
Movies that feel like The Philadelphia Story (1940)
If you loved The Philadelphia Story, the closest films we have are His Girl Friday (1940), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and It Happened One Night (1934). All three share The Philadelphia 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 fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel and Philo and others, checked against today's data.
If The Philadelphia Story hit the spot, these will too

Journalist runs into journalism in each of them

The same two preoccupations: black and white, and screwball comedy

Both built around reporter

Both keep circling back to screwball comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Both land romance and tenderness at once
The difference: 61 years apart, and the 2000s show

Comedy built on wit, twice over
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Both trade on play more than on being romance

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Witty comedy in both cases

Playful romance, and it commits to that
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