Movies like Mrs. Doubtfire
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
245K
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, comedy of errors, cross dressing, nanny, divorce, family relations, kids and family, hidden identity, custody battle, gender bending, parenthood, actor playing female role, physical appearance, restaurant, children, secret identity, creativity, dishonesty, lifestyle, disorder, party, birthday, makeup artist, gender, unsuccessful ...
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 touching films with plots about family, family relations, runaway, dialogue, happy ending, culture clash and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like Mrs. Doubtfire: The Game Plan (2007), Tootsie (1982), The Parent Trap (1998), Secondhand Lions (2003), Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). 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:
sport team, father daughter relationship, single father, football, american football, family relations, sport, athlete's life, disorder, family values, irresponsible, parents and children ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, denver colorado
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100%
97K
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, gender disguise, romance, love and romance, double life, impersonation, theatrical agent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
humorous, feel good, touching, sweet, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
twins, mischievous children, lookalikes, summer camp, disorder, dishonesty, butler, single parent, mistaken identity, parents and children, family relations, comedy of errors ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, year 1998
Place:
london, england, california, maine, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 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:
greed, fish out of water, adventure, money, family, adventurer, family secret, eccentric family, disorder, youth, odd couple, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 1960s, 60s, 1910s
Place:
texas, usa, africa, middle east, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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, touching, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot:
children, family life, adoption, sisters, siblings relations, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, single parent, childhood, doctors, marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ 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, girls' night
Plot:
dog, cat, adventure, friendship, pets, wilderness, talking animals, fish out of water, journey, beautiful scenery, wounded animal, survival ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
usa, nevada, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
66K
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, family, children, nothing goes right, parents and children, family life, family relations, rescue, suburbs, animal rescue ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, parents and children, family relations, summer camp, mischievous children, family life, reunion, family, single parent, summer, prank, love and romance ...
Time:
1960s, 60s, year 1961
Place:
california, boston, massachusetts, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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56K
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:
funny, feel good, road movie, 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 ⇓
18%
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, martial arts, family relations, undercover, single parent, children, child spy, family, disorder, when the parents are away ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Parent Trap
108K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the ...
Style:
funny, sweet, absurd, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
family, father, children, parents, uninhibited rivalry, kids and family, divorce, christmas, stepfather stepson relationship, rival, rivals, father son relationship ...
Place:
new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behavior collides with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family, family relations, punishment, eccentric family, family reunited, house, family life, protective parent, disorder, golden years, youth, mischievous children ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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, father daughter relationship, single father, dog, mischievous children, friendship, loneliness, pets, family relations, adaptation, beautiful scenery, family ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
florida, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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, orphan, siblings relations, children, mischievous children, dog, family, family relations, disorder, nothing goes right, farce, cons and scams ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
husband wife relationship, divorce, family relations, family, parents and children, family problems, couples, family life, children, love, dysfunctional family, hostage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hawaii, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Movies similar to Home Alone
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:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
friendship, summer school, nanny, camp, teenage life, parents and children, friends, nothing goes right, siblings relations, friendship between girls, children, 13 year old ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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:
touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
countryside, starting over, single father, happy ending, animals, zoo, teenage boy, family relations, school expulsion, coping, responsibility, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s
Place:
usa, california, united states
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
36K
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, teens, girls' night
Plot:
camp, family relations, best friend, fish out of water, family, nothing goes right, parents and children, disorder, comic violence, brother sister relationship, twins, father son relationship ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
vermont, tokyo, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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, parents and children, mischievous children, disorder, little boy, save the day, friendship, rivalry, friends, young heroes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
mischievous children, aunt niece relationship, family relations, youth, family life, disorder, siblings relations, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, father daughter relationship, money problems, family ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, toys, holiday, christmas eve, child custody, family, adventure, christmas party, magic, father son relationship, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, small town, americana, baseball, dog, family, child's point of view, lifestyle, youth, world war two, coming of age, dog movie ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
mississippi, usa, mississippi river, southern usa, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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, touching ...
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 ⇓
29%
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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, family relations, disorder, parents and children, family, single parent, christmas eve, christmas, life turned upside down, fall in love, puppy, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style:
feel good, touching, emotional, humorous, sweet ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adoption, orphan, friendship, family relations, thanksgiving, social worker, small town, family, single parent, writer's life, parents and children, youth ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies like My Girl
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, family, couple relations, family life, life turned upside down, disorder, youth, orphan, couples, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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, friendship, nothing goes right, when the parents are away, neighbor, children, suburbs, criminal, runaway, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, 80s, future
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 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, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
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, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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, parents and children, love affair, parenthood ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
453
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, dog, therapy, war veteran, family relations, parents and children, injury, cell, father daughter relationship, motor home ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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