Movies and TV shows like Pushing Daisies

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Pushing Daisies (2007)
 8.4
 59K
Pushing Daisies (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
Style: feel good, offbeat, detective, sentimental, touching, cliffhanger, surreal, atmospheric, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: impossible love, supernatural, supernatural ability, unfulfilled love, death, murder, dog, private detective, partner, couple relations, unlikely relationship, young man, secret, magic realism, loneliness, couples, superhero, strong female lead, food, afterlife, friendship between men, murder mystery, super powers, trippy, grief ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 21st century, 1960s, contemporary
Place: seattle
Keyword: partners, compilation

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Most similar movies to Pushing Daisies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, touching and semi serious films and TV series with plots about supernatural, love, love and romance, friendship, couples, fall in love and magic mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Pushing Daisies: Wonderfalls (2004), Dead Like Me (2003), The Good Place (2016), Amelie (2001), Edward Scissorhands (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.3
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Wonderfalls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004. The show centers on Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, surreal, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, good deed, niagara falls, disorder, young woman, youth, imaginary, heroine, boss, young man, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
 8.1
 44K
Dead Like Me (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dead Like Me follows a group of undead grim reapers tasked with shepherding the recently departed into the afterlife.
Style: witty, sentimental, black comedy, cynical, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, dealing with death, double life, family problems, dark humor, unfulfillment, young man, loser, workplace, tragic event, parents and children ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 187K
The Good Place (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 1303 min.
TV show
Story: Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: afterlife, karma, ethics, paradise, heaven, self sacrifice, utopia, hell, death, female protagonist, deception, community ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 791K
Amelie (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: loneliness, love, magic realism, fall in love, imagination, female protagonist, cafe, love and romance, optimism, lifestyle change, surrealism, life ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, freak, social misfits, love and romance, inventor, love story, teenage girl, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 8.0
 457K
Big Fish (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: fish, journey, surrealism, father son relationship, fantasy world, storytelling, childhood, loneliness, mermaid, magic realism, magic, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place: texas, usa, alabama, paris france, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style: romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: ghost, afterlife, love story, unlikely couple, impossible love, coma, initially antagonists, supernatural romance, supernatural, doctor, happy ending, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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 7.8
 74K
iZombie (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve ...
Style: witty, semi serious, suspenseful, detective, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, female protagonist, supernatural ability, murder, law enforcement, police detective, police investigation, morgue, hidden identity, fighting crime, partners against crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.
Style: ironic, psychological, detective, intellectual, captivating ...
Plot: clue, time travel, private detective, murder investigation, unstoppable, hallucination, investigation, strange person, superpower, government agent, partner, magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.2
 4K
Hello Again (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until ...
Style: semi serious, offbeat, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: supernatural, zombie, hospital, death, magic, love, meeting, teen angst, back from the dead, reincarnation, supernatural romance, parents and children ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 21K
Drop Dead Diva (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: law firm, afterlife, body swapping, overweight, reincarnation, lawyer, supernatural, fat girl, angel, model, life after death, back from the dead ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 5K
Oh My Ghost (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Na Bong Sun may be a skilled sous chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the ...
Style: captivating, touching, dorama, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot: ghost, memory loss, friendship, couples, love and romance, possessed human, shaman, employer employee relationship, romantic relationship, workplace situations, supernatural, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cha Dae-woong (Lee Seung Gi) accidentally releases a troublesome gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails, sealed inside a painting by Grandma Samshin . Fleeing the scene, Dae-woong suffers a life-threatening fall and is only saved by the gumiho ...
Style: captivating, light, feel good, sincere, dorama ...
Plot: couples, supernatural, supernatural romance, hidden identity, fox, disorder, fish out of water, legend, society, friendship, mythical creature, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 680K
Groundhog Day (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style: feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot: time loop, existentialism, small town, groundhog day, winter, time travel, time warp, time, life philosophy, redemption, fall in love, repeated event ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, persia, america, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 115K
Emily in Paris (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When ambitious Chicago marketing exec Emily unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris, she embraces a new life as she juggles work, friends and romance.
