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Movies that feel like The Cameraman (1928)

If you loved The Cameraman, the closest films we have are The Circus (1928), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) and Trouble in Paradise (1932). All three share The Cameraman'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, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Edward Sedgwickwittyplayfulromantictendercontemplative
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The Circus
1928 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 97%8.1comedy · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 · dir. Charles Reisner
🍅 96%7.8comedy · romance

Common ground: black and white

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as The Cameraman

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

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Trouble in Paradise
1932 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 90%7.9comedy · crime · romance

One thread runs through both: secretary

The difference: None of the stillness The Cameraman is built on

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

Romantic and tender in the same breath

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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Meet John Doe
1941 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 92%7.6drama · comedy · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

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

Witty romance in both cases

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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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 90%7.8comedy · drama · romance

Both rooted in New York City

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

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Seven Chances
1925 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 94%7.8comedy · romance

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

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L'Âge d'or
1930 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 89%7.2romance · comedy · drama

Comedy built on romance, twice over

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%7.9comedy · drama · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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

The same preoccupation in both: love at first sight

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

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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