City life movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant city life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good and cult classic films and TV shows about / with urban, city life, friendship, lifestyle, love, teenager, friends, love and romance, women and coming of age plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as city life: Lipstick Jungle (2008), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), After Hours (1985), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Girls (2012), Taxi Driver (1976), Manhattan (1979), Ugly Americans (2010), Durarara!! (2010), Singles (1992).

List of city life movies

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Lipstick Jungle (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: family life, city life, office, couples, friends, ambition, workplace intrigue, thirtysomething life, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, career woman ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping-a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door-until ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: fashion, shopping, women, overnight success, addiction, love and romance, fashion industry, rise to the top, city life, journalism, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.6
 80K
After Hours (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style: surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, subway, city life, suicide, artist, mistaken identity, female nudity, nightclub, coincidence, surrealism, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: fashion, fashion industry, women, journalism, city life, strong female character, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, journalist, career woman, designer, relationship vs career ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, miami ...
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 7.4
 77K
Girls (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, mumblecore ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: ambitious, city life, roommate, sex, female friendship, woman urinating, young adult, nudity, sexuality, everyday life, lifestyle, strong sexual content ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, idaho, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 8.2
 913K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 7.8
 147K
Manhattan (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: dating, age difference, couples, divorce, lolita, love triangle, love and romance, friendship, adultery, mistress, dachshund, teenage girl ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 8.0
 11K
Ugly Americans (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ugly Americans is an American animated sitcom created by Devin Clark and developed by David M. Stern. The program focuses on the life of Mark Lilly, a social worker employed by the Department of Integration, in an alternate reality version of New ...
Style: adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, captivating, animated comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: boss and employee, absurd humor, city life, workplace romance, friendship, monster, zombie, imaginary, silly humor, immigrant, social worker, alternate reality ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: After a naive Midwestern girl's big city dreams are dashed her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare in this hilarious, contemporary comedy about a female odd couple who are surrounded by an outrageous cast ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: roommate, odd couple, lifestyle change, lifestyle, sexual humor, city life, friends, troublemaker, everyday life, big city, friendship, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.8
 8K
Durarara!! (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Durarara!!, often shortened to DRRR!!, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has also been adapted into a Japanese anime series. As of May 2012, eleven volumes have been published by ...
Style: anime, touching, manga, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: city life, urban legend, gang, friendship, escapades, supernatural ability, supernatural, mysticism, gangster, love and romance, snitch, ghost ...
Place: japan, asia
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 6.7
 32K
Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, city life, friendship, rock, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, musician's life, roommate, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
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 6.7
 228K
You've Got Mail (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, sentimental, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: love, fall in love, bookstore, happy ending, destiny, online dating, unlikely couple, rivalry, christmas, internet, hidden identity, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 5.8
 10K
The Good Guy (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, romantic, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: city life, couple relations, rise to the top, ambition, love affair, gain trust, power relations, workplace, lifestyle, dating, ex military, women ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who ...
Style: parody, hood, absurd, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, youth, ghetto, dumb, gangster, social satire, hip hop, african american, city life, sarcasm, stoner ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
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 6.3
 215K
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, body swapping, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true, body swap, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, light ...
Plot: city life, loan, confession, on the road, walking, regret, gangster, yakuza, friendship, teenager, cafe, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia
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 7.7
 448K
Crash (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style: bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia, santa monica california ...
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 8.9
 1.1M
Friends (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5280 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, family outing, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot: friendship, looking for love, everyday life, best friend, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, group of friends, couples, sex life, friends, roommate ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Little Indian, Big City (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: jungle, mischievous children, culture clash, dysfunctional family, city life, amazon, parents and children, divorce, fish out of water, nothing goes right, estrangement, disorder ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: paris france, france, venezuela, latin america, europe
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2 Days in New York (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marion and Mingus live cozily – perhaps too cozily – with their cat and two young children from previous relationships. However, when Marion’s jolly father, her oversexed sister, and her sister’s outrageous boyfriend unceremoniously descend ...
Style: satirical, witty, surreal, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, city life, stereotypes, divorce, family life, society, parents and children, disorder, couples, hipster, interracial love, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 166K
Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.0
 12K
Tokyo! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by directors Michel Gondry (France), Leos Carax (France) and Joon-ho Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and transnatural/supernatural glimpse into the Tokyo Megapolis.
Style: surreal, anthology, art house, dark comedy, absurd ...
Plot: city life, surrealism, obsession, imagination, isolation, depression, loneliness, freak, creativity, drug, fall in love, vengeance ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia, paris france
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Roadside Romeo (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This is the story of Romeo. A dude who was living the life. He had the works - the mansion to live in, the chicks to party with and the cars to be driven around in. Until one day, the family he was the favourite pet of, decided to move and left him ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: life is a bitch, misfit, dog, down on your luck, city life, love at first sight, furry, love, animal, animal life, street life, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india
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 6.2
 43K
Uptown Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: nanny, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, girl, teenage girl, friends, family relations, self discovery, initially antagonists, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 8.5
 82K
Louie (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
Style: humorous, sitcom, sincere, dark comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, performer's life, dark humor, midlife crisis, comedian, family relations, city life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, disorder, frustration, parenthood ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 84K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
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 7.8
 26K
Playtime (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave ...
Style: surreal, humorous, witty, funny, satirical ...
Plot: tourist, culture clash, skyscraper, restaurant, airport, chaos, farce, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, human existence, fish out of water ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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New York Minute (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Top student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy Ryan goes along to crash a video shoot. But anything can happen - and does - in a romp involving a pursuing truant officer, a smuggler, ...
Style: romantic, not serious, feel good, sweet, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot: teenager, twins, youth, siblings relations, dream, friendship, high school, happy ending, disorder, friends, teenage life, city life ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, oxford university
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 5.9
 154
Cross Bronx (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This Bronx-based coming-of-age drama follows four high school friends as they navigate the treacherous waters of independence, love and careers on their individual paths toward achieving their dreams.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, semi serious
Plot: high school, coming of age, city life, follow your dream, hopes, youth, gangster, friendship, rivalry, relocation, high school friends, major league ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bronx new york city, new york
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 5.9
 111
The Rally (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "The Rally" is a gritty drama which follows several families living in a town riddled with crime and corruption. As the local church works to bring positive change to the town, they are confronted at every turn by those that desire to keep ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot: crime boss, city life, drug addict, rivalry, dishonesty, society, teenager, religion, faith, family problems, family life, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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