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Meet Joe Black (1998)
297K
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 Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, philosophical, emotional, feel good, sexy, rom com, clever, serious ...
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, hopes, mentor, family relations, death, parents and children, father daughter relationship, angel, love story, millionaire, angel of death, passion, grim reaper, birthday party ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, romantic, sentimental and feel good films with plots about love, destiny, love story, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe and bittersweet mostly in Romance, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Meet Joe Black: The Lake House (2006), City of Angels (1998), Ghost (1990), Somewhere in Time (1980), The Age of Adaline (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time, love and romance, fall in love, impossible love, supernatural, love, architect, love story, couples, autumn, pen pal ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style:
touching, philosophical, sentimental, dramatic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
destiny, true love, life philosophy, life & death, aging, existentialism, love and romance, life changing, melancholy, magic realism, love, life lesson ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
southern usa, cambodia, usa, new orleans, russia ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When guardian angel Seth -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sincere, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
angel, afterlife, life & death, love, love and romance, love story, fall in love, heaven and hell, supernatural romance, death, medical, destiny ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
81%
254K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, love story, love, ghost, love and romance, death, impossible love, supernatural romance, psychic, psychic power, loss of loved one, reluctant partners ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, persia, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, love story, passion, obsession, time, hotel, playwright, love triangle, supernatural, love and romance, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
1900s, 80s, year 1980, victorian era, edwardian era ...
Place:
usa, chicago, america, michigan, north america
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time:
future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, sentimental, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
surrealism, fish, journey, storytelling, fantasy world, father son relationship, childhood, mermaid, magic, loneliness, adventurer, free spirited ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, southern usa, paris france ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Style:
romantic, captivating, fairy tale, stylized, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
angel, power of love, fall in love, love story, true love, love and romance, supernatural ability, medieval, imaginary, heir, magic, white horse ...
Time:
year 2014, 19th century, year 1916
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, america, usa
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, redemption, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, destiny, metaphysics, hell, love, fantasy world, female artist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two seemingly unconnected souls from different corners of the United States make a telepathic bond that allows them to see, hear and feel the other's experiences, creating a bond that apparently can't be broken.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, cute, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
happy ending, love and romance, loneliness, telepathy, solitude, passion, magic, true love, passionate love, couples, teenager, supernatural romance ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, new hampshire
Similarity:
83%
256K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
time, destiny, philosophy, choice, alternate reality, depression, twists and turns, butterfly effect, surrealism, utopia, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1975, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
79%
109K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, independent film, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, writer's block, writers, redheaded woman, novelist, loneliness, dream, mental illness, life philosophy, manic pixie dream girl, imaginary character, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sweet, sad ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time, love story, love and romance, time traveler, time loop, love affair, true love, time paradox, couple relations, fall in love, impossible love ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 20th century, year 1995, 90s ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, revenge, love triangle, lovers, love, death, relationships, brother brother relationship, native american, suicide, ranch, love story ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, 19th century, 1920s, year 1994 ...
Place:
america, usa, montana
Similarity:
70%
25K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In Albany, the marriage of Caleb and Catherine Holt is in crisis and they decide to divorce. However, Caleb's father, John, proposes that his son delays their separation process for forty days and follow a procedure called "The Love ...
Style:
inspirational, christian film, uplifting, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
christian, religious, marriage, couple relations, couples, firefighter, renewed love, faith, self discovery, husband wife relationship, relationships, love and romance ...
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
100%
131K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock ...
Style:
touching, emotional, teen, tear jerker, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
love, hospital, teenager, teenage girl, teenage love, love and romance, teenage life, family drama, youth, death in the family, out of body experience, high school ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century, labor day
Place:
oregon, usa, san francisco, indianapolis indiana, portland oregon
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Natalie Babbitt's award winning book for children comes to the screen in a lavish adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures. Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a girl in her early teens growing up in the small rural town of Winesap in 1914. ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, period piece, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
fountain of youth, first love, immortality, teenage boy, mysterious stranger, small town, teenage crush, coming of age, teenage girl, love, love story, kidnapping ...
Time:
1910s, 2000s, year 2002, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
new york
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:
75%
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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:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
60%
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:
75%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, touching, tense, romantic drama
Plot:
machismo, invisibility, invisible, supernatural romance, bare chested male, male objectification, boxer, private investigation, amateur sleuth, female detective, invisible man, family relations ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, melancholic, unusual plot structure, existential ...
Plot:
bullying, isolated house, existentialism, meaning of life, beach, regret, bicycle, destiny, humanity, solitude, life & death, life philosophy ...
Place:
tibet
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip ...
Style:
art house, philosophical, psychological, cerebral, artsy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, loss, grief, death of husband, legacy, loneliness, surrealism, loss of husband, paranormal, piano, paranormal activity, sadness ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 19th century, future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, love story, fall in love, love and romance, fish out of water, love, manners, dating, destiny, supernatural romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, captivating, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
body swapping, self sacrifice, impossible love, love, supernatural, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, transformation, happy ending, soul transference, teenager, coming of age ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Style:
romantic, light, captivating, teen, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
supernatural, love, witch, magic, youth, supernatural romance, supernatural ability, love and romance, teenage love, teenage life, forbidden love, small town ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
60%
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:
50%
35K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham, living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, true love, love, relationships, power of love, changing the past or future, loss of loved one, tragic love, time travel, love and romance, hopes, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, london
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
Similarity:
60%
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