| Maria i Aschimi (2007) | 4.6 | |
| The Fall (2006) | 7.8 | |
| Penelope (2006) | 6.7 | |
| Special A (2008) | 7.2 | |
| 9-1-1 (2018) | 7.9 |
Ugly duckling movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ugly duckling movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining, feel good and romantic films and TV shows about / with ugly duckling, love and romance, coming of age, couples, makeover, love story, female protagonist, love, destiny and mentor plots mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ugly duckling: The Seagull's Laughter (2001), Not Born Beautiful (2005), Maria i Aschimi (2007), True Beauty (2020), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), That's Life (2005), She's All That (1999), I Am Betty, the Ugly Girl (1999), Ugly Betty (2006), My Sweet Fat Valentina (2002).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, humorous, dark comedy
Plot:
domineering mother, social differences, love affair, family relations, couples, culture clash, fish out of water, homecoming, parents and children, misfit, society, feminism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
iceland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Katya, a plain-looking girl, works as a secretary at the company Zimaletto, a manufacturer of uniforms and wedding dresses. No man has paid attention to her yet, but she doesn't allow her looks to keep her from dreaming about love and happiness.
Style:
romantic, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
Plot:
character change, career, friends, rich snob, fish out of water, love and romance, physical appearance, personality change, lifestyle change, outcast, contests and competitions, deception ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story:
Maria, i Aschimi is the Greek adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Betty la Fea. The series ran from 2007 to 2008 on Mega Channel in Greece. The series starred Aggeliki Daliani in the title role of Maria and Anthimos Ananiadis as the boss who ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
ugly duckling, female protagonist, workplace romance, love and romance, male female relationship, love, couples, love story, job, boss and employee, relationships, love affair ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Lim Ju-kyung is a high school student. Since she was little, she has had a complex about her appearance. To hide her bare face, Ju-kyung always wears make-up. Her excellent make-up skills make her pretty and she hides her bare face in front of ...
Style:
dorama, sincere, touching, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
love triangle, teenage life, teenage love, teen romance, opposites attract, asian, makeup artist, bullying, makeover, love, beauty, ugly duckling ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movie genre.
Style:
parody, teen sex comedy, spoof, sex comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, prom, teenager, cheerleading, adolescence, cheerleader, dumb, college, masturbation, lesbian sex, female masturbation, party ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Verliebt in Berlin is a Golden Rose-winning German telenovela, starring Alexandra Neldel, along with Mathis Künzler, Tim Sander, and Laura Osswald. It premiered on February 28, 2005, on Sat.1 in most of German-speaking Europe, with its final ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, romantic drama, soap opera ...
Plot:
fish out of water, fall in love, disorder, fashion, love and romance, abandoned, rise to the top, physical appearance, fashion industry, underdog, kindness, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, opposites attract, teen romance, youth, bet, fall in love, young love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage love, friendship ...
Time:
90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Yo soy Betty, la fea is a telenovela filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced from October 25, 1999 to May 8, 2001 by the Colombian network RCN. More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries. In ...
Style:
novela, realistic, soap opera, hispanic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
boss and employee, fashion, workplace romance, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, love and romance, workplace, workplace intrigue, new job, misfit, occupation, ugly duckling ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, hispanic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, workplace, lifestyle, power relations, obnoxious boss, couples, model, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, fish out of water, workplace romance, boss and employee ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, idaho, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A Venezuelan soap opera about a loving overweight woman(mi gorda bella) who has to over come the obstacles life has placed to be with her true love
Style:
soap opera, light, romantic, captivating, novela ...
Plot:
fat girl, true love, relationships, coping, love and romance, love story, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, obese, problem solving, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Danna Paola stars as Patito, Eleazar Gómez as Mateo, Violeta Isfel and Cynthia Klitbo, play antagonist roles as Antonella and Bianca. The telenovela features adult protagonists also, René Strickler and Vanessa Guzmán.
It first aired on Sunday, 8 ...
Style:
romantic, soap opera, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
love triangle, teenager, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, romantic friendship, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, love story, relationships, male female relationship ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a Japanese manga, "Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu," this story revolves around Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung), an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot ...
Style:
touching, humorous, romantic, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
plastic surgery, physical appearance, love and romance, looking for love, unrequited love, obesity, father daughter relationship, talent, self discovery, hidden identity, self fulfillment, changing lives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, east asia, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, age difference, love story, workaholic, love, cinderella story, love and romance, millionaire, couple relations, cinderella, sibling relationship, transformation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, long island, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, romantic, light, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, love, self discovery, couples, looking for love, true love, magical, fantasy world, love story, loneliness, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
britain, canada, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an ...
