Movies like The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
The best movies like The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) are Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), The Swan (1956) and Sabrina (1954). If The Prince and the Showgirl hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSabrina (1954)7.5/10 from 1,414 votes
- NewestA Countess from Hong Kong (1967)Released 1967
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Swan (1956)
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSabrina (1954)
After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIndiscreet (1958)
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove in the Afternoon (1957)
A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with a client's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMonsieur Beaucaire (1946)
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGigi (1958)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMerrily We Live (1938)
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMove Over, Darling (1963)
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung at Heart (1954)
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Seven Year Itch (1955)
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHow to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPillow Talk (1959)
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDesigning Woman (1957)
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCall Me Madam (1953)
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
It Should Happen to You (1954)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Glass Slipper (1955)
In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of her stepfamily to finding love with a prince.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Dream Wife (1953)
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
My Geisha (1962)
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
A Very Special Favor (1965)
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Millionairess (1960)
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorn Yesterday (1950)
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIf a Man Answers (1962)
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPat and Mike (1952)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe're Not Married! (1952)
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Prince and the Showgirl?
The closest matches to The Prince and the Showgirl are Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), The Swan (1956) and Sabrina (1954). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Prince and the Showgirl?
People who watched The Prince and the Showgirl most often go on to Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), The Swan (1956) and Sabrina (1954).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Prince and the Showgirl?
Sabrina (1954), rated 7.5/10 by 1,414 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Prince and the Showgirl?
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Prince and the Showgirl?
Yes: Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), The Swan (1956) and Sabrina (1954).
How are movies similar to The Prince and the Showgirl chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Prince and the Showgirl, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.