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20 best movies like The Apartment (1960)


List of the best movies like The Apartment (1960): The Great Gatsby, Broadway Danny Rose, Tallulah, Joy, The Wrong Guy, The Intern, Scent of a Woman, Lars and the Real Girl, The Late Bloomer, Ruby Sparks.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:23
CharactersMillionaires, Friends, Lovers
PlotLove, Money, Obsession, Loneliness, Love triangle
PlaceParty, Hotels, USA, Estate, New York
StyleRomantic, To cry, By books, Fascinating, Serious

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:24
CharactersGangsters, Businessmen, Girlfriends, Lovers, Artists
PlotAdventure, Abduction, Love triangle
PlaceUSA, New York
StyleTo cry, Smart, Fancy, Touching

A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, short
CountryUSA
Duration02:16
CharactersGay, Babysitting, Writers, Girlfriends, Housewives
PlotMoney, Friendship, Loneliness
PlaceMetro, Hospitals, Hotels, USA, New York
StyleTo cry, Smart, Tense, Touching

Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:18
CharactersStrong women, Blonde girls, Family, Inventors, Fathers
PlotOn real events, Relationship, Friendship, Loneliness, Death
PlaceParty, USA, New York
TimeNew Year
StyleTo cry, Inspirational, Smart, Serious

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, comedy
CountryCanada, United Kingdom
Duration01:32
CharactersPolice, Writers, Friends
PlotLove, On real events, The escape, Chase
PlaceCollege, Mexico, New York
TimeNew Year
StyleTo cry, Fascinating, Smart, Touching

Nelson Hibbert expects to become the new president of Nagel Industries, but Mr. Nagel gives the promotion to another employee. When Nelson barges into Nagel's office to confront him, he finds Nagel's been murdered. Fearing that he will be implicated, Nelson decides to run from the law...despite the fact that the police already know the killer's identity.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:26
CharactersFamily, Old man, Interns
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Fate
PlaceHotels, USA, Office, New York
StyleLight, To cry, Cute, Inspirational, Soulful

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:36
CharactersFamily, Students, Disabled people, Friends, Blind
PlotLove, Time travel, Adventure, Relationship, Friendship
PlaceHotels, USA, New York
StyleTo cry, Inspirational, Fascinating, Explicit scenes, Touching

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:46
CharactersPsychologists, Girlfriends, Introverts
PlotLoneliness, Dolls, Mental disorders, Depression, Fear
PlaceParty, Small cities
StylePsychological problems, To cry, Cute, Smart, Fancy

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
CharactersTeens, Lesbians, Psychologists, Hippies, Photographers
PlotLove, On real events, Basketball, Obsession, Friendship
PlaceSchool, Russia, Party, Hospitals, USA
StyleLight, By books, Fascinating, Tense, Touching

A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44
CharactersDogs, Writers, Psychiatrists
PlotLoneliness, Supernatural, Fulfillment of desires, Success, Fate
PlaceParty
StyleRomantic, Cute, Deep Meaning, Smart, Fancy

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:52
CharactersTeens, Serial killers, Friends
PlotFriendship, Love triangle, Insomnia
PlaceParty, New York
TimeNew Year
StyleFascinating, Heavy, Tense, Depressive, Disturbing

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44
CharactersDogs, Gay, Terminally ill, Actors, Artists
PlotDeath, Cancer, Mystery
PlaceParty
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Smart, Fancy, Touching

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35
CharactersWriters, Lovers
PlotLove, Treason, Death, Love triangle, Baseball
PlaceHotels, USA, New York
StyleRomantic, To cry, Touching

A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19
CharactersFamily, Bartenders, Parents
PlotWedding, Money, Loneliness, Breakup, Computers
PlaceAircraft, Hospitals, Cemetery
TimeNew Year
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching

A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:37
CharactersWriters, Friends, Losers
PlotObsession, Friendship, Loneliness, Mental disorders, Love triangle
PlacePoland, New York
TimeWorld War II
StylePsychological problems, To cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Heavy

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
CharactersTeens, Friends, Terminally ill, Girlfriends
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Cancer, Dreams
StyleTo cry, Smart, Vital signs, Touching

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryGreece
Duration01:42
CharactersGay, Military, Soldier
PlotLove, Dancing, Love triangle, Tango, Rivalry
PlaceParty, Greece
TimeNew Year
StyleRomantic, Psychological problems, To cry, Fascinating

At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, family
CountryUSA
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar, Love triangle, Jealousy, Holidays
PlaceParty, Hospitals
TimeNew Year
StyleRomantic, To cry, Touching, Serious

Sergeant Cody Cullen is deeply touched by an homemade Christmas card he receives while serving in Afghanistan. Upon his discharge, he treks to the picturesque California town of Nevada City. Cody is soon welcomed into the Spelman home and unexpectedly falls in love with the woman who sent the card, Faith.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:40
CharactersArtists
PlotDancing, Friendship, Love triangle, Holidays
PlaceGermany, Hotels, USA, Night Clubs
TimeNew Year
StyleRomantic, To cry, Touching

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:26
PlotLoneliness
PlaceUSA, Wall Street, New York
TimeWorld War II, World War I
StyleRomantic, To cry, Soulful, By books, Fascinating

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:40
CharactersBusinessmen, Managers
PlotSuccess, Cheating, Contests, Stock Exchange, Rivalry
PlaceOffice, New York
StyleAction, Fascinating, Smart

Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySpain, Portugal, France
Duration01:49
CharactersLesbians, Soldier
PlotLove, Obsession, Love triangle, Political, Jealousy
PlaceParty, Spain
StyleTo cry, Fascinating, Touching

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43
CharactersCats
PlotLove, Loneliness, Love triangle, Fate, Love at first sight
PlaceMetro
TimeNew Year, Winter
StyleRomantic, Light, To cry, Cute

A love story built on a misunderstanding. A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off the tracks after he's mugged. But while he's in a coma, his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:53
CharactersOld man
PlotFate, Holidays
PlaceUSA, New York
TimeNew Year
StyleLight, To cry, Touching

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:54
CharactersDogs
PlotLove, Loneliness, Fate, Rivalry
PlaceNew York
StyleRomantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Smart

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, music
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:44
CharactersDemons, Friends, Artists
PlotMusic, Death, Love triangle, True love, Curses
PlaceNight Clubs, New York
StyleRomantic, To cry, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42
CharactersFamily
PlotPassion, Wedding, Love triangle
PlaceNew York
StyleRomantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Smart

No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
CharactersTeachers, Cooks, Girlfriends, Astronomers
PlotMoney, Friendship, Loneliness, Depression, Baseball
PlaceSpace, School, College, USA, New York
TimeFuture
StyleRomantic, Light, Fascinating, Touching

A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:36
CharactersAngels
PlotJealousy
PlaceParty, New York
TimeNew Year
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Gloomy, Touching

Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52
CharactersJournalists, Girlfriends
PlotLoneliness, True love, Divorce
PlaceCollege, New York
StyleTo cry, Cute, Touching

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.





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