20 best movies like Hope Floats (1998)

List of the best movies like Hope Floats (1998): The Accidental Tourist, Music from Another Room, Mystic Pizza, Mermaids, Falling in Love, You've Got Mail, Frankie and Johnny, Here on Earth, Like Crazy, The Other Sister.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repairing the building, they find themselves becoming rivals for the affections of the owner's daughter.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration01:44

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
Duration01:49

Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:28

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration01:48

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

    Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, India, USA

    A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

      After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his treatment, they discover that Elliot's illness is not the real test of their relationship – it's everything else.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:15

      A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Mexico, Argentina
      Duration01:47

      A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:38

      Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:25

      A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Japan, USA
      Duration01:33

      Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her up that consistently fail, she has her friend’s (Drea de Matteo) disastrous blind dates to rely on as a backup for further dismay. She's surrounded by friends who are all happily engaged or romantically involved and somehow, love escapes Nora -- until she meets an unusual Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) who helps her discover life beyond her self-imposed boundaries.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight."

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:36

        Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

          A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.




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