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The Heavenly Kid (1985)
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The Heavenly Kid (1985)
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 schoolmate Sharon who is the most beautiful girl of the class. But she does not even notice him so that he is about to commit suicide. Bobby prevents this and dresses Lenny up making him a playboy and tough guy so that he gets what he wants although Bobby knows that this is not the best. Thinking that his job is done, Bobby realizes that Lenny's mother is his former girlfriend who has married another guy. Although not being allowed he makes himself visible to her...
Style: sex comedy, feel good, independent film, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, nostalgic
Audience: teens, date night, kids
Plot: angel, afterlife, guardian angel, teenage girl, greaser, love and romance, impossible love, car, teenager, time travel, heaven, teenage life, unlikely couple, teenage sex, justice, meeting, teen angst, racing, back from the dead, coming of age, drag racing, destiny, high school, supernatural, school ...
Time: year 1985

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and romantic films with plots about love and romance, love, teenager, couples, fall in love, male female relationship and supernatural mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Heavenly Kid: Mannequin: On the Move (1991), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Mr. Destiny (1990), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Susie Q (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mannequin: On the Move (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's ...
Style: romantic, family comedy, independent film, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: love, time travel, reincarnation, dating, girl, mannequin, department store, prince, sword fight, magical, cyborgs, lgbt teen ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, middle ages
Place: philadelphia
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100%
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Style: sweet, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: time travel, high school reunion, alternate timeline, nerd, alternate history, young mother, teenager, time loop, destiny, unlikely friendships, high school, hopes ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1960
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mr. Destiny (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his ...
Style: feel good, existential, rom com, sweet, sad ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: baseball, fish out of water, time travel, childhood, time loop, misfit, alternate history, rags to riches, waking up, fall in love, spiritual awakening, butterfly effect ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
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: sex comedy, sad, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: ghost, love triangle, heaven, afterlife, true love, grief, widow, haunting, family relations, couples, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: year 1982
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Susie Q (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Susie Q was going to a dance one night when she and her boyfriend got into a car crash and fell off a bridge. Years later, a teenager named Zach Sands moves into Susie's old house. Zach's father died in a car accident so his family is his ...
Style: teen, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: ghost, reincarnation, teenager, high school, supernatural, batman, adolescence, car crash, basketball, afterlife, friends, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 1950s, year 1995, 50s, year 1955
Place: washington d.c., washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Date with an Angel (1987)
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
Plot: death, angel, hospital, heaven, meeting, teenager, odd couple, fish out of water, swimming, unfulfillment, supernatural, misfit ...
Time: year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Down to Earth (2001)
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: funny, humorous, absurd, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, redemption, mistaken identity, disorder, fish out of water, supernatural, couple relations, fall in love, angel, black, millionaire ...
Place: usa, new york, new zealand, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mannequin (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian ...
Style: romantic, sexy, cult classic, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, kids, date night
Plot: motorcycle, shopping, department store, ends with a wedding, fired from the job, guard dog, competition, business rivalry, public nudity, hang glider, hang gliding, female boss ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, romantic comedy, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: body swapping, high school, teenager, switching roles, love and romance, fall in love, battle of the sexes, switching bodies, body swap, enemies to lovers, school, teenage love ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hello Again (1987)
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, offbeat, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: supernatural, zombie, hospital, death, magic, love, meeting, teen angst, back from the dead, reincarnation, supernatural romance, parents and children ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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Teen Witch (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Louise is not very popular at her highschool. Then she learns that she's descended from the witches of Salem and has inherited their powers. At first she uses them to get back at the girls and teachers who teased her and to win the heart of the ...
Style: dark comedy, horror comedy, cult classic, relaxing, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: witch, sexy teenager, teenager, supernatural, magic, american football, cheerleader, witchcraft, high school, love, teenage love, makeover ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
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, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, body swapping, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true, body swap, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
Two of a Kind (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: God throws his hands up at the foolishness of humanity and orders the race destroyed. A trio of bleeding-heart angels strike a deal with him: if they can find just two good souls, the Lord will allow Earth to survive. Unfortunately, the angels have ...
Style: rom com, semi serious, feel good, offbeat, humorous
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: god, destiny, survival, heaven, devil, love, religious, fall in love, redemption, disorder, cons and scams, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1983, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
50%
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Teen Wolf (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, werewolf, school, teenager, high school life, friends, basketball, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship, transformation, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Book of Love (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, high school, teenage love, friendship, fish out of water, youth, self discovery, couple relations, fall in love, friends, college life, college ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Christmas Cupid (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin ends up in a coma and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, ghost, scrooge, self discovery, holiday, supernatural, love and romance, introspection, redemption, couples, road not taken, lovers reunited ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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She's All That (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, opposites attract, youth, teen romance, adolescence, bet, high school life, fall in love, young love, teenage girl, teenage love ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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31%
Deal of a Lifetime (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: deal with the devil, wish come true, disorder, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, love and romance, hopes, misfit, social misfits, high school football, follow your dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Valley Girl (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
Style: feel good, sex comedy, light, slang, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, party, friends, friendship, obsessive love, teen romance, dancing, love triangle, punk rock, love ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Buying the Cow (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
Style: feel good, sexy, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: engagement, fear of commitment, dating, friends, love, commitment, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, dog sex, party, sex crime, wedding ...
Place: new york, usa, caribbean, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
How I Got Into College (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, satirical, romantic, light ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, high school, coming of age, teenager, police investigation, justice, storytelling, stereotypes, happy ending, adaptation, multiple storylines, mentor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
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 ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, angel, american football, supernatural, heaven, body swap, soul transference, football, love, secrets, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.4
 101K
The DUFF (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, youth, high school life, coming of age, school, adolescence, friendship, teenage life, stereotypes, college, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film, eighties
Audience: teens
Plot: porn star, teenager, summer camp, death, virginity, beach, teenage sex, ghost, virgin, loss of virginity, bully comeuppance, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
15%
Goodbye Charlie (1964)
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
Audience: date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, switching bodies, transsexual, heaven, switching roles, transformation, misfit, supernatural, dishonesty, buddies, rivalry ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 215K
17 Again (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside ...
Style: romantic, feel good, entertaining, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, youth, body swapping, teenage life, popularity, adolescence vs adulthood, teenager, high school life, bullying, family relations, college, wish come true ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 4K
Some Girls (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: christmas, college, coming of age, male nudity, teenager, eccentric family, love, holiday, older woman younger man relationship, teenage sex, teen angst, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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