Movies like Mrs. Doubtfire
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
217K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, light, sentimental, not serious, realistic, witty, funny, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids
Plot:
nanny, family, cross dressing, divorce, comedy of errors, family relations, hidden identity, parenthood, custody battle, kids and family, actor playing female role, gender bending, restaurant, children, secret identity, creativity, dishonesty, lifestyle, disorder, party, birthday, gender, impersonating, self involved, makeup artist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
san francisco, usa
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Most similar movies to Mrs. Doubtfire
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and touching films with plots about family, catastrophe, dialogue, culture clash, runaway, mentor and chase mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like Mrs. Doubtfire: Tootsie (1982), RV (2006), The Game Plan (2007), Old Dogs (2009), The Santa Clause (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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88K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego -- Dorothy Michaels -- in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Style:
humorous, witty, clever, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cross dressing, actress, gender bending, agent, love, roommate, audition, love triangle, actor's life, actor, serenade, reputation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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89%
52K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the McNeive family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, road movie, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
workaholic, family vacation, family values, nothing goes right, parents and children, family relations, road trip, camping, motor home, business trip, dysfunctional family, father son relationship ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, utah, pasadena california, nevada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bachelor football star Joe Kingman seems to have it all. He is wealthy and carefree, and his team is on the way to capturing a championship. Suddenly, he is tackled by some unexpected news: He has a young daughter, the result of a last fling with ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids
Plot:
father daughter relationship, sport, american football, football, athlete's life, parents and children, irresponsible, ambition, ballet, family relations, sport team, lifestyle ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
34K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
camp, best friend, family, family relations, nothing goes right, parents and children, disorder, fish out of water, brother sister relationship, comic violence, competition, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
vermont, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, friendship, cat, pets, wilderness, fish out of water, journey, adventure, survival, family, talking animals, wounded animal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
cross country, nevada, usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, christmas tree, family, toys, holiday, adventure, family relations, mistaken identity, dishonesty, disorder, couples ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, funny, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot:
family, fish out of water, babies and infants, fatherhood, friendship, custody, abandoned baby, roommate, life turned upside down, parents and children, family problems, disorder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
135K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 115 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 ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dog, pets, family relations, journalist, chaos and mayhem, family, parenthood, marriage, death of dog, couples, troublemaker, family life ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, ireland, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick
Plot:
twins, summer camp, mischievous children, parents and children, family relations, family life, single parent, family, prank, lookalikes, youth, reunion ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
california, massachusetts, london, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
19K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, teens
Plot:
orphan, family, daughter, cons and scams, friendship, society, urban, rich and poor, little girl, school, hugging, single father ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Movies similar to Big Daddy
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Style:
sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, children, family life, siblings relations, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, single parent, childhood, marriage, parenthood, family ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids
Plot:
single parent, parents and children, family problems, family relations, mischievous children, family, opposites attract, dysfunctional family, male bonding, family life, child as adult, nothing goes right ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, sweet, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, chick flick
Plot:
twins, mischievous children, summer camp, lookalikes, disorder, dishonesty, single parent, trap, divorce, butler, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, year 1998
Place:
california, maine, england, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, not serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
family, siblings relations, job interview, young heroes, mischievous children, parents and children, friends, bad luck, family relations, school, one day, childhood ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent babies from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward brothers to his first customers...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
adoption, orphan, mischievous children, siblings relations, nothing goes right, disorder, children, family, dog, youth, family relations, family life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Movies like The Intern
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With their mother dead, Emily and Ben torment their nannies to quit as fast as their father hires them. Till a nanny named Kate shows up and slowly wins Ben over. That's bad enough, but when her father and Kate start to fall in love, Emily sets ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
nanny, fall in love, family life, teenage life, nursing, disorder, family relations, matchmaking, youth, single parent, romance, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
Style:
humorous, witty, clever, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
senator, farce, gay, gay slur, politician, coming out, mistaken identity, politics, dishonesty, family disapproval, sexual identity, owner ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
florida, usa, los angeles, miami, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family, chaos and mayhem, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations, prank, children, chaos, husband wife relationship, new job, aspiring actor, family life ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
illinois, usa, manhattan new york city, new york, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
starting over, single parent, playwright, children, youth, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, crumbling marriage, mischievous children, artists and showbiz, writer's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
nanny, spy, friendship, coming of age, elementary school, secret, notebook, binoculars, family, adventure, college, college life ...
Time:
1990s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
unsuccessful, actor, hollywood, parents and children, young heroes, artists and showbiz, family relations, self discovery, youth, single parent, actor's life, showbiz ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
59K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog... a St ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, sincere, funny ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, puppy, family, parents and children, nothing goes right, pets, family life, rescue, animal rescue, saint bernard dog, youth, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, not serious, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, on the road, family, family relations, nothing goes right, parents and children, father daughter relationship, youth, teenage life, disorder, coming of age, escapades ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, illinois, indiana, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
summer school, friends, friendship, camp, coming of age, nanny, summer camp, summer, club, family, school, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
connecticut, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
single parent, opposites attract, screwball, romance, parenthood, one day, nothing goes right, looking for love, disorder, parents and children, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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192K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
workplace, elderly, workplace situations, mentor, intern, family, office, fashion, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, destiny, stereotypes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, toy, family, family life, parents and children, christmas party, goofy hero, nothing goes right, fish out of water, family relations, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, single parent, starting over, horse ranch, single mother, romance, friendship, divorce, couples, americana, small town life, couple relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa, texas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, family, parents and children, family relations, family life, on the road, road trip, youth, paintball, crying, desert, sunburn ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
las vegas, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, parents and children, wedding preparations and rituals, human nature, comedy of errors, family relations, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right, plan gone awry, introspection, meet the parents ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s, 1950s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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