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Movies that feel like Funny Face (1957)

If you loved Funny Face, the closest films we have are An American in Paris (1951), White Christmas (1954) and Top Hat (1935). All three share Funny Face's stylish and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stanley Donenstylishwittyplayfulromantictender

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An American in Paris
1951 Β· dir. Vincente Minnelli
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.1music Β· romance Β· comedy

The same city underneath both: Paris

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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White Christmas
1954 Β· dir. Michael Curtiz
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· music Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: musical

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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Top Hat
1935 Β· dir. Mark Sandrich
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7music Β· comedy Β· romance

One thread runs through both: dance

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1930s show

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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Two for the Road
1967 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance Β· comedy

Stanley Donen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the style of Funny Face

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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My Fair Lady
1964 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· romance Β· music

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

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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Bedazzled
1967 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.8fantasy Β· comedy Β· romance

The same hand behind both of them: Stanley Donen

The difference: Not nearly as stylish as Funny Face

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

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Singin' in the Rain
1952 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.3comedy Β· romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

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Limelight
1952 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8romance Β· drama Β· music

Both land style and romance at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Funny Face does

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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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 Β· dir. Jean Negulesco
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· romance

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· romance

Both lean on wit more than on romance

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama Β· western

Playful music, and it commits to that

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

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Charade
1963 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· mystery Β· romance

Romantic comedy in both cases

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.

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