20 best movies like A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944)

List of the best movies like A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944): Rosie the Riveter, Darling Lili, What Price Glory, Rookies on Parade, Hair, Anchors Aweigh, Rock of Ages, Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, military
CountryUSA

In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making due because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.

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Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, military
CountryUSA

The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
CountryWest Germany, USA
Duration02:01

"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, military, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

    A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, music
    CountryUSA

    After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, Michael Bolton hosts a sexy telethon to get the world to star making love.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, family, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant fame and fortune are in the bag. But theatre's a dog-eat-dog world. Fortunately, Sharpay also meets Peyton, a handsome student filmmaker who finds Sharpay nearly as fascinating as she finds herself.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
    Duration02:38

    Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Set to a new wave '80s soundtrack, a pair of young lovers from different backgrounds defy their parents and friends to stay together.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    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.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, military
    CountryWest Germany

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    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, family
    CountryUSA

    The Music Man is a 2003 American television film directed by Jeff Bleckner and starring Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth. The television production, which was broadcast by ABC on the February 16, 2003, edition of The Wonderful World of Disney, is based on the book of the 1957 stage musical by Meredith Willson, which was based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The musical was adapted for television by Sally Robinson. It was filmed entirely in Ontario, Canada. The three-hour presentation was watched by 13.1 million viewers, with a 3.8 rating/9 share in adults aged 18–49. It finished second in the first two hours and fourth in the final hour.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    Fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. The problems begin, however, when Venus falls in love with him.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she falls in love with Johnny, and lands in jail, but she acquires the song, the job, and Johnny.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.




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