Movies like Tootsie

If you like "Tootsie" you are looking for feel good, light and witty movies about / with cross dressing, man dressed as a woman, actor, gender bending, love, love and romance and actress themes of Comedy, Drama and Romance genre shot in USA.
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Tootsie (1982)
 7.4
 114K
Tootsie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego -- Dorothy Michaels -- in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Style: feel good, light, witty, humorous, funny, sexy, hilarious, romantic, romantic comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: cross dressing, man dressed as a woman, actor, gender bending, love, love and romance, actress, transvestite, relationships, double life, love triangle, gender, women, lgbt, lgbtq, drag queen, feminism, feminist, theatrical agent, showbiz, unrequited love, reputation, roommate, gender disguise, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, seattle
Keyword: oldies, jewish, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Tootsie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and romantic films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, fall in love, women, love story and breakup mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Tootsie: Moonstruck (1987), Working Girl (1988), Victor Victoria (1982), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), When Harry Met Sally... (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 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 ...
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100%
 6.8
 62K
Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: business, women, workplace, secretary, workplace romance, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, career, boss, strong female character ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Victor Victoria (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Style: witty, humorous, clever, stylized, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, cross dressing, nightclub, gender bending, music, gender disguise, farce, dancing, woman dressed as man, jazz, transgender, lgbtq ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1934
Place: paris france, france, europe, chicago
⇓ 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 ⇓
71%
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: male female friendship, autumn, friendship, love and romance, initially antagonists, best friends in love, fall in love, unlikely couple, love story, life philosophy, opposites attract, looking for love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1989, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, seattle, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 340K
Notting Hill (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, fame, social differences, love and romance, bookstore, opposites attract, power of love, paparazzi, love, friendship, male female relationship, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
 228K
You've Got Mail (1998)
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, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: love, fall in love, bookstore, happy ending, destiny, online dating, unlikely couple, rivalry, christmas, internet, hidden identity, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 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 ⇓
27%
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
Style: romantic, sexy, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: women, love story, love affair, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, singleness, infidelity, single woman, best friends in love, dating, mentor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
 357K
The Proposal (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Style: feel good, romantic, light, funny, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love, love story, wedding, happy ending, love and romance, relationships, initially antagonists, couples, opposites attract, unlikely couple, workplace romance, pretend relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Style: feel good, sweet, romantic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, love triangle, love and romance, couples, love story, thirtysomething life, christmas, looking for love, opposites attract, holiday, workplace romance, happy ending ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful ...
Style: romantic, humorous, touching, funny, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: rabbi, love story, love triangle, priest, catholicism, friendship, love and romance, love, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
How to Be Single (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
Style: romantic, light, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: singleness, women, breakup, love and romance, couple relations, single, love story, love, multiple storylines, fall in love, life, adaptation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 334K
Hitch (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, light, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: flirting, love, love and romance, dating, looking for love, interracial romance, power of love, love story, wooing, eligible bachelor, slick, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: single father, parenthood, love triangle, fall in love, love story, relationships, love and romance, love, widower, father daughter relationship, wedding, single parent ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Picture Perfect (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, workplace romance, manipulation, happy ending, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, unlikely couple, dishonesty, nothing goes right, fall in love, workplace, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.6
 530K
Love Actually (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: christmas, love, holiday, relationships, love story, multiple storylines, love and romance, fall in love, marriage, couples, first love, couple relations ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: love story, elderly, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love triangle, mature woman, opposites attract, love and romance, aging, couples, love, fall in love ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, paris france, usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Ireland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love triangle, looking for love, thirtysomething life, happy ending, couples, love story, women, love and romance, love, relationships, wedding, marriage proposal ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, thailand, new york, bangkok thailand, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style: feel good, sexual, surreal, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, sapphic, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lesbian relationship, cheerleader, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 379K
50 First Dates (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: memory loss, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, love, memory, relationships, wooing, dating, life philosophy, dream ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Paula McFadden knows: In romance, actors all follow the same stage instruction: Exit. Without warning, her actor boyfriend split today for a movie role and sublet their Manhattan apartment. The new tenant's name: Elliot Garfield. Profession: ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, sweet, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: single mother, love story, love, dancer, audition, actor, women, happy ending, divorce, fall in love, true love, aspiring actor ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.9
 16K
200 Cigarettes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Style: talky, witty, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: new year's eve, love, friendship, couples, nightlife, new year, love and romance, cigarette smoking, sexual dysfunction, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life ...
Time: 80s, year 1999, year 1981, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 239K
Big (1988)
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, touching, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: body swapping, adolescence, child as adult, coming of age, magic, friendship, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water, child ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, arizona, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Fish Without a Bicycle (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Comedy - Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go "find herself" she ends up falling in love with an ...
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, love triangle, looking for love, friends, wooing, infidelity, actress, frustration, desire, director, lesbian, lesbian sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: sweet, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, breakup, relationships, couples, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, heartache, fall in love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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