20 movies like Johnny Come Lately, ordered by similarity : High Season for Spies(1966), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), The Great Man Votes(1939), Call Northside 777(1948), Five of a Kind(1938), Bad Education(2019), June Bride(1948), The Senator Was Indiscreet(1947), Just to Be Sure(2017), Shadow of the Thin Man(1941), The Human Comedy(1943), Front Page Woman(1935) ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
97 Minutes
James Cagney Grace George Marjorie Main Marjorie Lord Hattie McDaniel Edward McNamara
reporter drifter editor mysterious woman dowager bleak engaging small town jail corruption mission journalism imprisonment secret pursuit wretched excess 1940s
Newspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.
Crime, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|Portugal|West Germany
1966
89 Minutes
Antonio Vilar Letícia Román Peter Van Eyck Américo Coimbra Mikaela Artur Semedo Klausjürgen Wussow Corny Collins Ricardo Rubinstein José Cardoso Ricardo Valle
professor inventor kidnapper gangster agent secret agent engaging gripping suspenseful thrilling intense lisbon, portugal kidnapping secret secret formula fighting dangerous mission adventure rivalry pursuit
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
prisoner prison guard bank robber wife detective escape artist amusing gutsy bleak suspenseful tense california san quentin penitentiary prison bank car escape bank heist life story prison
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
70 Minutes
John Barrymore Peter Holden Virginia Weidler Donald MacBride William Demarest Katharine Alexander Bennie Bartlett Brandon Tynan Elisabeth Risdon Granville Bates Luis Alberni
professor daughter son teacher mayor political boss engaging bleak heartwarming uplifting small town college household office family political corruption education small-town life self-esteem transformation
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
1948
111 Minutes
James Stewart Richard Conte Lee J. Cobb Helen Walker Betty Garde Kasia Orzazewski Joanne de Bergh Howard Smith Moroni Olsen John McIntire Paul Harvey
prisoner mother wife editor reporter police officer thrilling engaging newsroom family home prison police station justice murder corruption pursuit mystery 1940s
A Chicago newsman (James Stewart) digs up the story of a scrubwoman's son (Richard Conte) framed for murder.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
83 Minutes
Jean Hersholt Claire Trevor Cesar Romero Slim Summerville Henry Wilcoxon Inez Courtney John Qualen Jane Darwell Pauline Moore Andrew Tombes David Torrence
reporter rival editor doctor best friend child unrestrained cheeky church newsroom radio station canada jail new york city journalism competition radio deception lawsuit publicity
At age four-and-a-half the Dionne quintuplets in their third movie - singing, dancing, playing with puppies, being charming.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
103 Minutes
Allison Janney Hugh Jackman Kathrine Narducci Geraldine Viswanathan Alex Wolff Stephanie Kurtzuba Annaleigh Ashford Ray Romano
superintendent assistant community member student parent reporter intense intricate confident engaging quirky striking long island, n.y. school prestige cover-up embezzlement reporting secrets discovery
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Comedy
USA
1948
97 Minutes
Bette Davis Robert Montgomery Fay Bainter Betty Lynn Tom Tully Barbara Bates Jerome Cowan Mary Wickes James Burke Raymond Roe Marjorie Bennett
editor journalist woman man sister brother charming engaging tender playful indiana new york city wedding wedding journalism secret lost loves love 1940s
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...
Comedy
USA
1947
81 Minutes
senator reporter pr person cheeky hilarious outlandish united states political corruption journalism blackmail controversy secret wretched excess pursuit 1940s
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
2017
100 Minutes
François Damiens Cécile de France Guy Marchand André Wilms Alice De Lencquesaing Este Ban Lyès Salem Brigitte Roüan
man father sister amusing charming engaging endearing inspiring town identity father/son relationship search secret discovery 2010s
A middle-aged bomb disposal expert faces a different kind of explosive situation when he learns that the man who raised him is not his biological father and the woman he is seeing may be his half sister.
