Movies like Mrs. Doubtfire
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
313K
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, funny, sweet, laugh out loud, hilarious, clever, inspirational, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
cross dressing, divorce, comedy of errors, nanny, gender, kids and family, children, custody battle, transvestism, transvestite, childhood, parenting, gender disguise, family relations, single father, happy ending, dysfunctional family, parenthood, creativity, gender bending, babysitting, love, adaptation, marriage, heartwarming ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
bay area, san francisco, california, usa, north america
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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, entertaining and funny films with plots about mentor, family, destiny, dialogue, culture clash, life philosophy and happy ending mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Mrs. Doubtfire: The Game Plan (2007), The Parent Trap (1998), Beethoven (1992), One Fine Day (1996), Stepmom (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
103K
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:
inspirational, sentimental, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids ...
Plot:
american football, single father, football, sport team, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, parenthood, nfl, parents and children, athlete's life, dog, disorder ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, denver colorado, north america
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:
feel good, light, sweet, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
twins, divorce, summer camp, mischievous children, lookalikes, single parent, child's point of view, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, twins separated at birth, children, matchmaking ...
Time:
year 1986, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
london, california, big ben london, bay area, england ...
Similarity:
88%
81K
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, sweet, funny, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, puppy, children, animal actor, human animal relationship, bullying, pets, animal, childhood, happy ending, saint bernard dog, nothing goes right ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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:
feel good, entertaining, light, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
single parent, architect, opposites attract, couples, love and romance, nothing goes right, parents and children, one day, single mother, father daughter relationship, girl, love ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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80K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
terminal illness, divorce, women, cancer, autumn, custody, remarry, step parent, friendship, parents and children, adoption, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, custody, happy ending, couple relations, parents and children, couples, teenage girl, destiny, family bonds, orphan, love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
fall in love, love, happy ending, destiny, bookstore, love story, christmas, online dating, rivalry, unlikely couple, hidden identity, internet ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family friendly
Plot:
memory loss, love, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, memory, wooing, relationships, dating, life philosophy, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
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:
touching, feel good, romantic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, date night ...
Plot:
animal, single father, happy ending, zoo, coping, kids and family, starting over, beautiful scenery, tiger, parenthood, countryside, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
86%
67K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10-year-old looks like a 40-year-old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school. ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, thought provoking, feel good, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, date night, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, freak, school, coping, genetics, fish out of water, life philosophy, adolescence, disease, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
360K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, laugh out loud, slapstick ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
lawyer, liar, father son relationship, lie, court, courtroom, dishonesty, change of heart, truth, ex husband ex wife relationship, trial, divorce ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, boston
Similarity:
82%
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:
feel good, sweet, touching, christmas classics, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas season, childhood, father son relationship, christmas eve, christmas time, child custody, saving christmas, thanksgiving, toys ...
Time:
90s
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
twins, summer, family life, childhood, sisters, summer camp, divorce, women, teenage girl, parents and children, mischievous children, divorced parents ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
california, massachusetts, boston, monterey california, london
Similarity:
100%
106K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot:
first love, fall in love, childhood, childhood sweetheart, teenage love, love and romance, adolescence, teen romance, young love, love story, teenage life, love ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, year 1957, 2010s, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
100%
121K
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, feel good, sexy, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, actor, love, actress, theatrical agent, man dressed as a woman, gender disguise, single mother, lgbtq, gender bending, audition, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
75%
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:
sentimental, sweet, touching, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
small town, dog, father daughter relationship, childhood, children, animal, pets, loneliness, single father, adaptation, supermarket, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, southern usa
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, teen, feel good, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, fbi, nanny, hidden identity, undercover agent, cheerleading, special agent, impersonation, working undercover, law enforcement, black, hip hop ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, single mother, little girl, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
missouri, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
306K
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:
chick flick, family outing, girls' night, teens
Plot:
workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, destiny, prejudice, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, fashion, workplace situations, life ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, peru, san francisco ...
Similarity:
75%
35K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Style:
melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous, futuristic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot:
inheritance, toys, good versus evil, childhood, family relations, anti war, sibling relationship, rivalry, family life, parents and children, inventor, innocence lost ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Slovakia
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, period piece, humorous, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
coming of age, uncle nephew relationship, childhood, fish out of water, greed, courage, lion, youth, misfit, bittersweet, country, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2003, 1910s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
texas, africa, middle east, austin texas, usa ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, love story, single father, true love, storytelling, daughter, father, love, best friends in love, fall in love, male female friendship, relationships ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1994, year 1992, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, wisconsin, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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, exciting, not serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
spy, mischievous children, cia agent, martial arts, single parent, children, child spy, espionage, cia, undercover, nanny, when the parents are away ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
madagascar, usa, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
117K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing ...
Style:
feel good, funny, teen, black comedy, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
nun, music, fish out of water, convent, church choir, friendship, blues, women, murder, choir, murder witness, witness protection ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1968
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, nevada, las vegas ...
Similarity:
100%
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, radio, loneliness, single parent, couples, love and romance, love story, looking for love, life, destiny, starting over, love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1992, year 1991
Place:
seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, washington state, baltimore ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style:
feel good, funny, sweet, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, problem child, anger, substance abuse, amusement park, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Style:
feel good, touching, funny, sad, sentimental ...
Plot:
single father, parenting, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, terminal illness, child care, responsibility, childhood, abandoned by mother, absent mother, learning the truth, parents ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
africa, france, europe, london
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is ...
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas time, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family bonds, new year, nothing goes right, in-laws, family drama, brothers, marriage ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style:
sad, independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, tornado, eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, mental illness, family problems, dark humor, couples, storm, helicopter ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
kansas, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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