20 best movies like Life with Father (1947)

List of the best movies like Life with Father (1947): The Harvey Girls, Amira & Sam, Petunia, The Night Before, Heaven Can Wait, Our Hospitality, It Runs in the Family, Made for Each Other, Little Women, The Catered Affair.

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Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration03:03

In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:13

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, family, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Jane's parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene, in this adaptation of Caren Lissner’s best-selling 2003 novel.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:23

A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

The classic Shirley Temple film in which a little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

A news reporter looks into who has been anonymously leaving large cash gifts on random doorsteps in New York.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:28

A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, New Zealand
Duration02:18

For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Markimdb: 3.1
Genrehorror, action, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

As Abraham Lincoln labors over the Gettysburg address, the importance of which he is fully aware, he learns that a menace from his past has returned, threatening to tear the already fractured nation to pieces. He must journey behind enemy lines to face an foe far more fearsome than the Confederate army: the walking dead.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Sweden
Duration02:00

The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA

    Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:49

    Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade. This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming...and he’s ready.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

      After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:32

      Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:19

      Set in the 1970's, MIGHTY FINE is the story of Joe Fine (Chazz Palminteri) a charismatic, high-spirited man, who relocates his family--wife Stella (Andie MacDowell), a Holocaust survivor, daughters Nathalie (Jodelle Ferland) and Maddie (Rainey Qualley)--from Brooklyn to New Orleans, in search of a better life. Unfortunately, Joe's spending spree is wildly out of touch with reality, as his apparel business is teetering on the brink of collapse, a fact he refuses to accept. Written and directed by Debbie Goodstein, MIGHTY FINE is told from the perspective of an adult Nathalie remembering the events of her youth, and is inspired by Goodstein's memories of her own father. MIGHTY FINE ultimately shows how coming to terms with the past without judgment is the most fruitful way to move toward the future.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.

      Markimdb: 3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

        A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.




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