Movies like Girl Happy

If you like "Girl Happy" you are looking for retro, sentimental and feel good movies about / with elvis presley, love, rock and roll, spring break, nightclub, gangster and friendship themes of Comedy, Musical and Romance genre shot in USA.
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Girl Happy (1965)
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Girl Happy (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: elvis presley, love, rock and roll, spring break, nightclub, gangster, friendship, forbidden love, rock, betrayal, friends, love and romance, fall in love, couples, showbiz, loss of virginity, opposites attract, looking for love, down on your luck, lifestyle, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, musician's life, odd couple ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, florida, chicago
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, friends, buddies and singer mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Girl Happy: Harem Holiday (1965), Spinout (1966), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Clambake (1967), Speedway (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Harem Holiday (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is travelling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, assassination, fish out of water, partner, goofy hero, rivalry, desire for fame, opposites attract, blind ambition, nothing goes right, disorder, desert ...
Time: 60s
Place: middle east, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 2K
Spinout (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
Style: psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: rock band, elvis presley, racing, auto racing, true love, chess, rock and roll, music, car racing, race, motor racing, heiress ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: black and white, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, rock and roll, music, boat, love, nightclub, girl, captain, love triangle, family business, wooing, fish out of water ...
Time: 60s
Place: hawaii, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.6
 3K
Clambake (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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.
Style: experimental, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: elvis presley, oil, hotel, beach party, wealth, win over, disorder, rich and poor, social differences, cinderella story, mistaken identity, resort ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: florida, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 3K
Speedway (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Style: psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: racing, elvis presley, auto racing, car, music, speed, rock and roll, car racing, motor racing, car chase, race, gambling ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
Style: realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, disorder, love triangle, fall in love, unlikely couple, boss and employee, fashion photographer, couples, impossible love, workplace, journalism, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, twins, love triangle, boat, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, opposites attract, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: mississippi, new york, new orleans, louisiana, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: retro, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: elvis presley, rock, bike, youth, fall in love, gambling, disorder, friends, starting over, chase, love and romance, buddies ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: elvis presley, foot fetish, hillbilly, music, soldier, cousin cousin relationship, hound dog, army, hidden identity, twins, buddies, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: tennessee, washington d.c., pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, friends, fish out of water, love, love at first sight, journey, culture clash, couples, society, love story, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: rising to stardom, musician's life, ambition, starting over, fall in love, teenage life, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, wooing, couples, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
Style: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: beach, dancing, music, lifestyle, best friend, youth, dance, vacation, teenager, relationships, spring break, singer ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, florida, miami, texas, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racing, dancing, rock and roll, elvis presley, gambling, music, auto racing, dance, race, rock, car, casino ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.8
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Tickle Me (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls. The owner, Vera Radford, hires Elvis as a stable man. Pretty physical fitness trainer Pam Merritt has a letter from her late grandfather ...
Style: psychotronic, retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, aerobics, rodeo, karate, ranch, letter, rock and roll, love, music, buddies, fall in love, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.8
 80
Tug (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, small town, couples, friends, rivalry, choice, love, ex girlfriend, dishonesty, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Night We Never Met (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style: offbeat, semi serious, realistic, feel good, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boarding house, love, exodus, mistaken identity, partner, couples, disorder, friends, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Follow That Dream (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" ...
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, surfing, homestead, gangster, family relations, gambling, casino, adoption, twins, orphan, singer ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.1
 198
Beach Ball (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: surfing, rock and roll, beach party, racing, music and dance, pop music, beach, music festival, friends, disorder, lifestyle, music band ...
Time: 60s
Place: long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The 4th Tenor (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, independent film, romantic comedy
Audience: date night
Plot: follow your dream, musician's life, disorder, lifestyle, unlikely couple, fall in love, opposites attract, nothing goes right, friendship, fish out of water, showbiz, couples ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
35 and Ticking (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Clevon, and Phil -- all friends approaching the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, black comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, midlife crisis, comedy of errors, love and romance, buddies, couple relations, couples, wooing, disorder, thirtysomething life, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Mona (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
Style: semi serious, humorous, emotional, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, looking for love, city life, buddies, lifestyle, rivalry, society, partner, couples, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film ...
Plot: surfing, beach party, beach, surf, dancing, camp, motorcycle, summer, gay, exploitation, rock and roll, music history ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
So This Is Romance? (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend Helen. But Mike's life takes several unexpected turns when he meets Sara. After the two depart ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous
Plot: performer's life, couples, opposites attract, artists and showbiz, buddies, musician's life, fall in love, love and romance, friendship, true love, down on your luck, looking for love ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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White Wedding (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The loyal, committed and very decent Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi) leaves Johannesburg en route to pick up his best friend and best man Tumi (Rapulana Seiphemo) in Durban. The two will then journey on to Cape Town to begin rehearsals for Elvis’s wedding ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, friends, on the road, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, buddies, race against time, love, friendship, rivalry, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Summer Holiday (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If ...
Style: road movie, independent film, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rock, singer, animal, summer, beautiful scenery, pop music, road trip, bus, hotel, summer vacation, partner, optimism ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, france, england, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Double Trouble (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When singer Gut Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, music, age difference, twins, musician, gangster, chase, fall in love, disorder, couples, rock, frame up ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: antwerp, belgium, england, europe, brussels ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 2.8
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Speed-Dating (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A high-energy romantic comedy that follows three bachelors, speeding through life and scheming on women. When it comes to the opposite sex, it’s about the “chase” and “finish line.” Dog (Chico Benymon, Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: singleness, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, nightlife, fall in love, looking for love, buddies, love and romance, silly humor, sex, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.6
 467
BachelorMan (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He's got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, fall in love, love and romance, couples, wooing, looking for love, woman peeing, true love, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes ...
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: elvis presley, island, interracial romance, music, beach, partner, anti hero, buddies, rescue, fugitives, odd couple, love and romance ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Love Conquers Paul (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story: Comedy - Brendan Bradley, Russell Garofalo, Elizabeth Wood
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, voyeurism, misfit, dishonesty, love and romance, stalking, social misfits, looking for love, small town, twentysomething life, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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