Movies like Teacher's Pet (1958)
The best movies like Teacher's Pet (1958) are The Tunnel of Love (1958), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and The Thrill of It All (1963). If Teacher's Pet 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 ratedPillow Talk (1959)7.1/10 from 344 votes
- NewestA Guide for the Married Man (1967)Released 1967
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.
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 thisThe Thrill of It All (1963)
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt Happened to Jane (1959)
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
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 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 thisForever, Darling (1956)
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes an obstacle course for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
What a Way to Go! (1964)
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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
Promises! Promises! (1963)
After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
That Touch of Mink (1962)
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Guide for the Married Man (1967)
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLover Come Back (1961)
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Matchmaker (1958)
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Move 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 thisSend Me No Flowers (1964)
When a hypochondriac assumes that he is dying, he makes an elaborate plan to ensure his wife's happiness. However, trouble ensues when she misunderstands his intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSunday in New York (1963)
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA 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
Walk Don't Run (1966)
During the housing shortage of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDear Heart (1965)
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Trapeze (1956)
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDo Not Disturb (1965)
When American couple Janet and Mike move to England for his business, she soon fears he's having an affair with his attractive secretary and decides to get back at him by pretending she has been unfaithful.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Facts of Life (1960)
Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Disorderly Orderly (1964)
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGidget (1959)
Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Moon Is Blue (1953)
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Teacher's Pet?
The closest matches to Teacher's Pet are The Tunnel of Love (1958), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and The Thrill of It All (1963). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Teacher's Pet?
People who watched Teacher's Pet most often go on to The Tunnel of Love (1958), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and The Thrill of It All (1963).
What is the highest-rated movie like Teacher's Pet?
Pillow Talk (1959), rated 7.1/10 by 344 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Teacher's Pet?
A Guide for the Married Man (1967) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Teacher's Pet?
Yes: The Tunnel of Love (1958), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and The Thrill of It All (1963).
How are movies similar to Teacher's Pet chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Teacher's Pet, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.