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Movies Like The Happy Time

If you liked The Happy Time (1952), a comedy and romance movie directed by Richard Fleischer, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  2. 2Watching the Detectives

    Watching the Detectives (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance

    Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets…

  3. 3Singin' in the Rain

    Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    ★ 8.1/10Also comedy and romance

    In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

  4. 4Silk Stockings

    Silk Stockings (1957)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

    After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out…

  5. 5What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

  6. 6The Boy Friend

    The Boy Friend (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.

  7. 7Thoroughly Modern Millie

    Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she…

  8. 8Good Advice

    Good Advice (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.

  9. 9It's Always Fair Weather

    It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams…

  10. 10Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romance

    A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

  11. 11Love Happy

    Love Happy (1949)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

  12. 12The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure

    The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romance

    One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged…

  13. 13Love Is in the Air

    Love Is in the Air (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

  14. 14Champagne Problems

    Champagne Problems (2025)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    A driven American exec heads to Paris determined to acquire a champagne brand by Christmas — and accidentally falls for the heir to the bubbly empire.

  15. 15Gidget

    Gidget (1959)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf…

  16. 16The Thrill of It All

    The Thrill of It All (1963)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

  17. 17How to Marry a Millionaire

    How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

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

  18. 18Falling for Christmas

    Falling for Christmas (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    An engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia in a skiing accident.

  19. 19This Little Love of Mine

    This Little Love of Mine (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s…

  20. 20The Knight Before Christmas

    The Knight Before Christmas (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    A medieval English knight is magically transported to present day where he ends up falling for a high school science teacher.

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