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Movies that feel likeSome Like It Hot (1959)

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

If you loved Some Like It Hot, the closest films we have are The Seven Year Itch (1955), His Girl Friday (1940) and What's Up, Doc? (1972). All three share Some Like It Hot's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Palm Beach Story (1942).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Billy Wilderwittyplayfulromanticgritty
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The Seven Year Itch
1955 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 84%★ 7comedy · romancePrime Video

Billy Wilder directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Some Like It Hot does

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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His Girl Friday
1940 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 99%★ 7.8comedy · romance · crime

Common ground: black and white

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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What's Up, Doc?
1972 · dir. Peter Bogdanovich
🍅 88%★ 7.6comedy · crime · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

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

Romantic where it counts, gritty underneath

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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Trouble in Paradise
1932 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 90%★ 7.9comedy · crime · romance

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

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

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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

The same hand behind both of them: Billy Wilder

The difference: Trades the grit of Some Like It Hot for an angle of its own

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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The Palm Beach Story
1942 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 94%★ 7.5comedy · romance

Common ground in both: florida and train

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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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 89%★ 7.3comedy · drama · western

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Some Like It Hot does

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

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

Playful crime, and it commits to that

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

Romance built on romance, 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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Singin' in the Rain
1952 · dir. Gene Kelly
🍅 100%★ 8.3comedy · romanceMax

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Bringing Up Baby
1938 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 97%★ 7.8comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: cross dressing

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

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