boss, young man, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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28%
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Reconciliation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: RECONCILIATION is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Time of Our Lives (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their way around relationships, raising kids, love, careers, divorce, disability and finding happiness. Elder brother Matt is a high-flying sports agent ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, friendship, couples, friends, parents and children, family life, adulthood, city life, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Courageous (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners are confident and focused. They willingly stand up to the worst the streets have to offer. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christian, faith, christianity, fatherhood, religion, family relations, god, religious, father son relationship, church, idealism, courage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Class of '96 (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: college, university, college life, bittersweet, studying, best friend, social relations, friends, disorder, power relations, buddies, follow your dream ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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One Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: A first-born Chinese girl adopted by English parents gets called back to Guangzhou when her birth mother desperately seeks her assistance in her son. How far will Mei go to help the woman who gave her away and the brother she’s never met?
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: introspection, family relations, family life, society, family problems, rich and poor, adoption, human nature, parents and children
Time: 21st century
Place: england, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Good Witch (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Cassie Nightingale, Middleton’s favorite enchantress, and her young-teenage daughter Grace, who shares that same special intuition as her mom, welcome Dr. Sam Radford and his son to town. When the New York transplants move in next to the Grey ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, light, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: witch, small town, supernatural, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, good witch, social relations, imaginary, teenage life, friendship, single parent, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tibet, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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