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Movies that feel like Seven Chances (1925)

If you loved Seven Chances, the closest films we have are The Navigator (1924), One Week (1920) and Safety Last! (1923). All three share Seven Chances' witty and playful 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.

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.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Buster Keatonwittyplayfulromantictender
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The Navigator
1924 Β· dir. Buster Keaton
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· action Β· adventure

The same hand behind both of them: Buster Keaton

The difference: Sits closer to action than Seven Chances does

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.

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One Week
1920 Β· dir. Buster Keaton
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1comedy

Buster Keaton working the same nerve twice

The difference: Not nearly as romantic as Seven Chances

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding giftβ€”and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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Safety Last!
1923 Β· dir. Fred C. Newmeyer
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· romance Β· thriller

Common ground in both: clock and silent film

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Seven Chances does

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 Β· dir. Charles Reisner
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: silent film

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

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

One thread runs through both: millionaire

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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The Awful Truth
1937 Β· dir. Leo McCarey
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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 Circus
1928 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

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The Palm Beach Story
1942 Β· dir. Preston Sturges
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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Our Hospitality
1923 Β· dir. John G. Blystone
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance Β· thriller

Both lean on play more than on romance

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

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The Cameraman
1928 Β· dir. Edward Sedgwick
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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

Tender romance in both cases

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

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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On the Town
1949 Β· dir. Gene Kelly
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· romance

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

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