Movies like The Happiest Millionaire
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The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
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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 men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible classes?
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, fairy tale, light, romantic, road movie, clever, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
disney, millionaire, dancing, new year, catastrophe, magic, treasure, children, winter, music, death, beautiful scenery, brothers, justice, kids and family, fantasy world, single father, destiny, brutality, irish, runaway, holiday, happy ending, childhood, chase ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1910s, year 1917, year 1916
Place:
ireland, london, philadelphia, usa, new york, detroit, san francisco
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Most similar movies to The Happiest Millionaire
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, sweet and semi serious films with plots about catastrophe, dialogue, adaptation, mentor, destiny, runaway and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like The Happiest Millionaire: Mary Poppins (1964), The Music Man (1962), Finian's Rainbow (1968), The Absent Minded Professor (1961), Annie (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, girls' night, teens, preschoolers ...
Plot:
magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, disney, dancing, child's point of view, bird, dog ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, britain ...
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100%
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:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, colourful, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot:
small town, dancing, con artists, library, librarian, fall in love, love, redemption, greed, interracial romance, idealism, kids and family ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
iowa, indiana, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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:
humorous, entertaining, colourful, dramatic, satirical ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
racism, dancing, small town, music, irish, redemption, mentor, love, prejudice, adaptation, love story, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hailed as one of Walt Disney's most hilarious comedies, The Absent-Minded Professor contains two essential elements for laughter - Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber!
Style:
fairy tale, funny, humorous, psychotronic, clever ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
disney, college, car, inventor, dog, family bonds, mythology, sacrifice, winter, new year, switching places, farce ...
Time:
80s, 50s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 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, touching, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, preschoolers ...
Plot:
orphan, little girl, dancing, child, childhood, coming of age, teenager, love, adoption, winter, runaway, magic ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, liverpool, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to The Parent Trap
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
Style:
sweet, feel good, funny, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
twins, mischievous children, orphan, children, summer camp, adoption, parents and children, single parent, camp, single father, wedding, switching places ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, london, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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:
humorous, feel good, funny, scenic, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, music, love, teenager, merchant, brutality, happy ending, greed, fantasy world, fight scenes, destiny, culture clash ...
Time:
19th century, 60s, 1890s
Place:
new york, london, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
wedding, father daughter relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, wedding planning, wedding preparations and rituals, parents and children, event planner, meet the parents, childhood, comedy of errors, couple relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
california, los angeles, rome italy, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Updated version of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the classic fairy-tale, with an all-star, multi-racial cast.
Style:
fairy tale, sexy, stylized, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, preschoolers, family outing ...
Plot:
cinderella, cinderella story, magic, women, childhood, interracial romance, music, witch, princess, interracial love, life philosophy, chase ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March ...
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, humorous, psychotronic, absurd ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
christmas, disney, dancing, toys, holiday, greed, magic, talking animals, first contact, happy ending, fight scenes, catastrophe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Films like Mary Poppins
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee -- the unsuspecting, blithesome James -- his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
Style:
humorous, scary, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, christmas, animals, children, holiday, pets, puppy, love, talking animals, happy ending, natural disaster, chase ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem is that Missy's owner, Regina, wants to sell the puppies and tear the clan apart. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, unusual plot structure, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
dog, pets, animals, childhood, bullying, children, puppy, teenager, love, divorce, dysfunctional family, nude ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, montana, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks takes her in on the ...
Style:
feel good, emotional, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
adoption, father daughter relationship, orphan, hopes, foster child, rags to riches, music, parents and children, friends, kids and family, rich and poor, dancing ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
large family, family relations, blended family, mischievous children, siblings relations, parents and children, children, opposites attract, family life, eccentric family, wedding, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, san francisco, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
writers, children, playwright, single parent, love and romance, large family, divorce, parents and children, youth, actress, single father, parenthood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york, israel, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Movies like We Bought a Zoo
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Style:
sentimental, light, touching, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, teens
Plot:
children, doctors, childhood, adoption, fall in love, sisters, family life, marriage, parenthood, unlikely friendships, stereotypes, kids and family ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, victorian era
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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, feel good, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, date night
Plot:
titanic, catastrophe, disaster, dancing, wealth, friendship, stereotypes, justice, life, dreams, destiny, culture clash ...
Time:
victorian era, 90s, 60s, 1910s
Place:
colorado, europe, usa, denver colorado, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, intense, melancholic, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, mad scientist, american football, college, experiment gone awry, family life, inventions and discoveries, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, child as adult, fall in love ...
Time:
60s
Place:
pentagon, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife, Nina, is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that -- like ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, touching, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, wedding, midlife crisis, parenthood, love, marriage, hospital, father daughter relationship, doctors, catastrophe, stereotypes, time ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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:
sentimental, humorous, sexy, intense, feminist film ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
jewish, broadway, singer, music, mentor, magic, love story, life philosophy, obsession, unlikely friendships, vengeance, justice ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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High School Musical similar movies
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, sexy, stylized, witty, dramatic ...
Plot:
pirate, opera, dancing, adaptation, love, alter ego, british, sword fight, mentor, moral ambiguity, music, police investigation ...
Time:
19th century, 1930s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
australia, cornwall, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
homeless, orphan, little girl, children, single father, girl, destiny, daughter, cons and scams, society, childhood, bullying ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl turns to a department store Santa in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother.
Style:
feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, children, farce, single parent, happy ending, couple relations, writers, african american, christmas party, breakup, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The East High Wildcats are ready to have the time of their lives. Troy (Zac Efron) is thrilled when he’s offered a job in a country club, but it’s all part of Sharpay’s (Ashley Tisdale) plot to lure him away from Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
teenager, teenage love, high school life, disney, music, dancing, youth, love and romance, ambition, teenage girl, country club, talent show ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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:
feel good, light, lyrical, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, cheerleading, high school life, friends, teenage love, coming of age, youth, live performance, teenager, powerful ending, happy ending, vengeance ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Annie related movies
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, light, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, cinderella story, high society, opposites attract, class differences, love story, rise to the top, aristocracy, culture clash, dancing, love ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, victorian era, 1930s, edwardian era
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, disturbing, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot:
single father, friendship, parenthood, happy ending, unlikely friendships, widower, single parent, lone hero, mentor, adolescence, family relations, wooing ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tokyo, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Style:
feel good, touching, sweet, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, preschoolers ...
Plot:
summer, twins, divorce, family life, childhood, mischievous children, teenage girl, summer camp, youth, sisters, parents and children, twins separated at birth ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
california, massachusetts, boston, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
high school, prom, teenage love, friendship, high school life, high school hunk, love and romance, music, teenager, couples, disney, dancing ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style:
feel good, light, sentimental, sweet, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, friendship, children, child, bully, gang, dog, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, precocious child, youth ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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