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Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Style:
retro, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying, romantic comedy
Plot:
circus, carnival, bride and groom, elephant, gambling, love triangle, friends, espionage, love and romance, fall in love, follow your dream, fighting the system, wiretap, opposites attract, ambition, lifestyle, disorder, dancing, musician, bear, police officer, storm, pilot, betrayal, camp ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
iowa
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Most similar movies to Billy Rose's Jumbo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, singer, singing, dancing, fall in love, song and couples mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like Billy Rose's Jumbo: Frankie and Johnny (1966), Speedway (1968), The Boy Friend (1971), Viva Las Vegas (1964), Girl Happy (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, boat, twins, love triangle, down on your luck, rock, showbiz, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
mississippi, new york, manhattan new york city, louisiana, new orleans ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
racing, elvis presley, auto racing, car, music, speed, rock and roll, car racing, motor racing, car chase, race, gambling ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
91%
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:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
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, teens, girls' night
Plot:
racing, dancing, rock and roll, elvis presley, gambling, music, auto racing, dance, race, rock, car, casino ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, 80s
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
elvis presley, forbidden love, love, rock and roll, spring break, gangster, nightclub, partner, twentysomething life, showbiz, adolescence vs adulthood, looking for sex ...
Time:
60s
Place:
florida, usa, chicago
Similarity:
75%
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, feel good, stylized, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, great ending, filmmaker, filmmaking, singer, fall in love, couples, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, master and servant, performer's life ...
Time:
year 1975, 1930s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes ...
Style:
retro, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
elvis presley, rock, passionate kiss, bike, youth, fall in love, gambling, disorder, friends, chase, orphan, starting over ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
seattle, washington state, usa
Similarity:
70%
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:
66%
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Genre: Comedy, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
elvis presley, music, love, lecture, investigation, labor union, artists and showbiz, workplace, ambition, performer's life, nothing goes right, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, year 1969
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
small town, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, society, love and romance, artists and showbiz, racism, clergy, music, librarian, dancing ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
61%
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, inspirational, feel good, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
opera, pirate, dancing, pirate ship, porn, past, singing, piracy, sea, victorian england, destiny, friends ...
Time:
19th century, year 1983, 1930s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
cornwall, new york, australia
Similarity:
59%
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:
impossible love, elvis presley, photograph, disorder, boss and employee, unlikely couple, love triangle, fall in love, fashion photographer, couples, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
59%
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:
57%
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:
sentimental, feel good, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
shakespeare, friendship, passion, couple relations, fall in love, best friend, couples, disorder, love and romance, father daughter relationship, pianist, military ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
france, europe, spain
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
flapper, nobility, dancing, stenographer, love, american history, amateur detective, chase, theater, white slavery, bride and groom, passionate kiss ...
Time:
1920s, year 1967, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
54%
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:
50%
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, couple relations, couples, social relations, small town, cabaret, broadway, family feud, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rock band, true love, elvis presley, racing, auto racing, chess, rock and roll, race, music, car racing, motor racing, heiress ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Similarity:
47%
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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:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity ...
Style:
grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
beach, surfing, beach party, surf, young lovers, motorcycle, camp, dancing, summer, revolutionary war, music history, rock and roll ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
46%
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:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot:
elvis presley, foot fetish, impossible love, hillbilly, cousin cousin relationship, hound dog, village life, music, soldier, army, fugitives, buddies ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, washington d.c., pentagon
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Style:
experimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
elvis presley, beach party, oil, hotel, wealth, fish out of water, social differences, rich and poor, cinderella story, fall in love, resort, mistaken identity ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
florida, miami, usa, hawaii, las vegas
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
farce, couple relations, uncover truth, disorder, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, opposites attract, lifestyle, dishonesty, couples, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
japan, paris france, asia, europe, france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Queen Aggravain has ruled that none may marry until her son, Prince Dauntless marries. However, she has managed to sabotage every princess that come along. When Sir Harry and Lady Larken learn that they are going to be parents, wed or not, he goes ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
princess, true love, couples, imaginary kingdom, family relations, royal family, parents and children, wooing, love and romance, marriage, king, queen ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
41%
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:
lyrical, captivating, semi serious, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, live performance, high school life, friends, teenage love, youth, coming of age, broadway, teen romance, twins, theater, opposites attract ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1959
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If ...
Style:
road movie, independent film, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bus, rock, singer, summer, animal, beautiful scenery, pop music, road trip, hotel, summer vacation, partner, disorder ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
greece, england, london, france, europe ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rising to stardom, fall in love, musician's life, ambition, starting over, couples, teaching the ways of the world, showbiz, wooing, celebrity culture, teenage life, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes ...
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
elvis presley, island, beach, music, interracial romance, anti hero, partner, underdog, odd couple, buddies, rescue, heroes ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii
Similarity:
40%
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, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
millionaire, dancing, redheaded woman, new year, car, winter, family relations, school, social differences, siblings relations, martial arts, rich and poor ...
Time:
year 1967, 1910s, 20th century, year 1917, year 1916 ...
Place:
philadelphia, usa, new york, detroit, san francisco ...
Similarity:
39%
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