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10 Best Movies Like Public Affairs

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

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#1
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

2018★ 6.4

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

Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwi...

#2
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Public Affairs for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#3
Emma

Emma

1996★ 6.6

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

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. ...

#4
Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate

1993★ 6.8

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

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumour...

#5
Sidewalks of New York

Sidewalks of New York

2001★ 6.0

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

The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with sc...

#6
Marrying Mr. Darcy

Marrying Mr. Darcy

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Public Affairs for fans of Comedy & TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Schoolteacher Elizabeth Scott and businessman/philanthropist Donovan Darcy are blissfully in love and newly engaged. As the weeks fly by and the arrangements for their small autumn...

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