Movies like Steel Magnolias
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
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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, emotional, inspirational, sweet, compassionate, sincere, romantic, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, small town, female friendship, women, family relations, wedding, life philosophy, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, best friends, diabetic, family problems, social relations, small town life, strong female lead, life, death, mother, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, christmas, lifestyle, strong female character, pregnancy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sentimental, realistic, feel good and touching films with plots about destiny, mentor, catastrophe, culture clash, women, life philosophy and relationships mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Steel Magnolias: How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Beaches (1988), Terms of Endearment (1983), Stepmom (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, light, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, marriage, friendship, grandmother, women, advice, stereotypes, adultery, americana, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, north carolina, northern california, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, self discovery, small town life, feminism, cannibalism, midlife crisis, women, lesbian subtext, aging, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
96%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Style:
emotional, sad, sentimental, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
friendship, childhood friend, singer, terminal illness, women, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, honest, death, love and romance, rise to the top ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s, 50s
Place:
new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, hawaii, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
relationships, family relations, mother daughter relationship, cancer, love, marriage, dysfunctional family, death, love affair, children, dying young, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, new york, nebraska, usa, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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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, sad, touching, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
divorce, terminal illness, step parent, women, friendship, custody, parents and children, cancer, remarry, rebellious daughter, family life, human nature ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style:
touching, sexy, visually appealing, stylized, reflective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, redemption, divorce, first contact, life philosophy, mentor, mother daughter relationship, multiple storylines, fantasy world ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, ...
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feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, starting over, small town, friendship, coming of age, teenage pregnancy, single parent, women, love and romance, youth, family relations, power of love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, maine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, grief, starting over, couples, loss of spouse, life philosophy, loss of husband, family relations, lost love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, summer, teenage girl, first love, friendship, teenager, female friendship, teenage love, relationships, love story, self discovery, love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, greece, south carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Irresponsible party girl Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is kicked out of her father's (Ken Howard) and stepmother's (Candice Azzara) home, where she lives for free, and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose (Toni ...
Style:
light, sentimental, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, couple relations, wedding, family values, love, women, self discovery, dyslexia, family relations, job seeking, law firm, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, florida, usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style:
sweet, sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
dog, friendship, mental illness, writers, neighbor, older man younger woman relationship, gay, unlikely friendships, waitress, couples, age difference, psychology ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A love story built on a misunderstanding. A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off the tracks after he's mugged. But while he's in a coma, his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, light, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, family outing
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, female protagonist, marriage, dysfunctional family, wedding, relationships, adaptation, life philosophy ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, italy, usa, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
working class, opposites attract, women, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Style:
light, touching, humorous, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
adoption, baby, single parent, babies and infants, career woman, love affair, starting over, yuppie, relationship problems, women, fish out of water, happy ending ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, vermont, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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 ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, horse, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love, divorce, horse ranch, single mother, single parent, starting over, bachelor, runaway ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, texas, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
women, friendship, bittersweet, widow, grief, death of husband, brutality, runaway, revenge, unlikely friendships, vengeance, relationships ...
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90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, desert island, parenthood, runaway, character study, vacation, love, multiple storylines, life, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, teenager, friendship, women, food, commitment, siblings relations, small town life, teenage life, love and romance, adultery ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, london, england, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new england, massachusetts, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
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Audience:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little ...
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Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
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Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, santa monica california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, feel good, sweet, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
wedding, women, best friend, love, love triangle, unrequited love, wedding preparations and rituals, love and romance, friendship, love story, male female friendship, gay ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new york, new jersey, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, social relations, family problems, love affair, parents and children, female friendship, mother daughter relationship, wedding, women, black history, small town, best friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, intense, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
louisiana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
Style:
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67%
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 ...
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interracial romance, friendship, self discovery, nanny, interracial relations, starting over, parents and children, single father, interracial love, housekeeper, single parent, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sweet, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, parenthood, marriage, self discovery, midlife crisis, wedding, husband wife relationship, baby, aspiring writer, dream, childbirth, argument ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, fairy tale ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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