Style: humorous, romantic, sweet, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: marketing, love, love and romance, female protagonist, love interest, roommate, women, friendship, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, chef ...
Time: future
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The 10th Kingdom (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 417 min.
TV show
Story: Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White's grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself ...
Style: fairy tale, exciting, scenic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot: magical, magic, good versus evil, fairy, journey, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, friendship, imaginary, supernatural, parallel universe, supernatural ability ...
Place: usa, virginia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Every Witch Way (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows 14-year-old Emma Alonso, as she moves to Miami and her life turns upside-down. Not only does she discover that she is a witch, she also has a crush on the boy next door, Daniel. But Daniel’s ex-girlfriend Maddie, who is an ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen fantasy
Plot: high school, teenage love, witch, supernatural ability, high school life, magic, youth, chosen one, love and romance, imaginary, fall in love, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min.
TV show
Story: She is no ordinary woman. Do Bong Soon is a woman who possesses Herculean strength. She can crush objects in her bare hands when she holds them too tightly. Although Bong Soon longs to be a dainty, elegant woman that men fall in love with, she ...
Style: romantic, exciting, touching, sweet, dorama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, superhuman powers, friendship, fall in love, investigation, police, couple relations, heroes, female bodyguard, kidnapping, danger, destiny ...
Place: korea, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Miracle Workers (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to destroy the Earth, two low-level angels must convince their boss to save humanity. They bet him they can pull off their most impossible miracle yet: help two humans fall in love.
Style: ironic, humorous, feel good, anthology, satirical ...
Plot: god, friendship, satire, fantasy world, angel, partner, outside help, topical humor, social satire, relationships, workplace situations, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Joan of Arcadia (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi, who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8–9 p.m. on CBS and CTV for two ...
Style: sentimental, touching, witty, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: teenage life, chosen one, friendship, supernatural, youth, first love, small town, parents and children, high school, belief, strong female character, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 105K
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style: feel good, psychological, romantic, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: loneliness, writer's block, bittersweet, writers, dream, redheaded woman, life philosophy, mental illness, novelist, manic pixie dream girl, family relations, success ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit psychic Ashley and gives her Kate's diary. Ashley uses the journal's details to ...
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, melancholic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, love story, ghost, wedding, love triangle, fall in love, psychic, impossible love, haunted by the past, angel, looking for love, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.8
 157K
The Lake House (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural, impossible love, couples, architect, pen pal, autumn, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, letter ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.1
 234K
Ghost (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, love story, ghost, love, love and romance, supernatural, life & death, psychic, death, supernatural romance, impossible love, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, persia, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. ...
Style: atmospheric, light, suspenseful, gothic, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: vampire, high school, supernatural, supernatural ability, chosen one, female protagonist, vampire slayer, good versus evil, coming of age, vampire human love, teenager, girl power ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 19th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
When Shall We Kiss? (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The chronicles of the lives of young urban adults in Budapest.
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: looking for love, couples, love and romance, love affair, unfulfilled love, lesbian, lgbtq, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Light in Your Eyes (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Time manipulation comes with a steep price for a young woman, who becomes 78 years old overnight after using a mysterious watch.
Style: suspense, humorous, touching, suspenseful, dorama
Plot: alzheimer's disease, dementia, friends, friends in love, supernatural power, unfulfilled love, male female friendship, love affair, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.9
 36K
Modern Love (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 513 min.
TV show
Story: Over eight standalone episodes, the series explores love in its multitude of forms – including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self love.
Style: anthology, romantic comedy, light, touching, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: women, love, relationships, dating, dating show, unfulfillment, male female relationship, love and romance, love affair, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Leyla and Mecnun (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, surreal, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: social differences, parents and children, young man, poverty, taxi driver, family relations, society, love, kurd, muslim, true love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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