20 movies like Man Wanted, ordered by similarity : Blue Skies(1946), Cloud 9(2008), Love at Large(1990), I Know Where I'm Going!(1945), More Than a Secretary(1936), Cash McCall(1960), Carol(2015), Accent on Youth(1935), Unfaithfully Yours(1948), Bachelor Bait(1934), Delicacy(2011), Southside With You(2016) ...
Romance
USA
1932
63 Minutes
Kay Francis David Manners Andy Devine Una Merkel Kenneth Thomson Claire Dodd Charlotte Merriam Edward Van Sloan Robert Greig
magazine editor playboy salesman fiancée secretary polo player airy witty lighthearted brooklyn, n.y. coney island office nightclub infidelity workplace romance love triangle jealousy corporate ladder divorce forbidden love
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
104 Minutes
Bing Crosby Fred Astaire Joan Caulfield Billy De Wolfe Olga San Juan Mikhail Rasumny Frank Faylen Victoria Horne Karolyn Grimes
singer dancer showgirl fan radio host amusing lighthearted playful dance hall nightclub radio station hospital singing dance jealousy love ambition rivalry temptation sacrifice
An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Romance
USA
1990
97 Minutes
Tom Berenger Elizabeth Perkins Anne Archer Ted Levine Annette O'Toole Kate Capshaw Ann Magnuson Barry Miller Kevin J. O'Connor Neil Young
private investigator client boyfriend woman wife man witty quirky lighthearted melodramatic pacific northwest airport office city mistaken identity bigamy double life infidelity police work ineptitude
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
Romance
1945
91 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Wendy Hiller Roger Livesey Pamela Brown Finlay Currie Valentine Dyall Petula Clark
fiancée military officer friend sailor boyfriend girlfriend airy charming lighthearted castle small town isle of mull, scotland love ambition marriage social standing love transformation 1940s
A young Englishwoman (Wendy Hiller) aims to marry a tycoon but finds love with a naval officer (Roger Livesey) instead.
Romance
USA
1936
77 Minutes
Jean Arthur George Brent Lionel Stander Dorothea Kent Ruth Donnelly Reginald Denny Charles Halton
secretary editor floozy colleague health nut lighthearted spirited office new york city romance journalism employment working woman love rivalry transformation 1930s
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Romance
USA
1960
102 Minutes
James Garner Natalie Wood Nina Foch Dean Jagger E.G. Marshall Henry Jones Otto Kruger Roland Winters Edward Platt Edgar Stehli Linda Watkins
businessman old flame business owner assistant boss witty lighthearted office penthouse airport capitalism love triangle corporate culture father/daughter relationship love love quest rivalry 1950s
Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is even more of a prize to Cash, for Cash is also making a bid for ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Romance
USA
1935
77 Minutes
Sylvia Sidney Herbert Marshall Philip Reed Holmes Herbert Catherine Doucet Astrid Allwyn
playwright secretary fiancée actor boss love interest playful lighthearted office apartment theater stage california beach may-december romance plays life imitating art jealousy misunderstanding marriage
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Romance
USA
1948
105 Minutes
Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Kurt Kreuger Lionel Stander Edgar Kennedy Alan Bridge Julius Tannen Torben Meyer
orchestra conductor brother-in-law wife detective secretary amusing charming family home concert stage love marriage infidelity jealousy classical music love revenge 1930s
While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife's suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Stuart Erwin Rochelle Hudson Pert Kelton Skeets Gallagher Berton Churchill Grady Sutton Clarence Wilson Otto Hoffman
secretary businessman wealthy man playboy executive ex-wife lighthearted heartwarming amusing city household boat office matchmaking loss of job business scheme love triangle marriage love rivalry
A well-meaning but bumbling clerk at the Marriage License Bureau winds up getting fired. He decides to open up his own "matchmaking" business and takes a personal interest in his clients, ... See full summary »
Romance
France
2011
109 Minutes
