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Splash (1984)
88K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, rom com, fairy tale, sexy, modern fairy tale, touching, sweet, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
mermaid, happy ending, transformation, fish out of water, public nudity, cape cod massachusetts, longing, love, brother brother relationship, sea, obsession, chase, interspecies romance, swimming, elevator, marriage proposal, rescue from drowning, scientist, impossible love, boat, true love, childhood, military, blonde, beach ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, 60s, year 1964, 1960s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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Most similar movies to Splash
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, romantic and entertaining films with plots about love, love and romance, fall in love, happy ending, chase, destiny and catastrophe mostly in Romance, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Splash: Mannequin (1987), You've Got Mail (1998), Kate & Leopold (2001), Chances Are (1989), Big (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
39K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, teen, cult classic, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night
Plot:
department store, shopping, motorcycle, love, ends with a wedding, public nudity, security guard, fired from the job, guard dog, impossible love, sex scene, happy ending ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, egypt
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, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, love story, fall in love, love and romance, fish out of water, love, manners, dating, destiny, supernatural romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sweet, romantic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, reincarnation, heaven, death, love, ghost, older woman younger man relationship, eternal love, love story, paradise, daughter, angel ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 60s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., yale university, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
100%
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258K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, rom com, touching, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, body swapping, child as adult, magic, coming of age, longing, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, arizona, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his ...
Style:
rom com, feel good, romantic comedy, existential, sad ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, time loop, fish out of water, time travel, childhood, misfit, rags to riches, alternate history, lost love, baseball coach, time jump, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style:
feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
time travel, body swapping, coming of age, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, desire, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna , whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, light, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
domineering mother, american football, relationships, jealousy, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, happy ending, family disapproval, bittersweet, little boy, family drama ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, ireland, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sexy, intense, light ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, adultery, love triangle, sexy woman, love and romance, goofy hero, female nudity, bare breasts, midlife crisis, cheating, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, california, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's ...
Style:
family comedy, romantic, independent film, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
true love, female robot, love, reincarnation, fish out of water, dating, time travel, girl, peasant, sword fight, prince, department store ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, middle ages
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
400K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, rom com, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, prostitute, fall in love, cinderella story, social differences, opposites attract, hooker, rich man poor woman, rags to riches, character change ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, usa, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
100%
695
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mermaid sisters hunt down their father's human killer... and deal with their own personal relationships with the humans.
Style:
captivating, touching, exciting, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
mermaid, sibling relationship, revenge, murder, magic, love triangle, sister sister relationship, supernatural power, underwater, father daughter relationship, sisters, supernatural ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dr. Dempsey is an American scientist who has become a skeptic. He isn't enthusiastic to be sent by his employer to Scotland to (dis)prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster. He finds the locals stubborn, 'primitive' and all but ...
Style:
mythical, mystical, serious, feel good, independent film
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
loch ness monster, cryptozoology, beast, dinosaur, creature, magic, animal, castle, monster, water, cryptid, sea monster ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe, greenland, madagascar, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
Style:
feel good, fairy tale, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
destiny, frog, cinderella story, imaginary, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, royal family, disorder, fish out of water, wish come true, opposites attract, wooing ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style:
romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, unlikely couple, impossible love, love story, initially antagonists, destiny, supernatural romance, happy ending, heaven, doctor, female ghost ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, canada
Similarity:
18%
116K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, funny, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love and romance, road trip, opposites attract, marriage proposal, beautiful scenery, initially antagonists, relationships, wedding, love affair, love story ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, wales, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
29K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A childhood incident has convinced Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to settle down and marry a foot doctor, Faith impulsively flies to Venice when it seems that she ...
Style:
feel good, touching, rom com, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
destiny, wedding, true love, unlikely couple, love and romance, love story, love, husband wife relationship, soul mate, disorder, love triangle, following someone ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, boston, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
100%
21K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's ...
Style:
funny, light, feel good, talky, clever ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, reincarnation, afterlife, switching bodies, gender, lawyer, soul transference, body swap, body swapping, death, inheritance, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay ...
Style:
romantic comedy, light, romantic, rom com, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, marriage of convenience, destiny, immigration, green card, immigrant, lawyer, sex scene, fake marriage, fake relationship, cons and scams, selfie ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, america, usa, manhattan new york city, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Greek History Professor & his daughter travel to a Greek Island for one last chance to finish his thesis on ancient love spells before he loses his research grant. His daughter attempts to match her father with the local women without ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, stylized, offbeat
Plot:
mermaid, impossible love, fall in love, unlikely couple, couples, supernatural, one last chance, curses spells and rituals, father daughter relationship, looking for love, widower, youth ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, best friend, suicide attempt, destiny, roommate, happy ending, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, love story, brooklyn bridge, looking for love, couples ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Style:
touching, romantic, biting, fairy tale, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
sign language, interspecies romance, creature, love story, female protagonist, rescue, supernatural, interspecies sex, laboratory, cold war, scientist, friendship ...
Time:
year 1962, year 2017, 60s, future, 2010s
Place:
maryland, baltimore, los angeles, america, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When guardian angel Seth -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sincere, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
angel, afterlife, life & death, love, love and romance, love story, fall in love, heaven and hell, supernatural romance, death, medical, destiny ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
50K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style:
sexy, humorous, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
unrequited love, love story, fall in love, public nudity, love triangle, small town, happy ending, female nudity, passion, rivalry, wooing, physical appearance ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
86%
658K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Style:
rom com, captivating, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
barbie, fantasy world, doll, social satire, voice over narration, teenage girl, female protagonist, interdimensional travel, pregnant woman, ceo, patriarchy, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles
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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
Style:
romantic, light, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
luck, love and romance, fall in love, nothing goes right, love story, destiny, dumb, bad luck, life turned upside down, teenage girl, happy ending, adaptation ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, clever, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
workplace romance, women, fall in love, love and romance, battle of the sexes, womanizer, love story, telepathy, seducer, life philosophy, initially antagonists, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago, america, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style:
feel good, touching, teen, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, teenage life, high school life, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, self discovery, female nudity, wedding, first love ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
18%
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