Movies like Funny Lady

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Funny Lady (1975)
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Funny Lady (1975)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: 1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
Style: sentimental, humorous, anamorphic, hilarious, touching, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: biopic, singer, female protagonist, nightclub, love and romance, fall in love, cabaret, couples, lifestyle, actor's life, human nature, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love, train, womanizer, family relations, hollywood, motherhood, dancer, composer, mother daughter relationship, marriage of convenience, showbiz, infidelity ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century, 30s
Place: new york, usa, cleveland ohio
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz, couple relations, lifestyle, love and fall in love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Funny Lady: Funny Girl (1968), Butterflies Are Free (1972), Gypsy (1962), Star! (1968), Gypsy (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Funny Girl (1968)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style: light, witty, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showbiz, love story, marriage, ambition, desire for fame, performer's life, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, baltimore, new york state ...
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Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker (Edward Albert) moves away from his overprotective mother (Eileen Heckart, who won an Oscar). After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner (Goldie ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: blindness, blind man, disability, neighbor, overprotective mother, fall in love, happy ending, love story, manic pixie dream girl, couple relations, actress, blonde ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: san francisco, usa, los angeles
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100%
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Gypsy (1962)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style: retro, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: stripper, burlesque, mother daughter relationship, broadway, domineering mother, ambition, biopic, dancing, sister sister relationship, striptease, motherhood, mother ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Star! (1968)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Style: non-linear, captivating, sentimental, stylized, serious ...
Plot: biopic, world war one, music, ambition, actor's life, relationship vs career, chorus girl, celebrity culture, showbiz, cinderella story, couples, starlet ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s
Place: usa, new york, london, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Gypsy (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie - previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film - depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
Style: humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: stripper, dancing, theater, burlesque, art, broadway, domineering mother, family relations, showbiz, ambition, dysfunctional family, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: new york, texas, ohio, los angeles, seattle
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24%
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Chapter Two (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: widower, friendship, death of wife, actress, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
All Night Long (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, love affair, nightlife, human nature, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, unsupportive spouse, unfulfillment, jealousy, adultery ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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22%
Matters of Life & Dating (2007)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Linda Dackman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but this does not prevent she from seeing the positive side of life and continue their quest for Prince Charming.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, support group, physical appearance, singleness, breast cancer, dating, love and romance, friends, best friend, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Boy Friend (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: showbiz, choreographer, broadway, choreography, dancing, love, past, morality, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Isn't She Great (2000)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley Of The Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a ...
Style: light, satirical, touching, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: female protagonist, writers, ambition, eccentricity, showbiz, fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, aging, love and romance, autism, marriage ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, connecticut
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21%
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I Do...Knot (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: couples, fall in love, womanizer, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, wedding, love story, singleness, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Growing Up Brady (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: actor's life, showbiz, relationship vs career, lifestyle, workplace, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, movie studio, love, family relations, suburbs, hollywood ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
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21%
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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: 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.
Style: period piece, feel good, retro, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: dancing, broadway, love, music, music and dance, dance, merchant, railway, theater, progress, gilded age, teenager ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, 1800s, 1890s
Place: new york, america, usa
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21%
The Music Man (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 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.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Audience: kids, pre-teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, fall in love, lifestyle, couples, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, racism, clergy, music, dancing, librarian ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: iowa
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21%
The American Mall (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: musician, musician's life, save the day, rise to the top, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, rising to stardom, couple relations, desire for fame, teenage life, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Lucy (2003)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
Style: captivating, light, emotional, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, gambling, actor's life, couple relations, couples, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, musician's life, jealousy, love, girl, hollywood ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
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Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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Company (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: theater, friends, friendship, concert, bachelor, live performance, couple relations, redheaded woman, artists and showbiz, love and romance, broadway, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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20%
My Faraway Bride (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, fall in love, writer's life, society, tragic love, fish out of water, friendship, infidelity ...
Place: california, asia, usa, india
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20%
Shades of Ray (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, identity crisis, interracial relations, family reunited, audition, family relations, moral dilemma, actor's life, couples, parents and children, society, proposal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, pakistan
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20%
The Three Stooges (2000)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Plot: three stooges, actor's life, ambition, rise to the top, lifestyle, showbiz, artists and showbiz, disability, comedian, hollywood, comedy team, biopic ...
Time: 90s
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20%
Phileine Says Sorry (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, couples, dishonesty, actor's life, lifestyle, infidelity, artists and showbiz, intimate, weatherman, love and romance, couple relations, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, new york, holland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in ...
Style: uplifting, serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, world war two, showbiz, celebrity culture, performer's life, rising to stardom, childhood, filmmaking, haunted by the past, human spirit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, europe, holland, manhattan new york city
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19%
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De-Lovely (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, atmospheric, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: biopic, gay, jazz, showbiz, musician's life, music, disability, infidelity, rehearsal, terminal illness, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: venice, new york, usa, italy, paris france ...
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19%
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Song of Norway (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including ...
Style: independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: composer, biopic, art, classical composer, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, musician's life, artists and showbiz, forbidden love, rise to the top, music ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Martin and Lewis (2002)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, sexual
Plot: ambition, friendship, rising to stardom, desire for fame, actor's life, rise and fall, musician's life, showbiz, breakup, rise to the top, celebrity culture, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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19%
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All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Singles Ward (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Jonathan Jordan gets divorced he's thrust back into the world of being a single Mormon - a world who's ultimate goal is eternal marriage. Struggling to fit in, Jonathan decides to stop going to church only to be pursued by the members ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: church, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love and romance, religions or cults, mormon, divorce, love affair, male female relationship, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: salt lake city utah, utah
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19%
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