Movies like Maggie's Plan
If you like "Maggie's Plan" you are looking for romantic, melancholic and satirical movies about / with writers, marriage, relationships, loneliness, friendship, divorce and hotel themes of Comedy, Drama and Romance genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Maggie's Plan (2015)
18K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?
Style:
romantic, melancholic, satirical, talky, stylized, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching, teen, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, marriage, relationships, loneliness, friendship, divorce, hotel, blended family, marxism, ex husband ex wife relationship, eccentricity, character study, stepmother, university, love affair, professor, family relations, death of mother, advisor, love triangle, husband wife relationship, gambling, father daughter relationship, fall in love, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, quebec, california
Keyword:
american, butter, danish, new yorker, gangsters
Most similar movies to Maggie's Plan
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, romantic and humorous films with plots about friendship, telephone call, love and romance, friend, mother daughter relationship, kiss and husband wife relationship mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Maggie's Plan: Frances Ha (2012), On the Rocks (2020), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), Gloria Bell (2018), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Subscribe for New and Better Recommendations
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Style:
mumblecore, black and white, realistic, poignant, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female friendship, best friend, relationships, friendship, coming of age, bittersweet, loneliness, female protagonist, dancer, self discovery, direction and purpose, dancing ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, sacramento california, paris france, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, marriage, playboy, infidelity, flirting, wealth, suspicion of adultery, lesbian, husband wife relationship, adultery, love, party ...
Place:
canada, los angeles, manhattan new york city, new york, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, touching
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
middle age romance, dating, dancing, dysfunctional relationship, middle aged man, ex husband ex wife relationship, drinking, friendship, lie, friend, breakup, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2019, year 1986
Place:
las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Also search:
Crazy, Stupid, Love. related movies
21K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Style:
touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, unfaithful wife, love and romance, extramarital affair, polyamory, cheating on husband, couples, cheating wife, relationships, love affair, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, sex addict, battle of the sexes, introspection, family problems, love affair, dishonesty, friendship, loneliness, adultery, sex, girl ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style:
light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
realistic, talky, melancholic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Also search:
Movies similar to It's Complicated
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, human nature, crumbling marriage, estrangement, eccentric family, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, dealing with death, bookstore, snow ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot:
starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, feel good, rom com, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, single father, love story, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, male female friendship, father ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, year 1994, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Style:
romantic, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, loss of father, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, friend, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
los angeles, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot:
friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Also search:
Don Jon related movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, shopping, midlife crisis, maid, money problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, looking for love, women ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
39K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
psychological, independent film, semi serious, mumblecore, sincere ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, depression, starting over, self fulfillment, fall in love, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies, escape from reality ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Style:
satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, age difference, fall in love, divorce, single mother, couple relations, family relations, love affair, parents and children, writers, generation gap ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
147K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
95K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Style:
touching, sad, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, grief, homosexuality, gay father, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, self discovery, lgbt, dog, bittersweet, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 1950s, year 1978, 2000s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Also search:
Before Sunrise related movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen ...
Style:
romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
lesbian, friendship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian romance, looking for love, lgbtq, lifestyle, glbt, women, gay, sapphic ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, ...
Style:
melancholic, touching, independent film, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
relationships, friendship, coming of age, multiple storylines, couples, writers, love, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, writer's life, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style:
romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
single father, parenthood, love triangle, fall in love, love story, relationships, love and romance, love, widower, father daughter relationship, wedding, single parent ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
Style:
romantic, funny, talky, humorous, light ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, friendship, workplace, honest, relationships, storytelling, loneliness, coming of age, character study, office, romantic relationship, love ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Also search:
Films like Under the Tuscan Sun
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Style:
tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, actor, aging, life turned upside down, dark humor, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love and romance, love affair, female professor, psychiatrist patient relationship, veterinarian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, new england, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style:
meditative, philosophical, sentimental, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, couple relations, existentialism, relationships, love story, divorce, conversation ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place:
greece, mediterranean sea, paris france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, looking for love, college graduate, female nudity, female pubic hair, college, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
love story, elderly, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love triangle, mature woman, opposites attract, love and romance, aging, couples, love, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot:
sleepwalking, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, mental disorder, road trip, biopic ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, philadelphia, ohio, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Subscribe for New and Better Recommendations