| Singles (1992) | 6.8 | |
| Crash (2004) | 7.7 | |
| The Street (2017) | 6.7 | |
| 2 Night (2011) | 7.3 | |
| Ugly Americans (2010) | 7.9 |
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 realistic, humorous, sexy, feel good, semi serious and funny films and TV shows about / with city life, urban, friendship, relationships, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, dialogue, love and storytelling plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as city life: Lipstick Jungle (2008), Taxi Driver (1976), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), After Hours (1985), Manhattan (1979), You've Got Mail (1998), Singles (1992), Girls (2012), Ugly Americans (2010).
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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:
city life, friends, couples, office, rivalry, friendship, thirtysomething life, workplace intrigue, family life, female friendship, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, canada
Is relevant?
1.0M
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, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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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, cute, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
fashion, shopping, women, overnight success, addiction, love and romance, teenager, teenage girl, city life, fashion industry, rise to the top, journalism ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london
Is relevant?
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, funny, feel good, romantic drama, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
fashion, fashion industry, women, city life, journalism, workplace intrigue, strong female character, workplace situations, career woman, relationship vs career, designer, journalist ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, miami, boston, france ...
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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, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Is relevant?
153K
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:
romantic, intellectual, visually stunning, humorous, meditative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dating, couples, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love and romance, teenage girl, dachshund, lolita, sarcasm, relationships, divorce, 17 year old ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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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, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
fall in love, love, happy ending, destiny, bookstore, love story, christmas, online dating, rivalry, unlikely couple, hidden identity, internet ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco
Is relevant?
35K
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, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
music, music band, city life, clubbing, love and romance, friendship, couple relations, rock, looking for love, young lovers, musician's life, relationships ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century, 80s
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, california, new jersey
Is relevant?
82K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 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:
witty, sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ambitious, sex scene, friends, young adult, nudity, sex, woman urinating, roommate, city life, female friendship, strong sexual content, oral sex ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, idaho, usa, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
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, humorous, captivating, adult cartoon, psychedelic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
absurd humor, boss and employee, dark humor, friendship, city life, workplace romance, adult humor, monster, imaginary, silly humor, immigrant, social worker ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
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:
humorous, sitcom, not serious, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
odd couple, friends, lifestyle change, roommate, lifestyle, sexual humor, city life, friendship, urban, troublemaker, everyday life, big city ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
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, cute, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
time travel, body swapping, coming of age, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, desire, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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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, funny, absurd, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, stoner, dumb, youth, ghetto, social satire, african american, gangster, hip hop, city life, stupidity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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:
realistic, semi serious, witty, sexy, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
couple relations, city life, rise to the top, gain trust, love affair, power relations, lifestyle, workplace, dating, cupid, women, romantic triangle ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
History of residents of one of the streets of the sleeping area of a big city. Schoolchildren and students, housewives and sellers, oligarchs and simple workers - more than 30 characters of different age and social status will meet here, each of ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, buddy comedy, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, city life, society, husband wife relationship, family drama, new neighbor, nosy neighbor, flatmate, couple relations, slice of life, urban, neighbor ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a city where everything is possible, a guy and a girl are looking for the impossible - a parking place. the story of an hour and a half of two strangers who met in a bar and want to spend the night together but cant find a parking place and thus ...
Style:
humorous, atmospheric, light, captivating, sitcom ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
city life, looking for sex, looking for love, couples, nothing goes right, disorder, dating, chance meeting, slice of life, character study, self discovery, minimalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story:
In Amsterdam Paradise we're witnessing the development of the relationship between Adam and Eva and see how it’s continually influenced and affected by dozens of other stories set in the city. Amsterdam Paradise is a shimmering mosaic ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, emotional ...
Plot:
city life, love, marriage, couples, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, husband wife relationship, love and romance, marital problem, couple relations ...
Place:
amsterdam
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Style:
brutal, disturbing, enigmatic, social, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, friendship, grownups, love and romance, murder, social problems, relationships, romantic relationship, asian, love, chaos, dishonesty ...
Place:
china
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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, light, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, loan, confession, on the road, walking, regret, gangster, yakuza, friendship, teenager, flashback, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
461K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Let's Stay Together is an American romantic comedy television series created by Jacque Edmonds Cofer. It premiered on BET on January 11, 2011. The title of the series refers to the Al Green landmark 1972 song of the same name. The series ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, city life, couple relations, friends, family relations, urban, black, society, african american, dating, marriage, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.
Style:
feel good, not serious, humorous, realistic, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
city life, coping, looking for love, couple relations, couples, love and romance, buddies, thirtysomething life, friends, singleness, urban, fatherhood ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Is relevant?
1.2M
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 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, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, family outing, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
friendship, best friend, everyday life, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, sex life, group of friends, roommate, female friendship, couples, friends ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
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, sexy ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
culture clash, jungle, dysfunctional family, amazon, mischievous children, city life, nothing goes right, parents and children, divorce, adaptation, rain forest, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, venezuela, europe, latin america ...
Is relevant?
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, rom com ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, city life, stereotypes, divorce, family life, parents and children, disorder, couples, hipster, interracial love, eccentricity, justice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, paris france, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, 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, sweet, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
twins, teenager, youth, nothing goes right, dream, siblings relations, friendship, teenager in love, happy ending, high school, friends, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, oxford university, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hong Kong is just a ridiculous place full of lies. In this prosperous city, there are a group of people that have to live in the ‘space capsule’, which is a large seminar room subdivided into small living rooms. In such a small living space, ...
Style:
entertaining, dark comedy, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, city life, misfit, urban setting, social relations, social satire, lifestyle, society, humour, multiple storylines, class struggle, isolation ...
Place:
hong kong
Is relevant?
13K
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:
anthology, surreal, art house, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
male nudity, city life, surrealism, obsession, imagination, isolation, depression, freak, drug, creativity, fall in love, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, paris france, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
TV show
Story:
This show is about a young girl who comes to Mumbai to live her dreams and aim at her aspirations. It is about her journey in the big city.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
city life, dream, ambition, aspiration, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, direction and purpose, changing lives, coping, ambitious woman, female protagonist ...
Place:
mumbai india, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dom came to Jakarta with a hope of becoming an actor. His encounter with Pingkan and Radit brings him deep into the labyrinth of drug trafficking. Will he abandon his dream?
Style:
dramatic, tense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
city life, big city, city, business, love, drug, life, realism, drug traffic, dream, drug dealing, dreaming ...
Place:
indonesia, southeast asia
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