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Movies that feel like City Lights (1931)

If you loved City Lights, the closest films we have are Modern Times (1936), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and I Know Where I'm Going! (1945). All three share City Lights'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, HBO Max Amazon Channel and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

πŸ… 95% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Charlie Chaplinwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender

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If City Lights hit the spot, these will too

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Modern Times
1936 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both are Charlie Chaplin films, and they rhyme

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

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The Shop Around the Corner
1940 Β· dir. Ernst Lubitsch
πŸ… 99%β˜… 8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both circle love and black and white

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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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 Β· dir. Emeric Pressburger
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.4romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Black and white is the engine of both

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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Roman Holiday
1953 Β· dir. William Wyler
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8romance Β· comedy Β· drama

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1950s show

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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The Apartment
1960 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.3comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep circling back to suicide attempt

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 Β· dir. Blake Edwards
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

The same two preoccupations: love of one's life, and millionaire

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.

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La La Land
2016 Β· dir. Damien Chazelle
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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(500) Days of Summer
2009 Β· dir. Marc Webb
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: love

Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

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Annie Hall
1977 Β· dir. Woody Allen
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

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

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Harold and Maude
1971 Β· dir. Hal Ashby
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Suicide attempt sits at the heart of each

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995 Β· dir. Aditya Chopra
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both trade on wit more than on being drama

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancΓ©. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

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Love Actually
2003 Β· dir. Richard Curtis
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

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