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Road not taken movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant road not taken movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic and sentimental films and TV shows about / with road not taken, unfulfillment, hopes, couples, love and romance, family relations, christmas, holiday, love and christmas eve plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as road not taken: Sliding Doors (1998), The Family Man (2000), Eve's Christmas (2004), A Family Thanksgiving (2010), The Best of Me (2014), Being Erica (2009), Groundhog Day (1993), Edie (2017), Christmas Cupid (2010), 2046 (2004).
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List of road not taken movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Gwyneth Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
infidelity, choice, road not taken, destiny, multiple outcomes, time loop, breakup, time travel, parallel universe, love story, relationships, butterfly effect ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place:
london, england, europe, usa, tower bridge london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A wealthy and successful career woman gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiance to lead a business life in New York.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, time travel, wish come true, redemption, self discovery, one more chance, road not taken, love and romance, couples, family life, obnoxious boss ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer gets to see how her life would have turned out if she would have made other choices in life.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, christmas comedy ...
Plot:
thanksgiving, couple relations, couples, christmas, starting over, road not taken, family relations, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, love and romance, workplace, family gatherings ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, high school sweetheart, small town, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, young love, road not taken, teenage love ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, new orleans, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5, 2009 to December 12, 2011.
Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was originally announced by the CBC as The Session, but was retitled Being Erica before ...
Style:
sentimental, witty, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
time travel, therapy, self discovery, thirtysomething life, destiny, haunted by the past, changing the past or future, road not taken, therapist, lifestyle, psychology, loss of sibling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, inspirational
Plot:
senior citizen, road not taken, guide, old woman, mountain climbing, mountain, nature, elderly woman, ambition, elderly, ambitious woman, elderly man ...
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin ends up in a coma and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, cheerleader, ghost, scrooge, couples, road not taken, holiday, self discovery, introspection, supernatural, love and romance, redemption ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, georgia
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
sexy, emotional, atmospheric, visually stunning, philosophical ...
Plot:
writers, love, writer's life, destiny, road not taken, androids, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, memory, introspection ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2040s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, emotional, captivating, christmas horror ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
scrooge, christmas, ghost, christmas carol, self discovery, road not taken, human spirit, introspection, charles dickens, supernatural, family relations, disorder ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
167K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
love story, best friends in love, love, friends in love, best friend, couples, love affair, love and romance, youth, teenage pregnancy, single mother, true love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, england, los angeles, usa, boston ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, UK, Netherlands, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A rookie cop joins the crime branch of the Mumbai police department, and on his first assignment is faced with the dilemma of whether he should shoot a murder suspect who is attempting to escape or not.
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, tough cop, decision, idealism, destiny, road not taken, society, hopes, corrupt official, gangster boss, police, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, teaching the ways of the world, happiness, friendship, loneliness, midlife crisis, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nick's plan to let fate bring his wife to him must be altered because he must replace his father as Santa Claus on December 26. Ernst, the right-hand man to several generations of Santas, generates a list of potential mates. Nick dutifully sets ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
santa claus, christmas, holiday, hidden identity, road not taken, looking for love, family problems, fall in love, couples, love affair, family life, parents and children ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mr. Ho, "King of Gambling", got rich by gambling and is the leader of the Hong Kong Mahjong industry in the 1950's. He has three wives, two sons and one daughter. On the surface, the wives appear to be living in harmony but they ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
gambling, ambition, family relations, rivalry, betrayal, road not taken, elderly, dishonesty, family life, parents and children, family gatherings, couple relations ...
Time:
1950s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
friendship, beauty salon, family life, introspection, battle of the sexes, family problems, couples, couple relations, dull life, road not taken, parents and children, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Style:
emotional, serious, sincere, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, redemption, self discovery, haunted by the past, family problems, rehabilitation, family life, dysfunctional family, road not taken, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children ...
Place:
texas, usa, chicago
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, obsessive quest, homecoming, social differences, teaching the ways of the world, road not taken, family life, small town, best friend ...
Time:
future
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A week before Christmas, Paula finds herself struggling with bills and life with her blue-collar husband Gary and her two daughters. When Nick, her high school boyfriend returns to town, a wealthy art gallery owner, Paula wonders if she made the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, humorous, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, time portal, introspection, road not taken, miraculous event, wish fulfillment, couples, another dimension, winter, holiday, love, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
For Kathleen, Christmas has always been an unwelcome reminder of her father’s abandonment almost 30 years ago. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her. In the days leading up to Christmas un unforgiving blizzard traps ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, hopes, holiday, starting over, dysfunctional family, love and romance, single parent, couples, road not taken, parents and children, breakup, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
Plot:
female nudity, russian mafia, gangster, tough heroes, starting over, couples, dishonesty, road not taken, family life, hitman, russian roulette, nudity ...
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary can't afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. The surprise, uplifting ending is guaranteed to put even the ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, road not taken, hopes, obnoxious boss, redemption, boss and employee, ghost, disorder, family relations, family gatherings, family life ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A stressed out lawyer and mother of three gets her yuletide wish when she wishes to see what her life would be like if she had chosen to pursue her career in Law rather than marrying and becoming a working mother.
Style:
light, sincere, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
christmas, wish come true, road not taken, dull life, unfulfillment, hopes, starting over, holiday, escapades, heroes, love, teaching the ways of the world ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At a house party, a handsome man wanders around catching up with friends he has not seen for some years. A travel writer now based in Berlin, Andre appears to be living an exciting international life, and yet... something has drawn him back home to ...
Style:
serious, touching, talky, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, homecoming, love and romance, introspection, romantic relationship, one more chance, road not taken, unfulfillment, redemption, hopes, lifestyle, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
latin america, berlin germany, chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
christmas, human spirit, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, road not taken, parents and children, miraculous event, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross dress to find his knight in shining armour.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, friendship, aging, self discovery, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, betrayal, starting over, lifestyle, infidelity, road not taken ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia, dubai, london, united kingdom
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
George Murray's fiancée Jane Gardner gets cold feet after accepting his ring, terrorized by her first wedding with Doug, who cheated that very day with their wedding coordinator. After a car crash, George finds himself 10 years in the past, ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, sex comedy
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, wedding, love and romance, imaginary, couple relations, road not taken, hopes, changing the past or future, wedding planning, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, destiny ...
Time:
year 1999, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ryan is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where he encounters his Grandpa Randolph (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and a pretty girl named Melanie (Hayden ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sad, teen
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
youth, destiny, hopes, teenage life, friendship, young heroes, self discovery, grandparent grandchild relationship, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, road not taken, supernatural ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
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