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Movies that feel like The Seven Year Itch (1955)

If you loved The Seven Year Itch, the closest films we have are Sabrina (1954), The Apartment (1960) and The Awful Truth (1937). All three share The Seven Year Itch's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel and MGM Plus and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 84% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Billy Wilderwittyplayfulromantictender
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Sabrina
1954 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· romance Β· drama

The same hand behind both of them: Billy Wilder

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Seven Year Itch does

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 Apartment
1960 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.3comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both are Billy Wilder's work, and they rhyme

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: husband wife relationship and neighbor

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

The same preoccupation in both: husband wife relationship

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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Sissi
1955 Β· dir. Ernst Marischka
β˜… 7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister NΓ©nΓ© to Austria where NΓ©nΓ© will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

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Some Like It Hot
1959 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.2comedy Β· romance Β· crime

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

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.

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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 Β· dir. Jean Negulesco
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· romance

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· romance

Romance built on play, twice over

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

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Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· romance

Both lean on romance more than on comedy

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

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, 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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Two for the Road
1967 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance Β· comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

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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Manhattan
1979 Β· dir. Woody Allen
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Common ground in both: adultery and writer

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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