Movies like The Boy Friend

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The Boy Friend (1971)
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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 "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
Style: romantic comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, spoof, parody
Audience: date night
Plot: showbiz, love, dancing, past, morality, choreography, choreographer, broadway, love and romance, fall in love, couples, ambition, filmmaking, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, couple relations, rivalry, backstage, thinness, stage musical, based on broadway musical, camp, broadway musical ...
Time: 1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century, 30s, 20s

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Most similar movies to The Boy Friend

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, show tunes, lifestyle, fall in love and singing mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like The Boy Friend: A Little Night Music (1977), At Long Last Love (1975), 30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004), Goddess (2013), Stepping Out (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
82%
30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
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, musician's life, ambition, starting over, fall in love, teenage life, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, wooing, couples, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 5.9
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Goddess (2013)
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: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, musician's life, showbiz, twins, hopes, artists and showbiz, parents and children, theater, girl ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Stepping Out (1991)
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, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: broadway, dancing, dancer, dance class, power relations, church, human spirit, rising to stardom, dancer's life, love and romance, underdog, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 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 ⇓
63%
 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 ⇓
54%
 6.1
 1K
Pipe Dream (2002)
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, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, couple relations, hidden identity, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, frame up, fall in love, disorder, artists and showbiz, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Music Man (2003)
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, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Audience: kids, pre-teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, fall in love, lifestyle, couples, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, racism, clergy, music, dancing, librarian ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Victor/Victoria (1995)
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, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: cross dressing, transvestism, gender disguise, theater, lgbt, singer, jazz, nightclub, female protagonist, comedy of errors, impresario, mobster ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Gypsy (1962)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style: retro, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: stripper, burlesque, mother daughter relationship, broadway, domineering mother, ambition, biopic, dancing, sister sister relationship, striptease, motherhood, mother ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Company (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: theater, friends, friendship, concert, bachelor, live performance, couple relations, redheaded woman, artists and showbiz, love and romance, broadway, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.8
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Yes, Giorgio (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized, humorous
Plot: opera, music, couples, artists and showbiz, fall in love, doctors and patients, love and romance, love
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Love On The Cloud (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, best friend, ambition, follow your dream, actor's life, couples, love and romance, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Gypsy (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie - previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film - depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
Style: humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: stripper, dancing, theater, burlesque, art, broadway, domineering mother, family relations, showbiz, ambition, dysfunctional family, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: new york, texas, ohio, los angeles, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
46%
 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, entertaining, aesthetic, retro ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot: broadway, small town, dancing, librarian, con artists, library, fall in love, american history, dance, love, town, bad guys win ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1910s
Place: iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
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, feel good, semi serious
Plot: pirate, opera, dancing, singing, piracy, sea, past, porn, victorian england, destiny, friends, leadership ...
Time: 19th century, year 1983
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Break-Up Artist (2009)
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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: breakup, couples, love and romance, rivalry, fall in love, workplace, wooing, workplace situations, career change, teenager, win over, rules ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Grease Live! (2016)
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: light, lyrical, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: dancing, high school life, friends, teenage love, coming of age, youth, broadway, live performance, teen romance, twins, theater, opposites attract ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
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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 ⇓
39%
 5.7
 565
Premium (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, wedding, couples, follow your dream, race against time, ambition, showbiz, nothing goes right, filmmaking, black, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Dramatics: A Comedy (2015)
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, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, artists and showbiz, womanizer, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, love and romance, actor's life, couples, showbiz, sex scene, infidelity, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.8
 2K
Sextette (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it, an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and the Russian delegate (one of Marlo's former husbands) is threatening ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, spoof, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hotel, the beatles, usa president, 007, rock, celebrity, honeymoon, farce, mafia, reporter, conference, diplomat ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (2011)
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, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: artists and showbiz, showbiz, lifestyle, rivalry, human animal relationship, actor's life, desire for fame, follow your dream, love and romance, teenager, disorder, musician's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The One and Only (1978)
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: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: wrestling, showbiz, professional wrestling, dysfunctional marriage, college, actor's life, couples, infidelity, relationship vs career, midlife crisis, down on your luck, rising to stardom ...
Time: year 1978, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.4
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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 ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
 6.3
 3K
Girl Happy (1965)
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: elvis presley, love, rock and roll, spring break, nightclub, gangster, couples, friends, disorder, opposites attract, forbidden love, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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