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Plot Summary:
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying, romantic comedy
Best tv shows and movies like Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962):
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The Trouble with Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Clambake (1967)
Plot Summary:
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, psychotronic, light, sexy, bad ending, melancholic
Similar in 80%
Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Plot Summary:
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Plot Summary:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
Similar in 82%
Speedway (1968)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 76%
The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Plot Summary:
In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are a few surprises in store for him! It all ends happily, but not before he's dodged the Old Bill, fallen in love and made some rather inconvenient discoveries.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, sweet
Similar in 77%
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Plot Summary:
Bruce (Rod Taylor), the owner of a aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer (Doris Day) and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, spy comedy, romantic comedy, retro, exciting, feel good, semi serious, sitcom, parody, funny
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A Little Night Music (1977)
Plot Summary:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is thinkin of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrik, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus. She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte appear, too, things begin to get farcical (Send in the Clowns), and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united." Written by Kathy Li.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fun
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Flower Drum Song (1961)
Plot Summary:
Chinese stowaway Mei Li arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong, in an arranged marriage; but the groom has his eye on his star singer Linda Low. This film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical is filled with memorable song-and-dance numbers showcasing the contrast between Mei Li's traditional family and her growing fascination with American culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Plot Summary:
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, crying, light, road movie
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At Long Last Love (1975)
Plot Summary:
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, art deco, neo screwball comedy
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The Fantasticks (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two rural teens sing and dance their way through a forbidden romance and a dangerous travelling carnival.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: lyrical, feel good, humorous, semi serious, anamorphic, realistic, fairy tale, light, romantic, road movie
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, sexy
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Move Over, Darling (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicky, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicky as she wants to do so herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: technicolor, slapstick comedy, clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, romantic comedy
Similar in 78%
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: period piece, feel good, retro, hilarious, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, funny
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Spinout (1966)
Plot Summary:
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, bad ending
Similar in 76%
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
Similar in 82%
Girl Happy (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Not on the Lips (2003)
Plot Summary:
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever, offbeat, stylized
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The Boy Friend (1971)
Plot Summary:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, spoof, parody
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Do Not Disturb (1965)
Plot Summary:
"Doris Day continues her reign as America's sweetheart" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "bright, colorful comedy of marital misunderstanding" (The Film Daily). Co-starring Rod Taylor (The Glass Bottom Boat) and featuring whip-smart dialogue, a hilarious plot, sumptuous locales and costumes and the song "Au Revoir Is Goodbye With a Smile," Do Not Disturb is a delightful romp from start to finish! What's a devoted wife to do when her husband spends more time "working" with his sexy secretary than helping her with their new home? For Janet Taylor (Day), an American who has relocated to England with her executive husband Mike (Taylor), there's only one solution - make him jealous by inventing an admirer. But as soon as Janet creates her make-believe Romeo, a real suitor arrives, whisks Janet off to Paris, wines and dines her...and comes face-to-face with an insanely irate Mike!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 87%
The Music Man (1962)
Plot Summary:
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: period piece, sentimental, retro, entertaining, aesthetic, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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That Touch of Mink (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: witty, romantic comedy, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, exciting, sentimental
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Grease Live! (2016)
Plot Summary:
After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: light, lyrical, sentimental, feel good, captivating, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, clever
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Plot Summary:
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, sex comedy, anamorphic, offbeat, independent film, slapstick comedy
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The Music Man (2003)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic