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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
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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, humorous, witty, stylized, technicolor, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: business, broadway, advertising, dancing, satire, greed, marketing, economics, ambition, book, dance, money, theater, fall in love, skyscraper, in love, workplace, scam, office work, office, love and romance, rise to the top, couples, self fulfillment, workplace romance ...
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, singing, artists and showbiz, fall in love and singer mostly in Comedy, Musical and Drama genres. Some movies like How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Company (2011), Hello, Dolly! (1969), Head Office (1985), The Boy Friend (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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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95%
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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 ⇓
89%
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Head Office (1985)
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, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, workplace, dishonesty, rise to the top, business, office work ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
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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 ⇓
85%
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 ⇓
84%
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 ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: ancient rome, chase, broadway, slavery, freedom, culture clash, fighting the system, love triangle, farce, ancient, husband wife relationship, transformation ...
Time: year 1966, 1st century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
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, semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting ...
Plot: farce, economics, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, opportunist, businessman, stock market, businesswoman, scam, misunderstanding ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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 ⇓
78%
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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 ⇓
78%
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
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78%
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 ⇓
76%
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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
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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
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75%
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Freak Dance (2010)
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: youth, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, rivalry, lifestyle, dance, choreography, dance contest, competition, friendship, satire, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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72%
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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 ⇓
72%
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
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71%
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style: humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: salesman, workplace, dumb, business, hotshot hero, stupidity, blind ambition, disorder, rise to the top, boss and employee, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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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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
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69%
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 ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
68%
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
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, light, intense, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surfing, elvis presley, dancing, happy ending, tour guide, family business, love and romance, partner, parents and children, starting over, fall in love, love ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, polynesia, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
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, cynical ...
Plot: satire, sex, nudity, female pubic hair, bare breasts, female nudity, soul, estrangement, couples, musician's life, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Intern (2000)
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: witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, fashion model, love triangle, looking for love, workplace, fall in love, ambition, lifestyle, rise to the top, fashion magazine, disorder, workplace romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
67%
The Loved One (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee ...
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, witty, surreal ...
Plot: funeral home, hollywood, love triangle, cemetery, funeral, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, pets, actor's life, dark humor ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Stepping Out (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mavis (Liza Minnelli) was a chorus line dancer on Broadway. Just as she was on the verge of getting more prominent roles, she fell in love. Her full-of-himself boyfriend moved them to Buffalo, far from the theater scene. As a musician, he plays with ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: broadway, dancing, dancer, dance class, power relations, church, human spirit, rising to stardom, dancer's life, love and romance, underdog, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: jewish family, siblings, womanizer, buddies, love and romance, fall in love, couples, family relations, mate swapping, eccentric family, twentysomething life, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
66%
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