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Movies that feel like White Christmas (1954)

If you loved White Christmas, the closest films we have are An American in Paris (1951), Funny Face (1957) and Top Hat (1935). All three share White Christmas' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 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.

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.

πŸ… 76% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Michael Curtizwittyplayfulstylishromantictender
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An American in Paris
1951 Β· dir. Vincente Minnelli
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.1music Β· romance Β· comedy

One thread runs through both: musical

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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

Both land style and romance at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than White Christmas 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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My Fair Lady
1964 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· romance Β· music

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

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

Witty romance, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the style White Christmas is built on

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

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

Both lean on play more than on music

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 Β· dir. Vincente Minnelli
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same two preoccupations: sister, and christmas

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

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Holiday
1938 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: brothers and sisters

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams β€” Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire β€” and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancΓ©e has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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Animal Crackers
1930 Β· dir. Victor Heerman
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· music

Stylish comedy in both cases

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 1930s show

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

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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