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Movies that feel like Café Society (2016)

If you loved Café Society, the closest films we have are A Rainy Day in New York (2019), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) and Manhattan (1979). All three share Café Society's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Woody Allenwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender
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A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 46%6.4comedy · romance

Both are Woody Allen's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the stillness of Café Society

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · dir. Sharon Maguire
🍅 78%6.4drama · comedy · romance

The same two preoccupations: baby, and love triangle

After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.

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

The same hand behind both of them: Woody Allen

The difference: 37 years apart, and the 1970s show

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

The same preoccupation in both: love

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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Love & Other Drugs
2010 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 49%6.7drama · comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: letter

Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

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Anora
2024 · dir. Sean Baker
🍅 93%7.4drama · comedy · romance

Two things both keep coming back to: new year's eve and marriage

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%6comedy · drama · romance

Common ground: love

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
2020 · dir. Michael Fimognari
🍅 78%6.1romance · comedy

One thread runs through both: love triangle

Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.

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Letters to Juliet
2010 · dir. Gary Winick
🍅 42%6.5comedy · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: letter

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

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Secretary
2002 · dir. Steven Shainberg
🍅 78%6.9romance · drama · comedy

Common ground: secretary

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 80%7.1drama · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

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Barfi!
2012 · dir. Anurag Basu
🍅 81%8.1drama · romance · comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.

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