Movies like Surprised by Love

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Surprised by Love (2015)
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Surprised by Love (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of a young businesswoman who tries to convince her uptight parents to accept her current boyfriend and instead finds herself falling for an old high school flame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, emotional, sentimental, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, pretend relationship, parents and children, love and romance, family relations, fall in love, couples, disorder, in laws, jealousy, love, friendship, true love, holiday, happy ending, family gatherings, dog, chess, high school sweetheart, bully, boy, theft, smuggling, competition, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

Most similar movies to Surprised by Love

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, light and semi serious films with plots about fall in love, love and romance, couples, family relations, love, happy ending and holiday mostly in Romance, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Surprised by Love: Time Share (2000), To the Mat (2011), Holiday Engagement (2011), Window Wonderland (2013), The Prince & Me (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Time Share (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two single parents - male and female - along with their kids have to involuntarily share a house for their holidays.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: resort, fall in love, family relations, couples, disorder, single parent, parents and children, quibbling, 007, father figure, single father, single mother ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, munich germany
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To the Mat (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: To the Mat tells the story of a laid-back ex-wrestler (Ricky Schroder) who's trying to keep his family's down-and-out Southern wrestling school above water. When his mother hires an uptight Wall Street consultant from New York (Laura Bell ...
Style: humorous, light, sincere, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family business, couples, family relations, opposites attract, workplace, disorder, professional wrestling, small town, counselor, fall in love, wrestling, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Holiday Engagement (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, most specifically her judgmental mother, Meredith Burns, thus far without success. Part of that approval for Hillary is to marry the right man. That's ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, pretend relationship, thanksgiving, wedding, family gatherings, fall in love, deception, couples, fake relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, cons and scams ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Window Wonderland (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: With the Christmas season fast approaching, department store window decorator Sloan Van Doren is hoping to take over the recently-vacated head window designer spot but finds she has to prove herself by going up against rival Jake Dooley. As the two ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, workplace romance, family holiday, opposites attract, love triangle, rivalry, fall in love, workplace, workplace situations, contests and competitions, christmas romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Prince & Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige and Edward come from ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: college, love and romance, fall in love, prince, eligible bachelor, couples, cinderella story, opposites attract, graduation, princess, youth, royalty ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, denmark, wisconsin
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100%
Chance at Romance (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Samantha Hart is delighted when her online "Chance at Romance" to photographer Heath Madsen eventually results in Heath sending her a first class ticket to visit. Upon arriving for what she expects to be a romantic weekend, however, she ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, light
Plot: single father, widower, love, photographer, matchmaking, male female relationship, rivalry, family relations, love triangle, happy ending, escapades, friendship ...
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Be My Valentine (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Firefighter lieutenant Dan Farrell is a widower and single dad who isn’t looking for love. But a few weeks before Valentine’s Day, his team responds to a fire at a local florist and he can’t help but notice the pretty owner, Kate. When he ...
Style: disturbing, entertaining, captivating, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: valentine's day, single parent, happy ending, wooing, parents and children, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, lifestyle, escapades, friendship, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, phoenix arizona
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How to Fall in Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An accountant, who never quite grew out of his awkward teenage years, finds himself with a dating coach - she happens to be his high school crush as well. Thanks to his coach, he gets a pretty woman he has his sights on for some time, but realizes ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, heartfelt ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, accountant, fall in love, true love, physical appearance, couple relations, couples, teaching the ways of the world, happy ending, love interest, love affair, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Perfect on Paper (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Portland book editor Natalie Holland has chosen the wrong guy – another underachiever – once again. With her life going nowhere fast, she accepts a job offer from publisher and friend Avery Goldstein and moves to Los Angeles. A woman of depth ...
Style: light, romantic, feel good, lyrical, sweet ...
Plot: publisher, jealousy, competition, romancing partners, mentor, relationships, male female relationship, love and romance, career, lifestyle, fall in love, love story ...
Place: los angeles, portland oregon
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Puppy Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, single parent, pets, hopes, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
Midnight Masquerade (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Young businesswoman Elyse Samford's life takes a turn when she inherits Samford Candy, a multi-billion dollar corporation, from her retired father. A trademark infringement lawsuit against a rival company brings Elyse to Higgins Attorneys and ...
Style: modern fairy tale, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: rich woman poor man, lawyer, love, love and romance, friendship, rivalry, creativity, ambition, lifestyle, family relations, love triangle, fall in love ...
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Guess Who's Coming to Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jaded rock star Dax is found by New York paparazzi passed out in his car with a frozen holiday turkey in the passenger seat. In order to repair his tarnished image, Dax publicly agrees to grant a fan’s “Dear Santa” Christmas wish. To his ...
Style: humorous, touching, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town life, family relations, family gatherings, reverend, small town, disorder, love, christmas romance, writers, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, new york
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33%
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Shirin in Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, culture clash, family relations, fall in love, society, interracial marriage, love and romance, couples, friendship, parents and children, persian
