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Plot Summary:
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, funny, light, sweet, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous
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The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Plot Summary:
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. Max accepts, and returns to earth, equipped with special powers. However his task is harder than expected, especially when 7 years old Tobi demands that he marry his mother. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, scary, unusual plot structure, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, surreal, splatter
Similar in 81%
Down to Earth (2001)
Plot Summary:
After dying before his time, an aspiring comic gets a second shot at life... by being reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likable businessman.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, melancholic, absurd, feel good, semi serious, romantic, black comedy, romantic comedy, psychotronic
Similar in 85%
Switch (1991)
Plot Summary:
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny, inspirational, sex comedy, parody, anamorphic, feel good
Similar in 83%
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Plot Summary:
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 90%
Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, witty, thought provoking, spiritual, sad, romantic comedy
Similar in 82%
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Plot Summary:
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the wedding. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, sex comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 89%
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Plot Summary:
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sweet, emotional, sentimental, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, fairy tale, humorous, semi serious, light
Similar in 82%
Palm Springs (2020)
Plot Summary:
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, feel good, entertaining, touching, twisted, light, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy
Similar in 76%
Defending Your Life (1991)
Plot Summary:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet, light, spiritual, semi serious, funny, cult classic
Similar in 81%
Splash (1984)
Plot Summary:
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, fairy tale, touching, romantic, funny, romantic comedy, sweet, light, entertaining
Similar in 88%
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Plot Summary:
After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit psychic Ashley and gives her Kate's diary. Ashley uses the journal's details to convincingly deliver the fake message that Kate wants Henry to move on. However, Kate's ghost is watching over Ashley and Henry. Furious when they fall for each other, she vows to sabotage their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, romantic, light, melancholic, funny, feel good, humorous, semi serious, cute, teen
Similar in 82%
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, cute, teen, entertaining, sweet
Similar in 89%
Just My Luck (2006)
Plot Summary:
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, entertaining, teen, cute, funny, humorous, slapstick, happy
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Plot Summary:
When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. The experience changes his attitude and allows him to reconnect with his first and only love, Jenny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, romantic comedy, funny, light, cute, teen, feel good, sentimental, philosophical
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Ghost Town (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, sentimental, witty, not serious, funny, romantic, sweet
Similar in 89%
The Rebound (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram's family thinks he's wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time since her children where born. It isn't long when Aram and Sandy find they get along wonderfully and start to date. But the question is: is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, entertaining, funny, sexy, humorous, teen, sex comedy, psychological
Similar in 78%
Always (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young successor. While doing so, Pete also smoothes the course of romance for his earthly girlfriend who, after several months of grieving, finally falls in love with another man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense, feel good, mystical, sad, powerful, indie film
Similar in 78%
Made in Heaven (1987)
Plot Summary:
A romantic, occasionally funny, drama about two souls who consummate their marriage literally in "Heaven". Mike Shea, in his first life dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. Shortly after arriving in "Heaven" he meets a new soul, Annie Packert, who has never lived on Earth before. The drama centers around their separation soon after being wedded and the burning question is whether they will reunite on Earth before time runs out or whether they are fated to eternal soul-searching.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, spiritual, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, independent film, sentimental, light, romantic
Similar in 88%
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, feel good, light, funny, touching, sweet, entertaining, humorous
Similar in 77%
Heart and Souls (1993)
Plot Summary:
A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, entertaining
Similar in 80%
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, humorous, surreal, touching, sweet, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, bleak
Similar in 85%
The Back-up Plan (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good, touching, funny, teen, semi serious, cute
Similar in 76%
Nine Months (1995)
Plot Summary:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, funny, hilarious
Similar in 86%
Groundhog Day (1993)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 670000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental, hilarious, surreal, clever, funny, sweet
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Kate & Leopold (2001)
Plot Summary:
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time Kate spends with Leopold, the harder she falls for him. But if he doesn't return to his own time, his absence will forever alter history.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, touching, light, sweet, romantic comedy, sentimental, semi serious, funny, cute
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27 Dresses (2008)
Plot Summary:
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet, cute, sentimental, funny, teen, humorous
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The Wedding Date (2005)
Plot Summary:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy, sentimental, funny, romantic comedy, realistic, witty
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What Women Want (2000)
Plot Summary:
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 219000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, clever, light, touching, romantic comedy, entertaining, absurd, cute
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City of Angels (1998)
Plot Summary:
When guardian angel Seth -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, tear jerker, sincere, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational
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Serendipity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, teen