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Movies that feel likeMeet Me in St. Louis (1944)

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

If you loved Meet Me in St. Louis, the closest films we have are Holiday (1938), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). All three share Meet Me in St. Louis' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Enchanted April (1991).

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Vincente Minnelliwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictenderwarm
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Holiday
1938 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%★ 7.7comedy · romance · drama

Common ground in both: holiday and sister

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Meet Me in St. Louis does

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%★ 7.4romance · drama · comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 71%★ 7.5romance · drama · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

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Italian for Beginners
2000 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 87%★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Tender where it counts, warm underneath

The difference: 56 years apart, and the 2000s show

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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Muriel's Wedding
1994 · dir. P.J. Hogan
🍅 82%★ 7.3comedy · drama · romance

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.

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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
2011 · dir. Zoya Akhtar
🍅 89%★ 8.2drama · comedy · romanceNetflix

Playful drama, and it commits to that

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

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Limelight
1952 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 88%★ 8romance · drama · comedyMax

Contemplative romance in both cases

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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Sissi
1955 · dir. Ernst Marischka
★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on family

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

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The Cameraman
1928 · dir. Edward Sedgwick
🍅 100%★ 8comedy · romance · drama

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 99%★ 8comedy · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%★ 7.3romance · drama

Common ground: holiday

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Two for the Road
1967 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 82%★ 7.3drama · romance · comedy

Playful romance, and it commits to that

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

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