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Movies that feel likeMidnight in Paris (2011)

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

If you loved Midnight in Paris, the closest films we have are 13 Going on 30 (2004), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and Clueless (1995). All three share Midnight in Paris' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Gregory's Girl (1980).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Woody Allendreamlikewittyplayfulromanticwistful
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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13 Going on 30
2004 · dir. Gary Winick
🍅 65%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romanceNetflix

Common ground: time travel

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%★ 7.6fantasy · comedy · romance

Woody Allen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the wistfulness than Midnight in Paris

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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Clueless
1995 · dir. Amy Heckerling
★ 6.9comedy · romanceParamount+Starz

Witty and playful in the same breath

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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American Pie
1999 · dir. Paul Weitz
🍅 62%★ 7comedy · romanceParamount+

Both land romance and wistfulness at once

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 93%★ 7.7comedy · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: camping

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Midnight in Paris does

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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Gregory's Girl
1980 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 95%★ 7.1comedy · romance

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 27%★ 5.8romance · comedy · fantasy

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

Celebrity photographer Connor Mead lives life in the fast lane, committed to lifelong bachelorhood and simultaneous relationships with multiple women. On the eve of his younger brother Paul's wedding, Connor's mockery of love proves a real buzz-kill for everyone - including his childhood crush, Jenny, the one woman who always seemed immune to his considerable charms. Later that night, he gets a wake-up call from the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne, the hard-partying, legendary ladies' man who was Connor's mentor. Uncle Wayne has an urgent message which he delivers through three ghosts who guide Connor on an eye-opening tour of his romantic past, present and future. Along the way, they attempt to discern whether he will ever be able to change his ways -- and if there is any hope of him finding true love.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: screenwriter

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 46%★ 6.4comedy · romancePrime Video

Woody Allen working the same nerve twice

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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Big
1988 · dir. Penny Marshall
🍅 98%★ 7.3fantasy · drama · comedyDisney+

Romance with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

Comedy built on play, twice over

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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