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10 Best Movies Like Opening Night

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

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#1
Love Happy

Love Happy

1949★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Opening Night for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds....

#2
Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

1933★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Opening Night for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences....

#3
A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

1948★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Opening Night for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Hon...

#4
Bo Burnham: What.

Bo Burnham: What.

2013★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Opening Night for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Left brain and right brain duke it out and then belt out a tune in comedian Bo Burnham's quick and clever one-man show. As intelligent as he is lanky, Burnham cynically pokes at po...

#5
The Big Store

The Big Store

1941★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Opening Night for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager....

#6
Hellzapoppin'

Hellzapoppin'

1941★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Opening Night for fans of Comedy & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way....

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