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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
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Similar in 86%
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 79%
The Butcher's Wife (1991)
Plot Summary:
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sweet, feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, psychotronic, fairy tale, inspirational
Similar in 82%
Blithe Spirit (2020)
Plot Summary:
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, period piece, dark comedy, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, sweet, entertaining, funny
Similar in 83%
Simply Irresistible (1999)
Plot Summary:
After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, cute, teen, entertaining, culinary, sex comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good
Similar in 75%
Scrooged (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 112000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, parody, funny, talky, atmospheric, christmas horror, witty, semi serious, feel good
Similar in 86%
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 82%
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 83%
How Do You Know (2010)
Plot Summary:
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, sweet, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, cute
Similar in 87%
Spanglish (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, romantic, sincere, romantic comedy, melancholic, semi serious, humorous, talky
Similar in 78%
The Switch (2010)
Plot Summary:
An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy, cute, sweet, sentimental, funny, sincere, light
Similar in 76%
Someone Like You... (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sexy, feel good, humorous, entertaining, cute, sex comedy, teen
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 80%
Shallow Hal (2001)
Plot Summary:
A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, sentimental, romantic, romantic comedy, hilarious, sweet, semi serious, inspirational
Similar in 84%
Sabrina (1995)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, fairy tale, romantic comedy, cute, clever, sad
Similar in 80%
The Invention of Lying (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical, clever, ironic, spectacular, cynical, light
Similar in 80%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light, entertaining, witty, touching, sentimental, semi serious
Similar in 84%
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 87%
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Plot Summary:
Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After his high-school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. And as he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, romantic, sentimental, teen, tear jerker, sweet, melancholic, sad, romantic drama
Similar in 90%
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 83%
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 85%
Ghost (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl's betrayal, Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet, tear jerker, emotional, sexy, sad, inspirational, spiritual
Similar in 90%
Chances Are (1989)
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
Similar in 82%
Pushing Daisies (2007)
Plot Summary:
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: feel good, offbeat, detective, sentimental, touching, cliffhanger, surreal, atmospheric, humorous, sexy
Similar in 89%
Fools Rush In (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the town, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up sp.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good, realistic
Similar in 82%
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Plot Summary:
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 314000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sweet, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, romantic comedy, psychological, funny, romantic
Similar in 76%
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Plot Summary:
During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 236000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny, sincere, romantic comedy, touching, light, cute
Similar in 88%
50 First Dates (2004)
Plot Summary:
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 375000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, funny, romantic comedy, entertaining, humorous, cute, hilarious
Similar in 85%
The Proposal (2009)
Plot Summary:
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy, witty, sexy, cute, hilarious
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 76%
The Family Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
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 career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental, sincere, contemplative, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy