20 best movies like The Moon Is Blue (1953)

List of the best movies like The Moon Is Blue (1953): It's Always Fair Weather, 5 to 7, Pat and Mike, She Done Him Wrong, Isn't It Romantic, Permission, How to Be Single, The Longest Week, I'm with Lucy, The Cameraman.

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

Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

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: 5.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:36

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:00

A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to discover she's already dating his friend.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:41

It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:09

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

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: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:49

Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

When Ethan arrives at the airport just in time to declare his undying love for his girlfriend, love appears to have conquered all. The scene, however, is really the ending of Ethan's novel, which his agent calls "unrealistic." Ethan soon meets a waitress, Jesse, and falls in love with her despite her growing devotion to Troy, a charming businessman. But the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred.

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: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his treatment, they discover that Elliot's illness is not the real test of their relationship – it's everything else.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

    Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy (Kate Hudson). Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan (John Krasinski), Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Providing the romantic comedy genre with a decidedly queer twist, THE ONE is an effortlessly charming tale which proves that love is never simple! Hunky Daniel couldn’t have it better: great parents, a successful career and his beautiful fiancée Jen. But in his seemingly perfect life, there is one temptation- he has a thing for his adorable, openly gay former college classmate Tommy. After a few drinks, Daniel succumbs to his repressed desires sending these two on a torrid affair. Funny how love and lust have a way of messing up even the best laid plans of man!

    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: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:35

    After fast-paced New York City high-end real estate broker Fiona Rangely (Lacey Chabert) gets dumped by her boyfriend, she escapes to her family’s quaint Vermont Inn for a few days to slow down and evaluate her life. When her ex-boyfriend Nate shows up at the Inn with a brand new girlfriend, Fiona quickly devises a plan to win him back: pretend the handsome and very laid- back head chef Derek (Carlo Marks) is her new boyfriend! Much to the surprise of Derek --and to Fiona herself-- in pretending to be in love, she realizes that she’s been thrown a curveball: sometimes the best things in life are worth the wait.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Italy, USA
    Duration01:35

    How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. Bella's mother sets her up with Bruno, a novelist/cabbie who likes to bed-hop and whose ex-wife expects their two children to stay with him for awhile. While Bruno learns some maturity from his young daughter, Paul answers a personals ad placed by a "widow, 60." The two couples - along with one of Paul's older pals and a Jungian stripper - sort out how to initiate a relationship these days, what to do when someone you like disappoints you, and when to tell the truth.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

      After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:26

        70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

        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: 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: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA

        A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.

        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: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA

        A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem.

        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: 5.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration01:36

        After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam and Dennis do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz doesn't seem to care. Once Gray breaks through Fritz's defenses, however, she finally sees why her fiancé thought so highly of him. As they spend more time together, Gray learns that her chances for love have not died out with her fiancé. But when some surprise guests show up on their doorstep, it'll take the love of all of her new friends to help Gray learn that life may be messy, but love is messier.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, Zoe, who is now the filmmaker’s fiancée, and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials. As Sam’s plan begins to unravel, he is forced to realize how complicated love and friendship can be.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryAustralia, USA
        Duration02:23

        An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do—go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Spain
        Duration02:28

        As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.




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