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Murphy's Romance (1985)
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Murphy's Romance (1985)
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 place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, rom com, feel good, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, light, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love, first love, divorce, horse ranch, single mother, age-gap relationship, starting over, single parent, bachelor, strong female lead, age difference, modern western, modern west, dancing, love triangle, singer, poverty, moving, father son relationship, community, male female relationship, widower ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa, texas, california
Keyword: americana, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, semi serious and humorous films with plots about love and romance, family relations, couples, love, parents and children, friendship and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Murphy's Romance: Steel Magnolias (1989), Stanley & Iris (1990), Where the Heart Is (2000), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Hope Floats (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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100%
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: working class, opposites attract, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, school ...
Time: 80s
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100%
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, small town, coming of age, teenage pregnancy, single parent, friendship, youth, love and romance, power of love, family relations, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
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, life, radio, loneliness, single parent, love and romance, looking for love, love, starting over, couples, grief, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, baltimore, washington state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Hope Floats (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, light, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, starting over, happy ending, couples, infidelity, love story, love, family relations, betrayal, married woman, family problems, divorce ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, chicago
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100%
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Hart of Dixie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, lifestyle change, small town life, lifestyle, doctor, social relations, female doctor, young woman, neighbor, fish out of water, clinic, doctors and patients ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, hawaii, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sabrina (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, love story, workaholic, cinderella story, love and romance, millionaire, love, happy ending, cinderella, couple relations, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, long island, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: senior citizen, thanksgiving, buddy, small town, snow, winter, beautiful scenery, aging, friendship, old age, fall in love, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Catch and Release (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam and Dennis do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz ...
Style: romantic, sexy, melancholic, inspirational, tragicomedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: friendship, infidelity, secrets, love story, starting over, love triangle, couples, family relations, self discovery, death in the family, photograph, secret ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Men Don't Leave (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, crumbling marriage, feminist, age-gap relationship, career, middle school, lottery, starting over, single mother ...
Time: 80s
Place: baltimore, usa
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100%
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
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, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
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, disturbing, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: single father, friendship, happy ending, parenthood, unlikely friendships, widower, single parent, lone hero, adolescence, mentor, family relations, wooing ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, starting over, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, fall in love, couples, hopes, love and romance, disorder, friends, mine ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Enough Said (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dating, loneliness, masseuse, poet, relationships, divorce, sexual activity, parenthood, goodhearted, couple relations, single parent, middle aged ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Hard Promises (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to get married, aided by the ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, small town, love triangle, remarry, couples, family problems, estrangement, family relations, family gatherings, breakup, lovers reunited, parents and children ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Buddy System (1984)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, parents and children, infidelity, love and romance, couples, single parent, family relations, self discovery, buddies, school, friendship, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: single father, parenthood, love triangle, fall in love, love story, relationships, love and romance, love, widower, father daughter relationship, wedding, single parent ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
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18%
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Jersey Girl (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love, working class, diner, family life, small town life, friendship, witness protection, opposites attract, yuppie, love and romance, stalking, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Author! Author! (1982)
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: humorous, touching, sentimental, intense, romantic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: writers, children, playwright, single parent, love and romance, large family, divorce, parents and children, youth, actress, single father, family relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Puppy Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, single parent, pets, hopes, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Love Letter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, bookstore, misunderstanding, love, comedy of errors, looking for love, writers, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, fall in love, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, scenic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: writers, small town, divorce, passion, tourist, friendship, life, middle aged woman, male female relationship, starting over, love, journey ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style: satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, age difference, fall in love, divorce, single mother, couple relations, family relations, love affair, parents and children, writers, generation gap ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: love story, elderly, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love triangle, mature woman, opposites attract, love and romance, aging, couples, love, fall in love ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, paris france, usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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My Sassy Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
Style: romantic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: chance meeting, love and romance, manic pixie dream girl, young lovers, opposites attract, unlikely couple, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, small town life, love, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Say Anything... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, couples, first love, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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