20 movies like The Prisoner of Second Avenue, ordered by similarity : Crimes and Misdemeanors(1989), The Ax(2005), Little Murders(1971), Manhattan(1979), The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985), Tully(2018), The Party(2017), Hindi Medium(2017), Bed and Board(1970), Bol Bachchan(2012), Papadopoulos & Sons(2012), All the Best(2009) ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1975
105 Minutes
Jack Lemmon Anne Bancroft Gene Saks Elizabeth Wilson Florence Stanley Maxine Stuart Ed Peck Gene Blakely Ivor Francis Stack Pierce Sylvester Stallone
housewife ad executive brother amusing quirky new york city apartment depression identity financial crisis marriage fall 1970s
A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1989
104 Minutes
Martin Landau Woody Allen Mia Farrow Alan Alda Anjelica Huston Sam Waterston Joanna Gleason Caroline Aaron Jerry Orbach Claire Bloom Stephanie Roth Haberle
director doctor producer girlfriend wife quirky amusing playful hilarious new york city adultery revenge forbidden love movie making art marriage forbidden love temptation fall rivalry
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Belgium|France|Spain
2005
122 Minutes
José Garcia Karin Viard Olivier Gourmet Ulrich Tukur Yvon Back Thierry Hancisse Geordy Monfils Christa Théret Olga Grumberg Yolande Moreau Dieudonné Kabongo
unemployed person wife executive police detective son husband dark emotional amusing suspenseful suburb motel house europe unemployment murder capitalism desperation financial crisis marriage
A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1971
110 Minutes
Elliott Gould Marcia Rodd Vincent Gardenia Elizabeth Wilson Jon Korkes John Randolph Doris Roberts Lou Jacobi Donald Sutherland Alan Arkin
photographer interior decorator in-law parent brother lieutenant dark quirky amusing new york city subway household marriage tragic death relationships violence opposites attract love transformation 1970s
Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
Drama, Comedy
USA
1979
96 Minutes
Woody Allen Diane Keaton Mariel Hemingway Michael Murphy Meryl Streep Anne Byrne Karen Ludwig Michael O'Donoghue Tisa Farrow Helen Hanft Bella Abzug
writer teenager ex-wife friend lover witty playful touching new york city apartment central park delicatessen dating may-december romance loneliness loss love triangle new york city growing up love
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1985
82 Minutes
Mia Farrow Jeff Daniels Danny Aiello Dianne Wiest Van Johnson Zoe Caldwell John Wood Milo O'Shea Deborah Rush Irving Metzman John Rothman
waitress husband producer actor archaeologist countess quirky amusing touching new jersey theater apartment street hollywood, calif. airplane loneliness marriage magic great depression poverty
In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada
2018
94 Minutes
Charlize Theron Mackenzie Davis Mark Duplass Ron Livingston Emily Haine Elaine Tan Asher Miles Fallica Lia Frankland Gameela Wright Colleen Wheeler Maddie Dixon-Poirier
mother wife husband brother child nanny amusing emotional tense raw touching house school parking lot barbecue concert stage motherhood marriage relationships childcare
A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2017
71 Minutes
Patricia Clarkson Bruno Ganz Cherry Jones Emily Mortimer Cillian Murphy Kristin Scott Thomas Timothy Spall
host friend politician husband couple wife brash amusing emotional tense quirky london house living room bathroom dining room kitchen friendship relationships marriage
Janet (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine.
Drama, Comedy
India
2017
133 Minutes
Irrfan Khan Saba Qamar Deepak Dobriyal Delzad Hiwale Taran Bajaj Jaspal Sharma Swati Das Vijay Kumar Dogra
young man husband wife daughter hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap amusing india town city house school chasing dreams education confusion impersonation false identity quest
A couple from Chandni Chowk aspire to give their daughter the best education and thus be a part of and accepted by the elite of Delhi.
Comedy, Drama
1970
97 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Mademoiselle Hiroko Barbara Laage Danièle Girard Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel Daniel Boulanger
husband wife lover son brooding uneasy quirky apartment paris street marriage infidelity family love forbidden love 1970s
Francois Truffaut's tales of Antoine Doinel continue, as now-married Antoine has an affair with a Japanese woman.
