Movies like The Parent Trap

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The Parent Trap (1998)
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The Parent Trap (1998)
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 then plot with each other to switch places. Hallie meets her mother, and Annie meets her father for the first time in years.
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, romantic, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching, rom com, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot: twins, divorce, summer camp, mischievous children, single parent, lookalikes, child's point of view, twins separated at birth, father daughter relationship, matchmaking, teenage girl, butler, children, dishonesty, single father, disorder, nanny, parents and children, sisters, divorced parents, father daughter reunion, women, family relations, summer, scheme ...
Time: 90s, year 1986, year 1998, 20th century, 1990s
Place: california, london, bay area, england, usa, europe, big ben london ...
Keyword: reboot, oldies, preschoolers, gold digger, strawberry

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, teenage girl, disorder, girl and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like The Parent Trap: It Takes Two (1995), Freaky Friday (2003), Billboard Dad (1998), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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It Takes Two (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
Style: sweet, feel good, funny, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: twins, mischievous children, summer camp, children, parents and children, adoption, orphan, single father, single parent, camp, wedding, tomboy ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Parent Trap (1961)
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, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: twins, divorce, summer, summer camp, family life, sisters, women, teenage girl, childhood, mischievous children, parents and children, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: california, massachusetts, boston, monterey california
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.3
 151K
Freaky Friday (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek ...
Style: funny, teen, light, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot: body swapping, high school, mother daughter relationship, teenager, wedding, body swap, switching bodies, child as adult, soul transference, switching places, teenage girl, generation gap ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Billboard Dad (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: High above Hollywood Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are playing Matchmakers! One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to find a new love for their newly single Dad, it's a fun-loving, eye-catching ...
Style: sweet, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, date night
Plot: twins, youth, true love, teenage girl, childhood, matchmaking, single father, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, mischievous children, single parent ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: large family, blended family, family relations, parenthood, mischievous children, wedding, parents and children, opposites attract, siblings relations, children, family life, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.1
 289K
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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 ...
Style: feel good, touching, funny, hilarious, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: cross dressing, divorce, nanny, comedy of errors, children, kids and family, transvestite, gender, family relations, custody battle, single father, gender disguise ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 48K
Monte Carlo (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.
Style: romantic, feel good, teen, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: mistaken identity, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, lookalikes, teenage life, tour guide, tourist, high society, friends, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: monte carlo, europe, paris france, monaco
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Little Manhattan (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style: touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: first love, children, child's point of view, coming of age, school, friendship, love story, jealousy, bully, love, couples, childhood love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Perfect Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean ...
Style: romantic, teen, romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids
Plot: single parent, looking for love, teenage girl, secret admirer, love and romance, online dating, teenage life, lifestyle, matchmaking, cinderella story, women, love story ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: new york, arizona, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Girl (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sad ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenager, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, single parent, children, kids and family, single father, family relations, love ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1991, year 1972, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Something to Talk About (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style: talky, satirical, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, family relations, family problems, women, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, southern belle ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What a Girl Wants (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is ...
Style: teen, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, teenage girl, teen romance, cinderella story, fish out of water, social differences, teenager, daughter, love and romance, american abroad, high school, father daughter reunion ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy,
Style: feel good, hilarious, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: large family, mischievous children, family vacation, children, holiday, family holiday, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, parenthood, eccentric family, teenager ...
Time: year 2005
Place: chicago, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Passport to Paris (1999)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: twins, youth, impossible love, siblings relations, family relations, teenage girl, tourist, preteen, child, girl, slice of life, childhood ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Letters to Juliet (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- ...
Style: romantic, touching, scenic, feel good, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot: fall in love, road trip, love and romance, youth, couples, beautiful scenery, love affair, enemies to lovers, couple relations, love story, happy ending, letter ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, tuscany, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Life-Size (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Story: After her mom's death, Casey pulls away from everyone in her life, including her emotionally distant dad. With help from a magic spell, she tries to bring her mother back from the dead; instead, Casey's words accidentally awaken one of her ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, mischievous children, american football, teaching the ways of the world, teenage girl, intergenerational friendship, friendship, child's point of view, doll, teenager, bookstore, interracial ...
Time: year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wedding Date (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place: europe, england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Nanny Express (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 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: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, cute ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: nanny, single parent, matchmaking, love and romance, mischievous children, family life, teenage life, parents and children, fall in love, prank, happy ending, workplace romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Parent Trap II (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York.
Style: rom com, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: twins, youth, summer school, single parent, horse riding, moving, jealousy, marriage, coming of age, best friend, family relations, manipulation ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
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: entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: large family, children, family relations, teenager, parenthood, dysfunctional family, chaos, parents and children, eccentric family, nothing goes right, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Style: entertaining, period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: mistaken identity, false identity, love story, happy ending, twists and turns, couples, social differences, comedy of errors, friendship, comedy of manners, disorder, farce ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1800s, year 2002 ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mrs. Miracle (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. "Mrs. Miracle" mysteriously appears and quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend... and matchmaker.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, light, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: nanny, christmas, twins, single parent, parents and children, mischievous children, old woman, reconciliation, brother brother relationship, widower, snow, winter ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 9K
House Arrest (1996)
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: light, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: divorce, childhood, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, love, hostage, kidnapping, couples, bullying, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: hawaii, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: world war two, nanny, love, love story, love and romance, convent, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, nazi, nun, children, single father ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1900s ...
Place: austria, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, gothic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: interracial romance, nanny, friendship, self discovery, interracial relations, starting over, couples, interracial love, single father, interracial couple, white male black female relationship, housekeeper ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Harriet the Spy (1996)
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: intense, entertaining, enigmatic, epic, children's program ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot: spy, bullying, friendship, teenage girl, childhood, espionage, coming of age, notebook, child, best friend, secrets, friends ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 67K
Overboard (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: memory loss, rich woman poor man, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, parents and children, carpenter, pretend relationship, love, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 23K
Curly Sue (1991)
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: touching, feel good, sweet, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: homeless, orphan, cons and scams, little girl, homelessness, single father, urban, girl, kindness, homeless shelter, childhood, destiny ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 48K
One Fine Day (1996)
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: light, feel good, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: single parent, opposites attract, architect, one day, couples, love, single mother, girl, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, disorder ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
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: light, feel good, semi serious, humorous, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: friendship, camp, nanny, coming of age, children, childhood, teenager, bullying, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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