Style:
independent film, cult classic
Plot:
ugly duckling, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, go go dancer, stripper, nude model, artist, father, self confidence, mother, virgin, mirror ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mia Sampson's dreams to be a model come true when she's asked to pose for photographs to be displayed on an Internet website for "members only." However, when the owner of the website uses her pictures for exploitation purposes, ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, ambiguous ending, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
modeling, popularity, high school, teenager, gossip, jealousy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rise to the top, society, job offer, mother daughter relationship, loss of innocence ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Georgy has resigned herself to being one of life's accidents. She disapproves somewhat of her father's butlering James Leamington. She's tall, plump, sloppy and wistfully envious of what she conceives to be the life led by her ...
Style:
retro, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, pregnancy, swing, bittersweet, virginity, kitchen sink realism, forbidden love, ugly duckling, unwanted pregnancy, marriage proposal, butler, piano ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century, 70s
Place:
london, europe, england, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Queen of Housewives depicts the life of "naejo," housewives who devote their entire lives to their husbands' success, but with a more comedic and aggressive twist.
Style:
entertaining, light, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
husband and wife, friendship, marriage, wife, twists and turns, friends, relationships, ugly duckling, transformation, couples, society, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Comedy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Here Comes Fortune" is about the God of Fortune coming down from heaven to spread some love and wealth to humans in need. The movie is developed by talking about stories which took place in three cities: Shenyang, where a kind-hearted ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
love story, in love, god, love affair, love interest, satire, relationships, fall in love, male female relationship, love and romance, kindness, supernatural ...
Place:
china, shanghai, beijing china
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of ...
Style:
feel good, touching, fairy tale, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
teenager, high school, princess, coming of age, royalty, royal family, teenage life, teenage girl, cinderella story, best friend, fish out of water, queen ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, europe, usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Magic Riddle is a 1991 Australian animated feature film directed and written by Yoram Gross. The film's plot features elements of famous fairytales including Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio. ...
Style:
fairy tale, anime, independent film, 2d animation
Plot:
cinderella, little red riding hood, wolf, pinocchio, ugly duckling, snow white, girl, stepmother, female protagonist, villainess, female villain, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
We have Carina Lau has Selina the lead actress who is a psychoanalyst, who hang out with her friends (Athena Chu has a erotic story for woman, Yoyo Mung has a multi-restaurant owner who like the danger side, and Pinky Cheung whose dad is a triad ...
Style:
erotic drama
Plot:
friendship, relationships, psychoanalyst, urban, mature, female sexuality, seduction, sexual awakening, female empowerment, glamour, mother daughter conflict, fortune teller ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Style:
feel good, romantic, period piece, sweet, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family outing, teens, kids ...
Plot:
class differences, high society, fall in love, cinderella story, love and romance, makeover, love story, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, dancing, culture clash ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1930s
Place:
london, england, britain, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Family, Adventure, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's ...
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, romantic, light, costume drama ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens, date night
Plot:
cinderella, cinderella story, love and romance, fall in love, prince, evil stepmother, true love, beauty, wish come true, princess, fairy, young heroes ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, german democratic republic, czech republic, east germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A pint-sized cast illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, Bugsy Malone captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy ...
Style:
spoof, melancholic, stylized, talky, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
gangster, mafia, children, childhood, unlikely friendships, lone hero, rivalry, gang, disorder, partner, criminal heroes, ambition ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1976, year 1929 ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is obvious these are not the quiet professional types who *should* be living in such a nice ...
Style:
surreal, funny, cult classic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
neighbor, suburbs, satire, swamp, suburban life, dark humor, drinking, sex with neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, house fire, coming of age, crazy neighbor ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
california, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A reclusive scientist builds a robot that looks exactly like him to go on a long term space mission. Since the scientist seems to lack all human emotion he is unable to program them into his android and an eccentric woman is hired to ...
Style:
erotic, romantic, independent film, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
robot, transhumanism, happy ending, androids, cognitive science, wedding preparations and rituals, women's rights, alien, ugly duckling, science and technology, meeting, workplace romance ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage daughter, makeover, coming of age, father daughter relationship, single father, teenager, teenage love, dating, love and romance, family relations, child as adult, single parent ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
southern california, california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, witty, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, destiny, stockholm syndrome, angel, ransom, screwball, heaven, robbery, murder, unlikely couple, on the run ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
utah, los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their ...
Style:
rom com, hilarious, humorous, teen, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school reunion, women, high school, friendship, bullying, stereotypes, switching roles, female friendship, love and romance, self discovery, stupidity, adolescence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1997, year 1987
Place:
california, arizona, usa, los angeles, beverly hills ...
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