Movies and TV shows like Gilmore Girls

If you like "Gilmore Girls" you are looking for feel good, realistic and humorous movies or TV shows about / with small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist and small town life themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in USA.
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
 8.2
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, light, satirical, deep, comedy drama ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life, student, youth, social relations, friendship, parents and children, female friendship, lifestyle, family relations, love and romance, private school, teenage girl, verbal byplay, family life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
Keyword: compilation, oldies

Most similar movies to Gilmore Girls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films and TV series with plots about youth, teenager, family relations, teenage life, teenage girl, love and romance and high school mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Gilmore Girls: Lizzie McGuire (2001), Reba (2001), Hart of Dixie (2011), Bunheads (2012), Life Unexpected (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 370 min.
TV show
Story: Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
Style: humorous, talky, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, dating, thirtysomething life, family relations, single mother, mother and daughter, three generations, parents and children, family life, everyday life, love, female friendship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.6
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Lizzie McGuire (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Lizzie McGuire is an American live-action teen sitcom, which features an animated version of the title character performing soliloquy. The animated sequences were interspersed with the show's live-action sequences. It premiered on the Disney ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: youth, female protagonist, friendship, teenage life, family relations, siblings relations, school, teenager, middle school, high school, popular girl, teenage girl ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 17K
Reba (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After her dentist husband of 20 years leaves her for his dental hygienist, Reba Hart's seemingly perfect world is turned upside down.​
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: teenage pregnancy, single mother, dentist, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family problems, couples, youth, save the day, pregnancy, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 2000s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first ...
Style: romantic, feel good, teen, touching, cute ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first love, friendship, teenager, summer, female friendship, teenage love, teen romance, group of friends, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, south carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Movie in collections
 7.7
 56K
Hart of Dixie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, lifestyle change, small town life, lifestyle, doctor, social relations, female doctor, young woman, neighbor, fish out of water, clinic, doctors and patients ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, hawaii, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 7.6
 9K
Bunheads (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl, impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law's dance school.
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: ballet, dancer, dance school, lifestyle, starting over, lifestyle change, dancing, small town life, small town, women, hopes, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Life Unexpected (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life Unexpected is a coming-of-age family drama that centers around 16-year-old Lux, who was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baze, the ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, foster child, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, foster home, teenage life, parents and children, teenage girl, immature, adopted daughter, proposal, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 87K
One Tree Hill (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the fictional small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, this teen-driven drama tells the story of two half brothers, who share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school life, couples, high school, couple relations, girlfriend, friendship, teenage life, youth, teenage love, friends, basketball, family relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Ed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, funny ...
Plot: bowling, small town, homecoming, looking for love, starting over, working class, old love, workplace situations, social relations, couples, old friend, workplace ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Boy Meets World (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: high school, family relations, coming of age, college, teachers and students, teenage life, high school life, supportive parent, siblings relations, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
My So-Called Life (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 912 min.
TV show
Story: The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.
Style: sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, female protagonist, first love, teenage daughter, teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, high school hunk, teen angst, adolescence, girl next door, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 96K
The O.C. (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled youth from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as ...
Style: touching, soap opera, witty, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: couples, sexual activity, high school life, classmate, teenage life, coming of age, youth, teenager, teenage love, troubled teen, first love, college ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Princess Protection Program (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom, Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is taken under the wing of General Joe Mason, an agent from the agency, and his daughter, Carter, who works after school ...
Style: feel good, humorous, teen, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: teenager, princess, high school, friendship, youth, teenage life, best friend, school, teenage girl, parents and children, royal family, father daughter relationship ...
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 37K
Parenthood (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family drama, family life, parenthood, teenage pregnancy, responsibility, autism, family relations, large family, couple relations, adolescence, marital problem, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 12K
Good Witch (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Cassie Nightingale, Middleton’s favorite enchantress, and her young-teenage daughter Grace, who shares that same special intuition as her mom, welcome Dr. Sam Radford and his son to town. When the New York transplants move in next to the Grey ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, light, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: witch, small town, supernatural, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, good witch, social relations, imaginary, teenage life, friendship, single parent, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tibet, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
True Jackson, VP (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: True Jackson, VP is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon from November 8, 2008 to August 20, 2011. The series starred Keke Palmer, Ashley Argota, Matt Shively, Danielle Bisutti, Greg Proops, Robbie Amell and Ron Butler. The theme ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: fashion, teenager, best friend, friendship, disorder, lifestyle, power relations, rise to the top, boss and employee, workplace, overnight success, workplace situations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 155K
Glee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, gay, coach, teenage life, youth, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, outcast, teenage girl, gay teenager, music band ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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Friends (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5280 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, family outing, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot: friendship, looking for love, everyday life, best friend, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, group of friends, couples, sex life, friends, roommate ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. ...
Style: witty, humorous, sexy, soap opera, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: housewife, female friendship, neighbor, suburban life, family life, social relations, investigation, lifestyle, friends, couple relations, family relations, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, mother, teen angst, love, family drama, single mother, teenager, bittersweet, small town, daughter ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.2
 33K
Suburgatory (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Single father George Altman is doing his best to raise his sixteen-year-old daughter Tessa in the big city. When he discovers a box of condoms in her bedroom, though, he decides the time has come to move her to a more wholesome and nurturing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: teenage life, suburban life, neighbor neighbor relationship, suburbs, family relations, youth, parents and children, everyday life, teenager, single parent, social relations, fish out of water ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 25K
Greek (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Casey Cartwright is poised to become the most powerful girl in the Greek system. Rusty, her little brother, is new on campus and he's the geek. But he sees Cyprus-Rhodes University as an opportunity to create a whole new identity.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, witty, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: fraternity, college, teenager, youth, sorority, college life, friendship, student, party, dating, lifestyle, social relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Wonder Years (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988, following ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII. The show achieved a spot ...
Style: touching, sitcom, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, generation gap, childhood sweetheart, friends, high school, first love, teenage life, coming of age, family relations, love and romance, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 4K
Unfabulous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Unfabulous is an American children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon. The series is about an "unfabulous" 7th Grade middle school student named Addie Singer, played by Emma Roberts. The show, which debuted in late summer ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sitcom
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: teenager, middle school, children, popular girl, friendship, lifestyle, youth, teenage love, best friend, love and romance, friends, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What I Like About You (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Valerie Tyler is a 28-year-old organization freak who loves her 16-year-old sister Holly. Even if Holly is rambunctious. Spontaneous. Impulsive. Disconcerting. And definitely disorganized. Then Holly moves in with Val, and the sisters discover they ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, witty, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: family relations, looking for love, roommate, sibling relationship, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, first love, teenage life, sister sister relationship, couples ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 46K
Awkward. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. ...
Style: humorous, light, realistic, sitcom, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage girl, popularity, teenage life, shyness, youth, high school life, friendship, self esteem, classmate, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Northern Exposure (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.
Style: offbeat, realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: small town, small town life, fish out of water, medical, native american, cold weather, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, doctors and patients, moose, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.5
 15K
Everwood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town life, doctor, small town, father son estrangement, first love, crush, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.2
 3K
One on One (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: One on One is an American sitcom that aired on the now-defunct UPN from September 3, 2001 to May 15, 2006. The series stars Flex Alexander as a single sportscaster, who becomes a full-time dad when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: african american, high school, black, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, single parent, disorder, mischievous children, love and romance, high school life, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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