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Hope Floats (1998)
33K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but she's faced with petty old acquaintances who are thrilled to see Birdee unhappy -- except for her friend Justin. As he helps Birdee get back on her feet, love begins to blossom.
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sad, sweet, emotional, melancholic, intense, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, starting over, couples, happy ending, love story, cheerleading, love, betrayal, family problems, divorce, single father, bullying, fall in love, parents and children, couple relations, women, marriage, family relations, lovers reunited, mother, funeral, high school, hopes, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 1990s
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, chicago, california, new jersey, united states ...
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Most similar movies to Hope Floats
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, touching, sentimental and romantic films with plots about love and romance, love story, catastrophe, mentor, love, destiny and life philosophy mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hope Floats: P.S. I Love You (2007), Catch and Release (2006), Return to Me (2000), Bounce (2000), Safe Haven (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, lost love, letter, grief, life philosophy, widow ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam and Dennis do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, cute, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, love story, infidelity, photograph, starting over, love triangle, self discovery, family relations, couples, death in the family, secret, funeral ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, malibu california, new jersey, los angeles, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob (Duchovny), a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress, Grace (Driver). ...
Style:
inspirational, sexy, sentimental, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
love and romance, destiny, hopes, passion, death of wife, love of one's life, couples, couple relations, coincidence, marriage, love, love story ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
widow, redemption, betrayal, starting over, love and romance, haunted by the past, hopes, love, guilt, advertising, aviation, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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121K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style:
romantic, touching, teen, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
small town, love story, obsession, starting over, love, small town life, love and romance, single father, power of love, domestic violence, fall in love, abusive husband ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, boston, south carolina, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
329K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, caregiver, quadriplegic, death, enemies to lovers, euthanasia, handicapped, relationships ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, paris france, switzerland, mallorca ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style:
sweet, melancholic, romantic, intense, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, memory, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
high school reunion, starting over, doctor, estrangement, couples, couple relations, homecoming, fall in love, ex-lover, small town, small town life, hometown ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sweet, touching, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, marriage proposal, nude model, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, feel good, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
opposites attract, waitress, christmas, orphan, passion, tragedy, heart disease, couples, love, love and romance, rescue, attempted rape ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, minnesota, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
213K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, amnesia, memory loss, marriage, love and romance, love, true love, relationships, couple relations, power of love, wooing, destiny ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love story, destiny, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, sea voyage, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, high school sweetheart, small town, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, young love, road not taken, teenage love ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, new orleans, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, love story, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, life, tragic love, cancer, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, teen, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love affair, couples, seeing dead people, love and romance, afterlife, cemetery, death in the family, unfulfillment, loss of sibling, ghost, love story, family problems ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco, new jersey, ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
small town, writers, divorce, love, passion, life, tourist, starting over, male female relationship, middle aged woman, friendship, vineyard ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
100%
179K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, best friends in love, love story, male female friendship, couples, friends in love, friendship, relationships, life philosophy, opposites attract, best friend ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
iran, scotland, london, paris france, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
Style:
romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
love, love story, couples, love affair, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, opposites attract, art collector, rodeo, happy ending, passion ...
Time:
year 2015, year 1941, 20th century, 1940s, 21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina, new york, vienna, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style:
romantic, sexy, poignant, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, lovers, happy ending, forceful separation, couple relations, lovers apart, bittersweet, relationships, love and romance, immigration ...
Time:
year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, usa, los angeles, london, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, love story, love and romance, christmas, longing, adultery, friendship, amor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, women ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
162K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style:
sad, romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, 9/11, relationships, death in the family, family drama, love, suicide, young love, loss of sibling, love and romance, dealing with death, death ...
Time:
year 2010, september 11 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
new york, iran, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love story, true love, terminal illness, older man younger woman relationship, love, age difference, couple relations, older man young girl relationship, autumn, couples, opposites attract, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
210K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
small town, friendship, horse ranch, older man younger woman romance, love, male female relationship, first love, age-gap relationship, single mother, divorce, single parent, starting over ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona, california, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, romantic comedy, light, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
florist, grief, happy ending, family drama, love story, motivational speaker, life philosophy, love and romance, unfulfillment, writer's life, love affair, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
seattle, new jersey, hawaii, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
interracial romance, friendship, nanny, self discovery, couples, daughter, interracial relations, single father, starting over, housekeeper, interracial love, hopes ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
Similarity:
83%
56K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, date night, teens
Plot:
unlikely relationship, fall in love, stockholm syndrome, love and romance, single parent, love, happy ending, single mother, boy, longing, on the run, holiday ...
Time:
year 2013, 80s, 20th century, labor day
Place:
usa, canada, california
Similarity:
100%
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