Birthday movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant birthday movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, touching, clever, weird, feel good and realistic films and TV shows about / with birthday, friendship, dialogue, mentor, runaway, family relations, storytelling, catastrophe, love and destiny plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as birthday: The Kitchen (2012), All I Wish (2017), Toy Story (1995), Happy Birthday (2019), Onward (2020), The Bad Guys (2022), The Conversation (1974), Happy Death Day (2017), This Crazy Heart (2017), Koko-di Koko-da (2019).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Jennifer's thirtieth birthday party is supposed to be a special day. But what starts out as a day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated day Jennifer wishes she could forget, in this ensemble comedy set entirely in a kitchen.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
birthday, nothing goes right, food, disorder, family relations, dishonesty, friendship, siblings relations, infidelity, restaurant, wine, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.
Style:
romantic, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
birthday, marriage proposal, dating, birthday present, surprise birthday party, birthday party, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, elopement, self doubt, roommate, dancer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
santa monica california, usa, california, paris france, boston ...
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1.2M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from ...
Style:
touching, computer animated, feel good, funny, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
friendship, toys, childhood, rescue, toy comes to life, toy story, rivalry, wilhelm scream, birthday, loyalty, buddy, birthday present ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
usa, north america, ohio
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A mother of two gathers her loved ones to celebrate her birthday in her big house near the Loire Valley. The festivities are disrupted by the arrival of her daughter, who is known for her unpredictable outbursts.
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, captivating, crying
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
birthday, family relations, mother daughter relationship, family reunited, kids and family, brother sister reunion, mother daughter reunion, parents and children, family problems, relationships, insanity, lie ...
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185K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
Style:
feel good, sincere, modern fairy tale, fairy tale, computer animated ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, family friendly, kids
Plot:
brother brother relationship, elf, magic, teenage protagonist, fantasy world, teenage boy, cyclops, wizard, centaur, coming of age, dead father, creature ...
Time:
2020s, future, 2010s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the infamous Bad Guys are finally caught after years of countless heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
Style:
3d animation, entertaining, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
organized crime, gang, chase, pickpocket, animal that acts human, friendship, hacking, wolf, change of heart, piranha, snake, heist ...
Time:
future, 2020s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise on a two week cadet cruise is not making him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a life or death struggle when Khan escapes from years of ...
Style:
epic, futuristic, action adventure, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
star trek, revenge, self sacrifice, midlife crisis, space opera, space station, planet, teleportation, trap, alien, birthday, space battle ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, year 1982
Place:
space western
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, psychological, cerebral, political thriller ...
Plot:
surveillance, paranoia, character study, spy, conspiracy, loner, losing-it hero, loneliness, obsession, wiretap, murder, hotel ...
Time:
20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place:
bay area, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, horror for children
Plot:
time loop, time travel, college, college student, mystery killer, murder, dying repeatedly, twists and turns, repeated event, surprise birthday party, masked villain, masked killer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
arizona, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, sincere, touching, thought provoking
Plot:
heart disease, nouveau riche, father son relationship, male friendship, ambulance, birthday, teenage boy, father son conflict, punishment, hospital, friendship between men, recording studio ...
Place:
munich germany, berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style:
feel good, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.
Style:
dark comedy, suspense, tense, humorous, art house ...
Plot:
forest, hospital, time loop, camping, husband wife relationship, snow, loss of daughter, birthday, allergy, dog attack, death of child, little girl ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style:
black comedy, cerebral, dark comedy, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
dogme 95, family secret, incest, child abuse, hotel, haunted by the past, pedophile, suicide, birthday party, drunkenness, birthday, party ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, denmark
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255K
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Style:
teen, teen sex comedy, humorous, not serious, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, party, adolescence, youth, when the parents are away, teenage life, student, popularity, buddies, friends, birthday party ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california, new jersey
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360K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, laugh out loud, slapstick ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
lawyer, liar, father son relationship, lie, court, courtroom, dishonesty, change of heart, truth, ex husband ex wife relationship, trial, divorce ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, exciting, feel good, light ...
Plot:
birthday, widow, night watchman, fishing, pun, female nudity, shopping mall, birthday present, security guard, midlife crisis, anger, dancing ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Homa Haghi and her love are preparing with the Haghi family to surprise Homayoun, the father of her family on his birthday night. But when the father arrives, the whole family is surprised.
Style:
dramatic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
birthday, relationships, love, fundamentalism, dictatorship, revolution, totalitarianism, family relations, father, father and daughter, surprise, house ...
Time:
80s
Place:
iran, persia
Is relevant?
80K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.
Style:
humorous, not serious, teen sex comedy, teen, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
college, youth, friends, college life, college student, adolescence vs adulthood, nothing goes right, cell phone, three friends, homoerotic friendship, high school, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style:
feel good, touching, teen, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, teenage life, high school life, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, self discovery, female nudity, wedding, first love ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, california, seattle
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Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On his seventeenth birthday, Michael is given a present of a Ouija board by Tony his best friend. At a session, Tony using a medium known to him only as "Virgil", unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of the board. Soon there is a wave of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, retro, psychological horror, splatter ...
Plot:
ouija board, birthday, single mother, possession, blindness, death of sister, ouija, teenage boy, sex, funeral, premonition, sex scene ...
Place:
mexico city, mexico
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
assassination, tennis, russian mafia, corrupt politician, espionage, teacher, corruption, birthday party, politician, friendship, informant, bank ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, morocco, alps, london, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, sexy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father daughter relationship, teen angst, teenage rebellion, parent child relationship, friendship, older man young girl relationship, disco, classmate, middle class, coercion, loneliness, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.
Style:
humorous, 3d animation, funny, witty, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, preschool ...
Plot:
hotel, vampire, children, dracula, female vampire, fantasy world, frankenstein, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, halloween, werewolf, frankenstein's monster ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
transylvania, romania, california, north america, usa
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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
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA, UK
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make ...
Style:
epic, scenic, atmospheric, breathtaking, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, manly, chick flick ...
Plot:
sword fight, fantasy world, friendship, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, wizard, magic, middle earth, lord of the rings, mythology, hobbit, magical ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 2000s, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place:
iran, detroit, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
Style:
touching, clever, light, epic, weeping ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, toys, toy comes to life, magic, childhood, boy, child protagonist, toy soldier, native american, parallel world, escapades ...
Time:
90s, 18th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she has never done *it*. Another girl ...
Style:
sexual, teen, sexy, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, sexuality, lesbian relationship, lgbt, coming of age, gays and lesbians, teenage girl, teenage love, lesbian love, sapphic, lesbian teen, forbidden love ...
Time:
near future, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
indiana, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
Is relevant?
98K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, death, cancer, terminal illness, parenthood, immigrant, birthday, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, south america, iran, senegal ...
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