Audrey Tautou Stéphane Foenkinos François Damiens Bruno Todeschini Mélanie Bernier Joséphine de Meaux Pio Marmaï Monique Chaumette Marc Citti Alexandre Pavloff
young woman boyfriend man colleague intense heartwarming sad emotional melodramatic touching france office romance death grief work desperation new love love temptation
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Romance, Biography, Drama
USA
2016
81 Minutes
Tika Sumpter Parker Sawyers Vanessa Bell Calloway Jerod Haynes Alex Zelenka Donald Paul Gabrielle Lott-Rogers Jeremy Michael Pereira Deanna Reed-Foster Phillip Edward Van Lear TayLar
couple law student president adviser first lady man woman african-american african-american woman family charming cheeky emotional endearing heartwarming lighthearted chicago city romance first date
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Musical, Romance
USA
1937
89 Minutes
Bing Crosby Shirley Ross Bob Burns Martha Raye George Barbier Leif Erickson Grady Sutton Granville Bates Anthony Quinn Mitchell Lewis George Regas
advertiser boss contest winner secretary best friend fiancé lighthearted playful amusing hawaii advertising office honolulu island volcano boat publicity stunts manipulation romance volcano vanity
A beauty contest winner of the "Miss Pineapple Princess" pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
UK
1933
81 Minutes
Gloria Swanson Laurence Olivier John Halliday Michael Farmer Genevieve Tobin Nora Swinburne Charles Collum Peter Gawthorne Rosalinde Fuller O.B. Clarence Mary Jerrold
husband wife newlywed mistress lord lady melodramatic emotional engaging passionate amusing witty cannes, france london france newlyweds troubled marriage agreement divorce jealousy
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Romance
France|Belgium
2017
95 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Xavier Beauvois Philippe Katerine Josiane Balasko Sandrine Dumas Nicolas Duvauchelle Alex Descas Laurent Grévill Bruno Podalydès Paul Blain Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
lover love interest frenchman frenchwoman mother divorcée artist lighthearted engaging playful paris france eiffel tower apartment love dating city life art sexual conquests heartbreak
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
Romance, Other, Drama
UK
2017
84 Minutes
Jessy Schram Sam Page Crystal Balint Cheryl Ladd Hayley Sales Andrew Kavadas Nicole LaPlaca Gerard Plunkett
fashion designer prince young woman love interest lady young man amusing charming playful lighthearted heartwarming emotional ballroom relationships love tradition love triangle royal life family honor discovery
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
2011
118 Minutes
Glenn Ficarra Steve Carell Ryan Gosling Julianne Moore Emma Stone Analeigh Tipton Jonah Bobo Joey King Marisa Tomei Beth Littleford John Carroll Lynch
husband wife daughter playboy son babysitter lighthearted hilarious melodramatic california bar high school household car divorce family rekindled romance one-night stand infidelity romance
A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Fredric March Gary Cooper Miriam Hopkins Edward Everett Horton Franklin Pangborn Isabel Jewell Wyndham Standing Harry Dunkinson Helena Phillips Evans James Donlan Vernon Steele
artist playwright american boss husband love interest cheeky madcap playful paris apartment london new york city office roommates jealousy romantic dilemma love triangle sex competition
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Romance, Fantasy
1990
106 Minutes
Mia Farrow Joe Mantegna William Hurt Alec Baldwin Blythe Danner Judy Davis Keye Luke Bernadette Peters Cybill Shepherd Gwen Verdon Julie Kavner
housewife stockbroker musician doctor ghost sister quirky amusing dreamy new york city chinatown apartment office calcutta, india love infidelity magic romance family love
A pampered Manhattan housewife embarks upon a mystical odyssey of self-discovery following a visit to a Chinatown healer.
Romance, Drama
USA
2013
92 Minutes
Annette Bening Ed Harris Robin Williams Jess Weixler Amy Brenneman Linda Park Jeff Parise Kim Farris
widow woman man love interest husband art teacher moving emotional engaging endearing united states love romance loneliness lie secret love temptation 2010s
A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.