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Movies that feel likeAfter Hours (1985)

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

If you loved After Hours, the closest films we have are The Kid (1921), Frailty (2002) and Sunshine Cleaning (2009). All three share After Hours' contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Charley Varrick (1973).

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The Kid
1921 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 100%★ 8.2comedy · dramaMax

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the tension than After Hours

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

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Frailty
2002 · dir. Bill Paxton
🍅 76%★ 7.2drama · thriller · crime

The same mix in both: tension, then stillness

The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than After Hours does

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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Sunshine Cleaning
2009 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%★ 6.8comedy · dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: suicide

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2000s show

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%★ 7.2comedy · dramaPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: suicide

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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The King of Comedy
1982 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 89%★ 7.8drama · comedy

Both are Martin Scorsese's work, and they rhyme

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%★ 7.5comedy · drama

Both lean on melancholy more than on comedy

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · dir. Wolfgang Becker
🍅 91%★ 7.7comedy · drama

Drama built on wit, twice over

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

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Thief
1981 · dir. Michael Mann
🍅 80%★ 7.4crime · thriller · dramaPrime Video

Common ground: thief

The difference: Sits closer to crime than After Hours does

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.

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Patch Adams
1998 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 22%★ 6.9comedy · drama

Playful thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

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Toni Erdmann
2016 · dir. Maren Ade
🍅 93%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.

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Charley Varrick
1973 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 82%★ 7.5crime · thriller · drama

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.

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The Tenant
1976 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 85%★ 7.5thriller · mystery · drama

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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