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Movies that feel likeThe Cameraman (1928)

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If you loved The Cameraman, the closest films we have are The Circus (1928), Holiday (1938) and I Know Where I'm Going! (1945). All three share The Cameraman's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Make Way for Tomorrow (1937).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Edward Sedgwickwittyplayfulromantictendercontemplative
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The Circus
1928 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 97%★ 8.1comedy · drama · romancePrime VideoMax

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

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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Holiday
1938 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%★ 7.7comedy · romance · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%★ 7.4romance · drama · comedy

One thread runs through both: black and white

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

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The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 99%★ 8comedy · drama · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

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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Limelight
1952 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 88%★ 8romance · drama · comedyMax

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 1950s show

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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L'Âge d'or
1930 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 89%★ 7.1romance · comedy · drama

Romance built on wit, twice over

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 90%★ 7.8comedy · drama · romance

Both rooted in New York City

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

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Sissi
1955 · dir. Ernst Marischka
★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on play more than on drama

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

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Grand Hotel
1932 · dir. Edmund Goulding
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the wit of The Cameraman for an angle of its own

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%★ 7.9comedy · drama · romanceNetflixPrime Video

Tender comedy in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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L'Atalante
1934 · dir. Jean Vigo
🍅 100%★ 7.7comedy · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.

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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 100%★ 8.2drama · romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

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