Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 28, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Big City

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

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#1
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

2025★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big City for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure...

#2
Main Tera Hero

Main Tera Hero

2014★ 5.7

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

Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?...

#3
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

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

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#4
Swiped

Swiped

2025★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big City for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry....

#5
The Big Clock

The Big Clock

1948★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big City for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss...

#6
The Isle

The Isle

2000★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big City for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love wi...