Comedy, Action, Drama
2012
150 Minutes
Ajay Devgn Abhishek Bachchan Asin Thottumkal Prachi Desai Asrani Archana Puran Singh Krishna Abhishek Neeraj Vora Jeetu Verma
young man friend child sister girlfriend hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap amusing india house apartment bungalow temple hidden identity mistaken identity confusion love interest adventure
When Abbas breaks open the lock of an ancestral Hindu temple to save a child trapped inside, he faces trouble. He tries to hide his true identity with a fake Hindu name, which leads to a web of lies.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2012
105 Minutes
Stephen Dillane Ed Stoppard Georgia Groome Frank Dillane Selina Cadell George Corraface Richard Durden Cosima Shaw Alexander Hanson Carl Rice Paul Herzberg
businessman immigrant estranged brother horticulturalist nanny child prodigy witty amusing endearing lighthearted engaging charming england financial crisis loss reunion brother relationship new life family business discovery
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Comedy, Action
India
2009
144 Minutes
Sanjay Dutt Ajay Devgn Bipasha Basu Fardeen Khan Mugdha Godse Ashwini Kalsekar
young man brother stepbrother gangster singer amusing hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap quirky goa, india india city house bungalow lying cheating marriage adventure
The unexpected arrival of his elder NRI brother and assorted characters complicates the life of a Goan male.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
108 Minutes
Renée Zellweger Logan Lerman Kevin Bacon Troy Garity David Koechner Eric McCormack Chris Noth Mark Rendall Nick Stahl Steven Weber Robin Weigert
wife unfaithful husband husband son love interest suitor amusing hilarious engaging charming witty playful united states new york new york city unhappy marriage relationships attraction new life happiness
After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Spain
2018
118 Minutes
Oscar Isaac Olivia Wilde Antonio Banderas Annette Bening Mandy Patinkin Jean Smart Olivia Cooke Sergio Peris-Mencheta Laia Costa Àlex Monner Lorenza Izzo
college sweetheart husband wife pregnant woman granddaughter in-law emotional heartwarming tense sad intricate powerful new york city spain bar party house apartment marriage love
As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2014
90 Minutes
Patricia Clarkson Ben Kingsley Grace Gummer Jake Weber Sarita Choudhury Samantha Bee John Hodgman Matt Salinger Daniela Lavender
book critic instructor driver new yorker daughter bride-to-be amusing witty inspiring touching moving engaging new york driving new york city arranged marriage failed marriage unlikely friendship mismatched duo discovery
As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
65 Minutes
Bette Davis Gene Raymond Frank McHugh Claire Dodd Ferdinand Gottschalk Monroe Owsley Kay Strozzi Alphonse Ethier Bodil Rosing Gay Seabrook
illustrator advertising executive married woman ladies' man husband wife amusing unrestrained new york city apartment office havana living together marriage career vs. love infidelity independence separation love temptation
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1992
119 Minutes
Billy Crystal David Paymer Julie Warner Helen Hunt Mary Mara Jerry Orbach Ron Silver Sage Allen Jason Marsden Michael Weiner Jackie Gayle
tv personality brother wife agent daughter old man emotional melodramatic amusing catskills new york city nursing home aging family dysfunction comedy retirement second chance rise fall love
The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1979
124 Minutes
James Caan Marsha Mason Valerie Harper Joseph Bologna Judy Farrell Alan Fudge Debra Mooney Isabel Cooley Imogene Bliss Larry Michlin Ray Young
widower actress brother friend emotional witty new york city apartment bermuda grief marriage doubt second chance dating travel love transformation 1970s
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off, and just when things are moving along, the memory... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1993
105 Minutes
Woody Allen Diane Keaton Alan Alda Anjelica Huston Jerry Adler Lynn Cohen Ron Rifkin Joy Behar Marge Redmond Aida Turturro
husband wife son writer amateur sleuth neighbor amusing playful new york city apartment restaurant movie theater city apartment big city murder investigation marriage romance death city life suspicion
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
75 Minutes
Warren William Loretta Young Wallace Ford Alice White Albert Gran Allen Jenkins Marjorie Gateson Hale Hamilton Ruth Donnelly Zita Moulton Frank Reicher
manager wife salesman owner board member model amusing melodramatic spirited department store new york city work-life balance secret marriage workplace romance money affair wretched excess forbidden love 1930s
A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.