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Movies that feel like The Gold Rush (1925)

If you loved The Gold Rush, the closest films we have are The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931) and The Kid (1921). All three share The Gold Rush's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

πŸ… 98% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Charlie Chaplinepicwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantic
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The Circus
1928 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Charlie Chaplin working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the scale The Gold Rush is built on

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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City Lights
1931 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Charlie Chaplin directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Not nearly as epic as The Gold Rush

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.

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The Kid
1921 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.2comedy Β· drama

Both are working the same pair: black and white, silent film

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

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

Common ground: black and white

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Gold Rush does

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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Limelight
1952 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8romance Β· drama Β· music

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

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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The Navigator
1924 Β· dir. Buster Keaton
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· action Β· adventure

Both are built on the same subject: silent film

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 Β· dir. Charles Reisner
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: river

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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One Week
1920 Β· dir. Buster Keaton
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding giftβ€”and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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My Man Godfrey
1936 Β· dir. Gregory La Cava
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.9comedy

Adventure with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

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The Cameraman
1928 Β· dir. Edward Sedgwick
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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Il Sorpasso
1962 Β· dir. Dino Risi
β˜… 8.2drama Β· comedy Β· adventure

Epic adventure in both cases

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

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

One thread runs through both: love

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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