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Movies that feel like Sissi (1955)

If you loved Sissi, the closest films we have are Two for the Road (1967), Adam's Rib (1949) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). All three share Sissi's 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 Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and Brew and others, checked against today's data.

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.

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ernst Marischkawittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender

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

Both are built on the same subject: husband wife relationship

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

Common ground: husband wife relationship

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Sissi

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 Seven Year Itch
1955 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 84%7comedy · romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

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Holiday
1938 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%7.7comedy · romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

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!

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

One thread runs through both: 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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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%7.4romance · drama · comedy

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

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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Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%7.7comedy · romance

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

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

Both lean on wit more than on romance

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

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

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love at first sight

The difference: Made in the 1920s, in a different era of the craft

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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On the Town
1949 · dir. Gene Kelly
🍅 94%7.3comedy · romance

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

Tender romance, and it commits to that

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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