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Movies that feel likeBreakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

If you loved Breakfast at Tiffany's, the closest films we have are Sabrina (1954), Sissi (1955) and Holiday (1938). All three share Breakfast at Tiffany's' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Same Time, Next Year (1978).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Blake Edwardswittyplayfulromantictendercontemplative
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Sabrina
1954 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 89%★ 7.6comedy · romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: millionaire

After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.

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Sissi
1955 · dir. Ernst Marischka
★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

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Holiday
1938 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%★ 7.7comedy · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: free spirit

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1930s show

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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Manhattan
1979 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%★ 7.8comedy · drama · romance

The same city underneath both: New York City

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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Two for the Road
1967 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 82%★ 7.3drama · romance · comedy

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

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Roman Holiday
1953 · dir. William Wyler
🍅 97%★ 8romance · comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

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Limelight
1952 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 88%★ 8romance · drama · comedyMax

Both lean on wit more than on romance

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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Annie Hall
1977 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 97%★ 7.9comedy · drama · romance

Drama built on play, twice over

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%★ 7.4romance · drama · comedy

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

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Same Time, Next Year
1978 · dir. Robert Mulligan
🍅 40%★ 7.2comedy · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.

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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980 · dir. Vladimir Menshov
🍅 40%★ 8drama · comedy · romance

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

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The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 99%★ 8comedy · drama · romance

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

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