Movies like Heaven Can Wait
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
25K
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 new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Style:
funny, sexy, sentimental, touching, witty, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night
Plot:
angel, reincarnation, afterlife, heaven, american football, supernatural, body swap, football team, soul transference, back from the dead, murder of husband, football, fish out of water, love, alter ego, secrets, love and romance, love affair, hidden identity, disorder, life turned upside down, hopes, athlete's life, heaven and hell, death ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, 1930s, 1960s
Place:
los angeles, usa, san francisco
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Most similar movies to Heaven Can Wait
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and touching films with plots about catastrophe, love and romance, dialogue, culture clash, mentor, transformation and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like Heaven Can Wait: Chances Are (1989), Heart and Souls (1993), Truly Madly Deeply (1990), Down to Earth (2001), Made in Heaven (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
sentimental, touching, sweet, romantic, funny ...
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 ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 60s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., yale university, cleveland ohio
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:
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, 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%
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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%
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%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Style:
funny, clever, humorous, entertaining, grindhouse ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
god, supermarket, jesus, miraculous event, heaven, religion, card trick, religious fanatic, religious, aging, marriage, bike ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, colorado, los angeles
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%
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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: 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, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underdog, olympics, mentor, ex athlete, athlete's life, contests and competitions, ambition, couples, friends, comeback, love affair, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california, phoenix arizona, usa, california ...
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, humorous, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
angel, road trip, happy ending, fish out of water, love, death, god, dog, reporter, on the road, dancing, small town ...
Place:
iowa, chicago, illinois, usa, texas
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:
50%
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%
21K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's ...
Style:
funny, light, feel good, talky, clever ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, reincarnation, afterlife, switching bodies, gender, lawyer, soul transference, body swap, body swapping, death, inheritance, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
50%
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:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. His best friend is staying at his house as he puts Charlie's affairs in order and after being convinced, ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, humorous, surprise ending, buddy comedy
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body swapping, reincarnation, afterlife, gender bender, sexual assault, switching bodies, transsexual, heaven, switching roles, transformation, womanizer, vengeance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
california
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must ...
Style:
laugh out loud, independent film, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
death, angel, hospital, swimming, girlfriend, heaven, meeting, teenager, odd couple, fish out of water, couples, disorder ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Similarity:
36%
88K
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:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens
Plot:
supernatural, impossible love, hospital, magic, love, death, back from the dead, meeting, teen angst, curses spells and rituals, reincarnation, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. One of his jobs is Lenny, a gifted boy, who loves his ...
Style:
sex comedy, feel good, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
angel, guardian angel, teenage girl, greaser, impossible love, afterlife, love and romance, car, teenager, time travel, heaven, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 1985
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Style:
romantic, sexy, funny, inspirational, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, relationships, parents, temptation, eligible bachelor, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorced parents, football team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
36%
78K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
Style:
romantic, feel good, witty, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
witch, magic, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, spell, couple relations, supernatural romance, disorder, witchcraft, hidden identity, misfit ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
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:
35%
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:
romantic, touching, sentimental, philosophical, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
love, afterlife, dealing with death, love and romance, life & death, love at first sight, lifestyle change, impossible love, life philosophy, supernatural, supernatural romance, mysterious character ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
35%
33K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of ...
Style:
funny, clever, romantic comedy, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
love, true love, butler, addiction, culture clash, screwball, servant, fall in love, bittersweet, drunk, grief, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn ...
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, touching, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
angel, baseball, hopes, childhood, magic, parents and children, ambition, wish come true, rivalry, kids and family, baseball coach, underdog ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
35%
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