Movies like Beaches
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Beaches (1988)
29K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Style:
heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, realistic, talky, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
friendship, childhood friend, best friend, singer, terminal illness, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, honest, grief, death, love and romance, rise to the top, dog, jealousy, single mother, girl, letter, female lawyer, female protagonist, correspondence, husband wife relationship, pet dog ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s, 1950s, 50s, 1960s
Place:
new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, los angeles, manhattan new york city, usa, miami ...
Keyword:
oldies, jewish
Most similar movies to Beaches
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and semi serious films with plots about friendship, family relations, women, mother daughter relationship, love, friends and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Beaches: Terms of Endearment (1983), Steel Magnolias (1989), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), P.S. I Love You (2007), My Girl (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place:
texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, single mother, small town, women, writers, grownups, teenage girl, pregnant teenager, parenthood ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, grief, letter, life philosophy, lost love, family relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
88K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sad ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, teenager, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, single parent, children, kids and family, single father, family relations, love ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1991, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like The Notebook
23K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into ...
Style:
entertaining, witty, humorous, light, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
infidelity, women, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, family problems, lesbian, society, fashion show, female friendship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style:
stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
547K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style:
funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, revenge, battle of the sexes, friendship, female protagonist, female bonding, feminism, women, dancing, breakup, feminist, suicide ...
Time:
90s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, mother, teen angst, love, family drama, single mother, teenager, bittersweet, small town, daughter ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Movies like The Devil Wears Prada
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, teen, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, first love, friendship, teenager, summer, female friendship, teenage love, teen romance, group of friends, relationships, love story ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
greece, south carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time:
90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place:
usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style:
sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, starting over, small town, coming of age, teenage pregnancy, single parent, friendship, youth, love and romance, power of love, family relations, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, single parent, lifestyle, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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La La Land similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style:
touching, sexy, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, black romance, women, betrayal, black, female protagonist, adultery, african american woman, love story, infidelity, best friend ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, friendship, boy, pregnancy, parents and children, estrangement, city life, punk, rehabilitation, youth, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style:
road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
lesbian, aids, friendship, women, road trip, pregnancy, gay, hiv, lgbtq, female friendship, on the road, female bonding ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, san diego california, tucson arizona, pakistan, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war two, vietnam war, women, music, friendship, christmas, fame, world war, concert, dancer, violent content, profanity ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 50s
Place:
vietnam, korea, england, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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500 Days of Summer related movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style:
touching, realistic, romantic, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, love story, love, suburban life, teenager, depression, neighbor, self discovery, believe in yourself, homecoming, passion ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california, detroit, michigan, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, teen, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, women, friendship, love story, coming of age, best friend, relationships, college, greek island, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vermont, greece, connecticut, rhode island, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry ...
Style:
touching, lyrical, inspirational, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
songwriter, music, music industry, existentialism, loneliness, showbiz, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, rise and fall, self discovery, rock and roll ...
Time:
year 1996, 70s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
divorce, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, ex husband ex wife relationship, female musician, family relations, singer, rock star, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, aging, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa, chicago, indianapolis indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies similar to The Fault in Our Stars
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
nanny, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, girl, teenage girl, friends, family relations, self discovery, initially antagonists, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style:
sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time:
70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place:
usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, lyrical, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, dying, quadriplegic, life is a bitch, marital infidelity, character study, disability, musician, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
120K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, stylized, exciting, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, music, nightclub, ambition, dancer's life, love affair, father daughter relationship, nightlife, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, dance ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, family relations, adult child friendship, mischievous children, obnoxious boss, parents and children, love and romance, little boy, fish out of water, fall in love, babysitting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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