Movies like Forrest Gump
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Forrest Gump (1994)
2.1M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes him. 'Forrest Gump' is the story of a man who rose above his challenges, and who proved that determination, courage, and love are more important than ability.
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, dramatic, sincere, epic, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
mentally challenged, love, life & death, life philosophy, philosophy, life, vietnam war, destiny, human spirit, rise to the top, journey, selflessness, courage, hopes, human relationship, interracial friendship, mother, disability, rags to riches, loneliness, goodhearted, love and romance, hippie, running, kindness ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 70s, 20th century, 80s, 1960s, 1950s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., vietnam, alabama, los angeles, china, new york ...
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Most similar movies to Forrest Gump
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, sentimental, emotional and dramatic films with plots about destiny, mentor, storytelling, life philosophy, life, bittersweet and happy ending mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Forrest Gump: Big Fish (2003), I Am Sam (2001), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Patch Adams (1998), Pay It Forward (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
destiny, aging, true love, life & death, life philosophy, child as adult, existentialism, love and romance, tragic love, fall in love, impossible love, puzzle ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 2000s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
new orleans, usa, english channel, pearl harbor, france ...
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92%
446K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fish, magic realism, father son relationship, surrealism, fantasy world, journey, loneliness, mermaid, death, magic, witch, childhood ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, 80s ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, paris france, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
152K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, inspirational, sad, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
lawyer, mentally challenged, father daughter relationship, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, justice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style:
clever, touching, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, existentialism, plot twist, life, friendship between men, life sentence, life philosophy, hopes, adaptation, powerful ending ...
Time:
1940s, year 1963, year 1965, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, maine, pacific ocean, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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117K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
human spirit, medical school, hospital, compassion, medical profession, doctors and patients, friendship, dealing with death, stereotypes, mad scientist, unconventional method, clinic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1971
Place:
usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, emotional, inspirational, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, teachers and students, single mother, alcoholic, good deed, disfigurement, death, kindness, boy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, mentor, blindness, blind character, human nature, human spirit, tango, thanksgiving, coming of age, disability, loneliness, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
mathematics, professor, genius, life philosophy, psychology, life, prodigy, university, philosophy, existentialism, psychologist, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, harvard university, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot:
life, life philosophy, rags to riches, human spirit, homeless, rise to the top, against the odds, life is a bitch, ambition, down on your luck, hopes, single father ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
468K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, motivational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
airport, culture clash, loneliness, stranded, immigrants, happy ending, fish out of water, passenger, nothing goes right, destiny, life philosophy, aviation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, eastern europe, canada, romania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Movies like Titanic
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, romantic, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, religion, disability, muslim, autism, mental illness, islam, journey, true love, prejudice, false accusation, love ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
522K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, mentally challenged, runaway, disability, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, family relations, mental illness, self discovery, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, las vegas, texas, missouri ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, emotional, thought provoking, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
disability, genius, love, cambridge university, prodigy, husband wife relationship, fall in love, against the odds, physicist, supportive spouse, handicapped, scientist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, jewish, nazi, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, nazism, survival, fascism, love ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1939
Place:
italy, europe, poland, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, scenic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, happy ending, hospital, moral dilemma, adaptation, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1988, year 1989, year 1946, 21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sad, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
prison, death row, supernatural, convict, magic realism, suspense, false accusation, electric chair, life philosophy, death sentence, life & death, justice ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 1935
Place:
usa, southern usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
466K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, thought provoking, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
racism, friendship, writers, civil rights, social relations, maid, master and servant, human spirit, discrimination, life is a bitch, women, racial issues ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style:
touching, realistic, motivational, feel good, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, love, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, society, life is a bitch, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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583K
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, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love and romance, fall in love, love, true love, power of love, youth, love triangle, love of one's life, young lovers, love affair, lovers reunited ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, life philosophy, life & death, redemption, love, death, destiny, metaphysics, true love, spirituality, husband wife reunion ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
disability, dysfunctional family, mentally challenged, self discovery, small town, mental illness, responsibility, coming of age, brothers, family problems, life philosophy, countryside ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Style:
sad, emotional, touching, sexy, depressing ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
great depression, friendship, disability, death, loneliness, tragedy, chase, mentor, beautiful scenery, literature, adaptation, obsession ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
love, love story, titanic, disaster, ship, forbidden love, love and romance, fall in love, tragedy, survival, ocean, shipwreck ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
los angeles, new york, atlantic ocean, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, parents and children, pretend relationship, wine, family relations, love story, world war two, estate ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
603K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, air disaster, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, solitude, determination, survivor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, year 1995, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like The Green Mile
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mentally challenged, wedding, women, disability, family relations, justice, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, fall in love, looking for love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sad, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, cancer, love story, first love, youth, true love, love, high school ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
307K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, depressing, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, true love, life changing experience, hopes, sacrifice, existentialism, fall in love, suicide, life & death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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, life & death, love and romance, afterlife, dealing with death, life philosophy, love at first sight, mysterious character, supernatural, supernatural romance, lifestyle change, death ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style:
emotional, stylized, captivating, romantic, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love story, women, geisha, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, japanese culture, rivalry, brothel, slavery, destiny, love and romance, orphan ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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