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Movies that feel like The Sound of Music (1965)

If you loved The Sound of Music, the closest films we have are Make Mine Music (1946), My Fair Lady (1964) and Tender Mercies (1983). All three share The Sound of Music's stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Robert Wisecontemplativewarmcozystylishromantictender
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Make Mine Music
1946 Β· dir. Robert Cormack
πŸ… 58%β˜… 6.1animation Β· music Β· family

The same preoccupation in both: musical

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter and the Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie the Pooh. In addition you'll enjoy such classic cartoon hits as "Casey at the Bat," "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" and "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet."

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My Fair Lady
1964 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· romance Β· music

Common ground: musical

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Sound of Music

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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Tender Mercies
1983 Β· dir. Bruce Beresford
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.3drama Β· music Β· romance

Contemplative and stylish in the same breath

The difference: Not nearly as warm as The Sound of Music

Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.

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Jules and Jim
1962 Β· dir. FranΓ§ois Truffaut
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: warmth, then romance

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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Limelight
1952 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8romance Β· drama Β· music

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than The Sound of Music does

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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White Christmas
1954 Β· dir. Michael Curtiz
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· music Β· romance

Stylish music, and it commits to that

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

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Funny Face
1957 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7music Β· comedy Β· romance

Romantic romance in both cases

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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An American in Paris
1951 Β· dir. Vincente Minnelli
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.1music Β· romance Β· comedy

Family with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

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Moulin Rouge!
2001 Β· dir. Baz Luhrmann
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance Β· music

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 Β· dir. Jacques Demy
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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Top Hat
1935 Β· dir. Mark Sandrich
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7music Β· comedy Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: based on play or musical

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

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Woodstock
1970 Β· dir. Michael Wadleigh
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1documentary Β· music

Both lean on style more than on music

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

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