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10 Best Movies Like City Lights

If you loved City Lights, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush

1925★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl....

#2
Modern Times

Modern Times

1936★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.....

#3
The Kid

The Kid

1921★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son....

#4
The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

1940★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime....

#5
The Circus

The Circus

1928★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter....

#6
Dracula

Dracula

1931★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Romance. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him t...