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, persia, california, los angeles, beverly hills
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Bridal Wave (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: With her wedding day rapidly approaching, an anxious bride-to-be has doubts about her pending marriage. At a romantic island resort, she encounters a handsome kindred spirit and must now decide if her "perfect" fiancé is really her true ...
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wedding, love, nurse, resort, party, fall in love, unlikely couple, family relations, disorder, friendship, breakup, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Marry Me For Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Home for Christmas, single ad agency owner Marci fakes having a fiance to deflect mounting family pressure to get married.
Style: feel good, romantic, entertaining, light, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, black, happy ending, deception, love story, hidden identity, dishonesty, life philosophy, adaptation, love triangle, parents and children ...
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31%
For Better or For Worse (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Wendy is finally settling in to single life after the death of her husband. She runs a successful wedding planning company with the help of her friend Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged when Marco, a charming but irritating ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unlikely couple, couples, opposites attract, family business, family relations, disorder, wedding, fall in love, holiday, singleness, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Recipe for Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, cute ...
Plot: fall in love, food, relationship vs career, ambition, workplace situations, couples, school, starting over, celebrity culture, happy ending, cooking and food, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, paris france
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31%
Take-Away Romance (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Amelle and Noom are two young thirties are total opposites and that fate will bring. Serious She manager at Starbucks, and dynamic IT dilettante, smart, and apprentice comic. Both victims disappointments in love, they swore that it does take ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, couples, fall in love, love and romance, friendship, youth, society, hopes, happy ending, thirtysomething life
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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31%
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A December Bride (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Aspiring interior designer Layla is dreading the Christmastime wedding of her cousin who’s marrying Layla’s ex-fiancé. Although Seth is the one responsible for introducing the bride and groom, she begrudgingly accepts his offer to be her date ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, happy ending, pretend relationship, holiday, wedding, deception, christmas romance, looking for love, opposites attract, new love, fall in love, unlikely couple ...
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My Boyfriends' Dogs (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The owners of a small diner are surprised one rainy evening when, just after close, a young woman wearing a wedding dress with three dogs in tow begs to come into their restaurant. What follows is the young woman's retelling of how she arrived ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, looking for love, couples, pets, couple relations, unfulfillment, dog, wedding, animal, holiday, love, singleness
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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30%
A Taste of Romance (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Uptight French chef, Sara Westbrook, gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan and his ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, funny, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot: firefighter, restaurant, chef, food, love, rivalry, lifestyle, love and romance, cooking, cooking and food, love affair, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
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Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, looking for love, family relations, wedding, pets, fall in love, couples, disorder, family life, xmas, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Christmas Contract (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run the town’s annual Christmas Market together, but when she discovers Foster is bringing home a ...
Style: emotional, light, sincere, captivating, feel good
Audience: chick flick
Plot: christmas, holiday, writers, christmas romance, dinner, in laws, love, fall in love, xmas, couples, friendship, getting home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, louisiana
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29%
Trade Your Love (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sung-seok and Hae-joo, who have been under pressure of marriage, devise a scheme at their first meet; a fake wedding. They reach an agreement under the desire of not only being free from their parents’ meddling but carrying their secret future ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, semi serious
Plot: wedding, marriage, true love, contract, pretense, love and romance, family relations, father daughter relationship, wedding planning, mother daughter relationship, couples, opposites attract ...
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The Dognapper (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil, Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The day a man almost runs-over a puppy, he meets the love of his life. The couple and their dog live the dream, until she wants out.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, dog, disorder, friendship, love and romance, breakup, couple relations, love, cousin cousin relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, male nudity, drunk ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Best Christmas Party Ever (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With the holidays approaching, a young party planner arranges a special Christmas party for a New York toy store. When a powerful corporation threatens to shut her down, she decides to follow her heart, moving forward with the party plans and ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, light, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: christmas, rivalry, christmas romance, opposites attract, ambition, fall in love, love, male female relationship, friendship, love affair, love and romance, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Christmas Wish (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana a wooden wishing box is placed in the park as a Christmas tradition. After a night out together, Maddie encourages her sister Faith to put a wish in the box - a wish to experience true love ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, sweet, disturbing, emotional
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, male female relationship, love affair, opposites attract, adaptation, friendship, happy ending, love, promise, lifestyle, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Summer to Remember (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: ER doc Jessica loves her job, but not the hours. Meeting Trevor, a dashing surgeon, when they arrive in Fiji, Jessica also strikes up a friendship with Will, the charming co-owner of their resort. As Jessica notices how Trevor is a workaholic, she ...
Style: light, humorous, captivating, feel good, emotional
Plot: love, family relations, relationship vs career, fall in love, resort, doctor, summer, widow, couples, happy ending, medical examination, competition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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