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Movies that feel like My Fair Lady (1964)

If you loved My Fair Lady, the closest films we have are Adam's Rib (1949), White Christmas (1954) and Funny Face (1957). All three share My Fair Lady's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 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 snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. George Cukorwittyplayfulromantictenderstylish
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If My Fair Lady hit the spot, these will too

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Adam's Rib
1949 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· romance

Both are George Cukor's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the style of My Fair Lady

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

One thread runs through 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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Funny Face
1957 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7music Β· comedy Β· romance

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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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The Philadelphia Story
1940 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

The same hand behind both of them: George Cukor

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

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

Both land romance and tenderness at once

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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Holiday
1938 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

The difference: Sits closer to drama than My Fair Lady does

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams β€” Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire β€” 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 fiancΓ©e has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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

Romance built on style, twice over

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

Playful music, 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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Sabrina
1954 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: high society

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

Romantic comedy in both cases

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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His Girl Friday
1940 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: wager

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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