Movies and TV shows like Desperate Housewives

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Desperate Housewives (2004)
 7.6
 139K
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw. The main setting of the show was Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional American town of 'Fairview' in the fictional 'Eagle State'. The show followed the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of a dead neighbor who committed suicide in the very first episode. The storyline covers thirteen years of the women's lives over eight seasons, set between the years 2004–2008, and later 2013–2017. They worked through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their — at the surface — beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. The show featured an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp, and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrated the show as the deceased Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences.
Style: witty, humorous, sexy, soap opera, sexual, stylized, exciting, cynical, biting, cliffhanger ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: housewife, female friendship, neighbor, suburban life, family life, social relations, investigation, lifestyle, friends, couple relations, family relations, infidelity, friendship, love and romance, intrigue, couples, marital problem, family problems, rivalry, love affair, family secret, middle aged, divorce, crumbling marriage, marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Desperate Housewives

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films and TV series with plots about female protagonist, couples, women, friendship, family relations, friends and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Desperate Housewives: Devious Maids (2013), Why Women Kill (2019), Mistresses (2013), Sex and the City (1998), A Million Little Things (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.8
 25K
Devious Maids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on four Latina maids working in the homes of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families, and a newcomer who made it personal after a maid was murdered and determined to uncover the truth behind her demise, and in the ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female friendship, secret, maid, secrets, female protagonist, couple relations, murder mystery, murder, male female relationship, chambermaid, workplace situations, workplace ...
Place: beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
97%
 8.3
 30K
Why Women Kill (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 984 min.
TV show
Story: Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
Style: captivating, witty, atmospheric, erotic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: marriage, women, open marriage, crumbling marriage, family in crisis, society, housewife, female protagonist, male female relationship, character change, changing lives, up and down relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 60s, 2010s, year 1949
Place: usa, los angeles, pasadena california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 7.1
 14K
Mistresses (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Meet Savi, a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life -- both professional and personal -- simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband, Harry, try to start a family of their own. Savi's ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, sexy, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: casual sex, mistress, love affair, family relations, infidelity, lifestyle, female friendship, best friend, female protagonist, lesbian, women, trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Sex and the City (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York ...
Style: sitcom, sexual, witty, stylized, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, everyday life, couple relations, up and down relationship, looking for love, sexual intercourse, sex, love, sexual exploration, friendship, friends, looking for sex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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A Million Little Things (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friend dies unexpectedly.
Style: emotional, touching, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: friendship, grief, suicide, extramarital affair, lgbt, family problems, love, adultery, group of friends, infidelity, friend, relationships ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 99K
Dead to Me (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Style: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, laugh out loud, dramatic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, grief, death of husband, guilty conscience, murder, hit and run, female friendship, dishonesty, lesbian, strong female lead, feminist, sapphic ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 147K
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.9
 755
Out of Order (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: I suppose this is the story of the beauty and brutality of a long-term marriage as seen through the eyes of a writer who aspires to make art, but makes his living writing popcorn movies. Someone who wants to be a good man, but finds himself ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, sensual, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, infidelity, midlife crisis, love affair, family problems, lifestyle, unlikely couple, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, dark humor, artists and showbiz, adultery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.4
 223K
Big Little Lies (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 356 min.
