
Movies that feel like It Happened One Night (1934)
If you loved It Happened One Night, the closest films we have are The Philadelphia Story (1940), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940). All three share It Happened One Night'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 Philo, TCM and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.
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If It Happened One Night hit the spot, these will too

Both circle reporter and black and white

The same preoccupation in both: screwball comedy

Both built around black and white

Screwball comedy sits at the heart of each

Both keep circling back to marriage

Witty and playful in the same breath
The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Witty comedy in both cases

Romance built on play, twice over

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy
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