Movies like Marley & Me

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Marley & Me (2008)
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Marley & Me (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Style: touching, sad, feel good, funny, sentimental, tear jerker, heartbreaking, intense, humorous, light ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: dog, pets, animal, couple relations, life, parenthood, marriage, couples, friendship, family relations, children, family life, journalist, pregnancy, divorce, happy ending, behavior control, trying to get pregnant, loss of pet, puppy, animal training, pet owner relationship, love, pet dog, happiness ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: miami, ireland, usa, florida, pennsylvania
Keyword: life lessons, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, feel good, sentimental and sad films with plots about dog, family relations, friendship, animal, pets, friends and youth mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Marley & Me: A Dog's Purpose (2017), A Dog's Way Home (2019), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Eight Below (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family outing, kids, adult
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, life & death, happy ending, reincarnation, animal, police dog, transformation, talking animal, death, love, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 60s, 70s ...
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A Dog's Way Home (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Dog’s Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
Style: sweet, sentimental, scenic, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, adult
Plot: dog, puppy, pitbull, animal, pets, best friend, road trip, on the road, pet dog, snow, lost dog, animal life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: colorado, denver colorado, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style: touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: dog, friendship, loyalty, pets, human animal relationship, life & death, animal, loss of friend, loneliness, loss, friends, death ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s
Place: japan, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Eight Below (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, breathtaking, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: survival, dog, wilderness, expedition, rescue, dog sled, pets, snow, husky dog, animal, winter, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 90s
Place: antarctica, astoria oregon, antarctic, new zealand, oregon ...
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100%
Finding Neverland (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style: touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, inspirational, clever ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot: writers, single parent, peter pan, friendship, writer's life, biopic, parents and children, death, family relations, stage play, human nature, artists and showbiz ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, future, 1910s ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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100%
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Babe (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, motivational, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, piglet, pig, farm, friendship, farmer, animal, talking animal, christmas, horse, adoption, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: australia, england, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 177K
Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cat, homeless, human animal relationship, street musician, pet cat, guitarist, addiction, drug addict, friendship, animal actor, singer, moral transformation ...
Time: year 2016
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Paulie (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulie's story begins many years earlier when he is ...
Style: humorous, touching, sad, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: parrot, human animal relationship, animal, childhood, bird, road trip, friendship, animal rights, research, thief, welfare, life changing ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Marmaduke (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Phil and Debbie Winslow relocate from their native Kansas to the sunny climes of Orange County, their big-hearted, havoc-wreaking Great Dane gets a taste of the dog's life, California-style.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, pets, great dane, talking animal, talking dog, husky dog, dalmatian, pitbull, animal life, german shepherd, talking cat, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Love Comes Softly (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Marty is a 19 year old pioneer woman, recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Clark Davis, a widower, offers her a marriage of ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot: faith, fall in love, marriage of convenience, couple relations, survival, love and romance, pregnancy, single parent, farm, christian, starting over, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Dog Year (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined ...
Style: touching, sincere, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: dog, midlife crisis, pet owner relationship, marital problem, friendship, pets, lifestyle, parents and children, deadend life, spouse leaving, artists and showbiz, animal training ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: large family, children, family relations, teenager, parenthood, dysfunctional family, chaos, parents and children, eccentric family, nothing goes right, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, inspirational, period piece ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, coming of age, fish out of water, greed, childhood, misfit, youth, bittersweet, courage, aging, suicidal, family relations ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 1910s, 60s
Place: texas, africa, austin texas, usa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Shiloh (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to ...
Style: sweet, touching, emotional, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, animal rescue, pets, youth, animal, greed, destiny, hopes, friendship, heroes, disorder, family relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, gothic, sad ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: hound dog, friendship, dog, follow your dream, family relations, contests and competitions, animal, hunting, wilderness, american history, canine, animal lover ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large ...
Style: sentimental, entertaining, inspirational, tear jerker, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, justice, life philosophy, destiny, friendship, coming of age, countryside, boy dog relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, drawing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boy and dog ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1999
Place: antwerp, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
Style: sad, depressing, emotional, epic, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dog, youth, great depression, childhood, camping, camp, soul searching, animal, camping trip, canine, coming of age, friendship ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Fluke (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, light, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, reincarnation, human becomes animal, afterlife, death, animal, talking dog, family relations, family life, grief, life, getting home ...
Place: usa
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26%
The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This holiday tale has all the elements of a classic heartwarmer--cuddly dogs, small town spirit, and even a full-fledged Christmas pageant. Set during the meager years of the Great Depression, 12 DOGS OF CHRISTMAS follows the story of Emma, a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, dog, animal life, lifestyle, pets, youth, school, love, adaptation, destiny, happy ending ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1931
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Dog Named Christmas (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, adoption, boy dog relationship, animal, pets, holiday, family relations, friendship, social relations, society, social issues ...
Time: 50s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.3
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Smitty (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Adventures of Dally & Spanky (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A girl inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's back.
Style: touching, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, friendship, pony, family relations, unlikely friendships, internet, death of father, trick
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, odd couple, young heroes, against the odds, rescue, pets, mischievous children, parents and children, adoption, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.0
 82K
Free Willy (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, ...
Style: sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: human animal relationship, freedom, animal, killer whale, friendship, animal life, animal training, kids and family, whale, happy ending, ocean, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: astoria oregon, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Saving Shiloh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, saga
Audience: family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, best friend, pets, family life, animal actor, small town, child, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Style: touching, funny, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: boy, adoption, wish come true, miraculous event, child, mother son relationship, parents and children, couple relations, family values, desire, family relations, hopes ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 24K
Nine Lives (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, China, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: cat, transformation, switching bodies, kids and family, happy ending, magic, children, father daughter relationship, love, animal, pets, redemption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style: emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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