Movies like Mrs. Doubtfire
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
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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, touching, humorous, light, sentimental, not serious, realistic, witty, cult film, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
family, cross dressing, comedy of errors, nanny, divorce, family relations, hidden identity, custody battle, gender bending, actor playing female role, kids and family, parenthood, physical appearance, restaurant, gender disguise, children, secret identity, creativity, dishonesty, lifestyle, disorder, party, birthday, makeup artist, gender ...
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 feel good, humorous, realistic and semi serious films with plots about family, family relations, disorder, culture clash, dialogue, mentor and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like Mrs. Doubtfire: The Game Plan (2007), The Parent Trap (1998), Secondhand Lions (2003), Tootsie (1982), The Spy Next Door (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
father daughter relationship, sport team, single father, football, american football, family relations, sport, athlete's life, family values, disorder, irresponsible, parents and children ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, denver colorado
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86%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
twins, mischievous children, summer camp, lookalikes, dishonesty, butler, single parent, disorder, mistaken identity, parents and children, family relations, comedy of errors ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 1990s
Place:
california, london, england, maine, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
"Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
weirdo, greed, fish out of water, suicidal, family relations, uncle nephew relationship, adventure, family, adventurer, eccentric family, family secret, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 1960s, 60s, 1910s
Place:
texas, usa, africa, middle east, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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:
witty, humorous, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, gender bending, actress, love, love triangle, actor, romance, love and romance, double life, theatrical agent, impersonation, roommate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, exciting, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
mischievous children, secret agents, nanny, children, child spy, cia agent, martial arts, family relations, undercover, single parent, family, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, touching, sweet, humorous, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
twins, summer camp, parents and children, family relations, family, mischievous children, family life, reunion, single parent, summer, love and romance, lookalikes ...
Time:
1960s, 60s, year 1961
Place:
california, boston, massachusetts, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
234K
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, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
workplace, mentor, workplace situations, office, friendship, life philosophy, elderly, fashion, unlikely friendships, computers and web, family, intern ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper class kids in order to spy on their computer hacked dad.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
nanny, cross dressing, undercover, hidden identity, fbi, computer virus, special agents, working undercover, undercover agent, impersonation, disguise, physical appearance ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, sweet, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, dog, father daughter relationship, single father, mischievous children, friendship, loneliness, family relations, pets, adaptation, beautiful scenery, family ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, touching, light, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
adoption, dog, orphan, siblings relations, children, mischievous children, family, family relations, disorder, nothing goes right, farce, cons and scams ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Parent Trap
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
mischievous children, aunt niece relationship, family relations, family life, youth, disorder, siblings relations, parent child relationship, sibling relationship, father daughter relationship, money problems, family ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
road movie, funny, feel good, humorous, absurd ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
road trip, family vacation, motor home, workaholic, family relations, hitchhiker, family values, farce, parents and children, nothing goes right, camping, business trip ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, utah, pasadena california, nevada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
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, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, child custody, toys, holiday, christmas eve, family, adventure, christmas tree, christmas party, magic, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
68K
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, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, puppy, pets, children, family, nothing goes right, parents and children, family life, family relations, suburbs, rescue, animal rescue ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
nanny, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, brat, friendship, initially antagonists, friends, family relations, self discovery, spoiled brat, life is a bitch, lifestyle ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style:
uplifting, sincere, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
countryside, happy ending, starting over, single father, zoo, animals, parenthood, beautiful scenery, family relations, coping, tiger, hopes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s
Place:
usa, california, united states
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
nanny, family relations, when the parents are away, mischievous children, parents and children, disorder, little boy, save the day, rivalry, friendship, friends, young heroes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family, family relations, family gatherings, family life, fish out of water, parents and children, society, couples, optimism, uncle, family reunited, love ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
nothing goes right, parents and children, family relations, disorder, family, single parent, christmas eve, christmas, life turned upside down, fall in love, puppy, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
21K
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:
feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
orphan, little girl, family, single father, daughter, cons and scams, urban, children, friendship, homeless, society, destiny ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
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Films like The Sandlot
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Style:
touching, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
nanny, family relations, single parent, christmas, hopes, family life, parents and children, fall in love, tv show, wish come true, romance, family ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Style:
humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
custody, adoption, parents and children, couple relations, family life, life turned upside down, disorder, family, orphan, youth, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style:
feel good, not serious, humorous, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids, preschoolers, teens ...
Plot:
mischievous children, prank, family, when the parents are away, friendship, nothing goes right, children, neighbor, suburbs, criminal, slingshot, runaway ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, 80s, future
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
large family, family, family relations, chaos, eccentric family, parents and children, parenthood, nothing goes right, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem, prank, female writer ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
single father, single parent, widower, wooing, family relations, romance, looking for love, starting over, love and romance, love affair, parents and children, parenthood ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, wedding preparations and rituals, family relations, event planner, parents and children, plan gone awry, disorder, nothing goes right, couple relations, human nature, comedy of errors, grownups ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, rome italy, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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, not serious, sentimental, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, family relations, on the road, family, parents and children, nothing goes right, father daughter relationship, coming of age, youth, teenage life, disorder, escapades ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, illinois, pittsburgh, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee -- the unsuspecting, blithesome James -- his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, witty, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
puppy, dog, family relations, pets, family, family life, silly humor, save the day, escapades, heroes, nothing goes right, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
london, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
490
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homeless vet leaves his dying dog and best friend, Duke, on the doorstep of a clinic. The dedicated staff nurse Duke back to health, and then launch a campaign to locate the vet and re-unite him with his best pal.
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family, pets, clinic, therapy, war veteran, dog, family relations, parents and children, male friendship, injury, cell, embarrassment ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
family relations, baby, life turned upside down, child as adult, family life, teenage life, siblings relations, parents and children, youth, family, teenager, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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