20 movies like Melvin and Howard, ordered by similarity : Win Win(2011), Little Lord Fauntleroy(1936), Big Fan(2009), Slap Shot(1977), Everything Must Go(2010), Judge Hardy's Children(1938), Employees' Entrance(1933), The Band's Visit(2007), Babe(1995), Crazy in Alabama(1999), Another Year(2010), Rain Man(1988) ...
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1980
95 Minutes
Paul Le Mat Jason Robards Mary Steenburgen Jack Kehoe Pamela Reed Dabney Coleman Michael J. Pollard Gloria Grahame Elizabeth Cheshire Martine Beswick Charles Napier
gas station owner wife billionaire lawyer judge amusing offbeat sad las vegas desert gas station courtroom strip club utah howard hughes money american dream inheritance luck underdog
The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
7.1/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2011
106 Minutes
Paul Giamatti Amy Ryan Bobby Cannavale Jeffrey Tambor Burt Young Melanie Lynskey Alex Shaffer Margo Martindale David Thompson Mike Diliello Nina Arianda
attorney coach wife daughter young boy wrestler charming heartwarming new jersey high school household courtroom wrestling aspirations competition teen angst family law growing up rivalry
A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.
Comedy, Drama
1936
98 Minutes
Freddie Bartholomew C. Aubrey Smith Dolores Costello Guy Kibbee Mickey Rooney Jessie Ralph
heir earl mother lawyer impostor tender charming emotional brooklyn, n.y. england courtroom inheritance mother/child relationship trial transformation rise underdog 1880s
An 1880s Brooklyn boy (Freddie Bartholomew) is summoned to England by his grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) and raised as a lord.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
88 Minutes
Patton Oswalt Kevin Corrigan Marcia Jean Kurtz Michael Rapaport Matt Servitto Gino Cafarelli Serafina Fiore Jonathan Hamm Joe Garden Polly Humphries
blue-collar worker mother fan friend football player radio host amusing cheeky emotional staten island, n.y. parking garage hospital gas station strip club radio station sports fandom friendship idolization accident
A hard-core New York Giants fan struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1977
123 Minutes
Paul Newman Michael Ontkean Lindsay Crouse Strother Martin Jennifer Warren Jerry Houser Andrew Duncan Jeff Carlson Dave Hanson Yvon Barrette Allan Nichols
coach hockey player wife manager radio personality unrestrained hilarious offbeat small town hockey rink locker room charlestown hockey unemployment violence alcoholism sports underdog transformation 1970s
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2010
97 Minutes
Will Ferrell Christopher Jordan Wallace Rebecca Hall Michael Peña Laura Dern Rosalie Michaels Stephen Root Glenn Howerton Jason Spisak
salesman alcoholic wife neighbor boss young boy heartwarming hedonistic amusing emotional house office neighborhood gas station parking lot pool unemployment new life alcoholism starting over
When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
78 Minutes
Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney Cecilia Parker Fay Holden Betty Ross Clark Ann Rutherford Robert Whitney Ruth Hussey
judge son daughter wife love interest lobbyist amusing charming washington, d.c. small town courtroom mount vernon houseboat museum law small-town life family government scandal quest
Judge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
75 Minutes
Warren William Loretta Young Wallace Ford Alice White Albert Gran Allen Jenkins Marjorie Gateson Hale Hamilton Ruth Donnelly Zita Moulton Frank Reicher
manager wife salesman owner board member model amusing melodramatic spirited department store new york city work-life balance secret marriage workplace romance money affair wretched excess forbidden love 1930s
A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.
