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Movies Like The Hard-Boiled Canary

If you liked The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941), a comedy and music movie directed by Andrew L. Stone, 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. 2Girl on a Bicycle

    Girl on a Bicycle (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day…

  3. 3Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

    Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and music

    Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition…

  4. 4How 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.

  5. 5The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to…

  6. 6Silk 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…

  7. 7Music and Lyrics

    Music and Lyrics (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music

    A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written…

  8. 8Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

  9. 9Hellzapoppin'

    Hellzapoppin' (1941)

    ★ 7.3/10Also music and comedy

    Olsen 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.

  10. 10The Fighting Temptations

    The Fighting Temptations (2003)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and music

    Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his…

  11. 11Footlight Parade

    Footlight Parade (1933)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music

    A 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.

  12. 12Easy 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.

  13. 13Anchors Aweigh

    Anchors Aweigh (1945)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

  14. 14Arlo the Alligator Boy

    Arlo the Alligator Boy (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music

    Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost father. A musical adventure.

  15. 15My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree

    My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree (2016)

    ★ 7.5/10Also music and comedy

    When Canterlot Highschool goes on a trip to Camp Everfree, they’re surprised to find a magical force is causing strange things to happen around camp. With the help of the Mane 6 and especially Sunset Shimmer, Twilight…

  16. 16Watching 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…

  17. 17Love Happy

    Love Happy (1949)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and music

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

  18. 18Kiss Me, Stupid

    Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for…

  19. 19Babes in Arms

    Babes in Arms (1939)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and music

    Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as…

  20. 20The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow (1934)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music

    A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

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