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Movies that feel likeWhite Christmas (1954)

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.

If you loved White Christmas, the closest films we have are An American in Paris (1951), Funny Face (1957) and Top Hat (1935). All three share White Christmas' 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).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Curtizwittyplayfulstylishromantic
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An American in Paris
1951 · dir. Vincente Minnelli
🍅 95%★ 7.1music · romance · comedy

One thread runs through both: musical

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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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Animal Crackers
1930 · dir. Victor Heerman
🍅 97%★ 7.4comedy · musicPrime Video

Both lean on style more than on comedy

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than White Christmas 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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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%★ 7.4drama · comedy · music

Romantic music, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than White Christmas does

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

Romance with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Trades the romance of White Christmas 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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My Fair Lady
1964 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%★ 7.7comedy · music · drama

Comedy built on play, twice over

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

Stylish music in both cases

The difference: 43 years apart, and the 1990s show

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

Witty romance 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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Woodstock
1970 · dir. Michael Wadleigh
🍅 100%★ 8.1documentary · music

Romantic music in both cases

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

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A Night at the Opera
1935 · dir. Sam Wood
🍅 97%★ 7.8comedy · music

Another one that scratches it

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.

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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 · dir. Jean Negulesco
🍅 81%★ 6.8comedy · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

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