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Movies that feel likeSeven Chances (1925)

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

If you loved Seven Chances, the closest films we have are Our Hospitality (1923), One Week (1920) and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). All three share Seven Chances' 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 Palm Beach Story (1942).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Buster Keatonwittyplayfulromantic
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Our Hospitality
1923 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 97%★ 7.7comedy · romance · thriller

Buster Keaton directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Seven Chances does

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

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One Week
1920 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 100%★ 8.1comedy

Buster Keaton working the same nerve twice

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Seven Chances does

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 · dir. Charles Reisner
🍅 96%★ 7.8comedy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: silent film

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

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Horse Feathers
1932 · dir. Norman Z. McLeod
🍅 97%★ 7.5comedy · romance

Both land wit and play at once

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

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The Awful Truth
1937 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedy · romance

Both lean on romance more than on comedy

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

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Safety Last!
1923 · dir. Sam Taylor
🍅 97%★ 8.1comedy · romance · thrillerMax

Common ground: clock

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

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The Palm Beach Story
1942 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 94%★ 7.5comedy · romance

Romance built on wit, twice over

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

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My Man Godfrey
1936 · dir. Gregory La Cava
🍅 97%★ 7.9comedyPrime Video

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

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Adam's Rib
1949 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 96%★ 7.4comedy · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.

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On the Town
1949 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 94%★ 7.3comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

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Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.7comedy · romance

Playful romance in both cases

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

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Bringing Up Baby
1938 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 97%★ 7.8comedy · romance

The shared currency is romance

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

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