Movies like Message in a Bottle
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Message in a Bottle (1999)
42K
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 on and find happiness.
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional, bad ending, sweet, scenic, semi serious, realistic ...
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, bittersweet, summer, summer vacation, stranded, divorce, sailboat, sex, letter, tragic romance, sea, life, happiness, long distance relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, touching, sentimental and feel good films with plots about love story, love, catastrophe, happy ending, storytelling, love and romance and relationships mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Message in a Bottle: Dying Young (1991), Dear John (2010), The Light Between Oceans (2016), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Titanic (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sad, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
oakland california
Similarity:
100%
163K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, relationships, couple relations, soldier ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa, ireland
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1965, post world war two ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
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1.4M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place:
atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
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:
100%
22K
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%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love story, true love, middle age romance, couples, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, inn, family drama, summer vacation ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
118K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sentimental, touching, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love affair, love and romance, lovers, true love, love, veteran, single mother, soldier, destiny, obsessive quest, hopes ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, new jersey, new orleans, middle east ...
Similarity:
80%
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 ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, starting over, couples, love story, happy ending, cheerleading, love, betrayal, family problems, divorce, single father, bullying ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, chicago, california ...
Similarity:
100%
679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, inspirational, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, southern usa, virginia
Similarity:
60%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, romantic, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, period piece, intense, serious, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, enemies to lovers, boxing, ambition, love story, immigrant, boxer, obsessive quest, against the odds, american dream, rise and fall ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, turn of the century, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, ireland, oklahoma, oklahoma city, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, fall in love, college, tragedy, death, true love, ice hockey, love story, dying young, graduation, cancer, tragic love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, paris france, boston, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, destiny, couples, life, hopes, power of love, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, childhood memory, love, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
14K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, beautiful scenery, power of love, closeted homosexual, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, writers, dying, death of mother, summer, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2007, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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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:
100%
Movie in collections
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:
50%
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:
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Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
Similarity:
50%
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:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style:
sentimental, romantic, intense, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
alcoholic, family in crisis, family values, rehabilitation, alcoholism, addiction, alcohol abuse, love story, husband wife relationship, recovery, tragedy, single father ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes ...
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, sentimental, sad, bad ending ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
philadelphia, miami, pennsylvania, florida, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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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
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19%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1900s, 80s, year 1980, victorian era, edwardian era ...
Place:
usa, chicago, america, michigan, north america
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: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style:
romantic, unusual plot structure, teen, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
love story, love, forbidden love, teenage love, teen romance, love affair, teenager, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, couples, teenage life ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
blindness, blind character, disability, happy ending, winter, love, bittersweet, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, illness, happiness, meme ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
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:
17%
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