Movies like Mame (1974)
The best movies like Mame (1974) are Cabaret (1972), Gypsy (1994) and Victor/Victoria (1982). If Mame hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCabaret (1972)7.4/10 from 1,026 votes
- NewestReefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006)Released 2006
Cabaret (1972)
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGypsy (1994)
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Victor/Victoria (1982)
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGuys and Dolls (1955)
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Play Us Cheap (1973)
As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two mischief-making devil-bats take human form in order to break up the party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Auntie Mame (1958)
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Pajama Game (1957)
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGypsy (1962)
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVictor/Victoria (1996)
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. Filmed live during its opening night (October 25, 1995) at the Marquis Theatre in New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiss Me Kate (1953)
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Charity (1969)
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChicago (2002)
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPennies from Heaven (1981)
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCabaret (1993)
Inside the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and the lewd Emcee sound the clarion call to decadence, while outside, the Nazi party grows into a brutal force. (Filmed live during the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End.)
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Can-Can (1960)
A Parisian nightclub owner known for her performances of the can-can attracts the ire of a self-righteous judge. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her lawyer boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Flower Drum Song (1961)
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Music Man (1962)
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Producers (2005)
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHair (1979)
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOklahoma! (1999)
A dark-themed and redesigned West End production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's seminal Broadway musical tells the story of farm girl Laurey and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Rent (2005)
In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFunny Girl (1968)
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisReefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006)
From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaking Off (1971)
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYentl (1983)
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome Play with Me (1977)
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mame?
The closest matches to Mame are Cabaret (1972), Gypsy (1994) and Victor/Victoria (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mame?
People who watched Mame most often go on to Cabaret (1972), Gypsy (1994) and Victor/Victoria (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mame?
Cabaret (1972), rated 7.4/10 by 1,026 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mame?
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mame?
Yes: Cabaret (1972), Gypsy (1994) and Victor/Victoria (1982).
How are movies similar to Mame chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mame, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.