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Movies that feel likeA Night at the Opera (1935)

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

If you loved A Night at the Opera, the closest films we have are Animal Crackers (1930), Top Hat (1935) and Mon Oncle (1958). All three share A Night at the Opera's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Court Jester (1955).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sam Woodwittyplayfulstylishwhimsical
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Animal Crackers
1930 · dir. Victor Heerman
🍅 97%★ 7.4comedy · musicPrime Video

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Easier on the whimsy than A Night at the Opera

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

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Top Hat
1935 · dir. Mark Sandrich
🍅 100%★ 7.7music · comedy · romance

Comedy built on style, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less whimsical than A Night at the Opera does

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedyMax

One thread runs through both: whimsical

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1950s show

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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The Court Jester
1955 · dir. Melvin Frank
🍅 97%★ 7.8music · adventure · comedy

Witty music, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than A Night at the Opera does

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

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Waiting for Guffman
1997 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 91%★ 7.4comedy · music

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

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A Mighty Wind
2003 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · music

Both lean on style more than on music

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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White Christmas
1954 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 76%★ 7.6comedy · music · romancePrime Video

Witty comedy in both cases

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

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An American in Paris
1951 · dir. Vincente Minnelli
🍅 95%★ 7.1music · romance · comedy

Both lean on play more than on music

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

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You Can't Take It with You
1938 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 94%★ 7.8comedy · romance

A streak of whimsy through both

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

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Funny Face
1957 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 85%★ 7music · comedy · romance

Both sit in the same stylish register

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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My Fair Lady
1964 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%★ 7.7comedy · music · drama

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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Saludos Amigos
1942 · dir. Wilfred Jackson
🍅 82%★ 6animation · adventure · musicDisney+

The shared currency is whimsy

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life....South American-style.

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