Movies like The Boy Friend
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The Boy Friend (1971)
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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 "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, parody
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, love, dancing, love and romance, fall in love, couples, ambition, filmmaking, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, couple relations, rivalry, backstage, thinness, based on broadway musical, camp, show tunes, romance
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 30s, 20s
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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, couples, artists and showbiz, fall in love, lifestyle, couple relations and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Boy Friend: At Long Last Love (1975), A Little Night Music (1977), Pipe Dream (2002), 30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004), Goddess (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, singer, fall in love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, master and servant, performer's life, lifestyle, couples, chauffeur, party, dancing ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, estate, couples, friends, love and romance, actor's life, desire for fame, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Style:
feel good, realistic, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, filmmaking, couple relations, hidden identity, frame up, fall in love, love and romance, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, disorder, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
starting over, musician's life, fall in love, rising to stardom, ambition, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, couples, lifestyle, wooing, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, musician's life, showbiz, twins, hopes, parents and children, artists and showbiz, girl, theater ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, love triangle, showbiz, ambition, couples, best friends, love and romance, follow your dream, actor's life, filmmaking, artists and showbiz
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dancer, dancing, dance class, human spirit, dancer's life, underdog, performer's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, ambition, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
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, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
small town, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love and romance, artists and showbiz, society, racism, americana, clergy, music, dancing ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, theater, friends, couples, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, love and romance, performer's life, contests and competitions, ambition, americana ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, singleness, boy, imaginary
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Wealthy construction mogul Sam Ching (Andy Lau) and cabaret dancer Milan Sit (Qi Shu) fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Sit doesn't know is that Ching is the man ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
date night
Plot:
opposites attract, lifestyle, looking for love, couples, artists and showbiz, fall in love, love and romance, dancer's life, singleness, cabaret, unfulfillment, love
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When an out of work actress unexpectedly lands a starring role in the sexually explicit mini-series adaptation of a best selling erotic novel, her aimless, stoner boyfriend does his best to be supportive. But when her volatile, Oscar winning co-lead ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, light
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, relationship vs career, womanizer, artists and showbiz, showbiz, couples, actor's life, crumbling marriage, love and romance, infidelity, jealousy, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, romantic
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
breakup, love and romance, couples, workplace, rivalry, wooing, fall in love, career change, workplace situations, teenager, win over, rules ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, best friends, couple relations, fall in love, shakespeare, couples, disorder, love and romance, police, father daughter relationship, passion, pianist ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
france, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
showbiz, ambition, actor's life, lifestyle, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, filmmaking, love affair, artists and showbiz, hollywood, farce ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A poor young woman, who dreams of Bollywood fame, is caught in a love triangle between her childhood friend and a famous actor.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, women, power relations, couples, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, couple relations, dancer's life, love and romance, rich and poor ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, couples, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, love and romance, morality, love, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues ...
Style:
touching, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, battle of the sexes, love, wedding, flying
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An accountant, who never quite grew out of his awkward teenage years, finds himself with a dating coach - she happens to be his high school crush as well. Thanks to his coach, he gets a pretty woman he has his sights on for some time, but realizes ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, true love, accountant, fall in love, physical appearance, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, couples, happy ending, love interest, love affair, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant fame and fortune are in the bag. But theatre's a dog-eat-dog world. Fortunately, Sharpay also ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
artists and showbiz, showbiz, lifestyle, rivalry, follow your dream, actor's life, desire for fame, love and romance, teenager, disney, musician's life, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Style:
witty, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, comedy of errors, social differences, mistaken identity, bus, writers, actress, young lovers, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
beverly hills, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
elvis presley, love, spring break, nightclub, showbiz, down on your luck, friendship, forbidden love, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, twentysomething life, looking for sex ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, florida, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
starting over, going straight, lifestyle, womanizer, ambition, hopes, couples, infidelity, custody, parents and children, ex wife, performer's life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, showbiz, actor's life, couples, down on your luck, infidelity, relationship vs career, midlife crisis, couple relations, college, desire for fame ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Troy "Slam" Slamsky loses his girl, love makes a wake-up call and he finds success in the world of online advertising with some hysterical twists on an old theme. Finding a new love who understands his vision sets Slam free to do what ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, parody
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friends, couples, friendship, sexual content, disorder, youth, love and romance, ambition, buddies, lifestyle, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, transvestism, singer, theater, lgbt, jazz, nightclub, gender disguise, female protagonist, impresario, comedy of errors, female impersonator ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
farce, infidelity, disorder, uncover truth, couple relations, love triangle, couples, dishonesty, lifestyle, love and romance, opposites attract, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
japan, paris france, asia, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, talky, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
betrayal, actor's life, friendship, couple relations, rise to the top, crumbling marriage, desire for fame, lifestyle, ambition, love and romance, couples, filmmaking ...
Place:
cannes, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three beautiful women (Electra, Dash, and Fox) who have had their share of men trouble enter into a game of fun in which they choose a random guy and film each other seducing him so as to use the footage later to humiliate him. But problems arise ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
couples, friendship, love and romance, battle of the sexes, womanizer, thirtysomething life, teenage life, singleness, contests and competitions, lifestyle, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, talky
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, couples, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, track down, friendship between men
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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