20 best movies like Carefree (1938)

List of the best movies like Carefree (1938): Let's Make Love, Strike Up the Band, The Last Five Years, Royal Wedding, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Love's Labour's Lost, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, La La Land, Cinderella.

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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: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.

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: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:33

The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.

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: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration02:16

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Cinderella, an orphaned girl with an evil stepmother, has big dreams and with the help of her Fabulous Godmother, she perseveres to make them come true.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryIndia
Duration02:53

Raj is a struggling singer chasing his dreams in Mumbai, India. One night, he rescues a girl, Pooja, from a car accident and takes her to the hospital. As she lies in a coma, her wealthy family assume that Raj is the man with whom their daughter eloped. Sensing opportunity, he assumes this new identity. When Pooja's best friend, Jahnvi, shows up, however, Raj starts to like her. After Pooja wakes up and falls for Raj, a tricky love triangle occurs.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok fuss, feud and fall in love. At first, Calamity is too busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay attention to such girlie things as dresses and perfume. She soon changes her mind when Katie Brown arrives in town.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, music
CountryUSA

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

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: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.

    Markimdb: 1.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet . . . and their hearts will become one.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    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 arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:38

    A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, family, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something they'll remember forever. Together with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical reflecting their hopes and fears about the future and their unforgettable experiences growing up together. But with graduation approaching and college plans in question, what will become of the dreams, romances, and friendships of East High's senior Wildcats?

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:48

    As Ishaan, a music producer who takes advantage of the women in his life, feels a connection with Gauri, his new next-door neighbor, he begins to learn the importance of friendship - causing him to work to repair his relationships.

    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: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:06

    New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:26

    Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane, a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger who's sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man's place. In the process, he finds hope and redemption.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
    CountrySerbia, United Kingdom, USA, Argentina, Mexico
    Duration02:16

    A man, shaken by fate after his wife's death, chooses to be a monk.

    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: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

    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: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Italy
    Duration01:33

    Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.

    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: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    A guy meets the woman of his dreams and invites her to his company's corporate retreat, but realizes he sent the invite to the wrong person.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Canada, Colombia
    Duration02:00

    Fred Flarsky is a gifted and free-spirited journalist who has a knack for getting into trouble. Charlotte Field is one of the most influential women in the world -- a smart, sophisticated and accomplished politician. When Fred unexpectedly runs into Charlotte, he soon realizes that she was his former baby sitter and childhood crush. When Charlotte decides to make a run for the presidency, she impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter -- much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.




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