Movies like The Music Man

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The Music Man (1962)
 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, retro, entertaining, aesthetic, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: broadway, small town, dancing, librarian, con artists, library, fall in love, american history, love, dance, town, summer, past, theater, education, in love, danger, female protagonist, progress, brass band, bad guys win, siblings, outlaw, fate, gilded age ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1910s
Place: iowa, america, indiana, midwest, usa
Keyword: americana, oldies, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to The Music Man

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and realistic films with plots about love and romance, dancing, show tunes, singer, couples, dance and love mostly in Musical, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Music Man: Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Annie (1982), The Happiest Millionaire (1967), My Fair Lady (1964), Mary Poppins (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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%
 6.6
 49K
Annie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, period piece, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: orphan, little girl, broadway, redhead girl, dancing, adoption, child, dance, childhood, orphanage, coming of age, love ...
Time: year 1982, 90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her father--especially since the nice young ...
Style: humorous, retro, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: millionaire, dancing, new year, winter, car, family relations, redheaded woman, immigrant, estate, power relations, school, martial arts ...
Time: year 1967, 1910s, 20th century, year 1916, year 1917
Place: philadelphia, usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 101K
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%
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: world war two, nanny, love, love story, love and romance, convent, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, nazi, nun, children, single father ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1900s ...
Place: austria, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 185K
Mary Poppins (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot: magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, dancing, child's point of view, dog, childhood, children ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, europe, madagascar ...
⇓ 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%
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to ...
Style: fairy tale, costume drama, period piece, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: cinderella, cinderella story, princess, fairy, magic, love, myth, disney princess, mermaid, fictional country, ancient, diplomacy ...
Time: 18th century, year 1976, 1770s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.0
 17K
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 ⇓
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 ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
 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%
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 ⇓
20%
 5.2
 37K
Camp Rock (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Mitchie gets a chance to attend Camp Rock, her life takes an unpredictable twist, and she learns just how important it is to be true to yourself.
Style: romantic, teen, melancholic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: teenager, summer camp, teenage girl, love and romance, singing, teenage love, camp, lifestyle, cinderella story, friends, musician's life, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: An Irishman, Finian, and his daughter Sharon, arrive in Rainbow Valley, a Southern town of tobacco sharecroppers in the state of Missitucky. The town has its own resident dreamer, Woody, who thinks that he might be able to put the town on the map by ...
Style: retro, political, semi serious, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: racism, broadway, dancing, st. patrick's day, small town, desire, father daughter relationship, gold, deaf mute, leprechaun, holiday, magical creature ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: shakespeare, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, best friend, couples, disorder, love and romance, pianist, military, father daughter relationship, passion ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: france, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 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 ⇓
19%
 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 ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
 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 ⇓
19%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hairspray Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining
Plot: theater, dance, live performance, racism, fat girl, race, dream, equality, broadway, dancing, society, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, year 1962
Place: baltimore, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 3K
Summer Magic (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: widow, family relations, mysterious character, young lovers, starting over, love and romance, parents and children, family life, youth, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: maine, usa, europe, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 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 ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
 7.4
 25K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 3.9
 279
Breaking Legs (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It's 'Footloose' meets 'Mean Girls' as high school freshman Bloom moves to a town where there's no place to dance - except the school dance team! But when the boyfriend of the team's lead girl falls for her, ...
Style: captivating, contemplative, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: sexy teenager, teenage girl, high school, dancing, rivalry, friends, fall in love, couples, youth, couple relations, love and romance, dance school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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