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Movies that feel like Holiday (1938)

If you loved Holiday, the closest films we have are The Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam's Rib (1949) and The Awful Truth (1937). All three share Holiday's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel, Kino Film Collection and Brew and others, checked against today's data.

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!

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Cukorwittyplayfulromantictendercontemplative

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The Philadelphia Story
1940 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%7.8comedy · romance

Both are George Cukor's work, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the stillness Holiday is built on

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

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

The same hand behind both of them: George Cukor

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

The same two preoccupations: romcom, and screwball 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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The Palm Beach Story
1942 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 94%7.5comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: screwball comedy

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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Meet John Doe
1941 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 92%7.6drama · comedy · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 · dir. Vincente Minnelli
🍅 99%7.5comedy · drama · romance

Common ground in both: holiday and sister

The difference: Leans harder into family than Holiday does

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.

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

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

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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Seven Chances
1925 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 94%7.8comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: millionaire

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.

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Sabrina
1954 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 89%7.6comedy · romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: brothers and sisters

After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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His Girl Friday
1940 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 99%7.8comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: brothers and sisters

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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