Movies Like The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)

The Courtyard of the Ballads is a 1942 comedy, family, music film from Francisco Ribeiro with a MovieMagicScore of 8.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Lion from Estrela and A Song of Lisbon.

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The Lion from Estrela

1947

Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.

7.2

MagicScore

A Song of Lisbon

1933

Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.

8.6

MagicScore

Josie and the Pussycats

2001

Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.

5.8

MagicScore

Sister My Sister

1994

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.

5.8

MagicScore

The Balcony Movie

2021

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.

7.6

MagicScore

Far from Heaven

2002

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

7.0

MagicScore

Lady Oscar

1979

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.

5.6

MagicScore

Recollections of the Yellow House

1989

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

8.2

MagicScore

Poor Things

2023

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

Lisbon Story

1994

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

7.1

MagicScore

#11

A Son Named Erasmus

2020

Four friends in their 40s find out a deceased old flame of theirs had a child, conceived with one of them during an Erasmus (EU student exchange program) in Portugal 20 years earlier. They embark on a journey in search of the offspring, while waiting for the DNA results to find out which one is the father.

5.7

MagicScore

#12

The Tyrannical Father

1941

While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.

7.8

MagicScore

#13

Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World

2019

The first journey around the world began under the command of Ferdinand Magellan and was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Five boats left Seville on September 20, 1519. Storms, famine, tribes… Three years later, only one made it back. An incredible adventure around the planet whose roundness was finally proven.

5.6

MagicScore

#14

The Soft Skin

1964

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.

7.1

MagicScore

#15

The Green Years

1963

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

Tabu

2012

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

In the White City

1983

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

In Vanda's Room

2001

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

6.9

MagicScore

#19

After Everything

2023

Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realizes he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

The Russia House

1990

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Courtyard of the Ballads?

The top films similar to The Courtyard of the Ballads by MovieMagicScore are The Lion from Estrela (7.2), A Song of Lisbon (8.6), Josie and the Pussycats (5.8). Each shares comedy/family/music themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Courtyard of the Ballads worth watching?

The Courtyard of the Ballads holds a MovieMagicScore of 8.6/10 from 42 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Courtyard of the Ballads?

The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942) is a comedy, family, music film directed by Francisco Ribeiro, starring António Silva, Vasco Santana, Maria das Neves.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Courtyard of the Ballads?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Courtyard of the Ballads

This ranked list pairs The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942), a comedy and family and music film from Francisco Ribeiro, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of António Silva 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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