Movies like Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la (1947)
The best movies like Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la (1947) are Fackham Hall (2025), The Tender Bar (2021) and The Wedding Ringer (2015). If Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSeven Chances (1925)7.5/10 from 346 votes
- NewestFackham Hall (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchI Do (2006)Also in French
Fackham Hall (2025)
A new servant embarks on an unlikely relationship with the youngest daughter of a prominent English family. Simultaneously, rivalries are spilling over in the Davenport family, led by the Lord and Lady as they also weather the epic failure of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tender Bar (2021)
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wedding Ringer (2015)
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Do (2006)
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCluny Brown (1946)
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBabes (2024)
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeven Chances (1925)
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Family Jewels (1965)
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiss Austen Regrets (2008)
Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClear History (2013)
Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Visitors (1993)
After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFather of the Bride (1991)
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony, he becomes slightly insane.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOh, God! (1977)
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Macbeth (2016)
Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJoe's Apartment (1996)
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonster-in-Law (2005)
Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Wedding (2003)
With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is reliable as ever, doling out advice no one wants to hear.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSplash (1984)
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la?
The closest matches to Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la are Fackham Hall (2025), The Tender Bar (2021) and The Wedding Ringer (2015). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la?
Start with Fackham Hall (2025), the closest match to Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la.
What is the highest-rated movie like Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la?
Seven Chances (1925), rated 7.5/10 by 346 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la?
Fackham Hall (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la?
Yes: I Do (2006) and The Visitors (1993).
How are movies similar to Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.