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Movies Like The Bonfire of the Vanities

If you liked The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), a comedy and drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, 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. 1Corner Office

    Corner Office (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?

  2. 2The Mouse That Roared

    The Mouse That Roared (1959)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows…

  3. 3The Distinguished Gentleman

    The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows…

  4. 4The Hustle

    The Hustle (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

  5. 5The King of Comedy

    The King of Comedy (1982)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedy

    Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

  6. 6Young Adult

    Young Adult (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

  7. 7Family Plot

    Family Plot (1976)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

  8. 8Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane (1941)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life…

  9. 9Chloe and Theo

    Chloe and Theo (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We…

  10. 10The Hoax

    The Hoax (2006)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

  11. 11My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  12. 12Man on the Moon

    Man on the Moon (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

  13. 13Adaptation.

    Adaptation. (2002)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to…

  14. 14A Dog Year

    A Dog Year (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined…

  15. 15SubUrbia

    SubUrbia (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

  16. 16Wild Oats

    Wild Oats (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of…

  17. 17The Secret of My Success

    The Secret of My Success (1987)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who…

  18. 18Benny & Joon

    Benny & Joon (1993)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    A mentally ill young woman finds love with an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

  19. 19Better Living Through Chemistry

    Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy

    A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

  20. 20The Ladies Man

    The Ladies Man (1961)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with…

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