Movies like Problemista
If Problemista's mix of immigrant, widow and assistant stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Problemista's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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There Will Be Blood
2007 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 158 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: american dream, narcissism
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable…
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · Directed by John Hughes · 103 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: sincere
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all…
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My Spy
2020 · Directed by Peter Segal · 99 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: joyful · From the same decade (2020s)
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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Sleeper
1973 · Directed by Woody Allen · 87 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: satire
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Theater Camp
2023 · Directed by Molly Gordon · 93 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: witty · From the same decade (2020s)
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
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Crocodile Dundee
1986 · Directed by Peter Faiman · 97 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: absurd
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the…
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High Anxiety
1977 · Directed by Mel Brooks · 94 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: satire
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.