20 movies like The Magnificent Dope, ordered by similarity : That Uncertain Feeling(1941), Zelig(1983), They All Kissed the Bride(1942), Love Meet Hope(2016), Behen Hogi Teri(2017), The Snow Queen 3(2016), Sparkle(2007), All Roads Lead to Rome(2015), Scrooged(1988), The Luck of the Irish(1948), Miss Grant Takes Richmond(1949), The Sky's the Limit(1943) ...
Comedy
USA
1942
83 Minutes
Henry Fonda Lynn Bari Don Ameche Edward Everett Horton George Barbier Frank Orth Roseanne Murray Marietta Canty Hal K. Dawson Josephine Whittell Arthur Loft
young man love interest motivational speaker press agent insurance executive reporter lighthearted airy new york city office ambition love triangle contest culture clash deception transformation rise love 1940s
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1941
84 Minutes
Merle Oberon Melvyn Douglas Burgess Meredith Alan Mowbray Olive Blakeney Harry Davenport Eve Arden Sig Ruman Richard Carle Mary Currier Jean Fenwick
psychologist wife husband butler love interest pianist amusing airy cheeky doctor's office art gallery new york city hotel apartment marriage love triangle psychoanalysis divorce love love
A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
Comedy
USA
1983
84 Minutes
Woody Allen Mia Farrow Garrett M. Brown John Buckwalter Marvin Chatinover Stanley Swerdlow Howard Erskine Michael Jeter Mary Louise Wilson Alice Beardsley Ellen Garrison
patient doctor psychiatrist man love interest quirky playful amusing party hospital new york city germany fame love media medicine historical events rise love transformation
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
Comedy
USA
1942
85 Minutes
Joan Crawford Melvyn Douglas Roland Young Billie Burke Allen Jenkins Andrew Tombes Helen Parrish Emory Parnell
businesswoman sister reporter executive love interest younger sister charming playful witty church office house wedding independence marriage business love unlikely romance mistaken identity rivalry
Divine Crawford who gives all - in this really funny comedy , she donated all her salary from this movie to the Red Cross after Carole Lombard's plane crashed .
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Amanda Markowitz Bradley Fowler Ed Asner Peter Mackenzie Tim Joyce Ken Garr Victoria Matlock Cassandra Federman
divorcée young woman love interest grandfather author uplifting moving emotional endearing engaging united states california love hope romance love interest love letters family love growing up
A grandfather's love stories enlighten a jaded man and a moonstruck girl about the realities of love.
Comedy, Drama
India
2017
128 Minutes
Rajkummar Rao Shruti Haasan Gautam Gulati Darshan Jariwala Ninad Kamat Ranjeet
young man young woman neighbor love interest friend indian amusing charming playful lighthearted engaging cheeky india neighborhood love interest young love first love expedition tradition family
Gattu (Rajkummar Rao) has a problem, he loves Binny (Shruti Haasan) who lives in their neighborhood. But everyone says that the girls of the neighborhood should be treated as own sister or ... See full summary »
Animation, Comedy, Adventure
UK
2016
89 Minutes
queen young woman troll young man parent missing person charming amusing endearing engaging lighthearted heartwarming kingdom fairy tale land adventure perseverance coming-of-age love relationships fairy tales
An in-depth look at Linkous, a influential figure in the alternative music scene who had a dramatic life that saw him battle with drug and alcohol addiction, paralysis, and mental illness that resulted in his eventual suicide.
