Movies like My Fair Lady

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My Fair Lady (1964)
 7.7
 107K
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, sweet, costume drama, light, humorous, captivating, clever, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, adult
Plot: class differences, high society, fall in love, cinderella story, love and romance, makeover, love story, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, dancing, culture clash, broadway, true love, fish out of water, social climbing, destiny, queen, music, misogynist, patronizing, bet, female protagonist, social differences, mythology ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1930s
Place: london, england, persia, britain, europe, united kingdom, ancient greece ...

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Most similar movies to My Fair Lady

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, light, romantic and realistic films with plots about love, dialogue, culture clash, love and romance, mentor, catastrophe and runaway mostly in Romance, Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like My Fair Lady: The Sound of Music (1965), Oliver! (1968), Mary Poppins (1964), Funny Girl (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: sentimental, feel good, visually stunning, christian film, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, toddlers, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, convent, nanny, catholic, single father, nazi, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, world war two, stepmother ...
Time: 1930s, ancient times, 50s, 20th century, year 1938 ...
Place: austria, alps, europe, germany
Similarity:
91%
 7.4
 44K
Oliver! (1968)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK
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, dark, terrifying ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: orphan, broadway, charles dickens, child, children, dance, street kid, runaway, happy ending, dancing, dog, shipwreck ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1968, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place: london, england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
 7.8
 197K
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, sweet, uplifting, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, toddlers, family friendly ...
Plot: magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child's point of view, child, brother sister relationship, literary, dance, dog ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s, 1930s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, europe, britain ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.4
 27K
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: touching, witty, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, marriage, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showgirl, gambling debt, mother daughter relationship, gambler, theatrical producer, showbiz ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, baltimore, chicago ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, thought provoking, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, tradition, jewish culture, broadway, milkman, anti semitism, dancing, forbidden love, tradition versus modernity, butcher ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: ukraine, israel, russia, ussr, europe ...
Similarity:
82%
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Her best friend Lilly also joins her for the summer. Mia continues her 'princess lessons'- riding horses side-saddle, archery, and other ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, date night, kids ...
Plot: royal family, love and romance, wooing, cinderella story, teenage girl, wedding, fall in love, princess, coronation, fish out of water, heir to the throne, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
 18K
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, 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:
100%
 6.6
 17K
Yentl (1983)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, touching, thinking ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: gender, judaism, skinny dipping, gender bender, arm wrestling, women, dancing, transsexual, feminist, woman dressed as man, transgender, destiny ...
Time: year 1983, 1900s, 20th century
Place: israel
Similarity:
100%
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 7.5
 360K
Les Misérables (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style: inspirational, historical drama, epic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: redemption, rebellion, arrest, parole, historical character, broadway, dying man, historical event, prostitute, orphan, father daughter relationship, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place: france, paris france, seattle, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
 7.7
 21K
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, retro, aesthetic ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: librarian, small town, dance, library, dancing, broadway, con artists, love, traveling salesman, fall in love, american history, town ...
Time: 1910s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
 400K
Pretty Woman (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, rom com, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, prostitute, fall in love, cinderella story, social differences, opposites attract, hooker, rich man poor woman, rags to riches, character change ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
80%
 6.3
 47K
Sabrina (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, love story, workaholic, love, cinderella story, love and romance, millionaire, couple relations, cinderella, sibling relationship, transformation ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, long island, new york
Similarity:
67%
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing ...
Style: sentimental, sweet, feel good, touching, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: love story, fashion, cat, woman, secret past, love, destiny, love of one's life, eccentricity, writers, love and romance, party ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa, los angeles, brazil ...
Similarity:
50%
Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though ...
Style: romantic, feel good, rom com, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, wedding, opposites attract, initially antagonists, society, love, arranged marriage, fall in love, love story, culture clash, happy ending, heir ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, london, england, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.2
 324K
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: romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, coming of age, dancing, dance, makeover, summer romance, teenage love, love story, first love, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time: 1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style: sex comedy, romantic, romantic drama, existential, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, animal, medicine, marriage proposal, boy horse relationship, orphan, great depression, woman riding a horse, coming of age, world war one, age difference ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, virginia, atlantic city new jersey, georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.6
 8K
Camelot (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: King Arthur establishes the ideals and laws of Camelot but is tragically forced to enforce these laws against his own wife.
Style: costume drama, emotional, intense, lyrical, colorful ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: medieval, arthurian legend, king arthur, sword and sorcery, betrayal, sword fight, heroes, broadway, jousting, monarch, rivalry, intrigue ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, year 1967, 6th century, 5th century ...
Place: england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 127 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, period piece, costume drama, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night
Plot: cinderella, cinderella story, princess, fairy, love, magic, stepmother, disney princess, myth, mermaid, fictional country, ancient ...
Time: 18th century, 1770s, year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Similarity:
100%
Born Yesterday (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. ...
Style: satirical, humorous, semi serious, witty, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: politics, fall in love, farce, society, love and romance, journalism, social differences, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, couples, women, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place: washington d.c., usa, san francisco, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
 7.4
 18K
Persuasion (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Persuasion is the newest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. Anne falls deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sentimental, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick
Plot: love affair, love, fall in love, rich and poor, relationships, love and romance, love story, couple relations, spinster, abbey, passionate love, enemies to lovers ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, regency period, 1810s ...
Place: england, britain
Similarity:
30%
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style: romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
29%
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style: costume drama, gothic, romantic, period piece, realistic ...
Plot: love and romance, estate, fall in love, aristocracy, love, friendship, passionate love, family relations, abbey, literary, passion, countryside ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place: england, europe
Similarity:
28%
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, period piece, sexy, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens, date night ...
Plot: cinderella story, love and romance, female protagonist, cinderella, royalty, prince, class differences, love story, love, medieval, arranged marriage, step siblings ...
Time: 16th century, ancient times, 90s, year 1998, 50s ...
Place: france, europe
Similarity:
28%
 6.6
 44K
Emma (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, affectionate, period piece, witty ...
Audience: date night, teens, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, matchmaker, love and romance, couples, fall in love, looking for love, countryside, wooing, social differences, love, male female friendship, estate ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1810s, year 1996 ...
Place: england, britain, seattle, london
Similarity:
28%
The Prince & Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige and Edward come from ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, teen, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: college, love and romance, fall in love, eligible bachelor, prince, couples, cinderella story, opposites attract, youth, royalty, graduation, social differences ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, denmark, wisconsin, san francisco, australia
Similarity:
27%
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, greed, betrayal, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, power relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place: england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
27%
 7.1
 278K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, romantic, sexy, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids ...
Plot: dancing, coming of age, love story, summer romance, forbidden love, couples, dancer, fall in love, love and romance, unlikely couple, abortion, dance ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963, 90s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york state, new york
Similarity:
26%
 7.5
 313K
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, sexy, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: cabaret, love story, tragic love, jealousy, nightclub, sexual attraction, showbiz, music, performer's life, bohemian life, passion, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, year 2001, ancient times, victorian era ...
Place: paris france, europe, detroit, france, montmartre paris ...
Similarity:
26%
 7.8
 679K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place: north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
26%