Movies like Babylon

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Babylon (2022)
 7.1
 164K
Babylon (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style: dramatic, visual, thrilling, exciting, funny, atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, witty, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: film history, filmmaking, orgy, party, hedonism, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, movie business, unrequited love, graphic violence, career, fame, filmmaker, rise and fall, movie actress, life, job, celebrity, historical figure, high society, actress, backstage, glory ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932, year 1952, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, new york, california
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Most similar movies to Babylon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, independent film and witty films with plots about filmmaking, showbiz, actor, hollywood, actress, artists and showbiz and film industry mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Babylon: Beauty Spot (2011), The Wild Party (1975), La La Land (2016), Amsterdam (2022), S.O.B. (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A faded TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry during the Helter Skelter reign of terror in 1969 Los Angeles.
Style: twist ending, controversial, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: hippie, friendship between men, alternate history, actor, filmmaking, nagging wife, struggling actor, cinema, sexy woman, home invasion, friendship, agent ...
Time: year 1969, 2010s, 60s, year 2019, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: midlife crisis, existentialism, theater, surrealism, showbiz, actor, magic realism, satire, father daughter relationship, dark humor, alter ego, art ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, america, ethiopia, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 248K
Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.3
 793
The Wild Party (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Loosely based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free-for-all. The comic ends up killing his mistress and her latest boyfriend.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, nightlife, psychopath, infidelity, party, film industry, gays and lesbians, actor's life, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 1920s, year 1975
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 8.0
 661K
La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: romantic, sad, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens, date night
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, traffic jam, pianist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.1
 92K
Amsterdam (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in North American history.
Style: dramatic, captivating, stylized, tense, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, corpse, friendship, nurse, lawyer, friend, doctor, death, friends, real life, experiment ...
Time: 1930s, 2020s, year 1933, year 1918, year 1919 ...
Place: usa, belgium, france, new york, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 6K
S.O.B. (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style: funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 82K
Mank (2020)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style: black and white, historical drama, sentimental, inspirational, intense ...
Plot: screenwriter, filmmaking, wealth, biopic, writers, beach, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, car accident, name calling ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 2020s, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place: los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.9
 281K
Boogie Nights (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style: stylized, erotic, sexy, talky, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, drug abuse, rise and fall, porn industry, addiction, multiple storylines, disco, drug, cocaine, character study, drug addiction, adult filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.5
 71K
Blonde (2022)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her ...
Style: exciting, dramatic, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fame, actress, hollywood, traumatic childhood, bare breasts, hand job, abortion, biopic, female nudity, threesome, famous, woman ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 2020s, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place: los angeles, new york, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 83K
Entourage (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate ...
Style: sexy, entertaining, humorous, cynical, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: hollywood, showbiz, friendship, filmmaking, rivalry, celebrity, relationship vs career, movie star, actor's life, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, aspiring actor ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, spain, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.6
 5K
Ellie Parker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ellie Parker, an aspiring actress from Australia, lives a hectic Hollywood lifestyle, perpetually trying to land the role that will elevate her career. Living with her lothario musician boyfriend, Justin, Ellie is far from happy, finding support ...
Style: semi serious, neurotic, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, friendship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, nude, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, nightclub, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
What Just Happened (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, hollywood, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, workplace, disagreement, workplace situations, satire, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 28K
Celebrity (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style: black and white, stylized, satirical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture, spectacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.0
 734
Cannes Man (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, movie business, disorder, farce, showbiz, media satire, celebrity culture, cons and scams, desire for fame, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, france, europe, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.2
 88K
Swingers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the ...
Style: entertaining, funny, realistic, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, dancing, comedian, depression, breakup, buddy, aspiring actor, self esteem, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, swinger, dating ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 74K
Bowfinger (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, black man, actor, blaxploitation, film industry, comedian, black, showbiz, money, biopic, entertainment industry, profanity ...
Time: year 2019, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.8
 183K
Ed Wood (1994)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Style: black and white, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot: hollywood, showbiz, misfit, biopic, drug addiction, friendship, director, addiction, character study, actress, lgbtq, transvestism ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.4
 14K
Shampoo (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds ...
Style: sex comedy, stylized, cult classic, biting, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: womanizer, adultery, hairdresser, infidelity, sex, hair salon, cheating girlfriend, mistress, motorcycle, hippie, election, satire ...
Time: 60s, year 1975, year 1968, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.5
 65K
The Player (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style: suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, police investigation, blackmail, showbiz, writers, movie business, satire, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, future, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Movie in collections
 6.9
 46K
May December (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Style: captivating, entertaining, sincere, dramatic, dark comedy ...
Plot: actress, statutory rape, child sexual abuse, pedophilia, female pedophile, sexual abuse, husband wife relationship, graduation, sex, child rape, marriage, life ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.6
 47K
Short Cuts (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting--profoundly or fleetingly--through each other's lives. Running the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous, Altman's portrait of the contemporary ...
Style: philosophical, talky, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: multiple storylines, infidelity, suicide, marriage crisis, bare butt, destruction of property, waitress, loss of loved one, life philosophy, character study, fishing, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Big Picture (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once ...
Style: light, suspense, melancholic, harsh, entertaining ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, friendship, movie business, rise to the top, desire for fame, rivalry, ambition, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, rich and poor, satire ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.4
 2K
Mistress (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Movie Emperor (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Andy Lau is perfectly, cheekily cast as a movie star seeking relevance via a film festival–baiting art-house role in director Ning Hao’s sharp satire of movie industry pretension.
Style: entertaining, suspenseful, captivating, serious, exciting
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, artist, cinema, movie studio, movie business, movie star, film industry, artists and showbiz, movie actor
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Last Producer (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, one last chance, showbiz, dishonesty, aging, betrayal, artists and showbiz, film industry, movie studio, gambling, heist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Of Freaks and Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, sexual, sex comedy ...
Plot: depravity, female nudity, voyeurism, obsession, corporal punishment, porn, freak, society, manipulation, sexual perversion, sexual harassment, submissive woman ...
Time: year 1998, victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: russia, soviet union, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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