Movies like Michael

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Michael (1996)
 5.7
 45K
Michael (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, romantic, light, entertaining, road movie, sweet, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: angel, road trip, happy ending, god, fish out of water, dog, reporter, on the road, supernatural, love, dancing, death, small town, journalism, love story, supernatural ability, disorder, christmas, motel, reanimation, brawl, writers, scoop, journalist, travel ...
Place: iowa, chicago, illinois, usa, texas
Keyword: visit, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Michael

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and touching films with plots about love and romance, love, supernatural, fall in love, disorder, hopes and heaven mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like Michael: Heart and Souls (1993), Oh, God! (1977), Dogma (1999), The Family Man (2000), Heaven Can Wait (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Heart and Souls (1993)
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: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: afterlife, angel, ghost, supernatural, fear of commitment, imaginary friend, love, friendship, redemption, reincarnation, life philosophy, happy ending ...
Time: year 1959, 90s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 11K
Oh, God! (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Style: funny, humorous, clever, laugh out loud, entertaining ...
Plot: god, jesus, miraculous event, heaven, supermarket, religion, bike, marriage, religious, afterlife, aging, religious fanatic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 228K
Dogma (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of ...
Style: humorous, satirical, clever, witty, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: religion, angel, satire, god, dark humor, god or devil, religions or cults, heaven and hell, atheism, good versus evil, jay and silent bob, save the world ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, illinois, new jersey, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 119K
The Family Man (2000)
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
Plot: christmas, midlife crisis, road not taken, destiny, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, lost love, fish out of water, lifestyle change, time travel, family relations ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place: new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, angel, american football, supernatural, heaven, body swap, soul transference, football, love, secrets, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 239K
Big (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: body swapping, adolescence, child as adult, coming of age, magic, friendship, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water, child ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, arizona, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 75K
Bewitched (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
Style: romantic, feel good, witty, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: witch, magic, wizards and magicians, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, supernatural romance, disorder, witchcraft, misfit, actor's life, hidden identity, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mannequin: On the Move (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's ...
Style: romantic, family comedy, independent film, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: love, time travel, reincarnation, dating, girl, mannequin, department store, prince, sword fight, magical, cyborgs, lgbt teen ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, middle ages
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
 89K
Kate & Leopold (2001)
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, touching, light, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: time travel, love story, fall in love, love, love and romance, fish out of water, manners, couple relations, dating, duke, supernatural romance, destiny ...
Time: 19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 36K
Interstate 60 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style: road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: road trip, self discovery, on the road, alternate reality, life philosophy, dream girl, choice, self fulfillment, wish come true, surrealism, twists and turns, highway ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Defending Your Life (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, heaven, life & death, reincarnation, death, fall in love, courage, destiny, courtroom, life, starting over, past life ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style: romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: ghost, afterlife, love story, unlikely couple, impossible love, coma, initially antagonists, supernatural romance, supernatural, doctor, happy ending, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 680K
Groundhog Day (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style: feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot: time loop, existentialism, small town, groundhog day, winter, time travel, time warp, time, life philosophy, redemption, fall in love, repeated event ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, persia, america, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Preacher's Wife (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, black comedy, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, family outing, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, black, african american, church, winter, clergy, church choir, angel, black history, black american, marriage ...
Time: year 1996
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, suicide attempt, hitchhiker, friendship, on the road, mental illness, dealing with death, love story, surrealism ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: turkey, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Two of a Kind (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: God throws his hands up at the foolishness of humanity and orders the race destroyed. A trio of bleeding-heart angels strike a deal with him: if they can find just two good souls, the Lord will allow Earth to survive. Unfortunately, the angels have ...
Style: rom com, semi serious, feel good, offbeat, humorous
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: god, destiny, survival, heaven, devil, love, religious, fall in love, redemption, disorder, cons and scams, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1983, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Almost an Angel (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hospital, he dreams that God visits him and tells him he's an Angel, and must start doing ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, offbeat, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids
Plot: afterlife, angel, religious, superhero, disabled character, heaven, redemption, disability, going straight, love and romance, hopes, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
 228K
You've Got Mail (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, sentimental, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: love, fall in love, bookstore, happy ending, destiny, online dating, unlikely couple, rivalry, christmas, internet, hidden identity, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot: happy ending, life, radio, loneliness, single parent, love and romance, looking for love, love, starting over, couples, grief, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, baltimore, washington state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.5
 14K
Chances Are (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not ...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, reincarnation, older woman younger man relationship, heaven, ghost, death, love, paradise, life & death, love story, dysfunctional family, unlikely couple ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 60s
Place: usa, washington d.c., cleveland ohio, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Made in Heaven (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A romantic, occasionally funny, drama about two souls who consummate their marriage literally in "Heaven". Mike Shea, in his first life dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. Shortly after arriving in "Heaven" he meets a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, spiritual, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heaven, afterlife, reincarnation, destiny, love, angel, meeting, hate, fall in love, eternal life, religion, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time: year 1987
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Date with an Angel (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must ...
Style: laugh out loud, independent film, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: death, angel, hospital, heaven, meeting, teenager, odd couple, fish out of water, swimming, unfulfillment, supernatural, misfit ...
Time: year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
 136K
Pleasantville (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, visual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, utopia, siblings relations, american dream, fantasy world, small town life, parallel universe ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: america, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 78K
Ghost Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, haunted by the past, doctor, psychic, selflessness, self involved, untimely death, supernatural ability, character change ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style: feel good, road movie, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: road trip, thanksgiving, travel, on the road, buddy, snow, holiday, train, airplane, airport, railway, traveling salesman ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Practical Magic (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With ...
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, romantic, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: witch, magic, supernatural, sisters, curses spells and rituals, love, witchcraft, supernatural ability, curse, small town, halloween, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 14K
Dutch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style: light, road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, small town life, angel, friendship, depression, life philosophy, snow, life changing experience, self discovery, happy ending ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945, year 1919 ...
Place: america, new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Style: feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: self discovery, travel, daydreamer, life changing experience, journey, loneliness, adventurer, photographer, obsessive quest, lifestyle change, disorder, dream ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iceland, greenland, usa, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn ...
Style: inspirational, touching, entertaining, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: angel, baseball, childhood, coach, magic, parents and children, hopes, ambition, wish come true, rivalry, kids and family, underdog ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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