Movies like Steel Magnolias

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Steel Magnolias (1989)
 7.3
 63K
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, tear jerker, sweet, compassionate, sincere, romantic ...
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, family problems, social relations, small town life, strong female lead, life, death, mother, shopping, coming of age, heartwarming, deep south, christmas, grief ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and semi serious films with plots about family relations, women, love and romance, friendship, couples, female protagonist and love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Steel Magnolias: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Terms of Endearment (1983), Stepmom (1998), The Evening Star (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
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, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
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, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terms of Endearment (1983)
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: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.8
 74K
Stepmom (1998)
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, inspirational, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, terminal illness, women, autumn, cancer, step parent, friendship, custody, parents and children, remarry, adoption, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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The Evening Star (1996)
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, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, single parent, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 218K
P.S. I Love You (2007)
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, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, grief, letter, life philosophy, lost love, family relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: ireland, seattle, europe, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
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, teen drama ...
Plot: christmas, fall in love, holiday, love and romance, mistaken identity, love triangle, loneliness, love, pretend relationship, new year's eve, love affair, winter ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 29K
Beaches (1988)
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: heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot: friendship, childhood friend, best friend, singer, terminal illness, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, honest, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1950s
Place: new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, women, rags to riches, enemies to lovers, rise to the top, fall in love, society, couple relations, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, rom com, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: small town, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love, first love, divorce, horse ranch, age-gap relationship, single mother, single parent, starting over, bachelor ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 ⇓
77%
 6.7
 36K
Mermaids (1990)
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, sweet, teen, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, teenager, love story, mother daughter relationship, young adult, father daughter relationship, loneliness, single parent, mother, fall in love ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1963, year 1964, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 65K
In Her Shoes (2005)
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, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, family values, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, sisters, family life, girl, guilt, dyslexia, audition, charm ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, florida, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
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: romantic, feel good, teen, touching, cute ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first love, friendship, teenager, summer, female friendship, teenage love, teen romance, group of friends, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, south carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 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%
As Good as It Gets (1997)
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: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
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, intense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, american south, playwright, estrangement, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, relationships, female protagonist, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 2002
Place: louisiana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 67K
Moonstruck (1987)
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, date night, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: love story, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, love, couples, full moon, infidelity, love and romance, moon, self discovery, marriage proposal, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 615K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, fall in love, true love, youth, memory loss, love of one's life, power of love, love triangle, young lovers, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 2K
Used People (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: funeral, cinema, wedding, family relations, eccentric family, family life, couples, parents and children, one more chance, siblings relations, urban, love and romance ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, 60s, 20th century, year 1969 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 32K
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 ⇓
75%
 6.3
 19K
Baby Boom (1987)
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, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: adoption, baby, babies and infants, career woman, love affair, single mother, motherhood, women, single parent, starting over, relationship problems, business ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 43K
Uptown Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: nanny, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, girl, teenage girl, friends, family relations, self discovery, initially antagonists, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sex and the City (2008)
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: light, romantic, witty, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: fashion, women, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, city life, best friend, friendship, friends, couples, urban, sexual relations ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, malibu california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
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, feel good, sentimental, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, women, love story, unrequited love, wedding preparations and rituals, best friend, love triangle, gay, friendship, love and romance, male female friendship, screwball ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: chicago, madagascar, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.3
 63K
Little Women (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, costume drama, period piece, tear jerker ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot: sisters, family values, women, first love, christmas, family bonds, coming of age, civil war, life changing experience, friendship, everyday life, winter ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 90s, 1860s ...
Place: massachusetts, new york, usa, new england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Places in the Heart (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Style: uplifting, christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: great depression, farm, blindness, racism, small town, ku klux klan, survival, friendship, mother, blind character, bittersweet, redemption ...
Time: 1930s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1935
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style: touching, sentimental, happy, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, bittersweet, death of husband, widow, grief, sisterhood, rock, female friendship, female protagonist, house painter, sister sister relationship, bereavement ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Steel Magnolias (2012)
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, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, family problems, social relations, parents and children, love affair, female friendship, mother daughter relationship, black history, wedding, hairdresser, black, hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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