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Movies that feel likeMy Fair Lady (1964)

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

If you loved My Fair Lady, the closest films we have are Animal Crackers (1930), The Chorus (2004) and The Court Jester (1955). All three share My Fair Lady'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 Gimme Shelter (1970).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Cukorwittyplayfulstylishcontemplative
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Animal Crackers
1930 · dir. Victor Heerman
🍅 97%★ 7.4comedy · musicPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: musical

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than My Fair Lady does

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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The Chorus
2004 · dir. Christophe Barratier
🍅 68%★ 7.9drama · comedy · music

The same preoccupation in both: musical

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Trades the stillness of My Fair Lady for an angle of its own

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

Comedy built on style, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to romance than My Fair Lady does

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

Witty music, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on play more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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

Comedy with a pulse of style, in both cases

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

Witty music in both cases

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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Wayne's World
1992 · dir. Penelope Spheeris
🍅 79%★ 7comedy · music

Playful drama in both cases

The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.

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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%★ 7.4drama · comedy · music

Contemplative comedy in both cases

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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Gimme Shelter
1970 · dir. Albert Maysles
🍅 93%★ 7.8documentary · musicMax

Both lean on stillness more than on music

A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.

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

Drama built on style, twice over

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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