Second chance movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant second chance movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, feel good, romantic, emotional, light and entertaining films and TV shows about / with second chance, kiss, love and romance, male female relationship, christmas, happy ending, love, female protagonist, love story and marriage plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as second chance: Forever My Girl (2018), Three Days (2001), Autumn Dreams (2015), The Notebook (2004), Familiar Wife (2018), Christmas Scavenger Hunt (2019), A Valentine's Match (2020), Second Chance (2016), Second Chances (2013), Love in the Vineyard (2016).
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List of second chance movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
Style:
romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
second chance, country singer, happy ending, illegitimate child, fiancee, enemies to lovers, couple relations, glory, relationships, father daughter relationship, country music, hometown ...
Place:
new orleans, nashville tennessee, london, florida, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating
Plot:
angel, death of wife, second chance, marriage, christmas, holiday, snow, love and romance, husband wife relationship, winter, death, afterlife ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With plans to leave their small town, teenage loves Annie and Ben elope. Their big city plans are halted, though, when Annie's parents have the marriage annulled. Ben moves to New York, while Annie stays in Iowa to help her family. Fifteen ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, second chance, marriage, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex-lover, wedding planning, love and romance, husband wife relationship, disorder, battle of the sexes, odd couple, divorce ...
Place:
iowa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
One unexpected choice can change everything about your life.
Cha Joo Hyuk works at a bank and has been married to Seo Woo Jin for five years. When a strange incident happens one day, Joo Hyuk makes a decision that impacts his life and those around ...
Style:
dorama, thought provoking, sweet, contemplative, romantic ...
Plot:
second chance, time travel, marriage, office worker, adulthood, new life, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, fish out of water, self esteem, time traveler, aging ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Belinda heads back to her hometown for the holidays, things get complicated when she is forced to team up with her ex at the town's annual Christmas scavenger hunt.
Style:
romantic, sweet, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, second chance, christmas eve, ex-lover, christmas romance, ex boyfriend, christmas season, love and romance, old friend, chance meeting, christmas spirit, christmas party ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Making up for her sins in a past life as the evil princess Elise, Aoi Takamoto dedicates her life to saving people as a doctor. But a fatal accident cuts her atonement short, and suddenly, she's back to her previous life, 10 years before her ...
Style:
anime, medical drama, psychological, captivating
Plot:
doctor, second chance, reincarnation, medicine, female doctor, female protagonist, arranged marriage, save the kingdom, past life, heroine, surgeon, royal court ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fired from her job as a reality TV host, Natalie returns home for Valentine's Day, only to find herself running the town festival's auction with her ex-fiancé thanks to two scheming mothers.
Style:
romantic, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, old love, second chance, love and romance, male female relationship, love story, happy ending, celebration, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, moral dilemma ...
Place:
portland oregon, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists, as a 35-year-old with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, futuristic, serious ...
Plot:
superhuman, genius, resurrection, second chance, father son relationship, scientist, reanimation, investigation, human experiment, supernatural, friendship, secret ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her two kids, Elsie and Luke. Although still reeling from her divorce, Jenny can’t help but flirt when she gets emergency calls from Jeff, a local ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, sincere, cute ...
Plot:
firefighter, boy, single mother, good deed, therapy, chore, male female relationship, needing money, love and romance, everyday life, life philosophy, single parent ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Real estate rising star Molly, who breaks up with Jackson, a smitten but seeming underachiever, on Valentine’s Day because he may have lied to her. Molly moves to New Mexico for a high-profile promotion and soon finds herself close to being ...
Style:
entertaining, light, captivating, romantic
Plot:
valentine's day, vineyard, second chance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, love triangle, couple relations, love and romance, romantic triangle, love story, relationships, romantic rivalry ...
Place:
northern california, new mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Many years ago, a young woman named Min Hui fell for a young man named Xin Qi. They dreamed of spending the rest of their lives together and had even planned to marry. But things between them became complicated. Xin Qi suffered from a dangerous and ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, satirical
Plot:
lovers reunited, second chance, lovers apart, relationships, male female relationship, love story, problem, in love, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, love interest, couple relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Dateless for the Christmas ball, 39-year-old bachelor, King Charles of Baltania, tracks down his American college sweetheart, only to discover Allison has never been married, yet raised a 17-year-old daughter, Lily, who mathematically might be ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, entertaining, feel good, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, king, royalty, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, second chance, parents and children, family reunited, hopes, social differences, teenage girl, christmas party ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Shadowbrokers are those who go unnoticed, posing as unremarkable people, when in truth, they control everything from behind the scenes. Sid wants to be someone just like that more than anything, and something as insignificant as boring reality ...
Style:
anime, captivating, suspenseful, parody, tense ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
isekai, second chance, life, secret organization, reincarnation, magic, assassin, power, undercover, secret, harem, nudity ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Lacey takes a rare break from work for her friend Ava's Christmas Eve wedding, she reconnects with her former flame, Ean. The two decorate the cottage where the newlyweds will spend their honeymoon – a cottage said to bring true love to ...
