Movies like The Apartment
24 films close to The Apartment (1960) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
new york city, lovesickness, new year's eve · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Also Billy Wilder · cheerful, black and white · Romance, Comedy · with Joan Shawlee and Jack Lemmon · The Mirisch Company
new york city, romcom, new year's eve · Romance, Drama, Comedy
extramarital affair, lovesickness · Romance, Drama, Comedy
romcom, new year's eve, christmas · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Also Billy Wilder · romcom · Romance, Comedy
lovesickness, christmas, black and white · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city, romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
black and white · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city, new year's eve · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city, black and white · Romance, Drama, Comedy
romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city, romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
age difference · Romance, Drama, Comedy
romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new year's eve · Romance, Drama, Comedy
black and white, suicide attempt · Romance, Drama, Comedy
lovesickness · Romance, Drama, Comedy
romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama, Comedy
romcom · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city, age difference · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.