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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
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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, humorous, witty, stylized, technicolor, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
business, broadway, satire, advertising, greed, marketing, economics, workplace, ambition, workplace romance, book, dance, passionate kiss, marriage proposal, money, theater, fall in love, skyscraper, in love, scam, office work, office, love and romance, rise to the top, couples ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s, 1960s
Place:
usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, dancing, couples, singer, singing, song and dancer mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Company (2011), The Boy Friend (1971), Head Office (1985), The Wheeler Dealers (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
Similarity:
95%
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:
live performance, theater, friends, redheaded woman, friendship, concert, bachelor, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, broadway, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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92%
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, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, broadway, choreography, choreographer, love, morality, past, couples, filmmaking, fall in love, ambition ...
Time:
1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, rise to the top, workplace, dishonesty, business, money ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Style:
retro, romantic, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
farce, economics, opportunist, stock market, businesswoman, scam, businessman, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, misunderstanding ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york, texas, usa, manhattan new york city
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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:
sexy, humorous, satirical, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, women, dancing, prostitute, broadway, country, female nudity, culture clash, governor, society, workplace ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
82%
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:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cross dressing, transvestism, gender bending, gender disguise, impresario, comedy of errors, female protagonist, lgbt, theater, singer, jazz, nightclub ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
Similarity:
82%
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, retro, feel good, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, broadway, music, love, music and dance, dance, matchmaker, widow, merchant, gilded age, theater, railway ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1800s, year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, america, usa, london
Similarity:
81%
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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, freeze frame, funny, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, dancing, nightclub, transformation, charity, elevator, love, depression, tattoo, dancer, top hat, based on broadway musical ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
79%
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, talky, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
ancient rome, chase, broadway, slavery, culture clash, fighting the system, love triangle, farce, ancient, husband wife relationship, transformation, justice ...
Time:
1st century, year 1966, 70s, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
78%
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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, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
stripper, burlesque, dancing, mother daughter relationship, mother, theater, fame, domineering mother, ambition, broadway, based on broadway musical, theatrical agent ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas
Similarity:
77%
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, parody, light, lyrical, not serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
broadway, sex maniac, showbiz, theater, farce, audition, eccentricity, accountant, dancing, cons and scams, mentor, transvestism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959, 21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, rio de janeiro, bronx new york city, buenos aires argentina ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 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:
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Time:
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Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
salesman, dumb, workplace, stupidity, hotshot hero, business, blind ambition, disorder, love and romance, boss and employee, ambition, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A spoiled rich girl who wants to be a dancer finds herself caught into between two rival dance groups set to do battle at an underground competition.
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancer's life, youth, rivalry, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, dance, dance contest, competition, choreography, friendship, satire, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
74%
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:
ice hockey, food, operetta, disorder, friends, couples, restaurant, hockey, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, ambition, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
74%
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, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
broadway, love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, actress, lawyer, couples, estate, friends, master and servant ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
austria, europe, central europe
Similarity:
73%
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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, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, nightclub owner, marriage proposal, male male relationship, chinese new year, singer, dance, illegal immigration, arranged marriage, unrequited love, father son relationship, broadway ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
san francisco, china, california, usa
Similarity:
73%
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
elvis presley, boat, rock and roll, music, girl, love, nightclub, fish out of water, love triangle, family business, ship, wooing ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, arizona, las vegas
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
jewish family, siblings, buddies, womanizer, love and romance, couples, family relations, eccentric family, siblings relations, mate swapping, twentysomething life, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
72%
802
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young, underappreciated intern at the ultra-hip magazine Skirt must learn to deal with kissy-face phoniness, model tantrums and bulimic editors, while trying to steal the heart of a dashing British art director from the grips of a supermodel.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fashion, workplace romance, fashion model, love triangle, looking for love, rise to the top, lifestyle, workplace, fall in love, fashion magazine, disorder, relationship vs career ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
71%
68K
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, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
Style:
stylized, intense, melancholic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
surfing, beach, elvis presley, dancing, happy ending, tour guide, family business, love and romance, partner, parents and children, fall in love, starting over ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century, future, 80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, polynesia, honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
70%
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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:
captivating, humorous, stylized, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
stripper, theater, dancing, burlesque, broadway, art, domineering mother, vaudeville, family relations, showbiz, ambition, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ohio, new york, texas, los angeles, seattle
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, not serious, biting ...
Plot:
bare breasts, sex, female pubic hair, nudity, female nudity, satire, soul, couples, estrangement, music, gender, performer's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
Style:
independent film, surreal, parody, avant garde, black comedy ...
Plot:
advertising, satire, african american, advertising executive, advertising agency, absurdism, board of directors, business, employer employee relationship, husband wife relationship, ceo, blaxploitation ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, philadelphia, africa
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, funny
Plot:
satire, workplace, culture clash, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, boss and employee, vengeance, couples, workplace situations, workplace romance, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, chicago
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A failed Broadway singer who now works as a production manager must save opening night on his new production by wrangling his eccentric cast and crew.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way ...
Style:
sexual, cult classic, funny, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
polyamory, mining, broadway, gold rush, dancing, friendship, prostitute, old west, american history, loneliness, mormon, polygamy ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa, michigan, australia
Similarity:
68%
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