Movies like Leap of Faith

If you like "Leap of Faith" you are looking for light, melancholic and semi serious movies about / with religion, redemption, character study, loneliness, preacher, dishonesty and cons and scams themes of Comedy, Drama and Romance genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Leap of Faith (1992)
 6.1
 14K
Leap of Faith (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage. One of their trucks breaks down in Rustwater, a town in desperate need of rain to save their crops. While waiting for spare parts, Jonas decides to hold a revival meeting in the town. The local sheriff, Will Braverman, is skeptical and tries to prevent his town and its people from being conned. However a local disabled boy, Boyd, believes Jonas could make him walk again. Events in Rustwater make Jonas examine his own faith and doubts.
Style: light, melancholic, semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic comedy, inspirational, funny ...
Plot: religion, redemption, character study, loneliness, preacher, dishonesty, cons and scams, small town life, con men, small town, con artists, faith, male female relationship, miraculous event, church, religious, magic realism, criticism of religion, happy ending, satire, shipwreck, witchcraft, magician, wizards and magicians, afterlife ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: kansas, usa, texas
Keyword: doctors

Movie in categories

religion movies
2850
redemption movies
8188
90s movies
90s
7372
kansas movies
169
light movies
11020
loneliness movies
5242

Most similar movies to Leap of Faith

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love, couple relations, hopes and friendship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Leap of Faith: Hero (1992), HouseSitter (1992), The Lonely Guy (1984), Touch (1997), Miffo (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 6.5
 24K
Hero (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who ...
Style: harsh, sentimental, inspirational, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: air disaster, mistaken identity, chase, corruption, happy ending, rescue, unlikely hero, escapades, dishonesty, petty criminal, custody battle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 27K
HouseSitter (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: small town, breakup, lie, house, love story, screwball, architect, divorce, life philosophy, writers, disorder, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, singleness, breakup, adaptation, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, slutty attitude, affair, lonely, traffic jam ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 3K
Touch (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.
Style: light, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: love and romance, abusive husband, religions or cults, hopes, satire, love, moral ambiguity, religion, magic, miraculous event, investigation, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 2K
Miffo (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: disability, opposites attract, church, new love, religions or cults, couples, youth, clergy, love and romance, society, religion, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 695
Brother White (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Synopsis James White (White) is one of dozens of associate pastors at a mega church in Southern California under the tutelage of television evangelist Johnny Kingman (Wise). He always longed to have his own church and jumps at the opportunity to ...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: christian, church, pastor, save the day, human spirit, clergy, society, hopes, fish out of water, religions or cults, social relations, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
It's Complicated (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her ...
Style: feel good, realistic, light, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, marriage, ex husband, couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, dating, love triangle, old love, family relations, divorced parents, love affair, love and romance ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Divine Intervention (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Matthews recovers from a stroke. While trying to impress Reverend Matthews, Gibbs has to win the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, christian film, spiritual ...
Plot: church, going straight, introspection, downfall, dishonesty, society, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, fall in love, clergy, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
feel good movies
13548
humorous movies
22119
realistic movies
29790
Making Mr. Right (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: love and romance, eligible bachelor, cons and scams, power relations, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, smuggling, transformation, theft, party, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
 34K
L.A. Story (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Style: feel good, funny, cult classic, talky, surreal ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: satire, surrealism, love, supernatural power, voice over narration, destiny, manic pixie dream girl, weatherman, older man younger woman relationship, magic, true love, female nudity ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Thanks for Sharing (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon: sex addiction.
Style: sexy, melancholic, touching, intense, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: addiction, friendship, recovery, sex, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, relationships, unlikely friendships, character study, father son relationship, sex addict, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.2
 20K
My Sassy Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
Style: romantic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: chance meeting, love and romance, manic pixie dream girl, young lovers, opposites attract, unlikely couple, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, small town life, love, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 23K
Return to Me (2000)
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, touching, sentimental, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing
Plot: love and romance, unlikely friendships, hopes, love of one's life, couples, couple relations, coincidence, love, love story, passion, starting over, death of wife ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: chicago, usa, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful ...
Style: romantic, humorous, touching, funny, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: rabbi, love story, love triangle, priest, catholicism, friendship, love and romance, love, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Old Fashioned (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, opposites attract, friendship, buddies, fall in love, couples, hopes, introspection, christian, faith based, faith, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Straight Talk (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call ...
Style: emotional, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fish out of water, mistaken identity, radio, rise and fall, cons and scams, looking for love, rise to the top, journalism, media, workplace, downfall, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Christian Mingle (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young, modern single woman enters the world of online dating looking for an instant soul mate.
Style: christian film, realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: dating, christian, society, looking for love, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, religions or cults, couples, christianity, christmas, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
con men movies
389
small town movies
5647
faith movies
1546
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style: romantic, period piece, light, humorous, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: magic, twists and turns, relationships, love story, magician, cons and scams, fish out of water, plot twist, spiritualism, medium, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, cote d'azur, provence, england, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, inspirational, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: women, african american, life turned upside down, storytelling, family problems, hopes, starting over, black, breakup, madea, cheating, happy ending ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Trial and Error (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, light, not serious ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, legal, small town, fish out of water, goofy hero, nothing goes right, legal action, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, cons and scams, law ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 340K
Notting Hill (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, fame, social differences, love and romance, bookstore, opposites attract, power of love, paparazzi, love, friendship, male female relationship, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
Style: touching, emotional, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, neighbor, depression, terminal illness, religion, faith, existentialism, society, love and romance, dealing with death, catholic, nosy neighbor ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
Tortilla Heaven (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: restaurant, miraculous event, cooking and food, life turned upside down, religions or cults, hopes, small town, overnight success, jesus christ, jesus, religion, social relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
 1K
Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 13K
Forget Paris (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sweet, intense, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: basketball, referee, couple relations, family problems, couples, marriage, long distance relationship, women, breakup, american abroad, love, crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Singles Ward (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Jonathan Jordan gets divorced he's thrust back into the world of being a single Mormon - a world who's ultimate goal is eternal marriage. Struggling to fit in, Jonathan decides to stop going to church only to be pursued by the members ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: church, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love and romance, religions or cults, mormon, divorce, love affair, male female relationship, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: salt lake city utah, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
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, depressing, humorous, melancholic, cute ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: mental illness, loneliness, sex doll, shyness, doll, introvert, delusion, small town, young man, forbidden love, grief, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, couple relations, love triangle, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, san francisco, vancouver, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie