Movies like Tootsie
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Tootsie (1982)
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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, humorous, funny, touching, sexy, witty, romantic, clever, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cross dressing, man dressed as a woman, actor, gender bending, love, love triangle, transvestite, love and romance, relationships, double life, gender, actress, women, lgbt, lgbtq, theatrical agent, showbiz, reputation, roommate, gender disguise, dark humor, coming of age, manipulation, friendship, feminism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, light and semi serious films with plots about storytelling, culture clash, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, love story and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Tootsie: Working Girl (1988), Moonstruck (1987), Victor Victoria (1982), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Kissing Jessica Stein (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, captivating, light, inspirational, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
business, women, secretary, workplace, career, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, workplace romance, boss, love story ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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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 ⇓
100%
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, sexy, touching, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, cross dressing, nightclub, music, gender disguise, farce, dancing, gender bending, jazz, lgbtq, homosexual, private detective ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
paris france, chicago illinois, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, light, touching, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
cross dressing, divorce, nanny, comedy of errors, children, kids and family, family relations, custody battle, gender disguise, hidden identity, childhood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
lesbian, friendship, fall in love, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, lgbt, gay, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, women, jewish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Style:
humorous, feel good, stylized, light, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cross dressing, shakespeare, twins, mistaken identity, love triangle, comedy of errors, beach, disguise, sea disaster, couples, disorder, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, 1930s, 1890s, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
london, england, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
funny, sweet, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
single mother, love story, love, audition, dancer, actor, women, happy ending, divorce, fall in love, aspiring actor, true love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, california, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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:
feel good, light, sweet, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
single parent, opposites attract, one day, love and romance, architect, screwball, fall in love, love, girl, single mother, disorder, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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, feel good, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love triangle, rabbi, love story, priest, catholicism, jewish, friendship, love and romance, love, women, religion, judaism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style:
talky, sentimental, humorous, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbt, homosexual, gay interest, gays and lesbians, gay bar, gay bashing, lgbtq, homosexuality, christmas, gay slur, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, witty, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
fall in love, love triangle, love story, sarcasm, life philosophy, destiny, twists and turns, writers, shopping, love affair, love and romance, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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, sentimental, sweet, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
male female friendship, love and romance, autumn, friendship, best friends in love, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, love story, destiny, fall in love, life philosophy, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
feel good, romantic, funny, light, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, womanizer, love, love and romance, infidelity, dating, marriage, happy ending, midlife crisis, flirting, couples, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, couple relations, fall in love, love triangle, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, new jersey, vancouver, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to ...
Style:
sincere, feel good, sweet, romantic, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, multiple storylines, love, love story, adultery, divorce, cheating, hotel, relationships, bittersweet, lgbt, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, chicago illinois, manhattan new york city, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
Style:
romantic, funny, humorous, feel good, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids
Plot:
pregnancy, male female friendship, best friends, single parent, couples, love story, parenthood, unfulfilled love, childbirth, singleness, lifestyle, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, divorce, couples, love story, dysfunctional family, happy ending, honest, best friends, love, starting over, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
parenthood, fish out of water, advertising, switching roles, self discovery, family life, parents and children, fired from the job, relationship vs career, unfulfillment, misfit, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
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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, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
love, fall in love, happy ending, bookstore, internet, destiny, unlikely couple, online dating, rivalry, christmas, hidden identity, love story ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, love, true love, restaurant, male female relationship, waitress, ex convict, loneliness, love story, life philosophy, friendship, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
workplace, advertising, father daughter relationship, boss, unlikely friendships, father son relationship, business, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, rivalry, new job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
277K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Style:
witty, sexual, atmospheric, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, milf, adultery, love, wedding, forbidden love, college graduate, infidelity, graduate, relationships ...
Time:
60s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san francisco
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50%
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
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31%
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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:
christmas, love, fall in love, love triangle, love and romance, love story, holiday, loneliness, mistaken identity, hospital, new year's eve, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, chance meeting, love, hopes, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, nothing goes right, friendship, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Style:
funny, talky, clever, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
hotel, multiple storylines, farce, sarcasm, mentor, greed, marriage, adaptation, british, wine, infidelity, screwball ...
Time:
70s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, london, new york, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, jewish, love and romance, thirtysomething life, workplace, couple relations, self discovery, parents and children, unfulfilled love, eligible bachelor ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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, light, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
elderly, age difference, love triangle, golden years, love story, opposites attract, love and romance, older man younger woman relationship, couples, love, fall in love, unlikely couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, afghanistan, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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