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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Style: funny, humorous, melancholic, talky, light, realistic, semi serious, retro, epic, historically accurate ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: ancient rome, chase, broadway, slavery, freedom, fighting the system, culture clash, love triangle, farce, ancient, husband wife relationship, justice, transformation, dancing, ancient world, time machine, caper, roman, sword fight, theater, lgbtq, peplum, screwball, virgin, slave ...
Time: year 1966, 1st century, 70s, 60s, 1960s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
Keyword: oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, disorder, theater, broadway musical, broadway and dishonesty mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Victor/Victoria (1995), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Sanky Panky (2007), The Boy Friend (1971), Company (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The town sheriff and a madame team up to stop a television evangelist from shutting down the local whorehouse, the famed "Chicken Ranch."
Style: humorous, satirical, entertaining, light, sexy ...
Plot: brothel, prostitution, dancing, women, broadway, prostitute, country, governor, culture clash, female nudity, workplace, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Victor/Victoria (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: cross dressing, transvestism, gender disguise, theater, lgbt, singer, jazz, nightclub, female protagonist, comedy of errors, impresario, mobster ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Style: funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience: date night
Plot: business, broadway, advertising, dancing, satire, greed, marketing, economics, ambition, dance, book, money ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style: black and white, funny, retro, hilarious, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, theater, dancing, musician, generation, revolutionary war, rock and roll, beat generation ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: ohio, usa, new york, washington d.c., columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Sanky Panky (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Dominican Republic, the local Genaro works in a small family store and lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood. He is learning a couple of words in English and dreams on being a sanky-panky: to get married to an American tourist, move to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, cons and scams, immigrant, dishonesty, womanizer, infidelity, woman, older woman younger man relationship, beach, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 ⇓
76%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Cry-Baby (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style: humorous, sentimental, light, parody, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, forbidden love, youth, music, gang, teenage love, juvenile delinquent, couples, juvenile delinquency, biker, teenager, teenage life ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 90s, 20th century, year 1954
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: farce, couple relations, infidelity, love affair, love triangle, couples, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, mistress, screwball, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Noises Off... (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, light, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: actor's life, theater, theatre play, love and romance, disorder, showbiz, workplace situations, backstage, actor, eternal love, strong female lead, dance ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: iowa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is a cheerful stylized musical comedy a la 8 femmes. The story happens in the guest-house of sister Klivia in one of the Dutch towns. The inhabitants of the guest-house are very cheerful and good-hearted persons whose open communal ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: love triangle, buddies, elderly, fighting the system, love and romance, friends, power relations, nurse, glbt, lgbt, society, doctors and patients ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Little Night Music (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: "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 ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: broadway, love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, lawyer, actress, couples, estate, friends, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Zemsta (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: farce, love and romance, dishonesty, rivalry, infidelity, soldier, love triangle, vengeance, couples, young lovers, uninhibited rivalry, eccentric family ...
Time: 17th century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I'm So Excited! (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film is an ensemble comedy written and directed by Pedro AlmodĂłvar. When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the ...
Style: feel good, erotic, road movie, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: airplane, farce, lgbt, stewardess, workplace, gays and lesbians, aviation, friends, disorder, strong sexual content, lgbtq, lgbtqi ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Producers (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Style: humorous, light, lyrical, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: broadway, showbiz, theater, farce, sex maniac, audition, eccentricity, dancing, cons and scams, mentor, transvestism, accountant ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1959, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, middle east, poland, bronx new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnated by a Roman soldier, giving birth to Brian, a reluctant revolutionary of the ...
Style: not serious, humorous, parody, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: mistaken identity, disorder, society, chosen one, religions or cults, theater, fall in love, artists and showbiz, music, silly humor, farce, atheism ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Music Man (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: 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.
Style: period piece, sentimental, entertaining, aesthetic, retro ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot: broadway, small town, dancing, librarian, con artists, library, fall in love, american history, dance, love, town, bad guys win ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1910s
Place: iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Style: erotic, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: womanizer, farce, sex, playwright, nudity, couples, power relations, disorder, sexual relations, love affair, infidelity, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Grease Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: 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.
Style: light, lyrical, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: dancing, high school life, friends, teenage love, coming of age, youth, broadway, live performance, teen romance, twins, theater, opposites attract ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: audition, fall in love, friends, fish out of water, looking for sex, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, broadway, looking for love, inspiration, big city, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Perfectly Normal (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A cab driver and an opera fan strike up an unusual friendship.
Style: independent film, realistic, witty, humorous, offbeat
Plot: operetta, food, ice hockey, hockey, couples, friends, restaurant, disorder, artists and showbiz, workplace, boss and employee, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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History of the World: Part I (1981)
Genre: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: roman empire, spanish inquisition, satire, ancient, torture, peplum, revolution, farce, ancient rome, knight, stoner, criticism of religion ...
Time: 18th century, 20th century, year 1981, 1st century, future ...
Place: france, rome italy, greece, arizona, ancient greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Happy Easter (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sex comedy, feel good ...
Plot: womanizer, adultery, farce, nothing goes right, easter, couples, disorder, dishonesty, infidelity, adulterer, young love, airport ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.9
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Into the Woods (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Into the Woods takes the stories of the Brothers Grimm and gives them a dark and humorous twist. The popular tales of Red Ridinghood, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Cinderella and Rapunzel are interwoven with that of the Baker and his Wife and their ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Plot: theater, live performance, based on broadway musical, sleeping beauty, cinderella, prince, little red riding hood, desire, finding yourself, aftermath, jack and the beanstalk, broadway musical
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Plot: pirate, opera, dancing, singing, piracy, sea, past, porn, victorian england, destiny, friends, leadership ...
Time: 19th century, year 1983
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Irish Jam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, black comedy ...
Plot: friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, contests and competitions, rise to the top, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, dishonesty, fall in love, ambition ...
Place: ireland, europe, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, wooing, comedy of errors, live performance, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, couples, disorder, womanizer, shakespeare, escapades ...
Time: 15th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
An Italian Name (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
Style: realistic, contemplative, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: family gatherings, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, ego clash, friendship, couples, disorder, parents and children, family life, parenthood, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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