7.5/10
Comedy, Drama
Israel|USA|France
2007
86 Minutes
Sasson Gabay Ronit Elkabetz Saleh Bakri Khalifa Natour Rubi Moskovitz Uri Gavriel Imad Jabarin Hilla Sarjon
band member restaurant owner israeli amusing tender offbeat solemn israel desert town restaurant skating rink hospitality ethnic tension loneliness isolation separation transformation quest discovery
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
6.8/10
Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
Australia|USA
1995
94 Minutes
James Cromwell Magda Szubanski Mary Acres David Webb Marshall Napier John Doyle Paul Goddard
farmer wife animal pig dog uplifting endearing inspiring positive farm countryside fair animals social change grief growing up transformation underdog 1990s
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
6.2/10
Comedy, Drama
Germany|USA
1999
111 Minutes
Melanie Griffith David Morse Lucas Black Cathy Moriarty Meat Loaf Aday Rod Steiger Richard Schiff John Beasley Robert Wagner Noah Emmerich Sandra Seacat
aunt nephew sheriff judge uncle brother offbeat amusing emotional alabama small town hollywood, calif. courtroom swimming pool racism race relations domestic violence murder coming of age acting
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
7.3/10
Drama, Comedy
UK|USA
2010
129 Minutes
Jim Broadbent Ruth Sheen Lesley Manville Oliver Maltman Peter Wight David Bradley Martin Savage Karina Fernandez Michele Austin Philip Davis Imelda Staunton
husband friend wife psychiatrist son lawyer amusing moving charming england house family marriage relationships heartbreak matchmaking husband/wife relationship quest love forbidden love
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
8.0/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1988
133 Minutes
Dustin Hoffman Tom Cruise Valeria Golino Jerry Molen Jack Murdock Michael D. Roberts Ralph Seymour Lucinda Jenney Bonnie Hunt
autistic car dealer doctor girlfriend lawyer emotional moving amusing airport family home highway hospital cincinnati las vegas family wealth road trip illness transformation discovery
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
New Zealand|UK
2008
100 Minutes
Jeremy Northam Sam Neill Bryan Brown Peter O'Toole Judy Parfitt Art Malik
father son dean guru cleric lawyer charming moving witty offbeat england university rural community father/son relationship death spirit world memory reincarnation dog transformation
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
Comedy, Drama
1972
110 Minutes
Robert Redford Peter Boyle Melvyn Douglas Don Porter Allen Goorwitz Quinn Redeker Michael Lerner Karen Carlson Morgan Upton Kenneth Tobey Chris Prey
lawyer campaign manager senator father disheartening brash fascinating powerful california office election political campaign congress manipulation media underdog transformation rivalry 1970s
An image maker (Peter Boyle) grooms the son (Robert Redford) of a political boss (Melvyn Douglas) for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
2016
104 Minutes
Viola Davis Hayden Panettiere Catalina Sandino Moreno Ellen Burstyn Dan Fogler Jaden Michael Bryce Lorenzo Nicholas L. Ashe Julius Tennon Karen Pittman
judge latina mother lawyer woman american african-american woman emotional tense engaging gripping positive court courtroom new york new york city united states america court battles court decision
The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
Comedy, Drama
2004
111 Minutes
Marilou Berry Agnès Jaoui Jean-Pierre Bacri Laurent Grévill Virginie Desarnauts Keine Bouhiza Grégoire Oestermann Serge Riaboukine Michela Moretti Jean-Pierre Lazzerini Jacques Boko
singer daughter author father teacher stepmother amusing emotional sad inspiring paris classroom salon street family home music self-esteem growing up loneliness dysfunctional family
A gifted singer (Marilou Berry) seeks approval from her egotistical father (Jean-Pierre Bacri), who is a famous writer and publisher.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2014
115 Minutes
Jon Favreau Sofía Vergara John Alberto Leguizamo Scarlett Johansson Dustin Hoffman Emjay Anthony Robert Downey Jr. Oliver Platt Bobby Cannavale Amy Sedaris
owner chef ex-wife best friend son customer charming confident creative amusing heartwarming los angeles restaurant miami truck apartment food truck change new life challenge
A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
Comedy, Drama
1993
89 Minutes
Zbigniew Zamachowski Julie Delpy Janusz Gajos Jerzy Stuhr Juliette Binoche Aleksander Bardini Grzegorz Warchol Cezary Harasimowicz
immigrant wife judge boss hairdresser brother dark amusing courtroom paris warsaw subway hair salon divorce sex impotence schemes real estate business fall
Divorced and ruined in Paris, a Polish hairdresser (Zbigniew Zamachowski) gets even with his French ex-wife (Julie Delpy).
Comedy
2008
87 Minutes
Tim Robbins Bridget Moynahan William Hurt Margarita Levieva Gabrielle Brennan María Ballesteros William Baldwin Keir O'Donnell Jessica Almasy Ramon Fernandez Maryam Myika Day
lawyer wife student mayor judge police officer offbeat dark amusing manhattan, n.y. courtroom taxicab jail restaurant rage vigilantism arrest politics trial vandalism
An angry New Yorker (Tim Robbins) launches a one-man crusade against noisy car alarms, leading to a showdown with the mayor (William Hurt).
7.2/10
Drama, Comedy
UK|France|Italy|Belgium|Spain
2009
116 Minutes
Steve Evets Stephanie Bishop Gerard Kearns Stefan Gumbs Lucy-Jo Hudson Cole Williams Dylan Williams Matthew McNulty Laura Ainsworth Max Beesley Kelly Bowland
postal worker son daughter eric cantona gangster ex-wife amusing emotional engaging hospital house post office england soccer family parenthood divorce responsibility hard times discovery
Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.
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