Movies like Waitress
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Waitress (2007)
51K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, sweet, romantic, witty, romantic comedy, culinary, humorous, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, domestic violence, small town, abusive husband, lovers, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, cooking and food, infidelity, marital problem, single mother, doctor, unplanned pregnancy, adultery, workplace, unhappy marriage, food, friendship, doctor patient relationship, diary, passion, gynecologist, secret relationship, female protagonist, cooking ...
Time:
90s, year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
southern usa, usa, california
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Most similar movies to Waitress
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, romantic and realistic films with plots about love story, mentor, dialogue, culture clash, love and romance, storytelling and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Waitress: Where the Heart Is (2000), Home Fries (1998), Mostly Martha (2001), Sideways (2004), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
touching, feel good, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, starting over, coming of age, small town, single parent, friendship, teenage pregnancy, power of love, down on your luck, youth, love and romance, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, maine ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, ...
Style:
dark comedy, romantic comedy, black comedy, rom com, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
infidelity, pregnant woman, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, dark humor, death, vengeance, murder, funeral, waitress, widow, motherhood ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
austin texas, texas, poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, food, cooking and food, love and romance, italian food, wine, happy ending, self discovery, family relations, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
germany, italy, france
Similarity:
100%
216K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style:
road movie, sentimental, dark comedy, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
road trip, wine, couples, vineyard, on the road, vacation, divorce, infidelity, food, affair, midlife crisis, wedding ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
small town, writers, divorce, love, passion, life, tourist, starting over, male female relationship, middle aged woman, friendship, vineyard ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
67%
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:
sentimental, sweet, teen, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, pizza, wedding, friendship, food, canceled wedding, adultery, pizzeria, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, heartbreak ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa, london, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style:
cute, humorous, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, age difference, divorce, single mother, family relations, parents and children, love affair, fall in love, writers, generation gap ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sweet, feel good, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
love story, best friends in love, love, happy ending, love and romance, friendship, bittersweet, photograph, nude model, loneliness, small town, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
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33K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
Style:
funny, rom com, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
wedding, wedding planning, confession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, male objectification, name calling, marital problem, up and down relationship, guest, reluctant partners, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
100%
37K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, preschool
Plot:
autism, asperger's syndrome, fall in love, shyness, love, happy ending, neighbor, disability, lovers, first love, mental illness, depression ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
37%
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, romantic comedy, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
divorce, womanizer, infidelity, marriage, love and romance, happy ending, love story, dating, relationships, flirting, mentor, family drama ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, usa
Similarity:
37%
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, romantic comedy, funny, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, women, love affair, looking for love, love story, couple relations, dating, singleness, infidelity, best friends in love, single woman, marriage ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how ...
Style:
romantic, light, sweet, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, artificial insemination, couple relations, fall in love, couples, love and romance, love story, lifestyle, sperm donor, woman urinating, interracial romance, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
36%
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:
touching, humorous, sexy, sweet, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, fall in love, love story, love and romance, parenthood, love triangle, relationships, wedding, widower, in love, single parent, destiny ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
Similarity:
36%
22K
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:
touching, sentimental, sweet, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
baby, adoption, babies and infants, career woman, single parent, motherhood, single mother, baby girl, women, fish out of water, love affair, starting over ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, vermont, manhattan new york city, usa, cleveland ohio ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, rom com, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, destiny, best friends in love, wedding preparations and rituals, love story, love and romance, true love, best friend, friendship, relationships, friends ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, london, new jersey ...
Similarity:
36%
570K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style:
touching, sweet, funny, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, adoption, high school, friendship, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, teenager, pregnant teenager, teenage girl, love and romance, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa, seattle, california
Similarity:
36%
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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, sexy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
wedding, best friend, love story, wedding preparations and rituals, women, unrequited love, love and romance, love triangle, friendship, male female friendship, amor, wedding planning ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york, madagascar, san francisco ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, 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, funny, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
love, love triangle, love and romance, love story, thirtysomething life, couples, looking for love, christmas, opposites attract, workplace romance, holiday, happy ending ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe, britain
Similarity:
35%
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:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
love story, dysfunctional family, couples, love, female protagonist, fall in love, marriage proposal, full moon, love triangle, love and romance, brother brother relationship, wedding ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
35%
92K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sincere, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
single parent, food, life, immigrant, housewife, relationships, infidelity, dysfunctional family, mother, parent child relationship, relationship problems, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, malibu california, mexico ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. ...
Style:
funny, sentimental, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, chick flick, date night, toddlers ...
Plot:
pregnancy, babies and infants, baby, babysitting, single parent, couples, accountant, baby boy, single mother, motherhood, taxi, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
Style:
romantic, intense, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, pregnancy, infidelity, midlife crisis, power of love, adultery, friendship, unhappy marriage, bachelor party, cheating wife, introspection, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
polynesia, wisconsin, usa, sydney australia, australia ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, teenager, love story, love, suburban life, shopping mall, depression, neighbor, believe in yourself, self discovery, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california, detroit, michigan, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
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, sweet, feel good, clever, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, parenthood, wedding, baby, marriage, midlife crisis, self discovery, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, yuppie, childbirth, dream ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
Similarity:
35%
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:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
35%
578K
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:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, love, holiday, multiple storylines, love story, love and romance, couples, fall in love, relationships, marriage, first love, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
35%
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:
romantic, touching, sweet, rom com, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, love, chance meeting, hopes, stranger, passion, husband wife relationship, jazz musician, life philosophy, love story, honest, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2014, y2k, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
Similarity:
35%
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