Movies Like It Started with Eve (1941)

It Started with Eve is a 1941 comedy, music, romance film from Henry Koster with a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Gigi and Sabrina.

Comedy Music Romance

Gigi

1958

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

6.2

MagicScore

Sabrina

1954

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.

7.5

MagicScore

Pillow Talk

1959

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

7.1

MagicScore

Love in the Afternoon

1957

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.

7.0

MagicScore

Kiss Me, Stupid

1964

While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.

7.0

MagicScore

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

1947

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

6.9

MagicScore

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

2025

A playboy stages a dating show to earn his inheritance by granting his father's last wish: for his son to marry the most beautiful girl in the world.

6.8

MagicScore

Alfie

1966

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

6.5

MagicScore

Deliver Us from Eva

2003

Eva Dandridge has been in charge of her younger sisters ever since their parents died many years ago. She is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their significant others. Her brothers-in-law, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local "playboy," $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but trouble comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

Dance, Girl, Dance

1940

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Sabrina

1995

Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son David, a charming playboy. After the once plain Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a glamorous young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, formidable older brother Linus devises a plan to keep them apart.

6.2

MagicScore

#12

Everything Must Go

2011

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

6.2

MagicScore

#13

Down with Love

2003

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

On the Rocks

2020

Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Alfie

2004

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

5.8

MagicScore

#16

The House Bunny

2008

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

My Best Friend's Girl

2008

Lovestruck Dustin is dating Alexis, his ideal girlfriend, but when she dumps him for coming on too strong, Dustin takes drastic measures to win her back. He asks his best friend Tank to take her on the worst rebound date imaginable - his side job - so that she will come running back to him, and Tank reluctantly agrees. However, Alexis is more than a match for Tank's shock tactics and he begins to really fall for her, leaving him torn between loyalty to Dustin and his growing attraction toward Alexis.

5.6

MagicScore

#18

Breakfast for Two

1937

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

5.6

MagicScore

#19

Arthur

2011

A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman that his family doesn't like.

5.6

MagicScore

#20

The Perfect Match

2016

Charlie is a charming playboy who doesn't believe in serious relationships. His best friends bet him that if he sticks to one woman for one month, he's bound to get attached. Charlie denies this yet accepts the seemingly easy challenge, until he cross paths with the beautiful and mysterious Eva. They may agree to a casual affair, but eventually Charlie is questioning whether he may actually want more.

5.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like It Started with Eve?

The top films similar to It Started with Eve by MovieMagicScore are Gigi (6.2), Sabrina (7.5), Pillow Talk (7.1). Each shares comedy/music/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is It Started with Eve worth watching?

It Started with Eve holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10 from 29 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is It Started with Eve?

It Started with Eve (1941) is a comedy, music, romance film directed by Henry Koster, starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings.

Where can I find more recommendations like It Started with Eve?

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About movies like It Started with Eve

This ranked list pairs It Started with Eve (1941), a comedy and music and romance film from Henry Koster, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Deanna Durbin take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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