Movies like City of Angels

If you like "City of Angels" you are looking for sentimental, romantic and tear jerker movies about / with angel, afterlife, life & death, heaven and hell, fall in love, supernatural romance and love and romance themes of Drama, Fantasy and Romance genre shot in USA or Germany.
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City of Angels (1998)
 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 embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
Style: sentimental, romantic, tear jerker, sincere, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational ...
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, death, passion, heartwarming, life philosophy, religion, faith, couples, bittersweet, life after death, dating, fallen angel, loss, amor ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
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Most similar movies to City of Angels

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, sentimental, romantic and sweet films with plots about love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love story, supernatural and death mostly in Romance, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like City of Angels: What Dreams May Come (1998), Just Like Heaven (2005), Winter's Tale (2014), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Lake House (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
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, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
 6.1
 57K
Winter's Tale (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Style: romantic, stylized, fairy tale, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: angel, power of love, fall in love, love and romance, true love, supernatural ability, love story, imaginary, magic, supernatural, good versus evil, cancer ...
Time: year 2014, 19th century, year 1916
Place: grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 263K
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, philosophical, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot: love, afterlife, life philosophy, love and romance, life & death, dealing with death, supernatural, love at first sight, mysterious character, lifestyle change, supernatural romance, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Lake House (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural, impossible love, couples, architect, pen pal, autumn, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, letter ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style: touching, philosophical, dramatic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: destiny, true love, life & death, life philosophy, aging, existentialism, love and romance, fictional biography, melancholy, puzzle, tragic love, old age ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 1950s ...
Place: new orleans, cambodia, usa, pearl harbor, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 7.1
 234K
Ghost (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, love story, ghost, love, love and romance, supernatural, life & death, psychic, death, supernatural romance, impossible love, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, persia, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.4
 89K
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%
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 6.7
 94K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 45K
The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 40K
Dragonfly (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: afterlife, hospital, supernatural, doctor, supernatural ability, medical, death, lovers apart, dealing with death, ghost, destiny, grief ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, colombia, venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style: romantic, touching, dramatic, emotional, fairy tale ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: immortality, love, love story, immortal, life & death, loneliness, aging, supernatural, love and romance, miraculous event, beautiful scenery, impossible love ...
Time: edwardian era, future, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: san francisco, california, peru, oregon, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, love affair, couples, love and romance, seeing dead people, death in the family, unfulfillment, ghost, teenager, siblings relations, family problems, love story ...
Time: year 2005, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, time traveler, love story, love and romance, time paradox, time loop, love affair, true love, tragic love, marriage, couple relations ...
Time: future, year 2009, 20th century, 70s, 90s ...
Place: chicago, 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%
 6.9
 32K
In Your Eyes (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two seemingly unconnected souls from different corners of the United States make a telepathic bond that allows them to see, hear and feel the other's experiences, creating a bond that apparently can't be broken.
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, romantic, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: happy ending, love and romance, telepathy, loneliness, love, passion, magic, teenager, couples, magic realism, life philosophy, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 157K
Dear John (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, couple relations, relationships, soldier ...
Time: 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.7
 77K
The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, high school sweetheart, true love, love affair, lovers reunited, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, young love, couples ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 33K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 16K
Fallen (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep ...
Style: exciting, touching, captivating, gothic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: fallen angel, teenager, reform school, fall in love, love, love and romance, lucifer, couples, reincarnation, teenage life, guardian angel, gargoyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.8
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A Ghost Story (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip ...
Style: art house, psychological, artsy, post-horror, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, loss, grief, death of husband, legacy, loneliness, piano, paranormal, loss of husband, sadness, haunting, love ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, future, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 14K
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 ...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, reincarnation, older woman younger man relationship, heaven, ghost, death, love, paradise, life & death, love story, dysfunctional family, unlikely couple ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 60s
Place: usa, washington d.c., cleveland ohio, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 284K
Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.8
 615K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, fall in love, true love, youth, memory loss, love of one's life, power of love, love triangle, young lovers, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 218K
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, grief, letter, life philosophy, lost love, family relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: ireland, seattle, europe, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 37K
Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, fall in love, tragedy, death, college, love story, cancer, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, massachusetts, paris france, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.9
 1K
Endless (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When madly in love high school graduates Riley and Chris are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to connect. In a love story that ...
Style: romantic, sad, sincere, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, life after death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, life & death, ghost, dealing with death, tragedy, car accident, out of body experience, impossible love, relationships ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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