Movies like The Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
28K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
Style:
cynical, stylized, humorous, witty, semi serious, cult classic, clever, black comedy, social, existential ...
Plot:
politics, wall street, dark humor, satire, redemption, interracial relations, society, courtroom, justice, media, finance, legal action, journalism, yuppie, stock broker, lovers, business, lawyer, vengeance, greed, culture clash, media manipulation, trial, law, lie ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 1990s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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Most similar movies to The Bonfire of the Vanities
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and melancholic films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, mentor, culture clash, adaptation, runaway and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Bonfire of the Vanities: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Other People's Money (1991), Nobody's Fool (1994), Nothing in Common (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style:
clever, cynical, captivating, motivational, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
money, corruption, wall street, business, rise and fall, addiction, stock market, stock broker, success, wealth, greed, rags to riches ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 90s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, usa, geneva switzerland, big ben london, italy ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a young, gay black con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot:
art, high society, satire, racism, art dealer, investigation, gay lead character, urban setting, character study, lgbt, social differences, social climbing ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, usa, afghanistan, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wall street, stock market, money, finance, family business, workplace intrigue, unlikely couple, lawyer, manipulation, workplace, disorder, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, rhode island, new england, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot:
small town, father son relationship, redemption, thanksgiving, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, aging, elderly, retirement, generation gap ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, new york state, usa, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
Style:
weeping, talky, clever, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
father son relationship, hospital, advertising, marriage, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, amputation, surgery, advertising executive, marital separation, dysfunctional family, employer employee relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
marketing, advertising, business, lobbyist, satire, social satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, politics, journalism, political satire ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., vermont, usa, los angeles, japan ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style:
political, clever, witty, black comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
politics, satire, comedy of errors, lawyer, secret service, impotence, mansion, funeral, eviction, country estate, wealth, garden ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., north carolina, usa
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.
Style:
cynical, light, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
abusive husband, solitude, love and romance, hopes, religions or cults, satire, love, moral ambiguity, religion, magic, investigation, miraculous event ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
35%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, intense, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, nightclub, self discovery, creativity, showbiz, rise to the top, ambition, couples, friendship, performer's life, comedian, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
34%
28K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Style:
satirical, political, humorous, witty, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
politics, political satire, hip hop, political corruption, satire, election, interracial romance, senator, fighting the system, insurance, interracial, campaign ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
california, america, los angeles, usa, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style:
light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, perversion, slut, revenge, sex scene, nobility, seamstress, adultery, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, love ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other.
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, cynical, clever ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, gangster, love, kidnapping, battle of the sexes, sex scene, wedding, love at first sight, murder, manipulation, femme fatale ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, brooklyn new york city, usa, los angeles, new york ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live ...
Style:
humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, satire, redemption, dog, religion, thunderstorm, love and romance, losing-it hero, dishonesty, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, hawaii, california
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, stranded, loneliness, culture clash, nothing goes right, happy ending, destiny, fish out of water, aviation, passenger, life philosophy, fictional country ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, canada, romania ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts ...
Style:
cynical, stylized, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
writers, financial problem, friendship, mental illness, obsession, couples, holiday, opposites attract, writer's life, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, sensual, sweet, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
age difference, mental illness, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional family, love and romance, starting over, parents and children, haunted by the past, family problems, retirement ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 2000s, year 2009, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
33%
110K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, surreal, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, profanity, satire, adaptation, eccentricity, gangster, addiction ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, year 2011, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
puerto rico, caribbean, latin america, new jersey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it ...
Style:
political, funny, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
racism, one night stand, landlord, tenant, ghetto, adoption, apartment building, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, white male black female relationship, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, long island, usa, africa
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Style:
sexy, talky, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, culture clash, happy ending, desire, divorce, justice, prejudice, pregnancy, art history, marriage, sisters, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, maine
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing ...
Style:
sentimental, sweet, feel good, touching, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love story, fashion, cat, woman, secret past, love, destiny, love of one's life, eccentricity, writers, love and romance, party ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, los angeles, brazil ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
Style:
humorous, stylized, captivating, black comedy, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, racism, murder, civil rights, segregation, murder trial, hopes, police, courtroom, aunt nephew relationship, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1999, 60s, 20th century, year 1965
Place:
alabama, america, usa, california, texas ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, young lovers, interracial relations, multiple storylines, looking for love, city life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, first love, love affair ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Plot:
infidelity, trophy wife, stock broker, boss, unsupportive spouse, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, unlikely couple, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, usa, france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. ...
Style:
independent film, talky, clever, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
businessman, culture clash, cold war, hospital, drinking, cousin cousin relationship, marijuana, preppy, conservative, economics, stoner, hipster ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, madrid, pentagon ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar ...
Style:
witty, period piece, clever, semi serious, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
femme fatale, infidelity, slut, high society, justice, betrayal, farce, rich man, marriage proposal, love and romance, social differences, women ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, europe, new york, southern italy, england ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, teen, romantic comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
fashion, happy ending, wedding, friendship, lifestyle, female protagonist, lesbian interest, outdoor sex, no bra, shopping, lasciviousness, female chauvinism ...
Time:
2010s, year 1989, year 2010, 80s, year 1988 ...
Place:
new york, middle east, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, stylized, realistic, novela ...
Plot:
business, desert, technology, culture clash, doctor, storytelling, adaptation, father daughter relationship, trust, corporation, tumor, new job ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2020s, 1930s, future ...
Place:
saudi arabia, arabia, middle east, usa, california ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Style:
black comedy, sexy, bleak, dark comedy, controversial ...
Plot:
high school, dark humor, high school student, high school football, satire, homosexual, american football, celebrity, maid, writers, filmmaking, family problems ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, colombia, israel
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style:
talky, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
divorce, dark humor, holocaust, world war two, pregnancy, bigamy, peasant, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, self discovery, human nature ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1989
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Style:
independent film, touching, multicultural, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
homosexuality, closeted homosexual, gay, gay couple, transgender, glbt, lgbt, male nudity, lgbtq, gender, male homosexuality, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
20th century, year 1969, 60s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
31%
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