Comedy, Drama
1941
97 Minutes
William Powell Myrna Loy Barry Nelson Donna Reed Sam Levene Alan Baxter Stella Adler
retiree wife police detective reporter jockey commissioner engaging playful tense san francisco racetrack locker room wrestling ring apartment office murder horse racing journalism undercover operations marriage
Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) solve racetrack-related murders with their 4-year-old son and dog, Asta.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan James Craig Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marsha Hunt Fay Bainter Darryl Hickman Donna Reed Van Johnson
young boy young girl boss man woman brother heartwarming emotional amusing small town house high school track office europe world war ii home front young love family communication
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
82 Minutes
Bette Davis George Brent Roscoe Karns Winifred Shaw Walter Walker J. Carrol Naish Gordon Westcott Dorothy Dare June Martel Joseph Crehan J. Farrell MacDonald
reporter love interest editor polo player murderer confident passionate suspenseful newsroom street hospital courtroom bar ambition gender bias journalism crime investigation trial rivalry
A woman reporter tries to prove she's just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1981
103 Minutes
John Belushi Blair Brown Allen Goorwitz Carlin Glynn Tony Ganios Val Avery Liam Russell Everett Smith Bill Henderson Bruce Jarchow Eddie Schwartz
reporter politician police officer editor scientist girlfriend playful heartwarming endearing chicago wyoming rocky mountains train newsroom corruption journalism courtship love adventure love
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1949
88 Minutes
Sarah Churchill Norman Wooland Cyril Cusack Ronald Adam Bryan Forbes James Hayter Walter Horsbrugh
reporter veteran employee amusing spirited town england newspapers corruption failing business rise 1940s
On the southwest coast of England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
109 Minutes
Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer Godfrey Tearle Griffith Jones Margaret Johnston Guy Middleton Jean Kent
playboy student secretary colonel best friend wife cool crafty engaging college england oxford university self-discovery seduction world war ii relationships bad behavior redemption discovery pursuit
Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »
Drama, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
USA
2015
92 Minutes
Rob Lowe Burt Reynolds Noel Gugliemi Kwesi Boakye Ken Davitian James Jurdi Jessica Clark Logan Fahey
real estate broker man woman criminal airy amusing suspenseful thrilling charming house los angeles real estate corruption crime money failing career rise fall rivalry pursuit
Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensue when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.
Comedy, Drama
Germany|Norway
2015
93 Minutes
Laura Tonke Hans Löw Margarita Broich Rosa Enskat Robert Hofmann Urs Jucker Alex Brendemühl Jakob Bieber Matthias Bundschuh Fritz Roth
woman boyfriend son suicidal person couple friend amusing melodramatic engaging heartwarming moving touching germany norway happiness relationships family travel meaning of life adventure
A young woman comes down with panic disorder and has to come to terms with this.
Drama, Comedy
1984
94 Minutes
Louis Ducreux Sabine Azéma Michel Aumont Monique Chaumette Claude Winter Geneviève Mnich Thomas Duval Quentin Ogier Katia Wostrikoff Jean-Roger Milo Pascale Vignal
painter father son wife daughter charming airy engaging france country house family painting memory aging discovery 1910s
A lonely old French painter's (Louis Ducreux) adult children and their offspring visit him one summer day in 1912.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2019
132 Minutes
Song Kang-ho Yeo-jeong Jo So-dam Park Woo-sik Choi Sun-kyun Lee Seo-joon Park Jung Ziso Jeong-eun Lee Andreas Fronk Hyae Jin Chang Myeong-hoon Park
son mother daughter maid father tense bleak sad hilarious family home party estate secret hideout vanity class distinctions poverty murderous rampage hostage situation misfortune escape
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
125 Minutes
James Stewart Jean Arthur Claude Rains Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Thomas Mitchell Eugene Pallette Beulah Bondi H.B. Warner Harry Carey Astrid Allwyn
senator politician secretary uplifting inspiring engaging washington, d.c. courtroom office politics aspirations leadership corruption underdog discovery rise 1930s
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.