Movies like Beaches
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Beaches (1988)
31K
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:
sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sweet, inspirational, melancholic, realistic, talky, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot:
friendship, childhood friend, best friend, terminal illness, singer, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, female lawyer, death, life is a bitch, coming of age, dog, jealousy, single mother, letter, female protagonist, correspondence, husband wife relationship, death of friend, pet dog, argument, selfishness, pet cat, grief, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s, 1950s, 50s, 1960s
Place:
new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, manhattan new york city, los angeles, usa, miami ...
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Most similar movies to Beaches
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sentimental, realistic, touching and feel good films with plots about family relations, runaway, friendship, culture clash, storytelling, bittersweet and mentor mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Beaches: Terms of Endearment (1983), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Steel Magnolias (1989), My Girl (1991), Anywhere But Here (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
sentimental, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, death, adultery, husband wife relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, hospital, death of daughter ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
nebraska, houston texas, texas, new york, louisiana ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
sentimental, emotional, sad, melancholic, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, writers, drug addiction, single mother, small town, women, parenthood, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, california, new jersey
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:
sentimental, inspirational, sweet, sad, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, christmas, wedding, small town, southern belle, halloween, family relations, best friend, strong female character, life philosophy, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
91%
97K
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, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1972, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teen angst, teenage girl, high school, women, mother, single mother, family drama, love, woman woman relationship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
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:
feel good, teen, touching, romantic, cute ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, first love, female friendship, relationships, summer, teenager, teen romance, teenage love, love story, teenybopper ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
greece, south carolina, mexico, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style:
touching, independent film, emotional, teen, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cancer, adolescence, friendship, terminal illness, teenager, coming of age, dying, leukemia, friends, teenage boy, illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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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: 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:
touching, feel good, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, starting over, coming of age, small town, single parent, friendship, teenage pregnancy, power of love, down on your luck, youth, love and romance, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, maine ...
Similarity:
100%
24K
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:
sexy, witty, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
women, infidelity, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, fashion show, lesbian, woman in labor, female friendship, cheating ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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, lgbt cinema, erotic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
lesbian, aids, lgbtq, friendship, road trip, women, pregnancy, gay, hiv, female bonding, african american, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, pakistan, los angeles, new york, arizona ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, lifestyle, single parent, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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:
sentimental, sad, emotional, compassionate, reflective ...
Plot:
african american, life philosophy, food, relationships, family bonds, friendship, interracial friendship, love story, childhood, life, cooking, cancer ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 80s, year 1977, year 1980 ...
Place:
usa, boston, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
131K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock ...
Style:
touching, emotional, teen, tear jerker, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
love, hospital, teenager, teenage girl, teenage love, love and romance, teenage life, family drama, youth, death in the family, out of body experience, high school ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century, labor day
Place:
oregon, usa, san francisco, indianapolis indiana, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, country music, bittersweet, insomnia, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, tennessee, usa, memphis, nashville tennessee ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, boy, friendship, pregnancy, parents and children, punk, city life, estrangement, rehabilitation, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, vermont
Similarity:
100%
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, dramatic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, quadriplegic, musician, dying, life is a bitch, marital infidelity, young woman, character study, disability, family relations, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
ironic, talky, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, writers, family relations, love, midlife crisis, atheism, opera, audition, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
13K
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, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, death, afterlife, expectant father, family drama, reconciliation, childbirth, pregnancy, husband wife relationship, honest, self discovery ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, touching, sweet, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
divorce, black romance, friendship, african american woman, betrayal, black woman, black, female protagonist, adultery, gay husband, love story, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 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, cute, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adult child friendship, family relations, love and romance, mischievous children, obnoxious boss, fall in love, little boy, fish out of water, babysitting, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, connecticut ...
Similarity:
100%
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, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, couple relations, infidelity, writers, book, love, happy ending, crumbling marriage, teacher, passion, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
100%
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570K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
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:
touching, sweet, funny, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, adoption, high school, friendship, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, teenager, pregnant teenager, teenage girl, love and romance, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa, seattle, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style:
teen, sincere, stylized, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, teenager, family problems, parents and children, rebellious daughter, redemption, drinking, honest, secrets, confession ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
idaho, usa, salt lake city utah, san francisco, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, couple relations, teenage girl, teenage life, married man, coming of age, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family relations, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
12K
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:
sentimental, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, african american, black, child's point of view, family relations, school, parents and children, single parent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, tokyo, africa
Similarity:
100%
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:
romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, teenager, love story, love, suburban life, shopping mall, depression, neighbor, believe in yourself, self discovery, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california, detroit, michigan, los angeles, new jersey
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:
feel good, light, rom com, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, divorce, battle of the sexes, female protagonist, feminist, female bonding, friendship, feminism, breakup, dancing, older man younger woman relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, 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:
lyrical, melancholic, sentimental, visually appealing, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, singing, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, musician, jazz, black, dance ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2006, 20th century, 60s
Place:
michigan, detroit, los angeles, usa, las vegas ...
Similarity:
100%
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