Movies Like The Mikado
If you liked The Mikado (1983), a music and comedy movie directed by Norman Campbell and Brian Macdonald, 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.
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Rowan Atkinson Live (1992)
★ 8.2/10Also comedyRowan Atkinson and Angus Deayton in Boston doing a live performance of the same styles of humor we've seen in Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Included are lessons on Shakespearean acting, a school headmaster meeting with the…
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Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
★ 6/10Also music and comedyThe late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyBumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyWhen the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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Footlight Parade (1933)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and musicA fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Black Sheep (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyWhen dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets…
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Moonwalker (1988)
★ 7.1/10Also musicThis fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyIn post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
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A Song Is Born (1948)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and musicThe story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want…
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Sing (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and musicA koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
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Duck Soup (1933)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyRufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Jim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyReturning for a second Netflix comedy special, Jim Jefferies unleashes his famously ferocious black humor to a packed house in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Godspell (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and musicIn modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance, they relive Christ's crucifixion.
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyCrafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias…
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Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyA ratings hit! Amy Schumer debuts her one-hour special in front of a live audience at the Historic Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco. Nothing is off limits as Schumer airs every hilarious, messed up detail of her…
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyALOHAAAAA! Internationally acclaimed comedian, Gabriel Iglesias, returns to Comedy Central with his latest stand-up special taped at Honolulu’s Hawaii Theatre Center. Watch as Fluffy brings the house down yet again in…
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Animal Crackers (1930)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and musicThe 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…
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The Honey Pot (1967)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyIn Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
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The Big Store (1941)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and musicA detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.