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Collateral Beauty (2016)
109K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Style:
twist ending, sad, sentimental, tear jerker, touching, compassionate, romantic, poignant, rom com, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loss, anguish, group therapy, death, grief, life philosophy, christmas, solitude, co worker co worker relationship, going crazy, father daughter relationship, christmas eve, anger, ex husband ex wife relationship, tragedy, justice, life & death, redemption, time, betrayal, cancer, loneliness, friendship, male protagonist, mental health ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, china, new york, united states, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Collateral Beauty
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, emotional, romantic and sentimental films with plots about dialogue, love, destiny, love story, bittersweet, mentor and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Collateral Beauty: Seven Pounds (2008), The Best of Me (2014), Remember Me (2010), Dying Young (1991), Me Before You (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, philosophical, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, motivation, true love, sacrifice, existentialism, life & death, melancholy, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, high school sweetheart, small town, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, young love, road not taken, teenage love ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, new orleans, canada
Similarity:
100%
162K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style:
sad, romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, 9/11, relationships, death in the family, family drama, love, suicide, young love, loss of sibling, love and romance, dealing with death, death ...
Time:
year 2010, september 11 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
new york, iran, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sad, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, life & death, love story, love, forbidden love, leukemia, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
oakland california
Similarity:
100%
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329K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, caregiver, quadriplegic, death, enemies to lovers, euthanasia, handicapped, relationships ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, paris france, switzerland, mallorca ...
Similarity:
100%
2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style:
sad, emotional, romantic, teen, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, teenage love, dying, youth, love and romance, relationships, last wish, fighting illness, dealing with death, virginity ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
brighton, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style:
romantic, touching, inspirational, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, teenage love, love, first love, youth, teen romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, southern usa, virginia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, redemption, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, destiny, metaphysics, hell, love, fantasy world, female artist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, lost love, letter, grief, life philosophy, widow ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
100%
179K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, best friends in love, love story, male female friendship, couples, friends in love, friendship, relationships, life philosophy, opposites attract, best friend ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
iran, scotland, london, paris france, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
widow, redemption, betrayal, starting over, love and romance, haunted by the past, hopes, love, guilt, advertising, aviation, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, philosophical, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
love, afterlife, dealing with death, love and romance, life & death, love at first sight, lifestyle change, impossible love, life philosophy, supernatural, supernatural romance, mysterious character ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love story, true love, middle age romance, couples, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, inn, family drama, summer vacation ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love story, true love, terminal illness, older man younger woman relationship, love, age difference, couple relations, older man young girl relationship, autumn, couples, opposites attract, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, love story, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, life, tragic love, cancer, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, fall in love, college, tragedy, death, true love, ice hockey, love story, dying young, graduation, cancer, tragic love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, paris france, boston, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style:
bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Similarity:
12%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, romantic comedy, light, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
florist, grief, happy ending, family drama, love story, motivational speaker, life philosophy, love and romance, unfulfillment, writer's life, love affair, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
seattle, new jersey, hawaii, new york
Similarity:
23%
158K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, feel good, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
opposites attract, waitress, christmas, orphan, passion, tragedy, heart disease, couples, love, love and romance, rescue, attempted rape ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, minnesota, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love story, destiny, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, sea voyage, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
happy ending, radio, loneliness, single parent, couples, love and romance, love story, looking for love, life, destiny, starting over, love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1992, year 1991
Place:
seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, washington state, baltimore ...
Similarity:
22%
38K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style:
sad, psychological, romantic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, teenage love, youth, teenager, opposites attract, first love, love story, teen romance, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, starting over, couples, love story, happy ending, cheerleading, love, betrayal, family problems, divorce, single father, bullying ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, chicago, california ...
Similarity:
22%
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