Movies and TV shows like Touched by an Angel
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Touched by an Angel (1994)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della Reese, as her supervisor Tess. Throughout the series, Monica is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives. From season three on, they are frequently joined by Andrew, the angel of death.
Style:
inspirational, semi serious, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, spiritual
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
angel, religion, hopes, supernatural, good deed, miraculous event, human spirit, destiny, working undercover, religions or cults, faith, christian, employer employee relationship, friendship, afterlife, spirituality, fugitives, slice of life, young heroes, society, philosophy, supervisor, truth, revelation, friend ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century, 1990s
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Touched by an Angel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, feel good, semi serious and humorous films and TV series with plots about hopes, family relations, friendship, youth, miraculous event, imaginary and supernatural mostly in Drama, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Touched by an Angel: Highway to Heaven (1984), Heaven Sent (1994), Field of Dreams (1989), What If... (2010), The Christmas Candle (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The series aired for five seasons, running a total of 111 episodes. It was shot entirely in California.
Style:
serious, uplifting, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
angel, guardian angel, odd couple, redemption, friendship, supernatural, fish out of water, good deed, unlikely partners, partners, hopes, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
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83%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and ...
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
juvenile delinquent, teen rebel, youth, miraculous event, angel, teenage boy, teenager, hospital, near death experience, shoplifting, doctor, basketball ...
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestial being named Yvette, who enlists Kevin with a ...
Style:
funny, sincere, captivating, colourful, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
good deed, angel, sister, niece, mission, escapades, friendship, life philosophy, family relations, small town, twists and turns, hopes ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sweet, sad, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, ghost, hearing voices, sport, regret, farm, small town, father son relationship, farmer, time travel, supernatural, magic realism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iowa, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, light, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
spirituality, fish out of water, angel, christian, family relations, religious, disorder, family life, lifestyle, destiny, miraculous event, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, feel good, sentimental, fairy tale
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, miraculous event, village, angel, social relations, hopes, clergy, society, religions or cults, faith, christian, christianity ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Lassie is a Canadian television series which aired from 1997 to 1999 on YTV in Canada and Sunday nights on the Animal Planet network in the United States, as a modified remake of the original Lassie series about a boy and his faithful dog. As with ...
Style:
sweet, entertaining, inspirational, clever, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, animals, dog actor, pets, friendship, animal life, human spirit, human animal relationship, best friends, getting home, hometown, adventurer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
mentally challenged, friendship, human spirit, alcohol abuse, family problems, human nature, misfit, redemption, optimism, parents and children, small town, cause and meaning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ryan is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where he encounters his Grandpa Randolph (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and a pretty girl named Melanie (Hayden ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sad
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
youth, afterlife, teenage life, friendship, self discovery, young heroes, grandparent grandchild relationship, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, destiny, road not taken, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An unforgiving sun, a parched earth, and a failed economy have left a small Texas town desolate. For ten years Promise, Texas has known nothing but one curse after another. It's barren, broken, and dying, leaving a town full of despair. When a ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, disturbing, art house, suspenseful
Plot:
angel, boy, hopes, coming of age, christian, faith, religion, youth, miraculous event, mysterious stranger, small town, church ...
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Heaven Is for Real similar movies
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A terminally-ill boy's life is saved when his deceased 400-year-old friend, "Mr. Rice", leads him on a treasure hunt to find a magical "Potion of Life".
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, friendship, human spirit, hopes, coming of age, treasure hunt, friends, exhumation, saving a life, celtic, family relations, old man ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
holiday, christmas, afterlife, youth, supernatural, heaven, god, supernatural romance, wish come true, ancient history, death in the family, destiny ...
Time:
1st century b.c.
Place:
jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan (Alison Elliott) leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
mute or deaf, disability, teachers and students, blindness and impaired vision, teacher, dedicated educator, human spirit, lifestyle, education, teacher student relationship, blind character, deaf ...
Time:
90s, victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.
