Movies Like Mother's Day
If you liked Mother's Day (2016), a comedy and drama movie directed by Garry Marshall, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaVada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…
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Labor Day (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceTwo strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.
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Life As We Know It (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romanceAfter a disastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have in common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all…
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Enough Said (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaEva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a…
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One Fine Day (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and comedyMelanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets…
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Waiting to Exhale (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaCheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it…
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Home for the Holidays (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaAfter losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
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My Mother's Wedding (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaThree sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected…
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Almost Christmas (2016)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaA dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaKris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to…
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Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaMonty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of…
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Imitation of Life (1959)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceIn 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
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My Dad's Christmas Date (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedyIt’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16, and her dad, David, is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and…
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaIn a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
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Only the Lonely (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceDanny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the…
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The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama and comedyIn an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
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Because I Said So (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also romance and comedyIn an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly, with Mr. Right. Meanwhile, her other daughters try to keep their mom's good…
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We Live in Time (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and dramaAn up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
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3 Generations (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaA teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaA conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.