Movies like Hello, Dolly!

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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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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, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: dancing, broadway, love, music, music and dance, dance, teenager, railway, theater, merchant, progress, gilded age, wedding, widow, matchmaker, love and romance, fall in love, couples, opposites attract, looking for love, urban, city life, promotion, couple relations, train ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, 1800s, 1890s, 60s, 1960s
Place: new york, america, usa, london
Keyword: oldies, challenge, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and realistic films with plots about dancing, love and romance, couples, love, singing, broadway and singer mostly in Musical, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Hello, Dolly!: Funny Girl (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), My Fair Lady (1964), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). 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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100%
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Style: feel good, romantic, period piece, costume drama, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family outing, teens, kids ...
Plot: high society, cinderella story, class differences, love story, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, culture clash, broadway, makeover ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, victorian era, edwardian era
Place: london, england, britain, persia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: romantic, rom com, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: flapper, dancing, love, stenographer, american history, chase, theater, pursuit, lgbtq, impostor, coming of age, transgender ...
Time: 1920s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
 7.4
 41K
Oliver! (1968)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Style: visually appealing, sentimental, social, epic, dark ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing, teen drama, adult
Plot: orphan, street kid, broadway, dance, child, children, runaway, charles dickens, dog, dancing, happy ending, coming of age ...
Time: 19th century, year 1968, 1800s, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 19K
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 ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
25%
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Sweet Charity (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar ...
Style: stylized, funny, freeze frame, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: broadway, dancing, nightclub, transformation, charity, love, depression, dancehall girl, broken engagement, tragic love, celebrity, burlesque ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
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 10K
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 ⇓
23%
 7.7
 1K
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 ⇓
23%
 6.2
 6K
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: humorous, sentimental, anamorphic, hilarious, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, female protagonist, singer, nightclub, cabaret, couples, actor's life, fall in love, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Flower Drum Song (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: aesthetic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: broadway, forbidden love, dancing, coming of age, generation, culture, stowaway, family relations, love triangle, nightclub, mugging, asian ...
Time: year 1961
Place: san francisco, china, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Fantasticks (2000)
Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two rural teens sing and dance their way through a forbidden romance and a dangerous travelling carnival.
Style: lyrical, semi serious, humorous, feel good, anamorphic ...
Plot: dancing, couple relations, couples, social relations, small town, cabaret, broadway, family feud, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, the main character Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities
Style: stylized, semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: broadway, hypnosis, betrayal, addiction, psychology, magic, dancing, drinking, pagan, pluto, napoleonic era, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 19th century, regency period, 1810s, 2030s
Place: brighton, london, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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At Long Last Love (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, stylized, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gambling, singer, great ending, filmmaking, filmmaker, fall in love, couples, performer's life, lifestyle, love and romance, artists and showbiz, master and servant ...
Time: year 1975, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.2
 12K
Cactus Flower (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having ...
Style: touching, humorous, sexy, witty, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dentist, honest, love and romance, love triangle, cons and scams, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, manic pixie dream girl, swing, marriage ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.2
 298K
Grease (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style: feel good, sentimental, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, teenage love, coming of age, makeover, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, first love, dating, teenage girl, dance, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.5
 38K
Grease 2 (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, romantic, period piece, retro ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: dancing, high school, dance, motorcycle, cheerleader, music, teen romance, teenage girl, teenager, biker, love, bowling ...
Time: year 1982, 60s, 20th century, year 1961, 1950s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.8
 931
Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, theater, friends, couples, teenage life, rock, lifestyle, contests and competitions, performer's life, love and romance, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
20%
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No it's a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life -- a flood. Sixteen years later she sets ...
Style: sentimental, colorful, funny, retro, technicolor ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: titanic, broadway, disaster, dancing, dance, sea, mining, triumph, progress, gilded age, coal mining, coal ...
Time: victorian era, 60s, 1910s
Place: colorado, america, usa, europe, denver colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
Crossing Delancey (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot: matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, love and romance, thirtysomething life, self discovery, workplace, couple relations, eligible bachelor, parents and children, unfulfilled love, dating ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
 6.7
 138K
Hairspray (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style: feel good, romantic, lyrical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot: dancing, dance, dream come true, artists and showbiz, teenage love, interracial romance, teenage girl, racism, fat girl, broadway, teenager, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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