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10 Best Movies Like Big City Blues

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

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#1
Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

2023★ 6.2

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

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tea...

#2
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

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

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#3
Match

Match

2014★ 5.8

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

A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the ...

#4
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

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

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....

#5
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

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

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

#6
The Landlord

The Landlord

1970★ 5.9

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

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, h...

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