Movies like The City of Beautiful Girls (1950)
The best movies like The City of Beautiful Girls (1950) are Sunshine State (2002), It Happened One Night (1934) and Distant Drums (1951). If The City of Beautiful Girls hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The City of Beautiful Girls
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIt Happened One Night (1934)7.8/10 from 1,483 votes
- NewestOcean with David Attenborough (2025)Released 2025
Sunshine State (2002)
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Happened One Night (1934)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDistant Drums (1951)
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Day's Pleasure (1919)
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Year (2011)
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love, sensuality and independence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
The Baker family, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClambake (1967)
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMan's Favorite Sport? (1964)
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Holiday Calendar (2018)
A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future -- and pointing her toward love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome Clean (1931)
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTitanic (1953)
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Crazy Summer (1986)
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Her Shoes (2005)
Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives, the sisters face some complicated truths about themselves and their family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOcean with David Attenborough (2025)
David Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAlice in Wonderland (1933)
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Heath Ledger (2017)
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSeminoles of the Everglades (1949)
Shows the fight for survival of the Seminole Indians in Florida. Tells how the government is helping them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisLee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing (2001)
Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to cover the Second World War. Having given up photography in later life and virtually disowned her own work, Miller's extraordinary archive of 40,000 negatives was only rediscovered after her death. George Melly, David Hare, friends, colleagues and her only son, Tony Penrose, trace the story of her unconventional life through her own remarkable pictures and photographs, as well as rarely seen archive footage.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Mythily Veendum Varunnu... (2017)
After losing her father, a girl takes up the responsibility of her mother. She then moves to the city in search of a job. Upon getting the job, her job takes her to a bungalow, where she is subject to a series of horrible situations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisWasted Hours (2018)
Three stories intersect on a day of school in Pensacola, Florida.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Keepers of the Streak (2015)
The NFL has staged 48 Super Bowls. Four photographers have taken pictures at every one of them. In KEEPERS OF THE STREAK, director Neil Leifer tells the story of this exclusive club, made up of John Biever, Walter Iooss, Mickey Palmer and Tony Tomsic. With their cameras, they have captured football's biggest game of the year for almost five decades.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Inside (2007)
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUp the Yangtze (2008)
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008)
Four university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get the most sexual partners.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The City of Beautiful Girls?
The closest matches to The City of Beautiful Girls are Sunshine State (2002), It Happened One Night (1934) and Distant Drums (1951). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The City of Beautiful Girls?
Start with Sunshine State (2002), the closest match to The City of Beautiful Girls.
What is the highest-rated movie like The City of Beautiful Girls?
It Happened One Night (1934), rated 7.8/10 by 1,483 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The City of Beautiful Girls?
Ocean with David Attenborough (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The City of Beautiful Girls?
Yes: Sunshine State (2002), It Happened One Night (1934) and Distant Drums (1951).
How are movies similar to The City of Beautiful Girls chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The City of Beautiful Girls, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.