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Chances Are (1989)
15K
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, sweet, romantic, funny, light, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, reincarnation, heaven, death, love, ghost, older woman younger man relationship, eternal love, love story, paradise, daughter, angel, true love, life & death, lone hero, dysfunctional family, body swapping, unlikely couple, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, soul mate, male female relationship, lovers reunited, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 60s, 80s, 1960s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., yale university, cleveland ohio
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Most similar movies to Chances Are
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, romantic and light films with plots about love and romance, mentor, love, catastrophe, dialogue, destiny and transformation mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Chances Are: Heaven Can Wait (1978), Heart and Souls (1993), Splash (1984), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Down to Earth (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, sexy, sentimental, witty, touching ...
Audience:
kids, date night, family outing
Plot:
angel, reincarnation, afterlife, heaven, american football, supernatural, body swap, football team, soul transference, murder of husband, back from the dead, football ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, sentimental, feel good, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, angel, redemption, ghost, fear of commitment, supernatural, guardian angel, love, happy ending, imaginary friend, reincarnation, friendship ...
Time:
year 1959, 90s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
83%
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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:
sentimental, feel good, rom com, fairy tale, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
mermaid, happy ending, transformation, fish out of water, public nudity, cape cod massachusetts, longing, love, brother brother relationship, interspecies romance, sea, obsession ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
100%
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, cute, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
time travel, body swapping, coming of age, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, desire, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
humorous, melancholic, absurd, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
reincarnation, afterlife, redemption, mistaken identity, disorder, fish out of water, fall in love, couple relations, supernatural, body swap, angel, black ...
Place:
usa, new york, new zealand, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, seeing dead people, supernatural, haunted by the past, doctor, selflessness, untimely death, self involved, supernatural ability, encounter, loss of loved one ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
Similarity:
100%
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, chick flick
Plot:
heaven, afterlife, destiny, reincarnation, angel, soul mate, death, innocence, truck driver, aunt nephew relationship, philosophy, religion ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
california, usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
time travel, high school reunion, alternate timeline, destiny, alternate history, young mother, nerd, time, youth, hopes, one more chance, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1960, 1950s, 80s, 20th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
new jersey, california, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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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, teen, cute, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, love story, wedding, ghost, fall in love, love triangle, impossible love, public nudity, female ghost, angel, haunted by the past, psychic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, humorous, touching, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
afterlife, death, heaven, destiny, life & death, fall in love, reincarnation, courage, courtroom, honest, life, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
sad, sex comedy, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
ghost, true love, love triangle, heaven, impossible love, afterlife, widow, grief, haunting, family relations, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
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:
romantic, sentimental, sincere, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
angel, afterlife, life & death, love, love and romance, love story, fall in love, heaven and hell, supernatural romance, death, medical, destiny ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, redemption, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, destiny, metaphysics, hell, love, fantasy world, female artist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
100%
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, romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
switching bodies, body swapping, destiny, supernatural, couples, body swap, wedding, couple relations, aging, opposites attract, ghost, true love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
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, rom com, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, unlikely couple, impossible love, love story, initially antagonists, destiny, supernatural romance, happy ending, heaven, doctor, female ghost ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, canada
Similarity:
67%
11K
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:
sexy, humorous, parody, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
body swapping, gender, murder, fish out of water, afterlife, reincarnation, gender bending, switching bodies, womanizer, transsexual, divine intervention, soul transference ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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, rom com, sweet, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
ghost, womanizer, love, wedding, true love, love story, lifestyle change, love and romance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, supernatural, introspection ...
Time:
80s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
35K
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, emotional, touching, romantic, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, airplane, aviation, rescue, guardian angel, love, supernatural, ghost, grief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of loved one, love at first sight ...
Place:
usa, colorado, montana
Similarity:
100%
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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, sweet, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, artificial insemination, couple relations, fall in love, couples, love and romance, love story, lifestyle, sperm donor, woman urinating, interracial romance, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, sexy, surreal, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love story, movie star, magic realism, daydreamer, satire, writers, surrealism, imagination, unlikely couple, life turned upside down, fish out of water, real world ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1985, 1900s, year 1935
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
100%
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:
rom com, touching, sweet, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
pregnancy, marriage, babies and infants, women, self discovery, parent child relationship, couple relations, love, husband and wife, baby born, family drama, farce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, offbeat, touching, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, grief, ghost, death, love, loss of loved one, love story, bittersweet, life after death, impossible love, tragic romance, cellist ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob (Duchovny), a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress, Grace (Driver). ...
Style:
inspirational, sexy, sentimental, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
love and romance, destiny, hopes, passion, death of wife, love of one's life, couples, couple relations, coincidence, marriage, love, love story ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa, italy
Similarity:
100%
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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, sweet, feel good, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, marriage, love and romance, opposites attract, disorder, unlikely couple, looking for love, sisters, couples, family gatherings ...
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
187K
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, wedding dress, opposites attract, wedding planner, bridesmaid, love and romance, women, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, rhode island, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
131K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
destiny, fall in love, coincidence, serendipity, christmas, true love, love and romance, friendship, looking for love, fate, love, friends ...
Time:
year 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
Style:
sexy, humorous, romantic, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, wedding, infidelity, love affair, extramarital affair, love story, adultery, family drama, happy ending, family relations, fall in love, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
seattle, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
Style:
romantic, light, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
luck, love and romance, fall in love, nothing goes right, love story, destiny, dumb, bad luck, life turned upside down, teenage girl, happy ending, adaptation ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, single parent, love and romance, couples, age difference, parents and children, starting over, infidelity, sex, relationships, unfaithful husband, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, istanbul turkey, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film tells the stories of a mother and her three daughters about their own struggles in love. All the women had achieved progress in some way except in love. However, each of them found their own Mr.Right in the end.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, looking for love, old love, couples, love and romance, couple relations, relationships, mother daughter relationship, love affair, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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