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10 Best Movies Like The Moderns

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

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#1
The Giant Mechanical Man

The Giant Mechanical Man

2012★ 6.5

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

An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him....

#2
Breaking & Exiting

Breaking & Exiting

2018★ 6.0

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

Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them in...

#3
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Moderns 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...

#4
Happythankyoumoreplease

Happythankyoumoreplease

2011★ 6.4

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

Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it m...

#5
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.9

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

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing...

#6
The Dreamers

The Dreamers

2003★ 7.2

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

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and ...

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