Movies like Mr. Destiny

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Mr. Destiny (1990)
 6.4
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Mr. Destiny (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..
Style: feel good, funny, sweet, entertaining, sad, existential, rom com, offbeat, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: baseball, fish out of water, time travel, childhood, time loop, misfit, rags to riches, alternate history, magical, afterlife, butterfly effect, time jump, fall in love, in love, consciousness, waking up, spiritual awakening, desire, rich and poor, profanity, society, suburbs, disorder, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, new jersey
Keyword: sport, gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and light films with plots about love and romance, disorder, fall in love, fish out of water, love, hopes and couples mostly in Comedy, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Mr. Destiny: The Family Man (2000), The Heavenly Kid (1985), Groundhog Day (1993), Maid to Order (1987), 18 Again! (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
78%
The Heavenly Kid (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. One of his jobs is Lenny, a gifted boy, who loves his ...
Style: sex comedy, feel good, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
Plot: angel, afterlife, guardian angel, greaser, teenage girl, love and romance, impossible love, car, teenager, time travel, heaven, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 1985
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
Maid to Order (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell ...
Style: melancholic, sweet, entertaining, romantic, light ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: friendship, fairy godmother, maid, wish come true, parents and children, switching roles, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, self discovery, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, power relations ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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18 Again! (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and ...
Style: feel good, melancholic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night
Plot: body swapping, body swap, soul transference, fish out of water, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, elderly, parents and children, wish come true, misfit, mistaken identity, car crash ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 71K
Sliding Doors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Gwyneth Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, clever, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: infidelity, choice, road not taken, love, time travel, breakup, parallel universe, multiple outcomes, butterfly effect, destiny, love story, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: london, england, europe, usa, tower bridge london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 3K
Me Myself I (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A freak accident causes Pamela to live out the life she could've had, ...
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: destiny, butterfly effect, alternate reality, loneliness, parallel universe, love story, time jump, women, soul transference, family relations, suburbs, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: baseball, millionaire, greed, rags to riches, hotel, lawyer, heir, baseball player, african american, farce, childhood, inheritance ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Future Boyfriend (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” , a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year ...
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, fish out of water, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, obsessive quest, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, disorder, misfit, time jump, girl ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 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 ⇓
39%
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Style: sweet, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: time travel, high school reunion, alternate timeline, nerd, alternate history, young mother, teenager, time loop, destiny, unlikely friendships, high school, hopes ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1960
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 215K
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, body swapping, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true, body swap, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 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 ⇓
36%
 6.4
 354K
Click (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style: inspirational, hilarious, humorous, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, wish come true, alternate reality, architect, wish fulfillment, stopped time, dysfunctional family, redemption, employer employee relationship ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place: new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 83K
Splash (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Style: feel good, sentimental, fairy tale, touching, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mermaid, happy ending, transformation, fish out of water, scientist, public nudity, cape cod massachusetts, love, chase, obsession, sea, boat ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Style: emotional, sweet, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, supernatural, body swap, couples, couple relations, aging, opposites attract, ghost, wedding, fall in love, magic realism ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.7
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All of Me (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, talky, clever ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, battle of the sexes, switching bodies, body swapping, lawyer, soul transference, body swap, death, gender, fish out of water, switching roles ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Naked (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following a wild night out with his Best Man, Rob Anderson wakes up to find himself naked in an elevator on the morning of his wedding day and is forced to relive the morning over and over again.
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: time loop, wedding, groundhog day, repeated scene, public nudity, black, male objectification, on the run, trapped, fish out of water, race against time, time travel ...
Time: year 2017
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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 ⇓
34%
I Do, I Do, I Do (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An architect heads to the altar with her fiancé, unsure of her marriage and their future. She relives her disastrous wedding day, put together by her fiance’s overbearing mother, over and over until, with the help of his brother, she begins ...
Style: romantic, captivating, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: time loop, wedding, opposites attract, time, repeated event, unfulfillment, chance meeting, fall in love, doubts and hesitations, uncertainty, moral dilemma, life turned upside down ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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 ⇓
34%
 6.4
 221K
What Women Want (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, clever, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: women, workplace romance, love and romance, fall in love, womanizer, love story, battle of the sexes, telepathy, psychic power, life philosophy, seducer, initially antagonists ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Prince Charming (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cinderella story, frog, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, royal family, fish out of water, wooing, disorder, wish come true, opposites attract, magic ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Style: feel good, melancholic, surreal, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: time travel, magic realism, painter, literature, art history, bohemian life, love and romance, writers, artist, nostalgia, fall in love, writer's life ...
Time: 2010s, 19th century, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: paris france, france, versailles, europe, iran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Deal of a Lifetime (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: deal with the devil, wish come true, disorder, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, love and romance, hopes, misfit, social misfits, high school football, follow your dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 112K
Bedazzled (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, hilarious, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: devil, wish come true, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, femme fatale, fish out of water, supernatural, mentor, heaven and hell, curses spells and rituals, chaos, soul selling ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style: feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, manly, family friendly, date night
Plot: business, rich and poor, office, workplace, mistaken identity, love triangle, ambition, rise to the top, fish out of water, farce, job promotion, office worker ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, kansas, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
Coming to America (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, leaves the tropical paradise kingdom in search of his queen. What better place than Queens, New York, to find his bride? Joined by his loyal servant and friend, Semmi, Akeem attempts to blend in as an ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night, adult
Plot: fish out of water, comedy of errors, heir to the throne, love, african american, royalty, prince, wedding, fictional country, queen, winter, janitor ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, new york, usa, america, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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