Movies like Groundhog Day
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Groundhog Day (1993)
734K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental, laugh out loud, clever, surreal, funny, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing, teen drama, adult
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny, repeated event, repeated scene, idealism, road not taken, hopes, winter, alternate reality, time paradox, deja vu, initially antagonists, memory, love and romance, nothing goes right ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, future, 1990s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Groundhog Day
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, clever, romantic and feel good films with plots about love, love story, destiny, dialogue, life philosophy, mentor and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Groundhog Day: About Time (2013), Garden State (2004), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021), It's a Wonderful Life (1946). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
428K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, reflective, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, fall in love, life, lovers, life philosophy, couple relations, true love, looking for love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
Similarity:
84%
228K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style:
sentimental, funny, indie film, sweet, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
depression, self discovery, melancholy, coming of age, female nudity, paraplegic, love story, love, family relations, relationships, drug, dealing with death ...
Time:
year 2004, near future, medieval times, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Style:
feel good, melancholic, romantic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, painter, literature, artist, bohemian life, magic realism, love and romance, love story, writers, nostalgia, writer's life, art ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
paris france, france, versailles, europe, montmartre paris ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of quick-witted teen Mark, contentedly living the same day in an endless loop whose world is turned upside-down when he meets mysterious Margaret also stuck in the time loop. Mark and Margaret form a magnetic partnership, ...
Style:
rom com, romantic comedy, suspenseful, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alternate reality, existentialism, teenager, time, dog, trapped, repeated event, student, dating, groundhog day ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
christmas, holiday, small town, depression, small town life, angel, friendship, self discovery, second chance, life philosophy, life changing experience, alternate history ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1932, year 1945, 1910s ...
Place:
new york, america, new york state, usa
Similarity:
78%
384K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style:
inspirational, parody, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, architect, wish come true, alternate reality, wish fulfillment, time machine, life lesson, dysfunctional family, destiny ...
Time:
year 2006, future, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place:
new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
Similarity:
74%
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, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, love story, fall in love, love and romance, fish out of water, love, manners, dating, destiny, supernatural romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
86%
211K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Style:
funny, romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
time loop, time travel, time, wedding, love and romance, repeated event, time warp, earthquake, dark humor, dying repeatedly, desert, time traveler ...
Time:
2020s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, palm springs california, hawaii, austin texas, texas ...
Similarity:
92%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Style:
mumblecore, independent film, melancholic, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
time travel, time machine, loneliness, self discovery, fall in love, journalism, social misfits, happy ending, interview, intern, government agent, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, funeral, older woman younger man relationship, eccentricity, misfit, old age, alienation, age difference, couples, cemetery, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
california, san francisco, bay area, usa
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%
256K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
time, destiny, philosophy, choice, alternate reality, depression, twists and turns, butterfly effect, surrealism, utopia, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1975, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style:
touching, funny, sentimental, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatric ward, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, suicidal, psychiatry, anxiety ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family friendly
Plot:
memory loss, love, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, memory, wooing, relationships, dating, life philosophy, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, space and aliens, changing the past or future, evil alien, soldier, repeated event, foreknowledge ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2014, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place:
united kingdom, france, paris france, europe, big ben london ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, simulated reality, video surveillance, alternate reality, fictional reality show, dystopia, freedom, hidden camera, utopia, paranoia, consciousness, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s, future
Place:
florida, persia, america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
78%
403K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
Style:
feel good, funny, romantic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life, life changing experience, lifestyle change, love and romance, character change, change of heart, philosophy, life philosophy, optimism, couples, motivational speaker, self esteem ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, north america, nebraska ...
Similarity:
100%
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143K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style:
touching, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
Similarity:
72%
531K
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, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, stranded, loneliness, culture clash, nothing goes right, happy ending, destiny, fish out of water, aviation, passenger, life philosophy, fictional country ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, canada, romania ...
Similarity:
100%
153K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
love story, overweight, relationships, fall in love, power of love, dating, womanizer, physical appearance, love and romance, soul mate, honest, adaptation ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, boston, new york
Similarity:
100%
128K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips ...
Style:
parody, light, humorous, christmas horror, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
christmas, ghost, christmas eve, greed, holiday, supernatural, santa claus, xmas, happy ending, redemption, new year, christmas carol ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
67%
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?
Style:
captivating, romantic, thrilling, semi serious, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, meet cute, asking someone out on a date, time machine, time paradox, dating, couple relations, changing the past or future, love and romance, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, sexy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
literature, paranoia, novelist, publisher, love story, philosophy, writer's life, existentialism, metaphysics, happy ending, transformation, food ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, seattle
Similarity:
75%
109K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, independent film, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, writer's block, writers, redheaded woman, novelist, loneliness, dream, mental illness, life philosophy, manic pixie dream girl, imaginary character, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style:
touching, humorous, depressing, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, mental illness, sex doll, shyness, doll, delusion, bittersweet, young man, introvert, small town, forbidden love, character study ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new jersey
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot:
self discovery, daydreamer, travel, life changing experience, loneliness, disorder, adventurer, journey, lifestyle change, photographer, coworker, obsessive quest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iceland, greenland, usa, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
56%
2.5M
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 ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
Similarity:
60%
258K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, rom com, touching, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, body swapping, child as adult, magic, coming of age, longing, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, arizona, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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