Movies like The Mikado

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The Mikado (1987)
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The Mikado (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Australia
Story: Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, leaves home and disguises himself as a musician to escape a distasteful marriage - and meets a beautiful girl, Yum-Yum, with whom he falls in love. He desperately wants to marry her, but obstacles are cast in his way by Yum-Yum's guardian, Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, who is also in love with Yum-Yum and has every intention of marrying her, himself. Also causing problems is Katisha, Nanki-Poo's jilted bride, who arrives in Titipu in the company of Nanki-Poo's father, the Mikado.
Plot: social commentary, opera, live performance, operetta, live audience
Place: england, japan

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Most similar movies to The Mikado

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, live comedy, witty and realistic films with plots about live performance, opera, live audience, stand up, joke, comedian and stand up comedy mostly in Comedy, Musical and Music genres. Some movies like The Mikado: Patience (1995), The Gondoliers (1990), La fille du régiment (2007), The Pirates of Penzance (1980), Princess Ida (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Patience (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, recorded at the Sydney Opera House. Bunthorne, a poet worshiped by every lady he meets, loves only one woman: Patience. But Patience does not share the other ...
Style: independent film
Plot: poet, sweetheart, live performance, opera, operetta, reciting poetry, live audience
Time: 19th century
Place: england
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95%
The Gondoliers (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Story: After marrying their sweethearts Gianetta and Tessa, gondoliers Marco and Giuseppe learn that one of them is really the King of Barataria. But it's a mystery as to which one is which. The couples begin to fantasize about wealth and royalty, ...
Style: independent film
Plot: sibling relationship, newlywed, incognito, mistaken identity, king, operetta, live performance, opera, live audience
Place: venice
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82%
La fille du régiment (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This version of Donizetti’s comic opera zooms right to the top of any list of essential videos for opera fans. In this action filled physical comedy, the beautiful tomboy Marie was found on a battlefield as a baby and adopted, not by one soldier ...
Plot: opera, army life, nobility, soldier, live performance, regiment, french opera
Time: 19th century
Place: switzerland
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53%
The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the ...
Plot: pirate, operetta, maiden, sword fight, mirror, sailboat, woman, fan, orchestra, performer, police officer, theater ...
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41%
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Princess Ida (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Princess Ida and Prince Hilarion were betrothed when the Prince was two years old and the Princess just one year old. Twenty years have now passed, and the time has come for Hilarion to claim his bride. The Princess, however, has other ideas. She ...
Style: independent film
Plot: royal romance, masquerade, royalty, male female relationship, operetta, prince, princess, disguise
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Madama Butterfly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Opera at La Scala Milan
Plot: opera, suicide, betrayal, italian opera, bigamy, live performance, tragedy, sailor, geisha
Place: japan
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35%
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Les Paladins (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 204 min.
Story: "Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels." — from the DVD back cover
Style: baroque
Plot: opera, horse, balloon, angel, breakdance, dance, live performance, rap, nudity, opera live performance, stage performance
Place: paris france, versailles
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35%
A Star of the Screen (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young actress before playing in the movie legendary partisan, looking for everyone who knew her character. And suddenly learns that the fearless guerrilla is alive and works as the Director of resort hotel where the film crew stopped. Then follow ...
Plot: actress, student, friendship, veteran, filmmaking, operetta
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Così fan tutte (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks COSI FAN TUTTE as one of the great works of art from the Age of Enlightenment. Nicholas Hytner's beautiful new production, with its ...
Style: psychological, satirical, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot: disguise, sibling relationship, seduction, opera, con trick, couple relations, marital infidelity, male female relationship, humour, philosopher, escapades, deception ...
Place: naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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
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30%
Matt Besser: Besser Breaks The Record (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Matt Besser is here to air some grievances and break some comedy records, just don't bring up weed and he'll stay on track.
Style: live comedy, alternative comedy
Plot: stand up comedy, marijuana, live performance, comedian, stand up comedian, joke, stand up, live audience, actor playing himself
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29%
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Into the Woods (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Into the Woods takes the stories of the Brothers Grimm and gives them a dark and humorous twist. The popular tales of Red Ridinghood, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Cinderella and Rapunzel are interwoven with that of the Baker and his Wife and their ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Plot: theater, live performance, based on broadway musical, sleeping beauty, cinderella, prince, little red riding hood, desire, finding yourself, aftermath, jack and the beanstalk, broadway musical
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Tim Minchin: So Live (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Only available from Australia and New Zealand, “So Live” is a 2 hour performance recorded at The Sydney Opera House Studio in 2007. Contains material from “Dark Side” and “So Rock” including Inflatable You, Rock n Roll Nerd, Canvas Bags, ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, one man show, live comedy
Plot: stand up comedy, profanity, dark humor, live performance, joke, stand up comedian, monologue, stand up, laughter, actor playing himself, stage, strong language ...
