Movies Like William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
If you liked William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1983), a romance and comedy movie directed by John Allison, 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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Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceWhen 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.
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L.A. Without a Map (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedyAn aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a…
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Madame (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedyAnne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid…
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaTwo married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
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Feel the Beat (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaAfter failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.
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Kiss Me Kate (1953)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romanceA pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together…
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Bride & Prejudice (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedyMrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedyTwo 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.
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Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedyA straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceBizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
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Hellzapoppin' (1941)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and romanceOlsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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It Runs in the Family (2003)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaThis is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
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Hobson's Choice (1954)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaA widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
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West Side Story (1961)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
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Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyA fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.
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Father of the Bride (1950)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romanceProud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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Chloe and Theo (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We…
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Easy Virtue (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romanceA 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.
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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romanceThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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Stage Door (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaA spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.