Movies like The Cobbler

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The Cobbler (2014)
 5.8
 60K
The Cobbler (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Style: sentimental, feel good, entertaining, stylized, surreal, semi serious, touching, uplifting, intellectual, mysterious ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: shoemaker, lone hero, supernatural ability, family business, justice, disorder, workplace, body swapping, lifestyle change, self discovery, down on your luck, fashion, magic, fantasy world, magic realism, magical, fish out of water, crime fighter, mafia, art, witchcraft, switching bodies, impostor, grief, mobster ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
Keyword: jewish, body, gangsters, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, disorder, love and romance, hopes, magic realism, profanity and love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Cobbler: Click (2006), A Thousand Words (2012), Bruce Almighty (2003), 50 First Dates (2004), The Fisher King (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.4
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Click (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style: inspirational, hilarious, humorous, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, wish come true, alternate reality, architect, wish fulfillment, stopped time, dysfunctional family, redemption, employer employee relationship ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place: new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Thousand Words (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: life & death, guru, change of heart, workplace, life philosophy, buddhist, liar, family relations, life turned upside down, imaginary, communication problem, existentialism ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 431K
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Grace, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, light, hilarious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: god, divine intervention, religion, wish come true, supernatural power, deal, selfishness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, miraculous event, chosen one, job promotion, moon ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 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 ⇓
100%
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The Fisher King (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Style: psychological, touching, compassionate, inspirational, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: self discovery, friendship, insanity, mental illness, redemption, transformation, homelessness, holy grail, tragic event, radio, guilty conscience, medical ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 331K
Liar Liar (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: lawyer, father son relationship, liar, lie, court, change of heart, courtroom, divorce, trial, ex husband ex wife relationship, truth, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 25K
Down to Earth (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After dying before his time, an aspiring comic gets a second shot at life... by being reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likable businessman.
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, redemption, mistaken identity, disorder, fish out of water, supernatural, couple relations, fall in love, angel, black, millionaire ...
Place: usa, new york, new zealand, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 233K
Big Daddy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Style: funny, sentimental, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: adoption, child's point of view, parenthood, immaturity, single father, responsibility, childhood, orphan, adolescence, slacker, children, mentor ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 6.8
 119K
The Family Man (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style: feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: christmas, midlife crisis, road not taken, destiny, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, lost love, fish out of water, lifestyle change, time travel, family relations ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place: new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ana Maria is having a bad day until she magically switches places with the main character of her favorite telenovela. As she struggles to escape from Novela Land, Ana Maria finally understands why her real life was such a mess.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, telenovela
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, parallel world, family relations, fish out of water, disorder, imaginary, switching roles, twentysomething life, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 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 ⇓
27%
Still Breathing (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, self discovery, destiny, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, eccentric family, dream, magic, relationships, passion, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1997
Place: los angeles, texas, usa, california, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.3
 112K
Little Nicky (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his thrown to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, not serious, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: devil, fish out of water, imaginary, heaven, dark humor, father son relationship, hell, satanist, love affair, escapades, brothers, family relations ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Defending Your Life (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, heaven, life & death, reincarnation, death, fall in love, courage, destiny, courtroom, life, starting over, past life ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
12 Wishes of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman whose dog was taken by her landlord follows her life coach's instructions to make 12 wishes for a better future, and watches in surprise as each of those wishes comes true in this Christmas fantasy for the entire family. Laura was ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, life turned upside down, wish come true, workplace, hopes, nothing goes right, best friend, disorder, down on your luck, love and romance, life is a bitch, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the ...
Style: touching, inspirational, entertaining, melancholic, light ...
Plot: magic, small town, magic realism, ethnic conflict, justice, greed, unlikely friendships, small town life, village life, politics, culture clash, racial tension ...
Time: 80s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.2
 24K
The Week Of (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, funny, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: wedding, family relations, parents and children, disorder, friendship, happy ending, dialogue, doctor, youth, love and romance, escapades, wedding party ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 7.5
 136K
Pleasantville (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, visual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, utopia, siblings relations, american dream, fantasy world, small town life, parallel universe ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: america, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Style: compassionate, sentimental, surreal, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor, redemption, life philosophy, depression, family drama, hospital, life is a bitch, parents and children, introspection, dark humor, chases and races, heartwarming ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, philosophy, existentialism, satire, lesbianism, insanity, body swapping, mind control, magic realism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Wish I Was Here (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style: independent film, touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, tragedy, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, happy ending, redemption, cancer, actor's life, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.0
 38K
Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: adoption, happy ending, custody, orphan, couple relations, couples, parents and children, fashion, love, teenage girl, parenthood, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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A Christmas Switch (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Christmas works its magic in this body-switching holiday tale about two very different moms who find that help is where you least expect it, and most need it. When struggling singer Audrey and wealthy record executive Julia collide at the mall, they ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, body swapping, female singer, aspiring singer, female protagonist, holiday, christmas season, family values, family relations, life philosophy, fish out of water, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Family Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style: feel good, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: biracial, self discovery, family drama, family relations, justice, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, interracial relations, racism, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: arkansas, america, chicago, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 78K
Ghost Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, haunted by the past, doctor, psychic, selflessness, self involved, untimely death, supernatural ability, character change ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 223
Mo (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, family problems, disability, optimism, hopes, society, social misfits, parents and children, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Butcher's Wife (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in ...
Style: sweet, light, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, true love, supernatural, magic, clairvoyant, psychic power, family relations, unfulfillment, fall in love, couple relations, butcher, psychic ...
Time: year 1991
Place: new york, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Father of Invention (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a faulty product landed him in prison, an arrogant inventor is determined to restore his reputation and rebuild his fortune. But first, he has to convince his estranged daughter that he's worthy of a second chance.
Style: entertaining, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: business, family relations, father daughter relationship, inventions and discoveries, parents and children, technology gone awry, redemption, disorder, nothing goes right, fish out of water, lifestyle, father and daughter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.1
 57K
Winter's Tale (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Style: romantic, stylized, fairy tale, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: angel, power of love, fall in love, love and romance, true love, supernatural ability, love story, imaginary, magic, supernatural, good versus evil, cancer ...
Time: year 2014, 19th century, year 1916
Place: grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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