Best movies like What I Did for Love
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Plot Summary:
Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap. After blundering through a bad first impression, James attempts to win over Sadie's lawyer-loathing father Karl by pretending to be a horse-riding, hay-baling, game-hunting, seasoned square dancer. But a pair of worn jeans and a ten-gallon hat don't make a cowboy, and it's going to take more than mere posturing to charm Mr. Ryder...in fact, it just may take a miracle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating, sex comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, visually appealing
Similar in 86%
Gift of the Magi (2010)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, captivating, light, humorous, serious
Similar in 78%
Merry Kissmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Unwinding her relationship from a controlling choreographer, Kayla happens to take an elevator ride with lonesome caterer “Dustin”. The lift stalls, and spontaneously, magical kisses follow. Soon the choreographer makes nice, and Dustin retreats. Kayla becomes confused as to which man to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, sincere, feel good, campy
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Mingle All the Way (2018)
Plot Summary:
Molly is determined to prove to her family that her new networking app—designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance—is a success. When Molly joins Mingle All the Way and is matched with Jeff, they are both horrified to realize they’ve already had not one, but two disastrous previous encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, captivating, realistic, romantic drama
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Foxfire Light (1983)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled rich girl used to getting her way comes up against a rancher who won't be intimidated by her.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Christmas in Montana (2019)
Plot Summary:
Before the holidays, Sara goes to Montana to help resistant Travis save his ranch. Can time on the ranch help restore her faith in Christmas in time for a miracle?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Lovely, Still (2008)
Plot Summary:
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sad, psychological, emotional, humorous, independent film, fable
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See Girl Run (2012)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, clever, semi serious, independent film
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Christmas at the Plaza (2019)
Plot Summary:
With Christmas approaching in New York City, historian Jessica is hired to create an exhibition honoring the history of Christmas at The Plaza Hotel. When she is paired with Nick, a handsome decorator, they wind up enjoying a host of holiday traditions together and find themselves falling for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: melancholic, semi serious, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, emotional
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Hitched for the Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Christmas on the Bayou (2013)
Plot Summary:
When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to rekindle a childhood romance and convince her to move back home, Katherine is torn between the bright lights of the big city and the quiet, gentler rhythms of her Southern roots. Only a Christmas miracle orchestrated by Papa Noel can steer her heart to her true home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious
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Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
Plot Summary:
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, light, captivating
Similar in 89%
Christmas Ever After (2020)
Plot Summary:
Popular romance novelist Izzi Simmons spends every Christmas at her favorite snowy bed & breakfast, but this year, she's faced with an impending deadline and a severe case of writer's block. Luckily, inspiration strikes in the unlikely form of the B&B's new owner Matt, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the handsome hero from Izzi's novels. As both partake in the lodge's annual itinerary of Christmas activities, Izzi's writer's block is cured and the first pages of her and Matt's own love story may just be beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, feel good, fairy tale
Similar in 79%
Finding Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps his home in their small North Carolina town with New York City adman Sean.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, sincere, captivating, christmas special, cute, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The One That Got Away (2008)
Plot Summary:
Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Angora Ranch (2006)
Plot Summary:
Justin is an ad executive whose father sends him on his first solo run to a place in Texas. While driving to his appointment Justin swerves to avoid a rabbit in the road and his car gets stuck in a ditch that just happens to be in front of the home of Jack and his loony senile father. After Jack's previous life partner died, he planned never to love again. Will this change?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, witty
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Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012)
Plot Summary:
As Chicago gears up for its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, Emily Jones, an eager parade coordinator is shocked when Henry Williams, a wealthy new development consultant, is brought in to analyze the parade's finances.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, emotional, cute, realistic, semi serious
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Back to You & Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend (Nurse Brenda), takes this opportunity to offer support and destroys it by telling Syd dying is part of life and she'd be a better doctor if she stayed more remote from her patients and, oh, by the way, "can I come over tonight"? He is surprised when she says "not tonight." Brenda tells Syd to get away for a few days and suggests Syd change her mind and go back to her small hometown for her school reunion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sex comedy
Similar in 78%
Class (2010)
Plot Summary:
Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him into corporate law, is insulted by the low-class assignment, especially after he meets Kylie Burch, the woman he has to help. Kylie and Whitt clash at first, and it looks like Whitt will never be able to help her if he doesn't understand her situation. But when Kylie and her son's future as a family is suddenly threatened, Whitt discovers he and Kylie may not be so different, after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious
Similar in 84%
One Special Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterwards seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky
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Straight From the Heart (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend with Tyler Ross, a horse rancher in the West, whose candidacy was actually also posted by his sister. After a bad start they soon grow closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, light, romantic, captivating, sex comedy, realistic, romantic drama
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A Christmas Proposal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two lawyers dueling over a proposal to turn a quaint mountain town into a ski resort discover they are former childhood sweethearts. Lisa is fighting to protect the hamlet, big city attorney Rick represents the developer who wants to plow it under. But when a car accident forces Rick to stick around, the small town, and his former beloved, begin to work their magic on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, emotional, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 77%
Christmas Angel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ashley has been on her own all her life. She feels even more alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a job. The seasonal cheer around her only rubs salt in her wounds as she scrapes by to support herself and her dog, Dash. But her neighbor, Nick, knows exactly what to do. He offers her a job, to be his assistant in the best work-helping others. There's one catch that Ashley must honor though-she can't tell anyone that her new boss is a sort of Secret Santa, helping others anonymously. Through her new job, Ashley meets Will, a writer for a business magazine who uncovers what Ashley is doing, and more importantly, Nick's involvement. As Ashley and Nick help people in need, Ashley tries to protect Nick's secret, and her own heart, while Will must weigh the consequences of what he does.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, christian film, christmas special, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008)
Plot Summary:
A wedding planner looks to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief period of time, until an unexpected development forces her to re-examine her feelings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Darling Companion (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, independent film, detective
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The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dominic works round the clock: nights making biscotti for his family's bakery in a working-class Italian neighborhood in Pittsburgh, then days downtown where he's a specialist in firing people at a company that negotiates mergers. He's thrown for a loop with he learns that Bella, an elderly neighbor who's his family's closest friend, has but a few months to live. All her life, she's saved money in coffee cans for her daughter, Lucca's, wedding, but Lucca is off in foreign lands, initially as a Peace Corps volunteer, and doesn't need a man. Dominic vows to bring Lucca home and convince her to marry him to fulfill Bella's most fervent wish. What will Lucca say?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, romantic drama, humorous
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Matchmaker Santa (2012)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Melanie Hogan (Lacey Chabert) wished to find her own prince charming just like her parents found true love. Now an adult, Melanie is running her own bakery and dating a handsome CEO, Justin (Thad Luckinbill). Although things seem perfect when Justin asks Melanie to spend the holidays together at his beautiful lake house upstate—and meet his mother. Melanie finds herself spending more time with Justin’s best friend and loyal assistant, Dean (Adam Mayfield), who just might be harboring a secret crush on her. When complications arise that throw Melanie and Dean together over the holiday, will the two realize they're meant to be?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sweet, captivating, cute, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
Similar in 82%
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Plot Summary:
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic, independent film
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Holidaze (2013)
Plot Summary:
Melody, high powered corporate workaholic for a retail conglomerate, is happy to spend the holidays jet-setting with her girlfriends. However, she's in for an unpleasant surprise when her boss sends her to her sleepy hometown to convince the reluctant townspeople to allow them to build a new discount store. Now, forced to reconnect with her family and her childhood sweetheart Carter, her task is not so simple, as all are vehemently opposed to everything Melody's company stands for. Desperate to get out of town and back to her real life, Melody takes a spill and wakes up in an alternate universe where she never left home and is married to Carter! Once determined to leave her small town life behind, Melody must make sense of her new life and decide if you truly can go home again. - Written by ABC.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, captivating, inspirational, humorous, sweet, emotional, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic
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A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a single dad of two tomboys who owns a local winery. When Susan's dog Rusty (voiced by Jay Mohr of "Ghost Whisperer") falls for Jake's poodle Cheri (voiced by Nikki Cox of "Las Vegas"), these canine matchmakers help their owners fall in love too. Now with a Christmas Day wedding to plan -- and major complications threatening to unravel it all -- can two mismatched broods find a way to make one happy family? Tom Arnold and Catherine Hicks ("Seventh Heaven") co-star in this heartwarming holiday film from the producer/director of The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Your Love Never Fails.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious