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Movies that feel like The Palm Beach Story (1942)

If you loved The Palm Beach Story, the closest films we have are The Awful Truth (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and His Girl Friday (1940). All three share The Palm Beach Story's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, fuboTV and MGM+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Preston Sturgeswittyplayfulromantictender
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The Awful Truth
1937 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 94%7.6comedy · romance

Both circle divorce and screwball comedy

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 Philadelphia Story
1940 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%7.8comedy · romance

Screwball comedy is the engine of both

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

Both land wit and play at once

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

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

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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It Happened One Night
1934 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 98%8.1comedy · romance

Both built around marriage

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

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Grease
1978 · dir. Randal Kleiser
🍅 65%7.2romance · comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

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Meet the Parents
2000 · dir. Jay Roach
🍅 85%7comedy · romance

Airport sits at the heart of each

The difference: 58 years apart, and the 2000s show

Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.

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Pretty Woman
1990 · dir. Garry Marshall
🍅 65%7.1romance · comedy

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges Edward's no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are teaching each other – and falling in love!

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Notting Hill
1999 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 84%7.2romance · comedy

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
2018 · dir. Susan Johnson
🍅 96%7comedy · romance

Romance built on tenderness, twice over

Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

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Amélie
2001 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 90%8.3comedy · romance

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

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Coming to America
1988 · dir. John Landis
🍅 71%7.1comedy · romance

Both trade on play more than on being romance

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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