Movies like The Big Sick
24 films close to The Big Sick (2017) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy · Apatow Productions
family, college student · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Romance, Drama, Comedy · with Anupam Kher
new york city, comedian · Romance, Drama, Comedy
family · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
aftercreditsstinger · Romance, Drama, Comedy
cultural difference · Romance, Drama, Comedy
falling in love, illness · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Also Michael Showalter · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Romance, Drama, Comedy · with Zoe Kazan
family relationships · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city, college student, sadness · Drama, Comedy
family, new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
family · Romance, Drama, Comedy
falling in love, hospital · Romance, Drama
new york city · Romance, Drama, Comedy
falling in love · Romance, Drama, Comedy · with Zoe Kazan
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Close on feel · Romance, Drama, Comedy
roommates, group of friends · 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.