Comedy
2007
100 Minutes
Stockard Channing Neil Hunter Shaun Evans Anthony Head Bob Hoskins Lesley Manville Amanda Ryan John Shrapnel Peter Gordon
waiter lover pr person landlord boss brother airy emotional endearing lighthearted london city england career love secrets ambition love 21st century
Comedy, Romance
Italy|Spain|USA|UK|Sweden
2015
87 Minutes
Sarah Jessica Parker Raoul Bova Claudia Cardinale Rosie Day Paz Vega Chiara Bassermann Marco Bonini Barney Harris
single mother teacher woman mother daughter teen girl former lover romantic interest couple love interest man lighthearted positive emotional endearing airy amusing charming rome italy
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a... See full summary »
Comedy, Other, Fantasy
USA
1988
101 Minutes
Bill Murray Karen Allen John Forsythe John Glover Bobcat Goldthwait David Johansen Carol Kane Robert Mitchum Nicholas Phillips Michael J. Pollard Alfre Woodard
executive girlfriend boss secretary employee ghost creepy dark hilarious new york city office television studio bedroom christmas ghosts second chance love greed ambition transformation
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
Comedy
USA
1948
99 Minutes
Tyrone Power Anne Baxter Cecil Kellaway Lee J. Cobb James Todd Jayne Meadows J.M. Kerrigan Phil Brown Charles Irwin
reporter leprechaun love interest fiancée publisher editor lighthearted emotional ireland hotel new york city office apartment love triangle ambition political campaign ethics myth magic quest
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
Comedy
USA
1949
87 Minutes
secretary bookie wealthy woman old flame love interest lighthearted amusing office racetrack scam blackmail real estate gambling deception jealousy transformation rise love 1940s
A newly hired dumb secretary working for a bookie masquerading as a Realtor causes unintended hilarious troubles for her employer.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
89 Minutes
Fred Astaire Joan Leslie Robert Benchley Robert Ryan Elizabeth Patterson Marjorie Gateson
war hero photographer soldier boss love interest amusing lighthearted new york city small town club apartment bar heroism misunderstanding secret identity world war ii love duty love pursuit
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, ... See full summary »
Romance, Comedy, Drama
2016
87 Minutes
Stephen Marcus Amy Joyce Hastings Tara Breathnach Christopher Dunne Robert Doherty Orla McGovern Jennifer Elise Cox Christian O'Reilly Caroline Grace-Cassidy Eileen Gibbons Kieran Coppinger
disabled boy disabled girl disabled person love interest young man caregiver charming heartwarming uplifting amusing ireland hospice restaurant bar port city disability love true love escape rebellion
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
100 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Gale Sondergaard Frank Faylen The Wiere Brothers George Meeker
singer trumpeter love interest guardian brother lighthearted charming ocean liner rio de janeiro arranged marriage stowaway love triangle hypnosis deception adventure love 1940s
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
104 Minutes
George Blagden Charleene Closshey Robbie Kay Stelio Savante Michael Beach Raymond J. Barry Michelle Moreno Matt Cornwell
hacker love interest husband marine widow impostor amusing touching shocking quirky hilarious fast food restaurant ice cream parlor police station restaurant house hackers deception theft love
Straight out of jail, a hacker steals letters hoping to find cash. He reads one of the letters, falls in love with the writer and decides to change his ways to be worthy of her.
Romance
2013
102 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Zoe Kazan Megan Park Adam Driver Mackenzie Davis Jemima Rooper Rafe Spall Meghan Heffern Jonathan Cherry Oona Chaplin
friend best friend love interest medical student boyfriend girlfriend college dropout true love animator amusing endearing heartwarming hilarious lighthearted positive united states apartment city office love
A medical-school dropout (Daniel Radcliffe) tries to hide his attraction to his new friend (Zoe Kazan), a bubbly artist who already has a boyfriend.
Comedy
USA
1936
115 Minutes
Gary Cooper Jean Arthur George Bancroft Lionel Stander Douglas Dumbrille Raymond Walburn Margaret Matzenauer H.B. Warner Warren Hymer Muriel Evans Ruth Donnelly
heir reporter lawyer amusing charming spirited new york city small town vermont fame wealth love small-town life city vs. country love discovery transformation rise 1930s
A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Comedy
USA
2017
84 Minutes
Ashley Clements Shanna Malcolm Katie Wee Christopher Nicholas Smith Amin Joseph Sara Fletcher Matthew Scott Montgomery Beth Triffon Shira Lazar Monika Jolly Cigdem Onat
young woman ex-boyfriend boyfriend love interest airy amusing witty europe revenge vacation love interest love comedy love 21st century
Stuck with vacation reservations in her ex-boyfriend's name, Amy Tyler decides if she can't change the tickets...why not change the guy?
Musical, Romance, Comedy
UK
2013
100 Minutes
Paul Brannigan Jason Flemyng Peter Mullan Antonia Thomas George MacKay Jane Horrocks Freya Mavor Kevin Guthrie Emma Hartley-Miller Sara Vickers Elaine M. Ellis
young man young woman love interest boyfriend girlfriend family uplifting lighthearted moving charming scotland musicals growing up moving love relationships romance growing up adventure love
Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives.
Drama, Comedy
USA
2009
109 Minutes
George Clooney Vera Farmiga Anna Kendrick Jason Bateman Danny McBride Melanie Lynskey Amy Morton Sam Elliott J.K. Simmons Zach Galifianakis Chris Lowell
corporate downsizer co-worker love interest sister brother-in-law boss charming moving airplane airport office hotel apartment travel love loneliness business transformation quest love
Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire presenting a new business model.