Movies Like Assholes

If you liked Assholes (2017), a comedy and drama movie directed by Peter Vack, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Apartment (1960)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although…
2
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and romance
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'…
3
Prime (2005)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
4
A Lot Like Love (2005)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they…
5
Love Sarah (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
6
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
7
Jersey Girl (2004)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…
8
Hitch (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques…
9
The Clock (1945)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and drama
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
10
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and romance
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
11
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never…
12
The Spectacular Now (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected…
13
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
14
Serendipity (2001)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romance
Although already in relationships, two strangers realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the…
15
Just My Luck (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
16
West Side Story (1961)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance
In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
17
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and drama
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.
18
Meet Me Next Christmas (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy
On a quest to reconnect with the man of her dreams, Layla races across New York City to find a ticket to a sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve concert.
19
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered…
20
You've Got Mail (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romance
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 trying to put her out of business.