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28%
Ricky Gervais Live: Animals (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Ricky Gervais entertains a live audience in his first stand-up routine.
Style: cynical, talky, witty, clever, intense ...
Plot: stand up comedian, live performance, stand up comedy, comedian, social satire, monologue, talk show, atheism, society, fish, artists and showbiz, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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28%
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Lady Maiko (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, satirical
Plot: geisha, coach, teacher student relationship, direction and purpose, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, japanese woman, aspiration, japanese culture, satire, asian, coming of age
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
La Cenerentola (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Gioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival with Ann Murray and Francisco Araiza as Cinderella and the Prince. Director Michael Hampe envisions La Cenerentola less as a fairy tale and ...
Plot: cinderella, opera, ballet, royalty, royal romance, masquerade, live performance, love, disguise, prince, live audience
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Broken Lizard Stands Up (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Nothing is off limits when Broken Lizard, the guys behind Super Troopers and Beerfest, a night of stand-up comedy. Live from The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, each group member takes the stage to discuss drugs, lust and everything in between, ...
Style: sketch comedy, live comedy
Plot: stand up comedy, concert, comedy team, live performance, comedian, stand up comedian, monologue, joke, stand up, live audience, actor playing himself
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24%
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a ...
Style: funny, parody, surreal, philosophical, spoof ...
Plot: satire, philosophy, monty python, surrealism, death, dark humor, existentialism, afterlife, social commentary, meaning of life, greed, gluttony ...
Time: year 1983, 19th century, 20th century, 1910s, 1870s ...
Place: london, england, europe, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Perfectly Normal (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A cab driver and an opera fan strike up an unusual friendship.
Style: independent film, realistic, witty, humorous, offbeat
Plot: operetta, food, ice hockey, hockey, couples, friends, restaurant, disorder, artists and showbiz, workplace, boss and employee, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
It Was Beyond the Narva Gate (1981)
Genre: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Style: period piece
Plot: singer, singing, revolution, operetta, song
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2 (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Following the complete sell out of his UK tour, multi-award-winning writer/comedian Ricky Gervais brought his new stand up show Ricky Gervais Live: Out of England 2 to Los Angeles. Performing Sunday night at the Nokia Theatre, Gervais delivered an ...
Style: talky, not serious, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, stand up comedian, society, artists and showbiz, live performance, stand up comedy, satire, british, social satire, monologue, joke, talk show ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, england, london
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24%
Ricky Gervais: Out of England (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, witty, clever ...
Plot: comedian, stand up comedian, artists and showbiz, society, live performance, british, satire, monologue, joke, stand up comedy, talk show, atheism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, england, london
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23%
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Falstaff (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is ...
Plot: opera, seduction, disguise, servant, fairy, gluttony, laundry, knight
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Steve Martin: Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night Live. It was broadcast live from Studio 8H, produced by Lorne Michaels and featured some original cast members of the show.
Style: sketch comedy, parody, spoof
Plot: comedian, stand up comedian, live performance, stand up comedy, comedy team, pop culture, absurd humor, variety show, joke, stand up, actor playing himself, goofball ...
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23%
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Stiffelio (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Part of Tutto Verdi series - Stiffelio (2012) Parma. 'Stiffelio' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The origin of this was the novel “Le pasteur d’hommes”, by Émile ...
Plot: opera, italian opera, duel, live performance, religion, cemetery, forgiveness, unfaithful wife, betrayal, stage performance
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23%
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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 ⇓
23%
Little Britain: Live (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The many hilarious characters of Little Britain are taken to the stage in this brilliant live performance by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
Style: witty, humorous, clever, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: social misfits, society, human nature, gays and lesbians, misfit, lifestyle, showbiz, working class, village life, village, satire, british ...
Place: europe, england
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23%
Ricky Gervais Live 3: Fame (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Ricky Gervais third stand-up comedy routine.
Style: humorous, funny, cynical, talky, witty ...
Plot: stand up comedian, satire, live performance, actor's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, society, comedian, stand up comedy, celebrity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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23%
Phantom of the Ritz (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man buys an old, abandoned theater and puts on '50s-type rock shows. Then people start being killed in a rash of "accidents"...
Style: slasher, independent film, spoof
Plot: phantom of the opera, rock music, theater, opera, phantom
Time: 1950s
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22%
Les Indes Galantes (2004)
Genre: Music, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 190 min.
Story: "William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's extravagant, highly baroque staging presents the four exotic love stories vibrantly. ...
Plot: opera, ballet, omnibus, live performance, native american, opera live performance, french opera
Place: india, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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