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Movies that feel like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

If you loved Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the closest films we have are Two for the Road (1967), Take the Money and Run (1969) and Funny Face (1957). All three share Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' 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 HBO Max, Criterion Channel and FlixFling and others, checked against today's data.

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

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stanley Donenwittyplayfulcontemplativegrittyromantic

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Two for the Road
1967 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 82%7.4drama · romance · comedy

Both are Stanley Donen's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Lighter on grit

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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Take the Money and Run
1969 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 91%7.2comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: wedding

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

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

Stanley Donen working the same nerve twice

The difference: Played as music first

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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Mafioso
1962 · dir. Alberto Lattuada
🍅 96%7.6crime · drama · comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

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Bedazzled
1967 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 74%6.8fantasy · comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 100%8.3comedy · romance

Common ground: musical

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

Both are built on the same subject: 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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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%7.5comedy · crime

Both lean on grit more than on drama

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

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

One thread runs through both: musical

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

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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · dir. Burt Kennedy
🍅 80%7.4comedy · western

Witty western, and it commits to that

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

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The Thin Man
1934 · dir. W.S. Van Dyke
🍅 98%7.9comedy · mystery · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: wedding

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Former detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke and adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Thin Man combines witty dialogue, sophisticated comedy, romance, and classic mystery. William Powell and Myrna Loy are perfectly matched as Nick and Nora Charles, whose playful banter and effortless chemistry made them one of Hollywood’s most beloved screen couples. This stylish 1934 mystery remains a landmark of classic American cinema.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · dir. Mario Monicelli
🍅 89%7.9comedy · crime

Playful comedy in both cases

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

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