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10 Best Movies Like Funny Girl

If you loved Funny Girl, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Newsies

Newsies

2017★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Funny Girl for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of th...

#2
There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business

1954★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Funny Girl for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart....

#3
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Funny Girl for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan....

#4
Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Funny Girl for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice....

#5
Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

1976★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Funny Girl for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly,...

#6
The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld

1936★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Funny Girl for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats t...

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