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exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
angel, supernatural ability, apocalypse, good versus evil, rivalry, chaos, society, destiny, religions or cults, supernatural, superhuman powers, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
TV show
Story:
When an oracle prophesizes that a child will become Prince of Egypt, a time of danger approaches the kingdom. The Egyptian Pharaoh orders the massacre of all newborn males. But one child, Moses-the son of a Hebrew slave-escapes certain death when he ...
Style:
biblical, serious, epic, exciting
Plot:
bible, religion, hopes, rescue, human spirit, against the odds, destiny, heroes, redemption, leadership, siblings relations, moses ...
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job, however, during His mission, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, road movie ...
Plot:
optimism, human spirit, society, miraculous event, human nature, hopes, chosen one, faith, religion, god, religions or cults, unlikely partners ...
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family life, family relations, youth, parents and children, unemployment, supernatural, friendship, miraculous event, stupid kid, dog, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jake loves living in Chicago but when big city violence hits a little too close to home his parents buy a campground in rural Minnesota and move the family there. Jake hates living at the campground until he meets Peter, the boy across the river. ...
Style:
christian film, feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, hopes, rebelliousness, countryside, getting home, river, christian, faith, father son relationship, christianity, death of grandmother, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, stylized, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
youth, puppet, pinocchio, family relations, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, parents and children, surrogate father, child in peril, escapades, miraculous event ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
TV show
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The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, serious, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
racism, african american, civil rights, blaxploitation, art, education, disney, school, interracial relations, power relations, injustice, urban ghetto ...
Time:
60s
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A talented but self-absorbed surgeon starts questioning his purpose in life when he is visited by the spirit of his deceased ex-wife.
Style:
uplifting, sincere, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
hospital, ghost, afterlife, supernatural romance, supernatural, ambition, teaching the ways of the world, surgery, life turned upside down, good deed, workaholic, materialism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Good Witch Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) is back to her bewitching ways, but this time she’s also juggling a newborn daughter and her job as town Mayor. With such a busy schedule she and her husband, town sheriff Jake Russell (Chris Potter), ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, sincere, light, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
witch, social relations, small town, mysterious character, supernatural, save the day, good witch, magic, heist, false accusation, friendship, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
After her mom's death, Casey pulls away from everyone in her life, including her emotionally distant dad. With help from a magic spell, she tries to bring her mother back from the dead; instead, Casey's words accidentally awaken one of her ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, mischievous children, american football, teaching the ways of the world, teenage girl, child's point of view, intergenerational friendship, friendship, doll, teenager, slice of life, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young girl tries to prove that the mysterious old lady next door is really an angel, when some of the neighborhood kids’ Christmas wishes. Olivia is not like most fifth graders. She is being raised by Melinda, a single mother who works at a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
youth, single parent, christmas, wish come true, holiday, parents and children, friendship, family relations, friends, christmas eve, faith, christian ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dolphins, animals, young heroes, hopes, friendship, animal life, human spirit, summer, youth, destiny, child, mother son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cassie Nightingale (Bell) finds herself with only days to plan her stepson Brandon's (Knight) wedding to Tara (Leggat) when the happy couple unexpectedly pushes up the date for their big day. Meanwhile, Martha (Disher), the newly elected mayor ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, uncover truth, family relations, small town, supernatural, good witch, magic, witch, christmas, wedding, wizards and magicians, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style:
touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, young heroes, small town, orphan, friends, change of heart, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, victorian era, 1910s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Can Santa's daughter turn naughty to nice and save Christmas?
Style:
touching, uplifting, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, family life, heroic mission, eccentric family, save the day, mischievous children, one last chance, disorder, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a teenager receives a mysterious letter in the mail, she sets out to find the author. It's a journey that will change her life forever.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
honesty, teenage life, youth, friendship, family relations, parents and children, aging, rebelliousness, religions or cults, father daughter relationship, christian, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disney, afterlife, redemption, youth, family relations, guardian angel, couples, hopes, love and romance, human spirit, unfulfillment, gangsters ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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