Movies like Sister Act

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Sister Act (1992)
 6.5
 108K
Sister Act (1992)
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 choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV.
Style: feel good, funny, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen, black comedy, uplifting, sweet ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: nun, music, fish out of water, convent, church choir, friendship, women, murder, blues, murder witness, witness protection, dancing, clergy, comedy of errors, black, disorder, dishonesty, woman, mentor, church, african american, gangster, religious, violence against women, mother superior ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1968, 1990s
Place: san francisco, usa, california, nevada, las vegas, reno nevada
Keyword: gangsters, superior, mass, marquee

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and semi serious films with plots about friends, family relations, friendship, teenage girl, disorder, teenager and youth mostly in Comedy, Family and Music genres. Some movies like Sister Act: Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Nuns on the Run (1990), Connie and Carla (2004), The Country Bears (2002), 3 Men and a Baby (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover ...
Style: feel good, teen, black comedy, erotic, light ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: nun, music, teacher, women, hip hop, blues, black, dancing, mentor, high school, female protagonist, african american ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
Nuns on the Run (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, laugh out loud ...
Plot: cross dressing, nun, chase, priest, fish out of water, farce, on the run, disguise, convent, disorder, odd couple, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Connie and Carla (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, laugh out loud, not serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: cross dressing, drag queen, gay, performer's life, hidden identity, lifestyle, overnight success, mistaken identity, dishonesty, disorder, wrong place wrong time, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Country Bears (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: bear, music, fish out of water, friendship, music band, rescue, musician's life, save the day, self discovery, pirate, teenage girl, animal ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
3 Men and a Baby (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: babies and infants, custody, fish out of water, buddies, fatherhood, children, baby, friendship, roommate, life turned upside down, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Pitch Perfect (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: music, youth, competition, female friendship, college life, teenager, college, rivalry, female protagonist, singing competition, music band, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy.
Style: teen, feel good, romantic, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, date night, girls' night ...
Plot: teenage girl, teenager, american abroad, friendship, youth, high school, love and romance, teenage life, musician's life, hidden identity, disorder, rise to the top ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Coming of age story for two girls, Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a catholic boarding school for girls. The story spans three years and follows the girls and their many pranks including ...
Style: touching, retro, not serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: nun, coming of age, catholic, feminist, school, friendship, boarding school, clergy, high school, feminism, christian, teenager ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 169K
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name, and regain their status, ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: music band, music, teenager, college, friendship, singing competition, college life, competition, dancing, dance, stereotypes, music business ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
12%
Made in America (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, high school, teenage girl, culture clash, single parent, comedy of errors, sperm donor, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
 33K
Problem Child (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: adoption, mischievous children, chase, spoiled brat, troublemaker, children, child hero, child, friends, dark humor, kidnapping, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Cheetah Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A four-member teen girl group named the Cheetah Girls go to a Manhattan High School for the Performing Arts and try to become the first freshmen to win the talent show in the school's history. During the talent show auditions, they meet a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: friendship, high school, coming of age, showbiz, teenager, follow your dream, musician's life, fashion, lifestyle, ambition, music band, rising to stardom ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, touching, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: high school, teenager, princess, coming of age, royalty, royal family, teenage life, cinderella story, fish out of water, female protagonist, teenage girl, teenage love ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, europe, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.5
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Taking 5 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Just when BFFs Gabby and Devon have a chance to get the hottest band to perform a free concert at Highland High, their plan goes up in smoke... literally. Desperate not to be labeled losers for life they resort to plan B: kidnap the band! Now ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, romantic, light, realistic
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenage love, musician's life, youth, music band, teenage life, lifestyle, performer's life, concert, best friend, love and romance, teenager, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Legally Blondes (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime.
Style: humorous, feel good, not serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: twins, fish out of water, fashion, youth, coming of age, high school, teenage girl, college, occupation, blonde girl, snobbism, social relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Larger Than Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a ...
Style: light, funny, touching, feel good, road movie ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, rescue, on the road, animal, goofy hero, fish out of water, inheritance, hitchhiker, elephant, philosophy, wild animal, writers ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
High School Musical (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Troy (Zac Efron), the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: high school, music, teenage life, high school life, teenage love, basketball, friendship, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, teenager, dancing ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Bratz (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The popular Bratz dolls come to life in their first live-action feature film. Finding themselves being pulled further and further apart, the fashionable four band together to fight peer pressure, learn what it means to stand up for your friends, be ...
Style: humorous, satirical, teen, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage girl, fashion, friendship, female friendship, talent show, popularity, youth, mean girl, friends, teenage life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Home Alone (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Fighting Temptations stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. as the film's protagonist as he attempts to revive a church choir in order to enter a gospel competition with the help of a beautiful lounge singer (Beyoncé Knowles) with whom he soon falls in ...
Style: romantic comedy, melancholic, romantic, talky, absurd ...
Audience: date night
Plot: church choir, small town, music, black, love story, disorder, ambition, contests and competitions, music band, last wish, friendship, family relations ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
Style: feel good, light, romantic comedy, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love story, musician's life, love and romance, love, music, writers, dance, relationships, mentor, opposites attract, career, romancing partners ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dennis the Menace (1993)
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, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, childhood, kids and family, happy ending, neighbor, boy, nothing goes right, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Cheetah Girls 2 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Best friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival. Along the way, the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night
Plot: music band, friendship, lifestyle, musician's life, teenage love, teenage life, girl group, youth, artists and showbiz, disorder, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Place: spain, europe, new york, usa, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something ...
Style: feel good, teen, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: high school, prom, teenage love, teenager, friendship, high school life, high school hunk, love and romance, music, teenage girl, buddies, dancing ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, love and romance, single parent, unlikely couple, buddies, cons and scams, eccentric family ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Call Me Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: If She's Going To Save Christmas, She's Got Some Big Shoes To Fill.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, haunted by the past, fish out of water, nothing goes right, redemption, ghost, disorder, misfit, goofy hero, family life, destiny ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this modern telling of the classic tale, aspiring singer Katie Gibbs falls for the new boy at her performing arts high school. But Katie's wicked stepmother and stepsister are scheming to crush her dream before she can sing her way into his ...
Style: modern fairy tale, romantic, fairy tale, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, date night ...
Plot: cinderella, cinderella story, teenager, high school, teenage love, youth, follow your dream, teenage life, musician's life, love and romance, teen romance, orphan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Her best friend Lilly also joins her for the summer. Mia continues her 'princess lessons'- riding horses side-saddle, archery, and other ...
Style: feel good, light, romantic, teen, sweet ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot: royal family, love and romance, wooing, cinderella story, princess, fall in love, coronation, fish out of water, teenage girl, wedding, heir to the throne, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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