TV show
Story: Subversive, darkly comedic drama Big Little Lies tells the tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Style: disturbing, surprise ending, enigmatic, crime thriller, grindhouse ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: domestic violence, feminist, female friendship, murder mystery, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, murder, secret, infidelity, rape, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: monterey california, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, lesbian, high school life, blackmail, gossip and rumors, threat, haunted by the past, teenage life, mysterious character, friendship, youth, friends ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.7
 56K
Hart of Dixie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, lifestyle change, small town life, lifestyle, doctor, social relations, female doctor, young woman, neighbor, fish out of water, clinic, doctors and patients ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, hawaii, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 48K
Ugly Betty (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: fashion, workplace, lifestyle, power relations, obnoxious boss, model, couples, fish out of water, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, workplace romance, boss and employee ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, idaho, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 13K
Melrose Place (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons. It follows the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, soap opera, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, manipulation, infidelity, couple relations, rivalry, betrayal, advertising, neighbor, friends, intrigue, self fulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, beverly hills, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Single Ladies (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Single Ladies is an American comedy-drama television series on VH1 that debuted on May 30, 2011, as a two-hour television film. Created by Stacy A. Littlejohn and produced by Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment, the series chronicles the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, fashion, looking for love, couple relations, lifestyle, love triangle, dating, society, social differences, black, black cast, best friend ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 7K
Popular (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brooke McQueen, a popular cheerleader at Jacqueline Kennedy High School, and Sam McPherson, the editor of the school paper, are polar opposites. When their single parents unexpectedly meet and get engaged, Brooke and Sam have to deal with their new ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: popularity, high school, cheerleader, peer pressure, high school life, homosexual, friendship, rise to the top, lifestyle, youth, misfit, leadership ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, soap opera ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, family relations, love and romance, looking for love, marriage, family problems, couples, parents and children, couple relations, family life, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.5
 192K
Gossip Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, ...
Style: romantic, soap opera, stylized, talky, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, popularity, gossip and rumors, friends, teenage love, youth, high school life, love triangle, lifestyle, adolescence, couples, coming of age ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.6
 8K
Valeria (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: A writer in a creative and marital crisis finds refuge and support in her three best friends. Based on the novels by Elisabet Benavent.
Style: sexy, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: friendship, extramarital affair, sex, infidelity, marital crisis, lovers, writers, doubt, bigger dreams, creative block, sexually dissatisfied wife, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 7.7
 60K
Good Girls (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Style: funny, ironic, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female friendship, housewife, female protagonist, money laundering, criminal, family relations, women, crime gone awry, passion, danger, twists and turns, gang ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.8
 87K
One Tree Hill (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the fictional small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, this teen-driven drama tells the story of two half brothers, who share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school life, couples, high school, couple relations, girlfriend, friendship, teenage life, youth, teenage love, friends, basketball, family relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.8
 125K
Revenge (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.
Style: captivating, serious, soap opera, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: high society, vengeance, pretense, hidden identity, strong female character, twists and turns, revenge, enemy, half sister, suspicion, haunted by the past, victim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Lipstick Jungle (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: family life, city life, office, couples, friends, ambition, workplace intrigue, thirtysomething life, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, career woman ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.9
 1.1M
Friends (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5280 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, family outing, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot: friendship, looking for love, everyday life, best friend, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, group of friends, couples, sex life, friends, roommate ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 7.0
 46K
Cougar Town (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, ...
Style: sitcom, light, sexy, sexual, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: looking for love, neighbor, friendship, supportive friend, wine, love and romance, small town life, middle aged, lifestyle, parents and children, family relations, marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Sex and the City (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
Style: light, romantic, witty, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: fashion, women, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, city life, best friend, friendship, friends, couples, urban, sexual relations ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, malibu california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 8K
Army Wives (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, game show, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: military life, couples, family relations, family life, military, social relations, love and romance, lifestyle, soldier, infidelity, marital problem, desire ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Cashmere Mafia (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cashmere Mafia is an American television comedy-drama which ran on ABC from January 6, 2008 to February 20, 2008. The series was created by Kevin Wade, who also served as executive producer alongside Darren Star, Gail Katz, Jeff Rake and Michael ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, anime ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: ambitious woman, female protagonist, friendship, relationship vs career, lifestyle, workplace, love and romance, female friendship, best friend, ambition, couple relations, gender ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Amas de Casa Desesperadas (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story: Amas de Casa Desesperadas is an Argentine television series, that debuted on Canal 13 on August 30, 2006. Set in the fictional Manzanares Street, a suburb surrounding Buenos Aires, the series follows the lives of four housewives and the domestic ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: extramarital affair, suburbs, blackmail, housewife, family relations, male female relationship, women, family problems, everyday life, husband wife relationship, death, father daughter relationship ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Private Practice (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: doctor, medical, hospital, treatment, surgery, parenthood, friendship, psychiatrist, workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, clinic ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.1
 10K
The Details (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family problems, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, under the surface, disorder, couples, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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