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Movies that feel like After Hours (1985)

If you loved After Hours, the closest films we have are The King of Comedy (1982), Barton Fink (1991) and The Cable Guy (1996). All three share After Hours's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesewittyplayfultensecontemplativedreamlike

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

Both are Martin Scorsese films, and they rhyme

The difference: Not nearly as tense as After Hours

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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Barton Fink
1991 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 90%7.6comedy · drama · thriller

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: None of the dream logic that defines After Hours

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

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The Cable Guy
1996 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 56%6.1comedy · drama · thriller

Tense where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.

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My Favorite Year
1982 · dir. Richard Benjamin
🍅 97%7.3comedy · drama

New York City shapes both of them

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 86%7.6comedy · drama · thriller

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 60%6.5action · comedy · drama

Playful thriller in both cases

The difference: Leans action where After Hours does not

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.

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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%8.2crime · drama · comedy

Martin Scorsese directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Plays it as crime more than After Hours does

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

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Rosebush Pruning
2026 · dir. Karim Aïnouz
6.3comedy · drama · thriller

Drama built on tension, twice over

In a Spanish villa, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. When Jack wants to move in with his girlfriend and Ed uncovers the truth about their mother’s death, the fabric of the family begins to unravel.

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Wild Tales
2014 · dir. Damián Szifron
🍅 94%8.1drama · thriller · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

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Parasite
2019 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 99%8.5comedy · thriller · drama

Both trade on wit more than on being thriller

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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Big
1988 · dir. Penny Marshall
🍅 98%7.3fantasy · drama · comedy

Both trade on dream logic more than on being drama

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

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Smoke
1995 · dir. Wayne Wang
🍅 89%7.4comedy · drama

Playful comedy in both cases

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

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