Style:
sweet, light, funny, feel good, romantic drama
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, holiday, second chance, love, christmas season, winter, love affair, friendship, love and romance, opposites attract, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Following an unexpected breakup weeks before Christmas, Hannah, tech wiz and creator of the dating app, Perfect One, heads home for the holidays, challenged to save her failing business by re-conceiving a new romantic dating model. Upon her return ...
Style:
romantic, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, high school sweetheart, christmas eve, holiday, love and romance, christmas romance, small town, homecoming, father daughter relationship, love letter, second chance, starting over ...
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
After a rebellion overthrows the Tearmoon Empire, Princess Mia meets her demise by guillotine at just 20 years old. She awakens eight years in the past, given a second chance at life. Haunted by her memory of the guillotine, the princess sets out to ...
Style:
anime, captivating, sincere, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
emperor, second chance, isekai, time travel, politics, guillotine, empire, reincarnation, princess, female protagonist, swordplay, school ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past - to the time before she met her ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama ...
Plot:
second chance, time loop, female protagonist, relationships, time travel, time paradox, love story, death of girlfriend, time jump, back in time, starting over, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A fallen queen, Jiang Xue Ning who aspired to have the highest power and authority in her life was held hostage by rebels after the king, Shen Jie was poisoned. In this life she used everyone around her to reach the authority of the queen but at the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, historical drama, emotional, costume drama ...
Plot:
palace intrigue, second chance, power struggle, royal court, reincarnation, revenge, betrayal, royalty, ambition, female protagonist, rebirth, scheming ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A pair of high school sweethearts, Grace (Rena Sofer) and Michael (Dean McDermott) are reunited after 20 years apart at their school reunion. Sparks fly as the two catch up but it's not that simple as Grace is taken by safe, reliable Philip and ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, emotional
Plot:
high school sweetheart, high school reunion, second chance, ex-lover, true love, friendship between men, love and romance, love triangle, lifestyle, friendship, ex boyfriend, competitiveness ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story:
Kungtari is a small village at the border between North and South Koreas. Those that are exhausted, worn out or hurt people come here to find hope. Lee Bo Mi was enjoying her life as a New Yorker until she was deported due to her criminal history. ...
Style:
dramatic, melancholic, captivating, suspenseful, heartfelt ...
Plot:
second chance, adoption, betrayal, countryside, foster child, single father, hopes, interracial adoption, village, remote village, small village, identity crisis ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, skinny dipping, high school, teenage love, couples, one more chance, family relations, youth, parents and children, teenage life, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 2000s
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Misa has been a supporting character all her life, blindly trusting her best friend and husband. When she discovers their affair, the betrayal results in her death. Waking up ten years in the past, Misa vows to become the main character of her own ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, suspense, psychological, dramatic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, second chance, betrayal, time travel, female protagonist, self discovery, infidelity, female empowerment, time loop, travel, marriage, love triangle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
John Beckers gains one last chance from his wife Marjan and their two children to get his life back on track. After a visit to rehab, John starts his new job at the freight company of his father-in-law. The port of Antwerp is a whole new world for ...
Style:
tense, suspense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
second chance, family relations, redemption, drug trade, family problems, confronting the past, starting over, relationship problems, dark past, conspiracy, male female relationship, tragic past ...
Place:
belgium, antwerp
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Feeling disconnected with her teenage son, a protective mother decides to step outside of her comfort zone and take him camping. But as soon as she arrives, she begins butting heads with her cabin neighbor, a single father and outdoorsman who is ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
happy ending, fall in love, overprotective mother, single parent, second chance, chance meeting, father daughter relationship, teenager, parents and children, forest, fish out of water, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After being fatally injured in a car crash, a man is given three months back on earth to make amends.
Style:
captivating, exciting, thrilling, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
second chance, death, redemption, assistant, lifestyle, changing lives, fight, forgiveness, personal growth, mortality, supernatural, regret ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Et si c'était possible de faire marche arrière dans le temps pour modifier le cours des événements et changer sa destinée? Et si une deuxième chance nous était offerte? Et si c'était possible grâce à Plan B - Le jour où Philippe ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
changing the past or future, second chance, time loop, time warp, sent to the past, starting over, time traveler, travel, regret, time jump, aftermath, time ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Brie Traverston is up for partner at her firm if she can successfully coordinate a Christmas wedding reshoot and ignore all the feelings that come with working with the one-that-got-away Eddie Chapman and his possibly new girlfriend Isabella.
Style:
romantic, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas romance, wedding, christmas, second chance, ex-lover, wedding ceremony, ex boyfriend, fashion photographer, fashion magazine, wedding planning, male female relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Ethan, always the nice guy, wakes up in a new reality at Christmas. Initially, he is enthralled with his new life but soon realizes that it's not what he thought it would be.
Style:
thought provoking, reflective, captivating, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
christmas, husband wife relationship, human nature, fish out of water, transformation, relationship vs career, introspection, character change, bittersweet, rich snob, second chance, existentialism ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Raquel, a 13 year old living in Queens, NY, struggles to make sense of her life after the deportation of her parents. Things quickly change upon the arrival of a new teacher and the return of her young uncle.
Style:
touching, contemplative, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
second chance, teacher student relationship, new teacher, missing mother, broken family, children, loneliness, coming of age, missing father, middle school, latina, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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