Movies and TV shows like This Is Us
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This Is Us (2016)
173K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
Style:
sentimental, touching, thought provoking, sincere, saga, exciting, sad, heartbreaking, family saga, crying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adoption, childhood memory, childhood, husband wife relationship, parenthood, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, depression, teenage angst, siblings, self esteem, flashback, family relations, overweight, pregnancy, miscarriage, estrangement, addiction, grieving, grief, passion, passionate love, love interest, breakup, high school ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century ...
Place:
syria, vietnam, new york, los angeles, harvard university, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
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Most similar movies to This Is Us
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, humorous, realistic and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, love, teenager, parents and children, family, marriage and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like This Is Us: A Million Little Things (2018), Parenthood (2010), The Fosters (2013), Modern Family (2009), A Walk to Remember (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friend dies unexpectedly.
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, love, suicide, grief, extramarital affair, lgbt, adultery, family problems, infidelity, group of friends, gay, friend ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
boston
Similarity:
92%
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, teenage pregnancy, autism, large family, parenthood, family life, responsibility, family relations, couple relations, marital problem, adolescence, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, adoption, foster child, teenage life, foster home, troubled teen, gays and lesbians, lesbian mother, teenage girl, parenthood, supportive parent, step siblings ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
san diego california, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
534K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, funny, saga, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
everyday life, family relations, generation gap, gay, adolescence, gay adoption, family life, parents and children, couple relations, couples, mother daughter relationship, blended family ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, southern california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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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%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 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, touching, light, sincere, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, dating, dating show, women, male male relationship, male female relationship, unfulfillment, gay couple, passionate love, passion, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style:
feel good, funny, sweet, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, problem child, anger, substance abuse, amusement park, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
This new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.
Style:
sexy, sincere, talky, touching, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love interest, fashion, friendship, female nudity, sexual relations, sex, female friendship, love affair, dating, strong female presence, best friend, feminism ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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48K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.
Style:
sexy, humorous, witty, thought provoking, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, dating, couple relations, love and romance, junkie, hollywood, sex, friendship, marriage, relationship problems, fraud, female alcoholic ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After a distastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have is common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly ...
Style:
touching, romantic, rom com, entertaining, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
adoption, baby, love story, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, parenthood, love and romance, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, godparent, romantic friendship, love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, hawaii, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style:
captivating, surreal, sexual, dramatic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
funeral home, gay, dealing with death, hopes, dark humor, death, sibling relationship, depression, dysfunctional family, gays and lesbians, family drama, male male relationship ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, syria
Similarity:
21%
Genre: 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:
girls' night, teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, high school, coming of age, teenage daughter, first love, teenager, teenage girl, high school hunk, teen angst, adolescence, gay teenager, girl next door ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
393K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, coming of age, teenage sexuality, lgbt teen, youth, classmate, sex education, teenage life, couples, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england
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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Muñeca Brava is an award-winning Argentine telenovela, produced by Telefe in 1998 - 1999. The television series was broadcast in more than 80 countries over the world, enjoying high ratings.
The show was written by Enrique Oscar Torres and ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, light, soap opera, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
forbidden love, family relations, love and romance, intrigue, enemies to lovers, high society, social relations, siblings relations, orphan, sibling relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, sitcom, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, generation gap, childhood sweetheart, friends, coming of age, high school, first love, teenage life, dating, family relations, love and romance, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on The WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
child's point of view, family life, parents and children, suburban life, suburbs, society, religion, parenthood, family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
14%
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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, romantic comedy, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
divorce, womanizer, infidelity, marriage, love and romance, happy ending, love story, dating, relationships, flirting, mentor, family drama ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Style:
romantic comedy, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, writer's life, teenage love, writers, relationships, casual sex, dating, family drama, youth, love story, love, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, north carolina, usa
Similarity:
27%
97K
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, sincere, sentimental, sad, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay father, gay interest, grief, gay relationship, relationships, father son relationship, male male relationship, love, dog, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, year 1971, year 2003 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, seattle
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which began airing on Showtime in 2009. The series follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
mental illness, split personality, dissociative identity disorder, gay lead character, family drama, dysfunctional family, gay, self discovery, mental health, lgbt, family relations, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kansas
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, saga, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, high school, lgbtq, gay lead character, closeted gay, gay teenager, homosexual, gay relationship, gay interest, closeted homosexual, homosexuality ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Book of Daniel is a television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith, but it was controversial with some Christians. The show had been proposed for NBC's 2005 fall ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
church, family relations, addiction, moral dilemma, clergy, religions or cults, homosexual, priest, alcoholic, politics, friends, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the "help" of her old-school mom.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbtq, lesbian, feminism, lgbt, living together, single mother, family drama, family relations, depression, gay, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may ...
Style:
depressing, melancholic, psychological, sincere, dark comedy ...
Plot:
estrangement, adultery, gay, siblings, suicide attempt, depression, lgbtq, gay interest, lgbt, gay brother, mental illness, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, usa, los angeles, new york, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, women, childhood, adolescence vs adulthood, female friendship, youth, teenage life, adolescence, friends, children ...
Time:
90s, year 1970, year 1991, 70s, year 1995 ...
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A couple goes through a long, drawn-out divorce.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
divorce, relationships, marital separation, marriage, husband wife relationship, love and romance, family problems, crumbling marriage, marriage crisis, male female relationship, family drama, starting over ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
Story:
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters ...
Style:
soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
rivalry, family relations, family problems, couple relations, infidelity, family life, couples, power relations, lifestyle, betrayal, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
26%
695
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Get Real was a short-lived comedy-drama on the FOX Network centering on the fictional Green family of Los Angeles. It ran from September 1999 to April 2000. It starred Eric Christian Olsen and Anne Hathaway in very early roles, as the older siblings ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay lead character, gay, high school, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family relations, siblings relations, youth, love and romance, brother brother relationship, teenager, high school student ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, usa
Similarity:
25%
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