Movies like Last Night (1998)
The best movies like Last Night (1998) are Miracle Mile (1989), Playing by Heart (1998) and The Last New Year's Eve (1998). If Last Night hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAfter Hours (1985)7.5/10 from 1,874 votes
- NewestThe Palace (2023)Released 2023
Miracle Mile (1989)
After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlaying by Heart (1998)
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last New Year's Eve (1998)
New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a family prepares their vintage Dodge for a drive through the streets. A call girl ties up a lawyer while, unbeknownst to him, three men await the right moment to break into his office. Across the hall, a woman downs pills in a lonely suicide attempt. Two young men hide out in a bedroom smoking dope; one of them has some dynamite. As midnight approaches, each group draws closer to grotesque tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter Hours (1985)
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUncle Nick (2015)
A drunk uncle attempts to score with his flirtatious step-niece on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Carnage (2011)
Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisL.A. Without a Map (1999)
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMixed Nuts (1994)
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSleep with Me (1994)
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lobster (2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOvernight Delivery (1998)
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful, so he sends her a letter, but then finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ref (1994)
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTriangle of Sadness (2022)
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCritical Care (1997)
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaydowntown (2002)
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Last Supper (1995)
A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Taste of Others (2000)
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Girl (2002)
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight on Earth (1991)
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Happened Was... (1994)
Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisForce Majeure (2014)
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElection (1999)
A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Idiots (1998)
A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of 'idiots'. Their primary activity becomes going out into the world of 'normal' people and pretending to be mentally incompetent. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy, and, by every possible means, to make those around them miserable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntersection (1994)
During a car accident, Vincent Eastman watches his whole life flash before his eyes, and he doesn't like what he sees. While maintaining the semblance of a marriage with his wife, Sally, Vincent has been carrying on with a mistress, Olivia. She's everything Sally isn't -- warm, passionate, carefree. So why can't he choose between the two, especially when his indecision is taking its toll on his daughter?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTimecode (2000)
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering divorce, while Rose's girlfriend secretly spies on her and attempts to sabotage the relationship. The four storylines in the film were each shot in one take and are shown simultaneously, each taking up a quarter of the screen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Palace (2023)
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLost in Translation (2003)
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPushing Tin (1999)
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Adjuster (1991)
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTake This Waltz (2011)
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Last Night?
The closest matches to Last Night are Miracle Mile (1989), Playing by Heart (1998) and The Last New Year's Eve (1998). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Last Night?
People who watched Last Night most often go on to Miracle Mile (1989), Playing by Heart (1998) and The Last New Year's Eve (1998).
What is the highest-rated movie like Last Night?
After Hours (1985), rated 7.5/10 by 1,874 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Last Night?
The Palace (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Last Night?
Yes: Miracle Mile (1989), Playing by Heart (1998) and After Hours (1985).
How are movies similar to Last Night chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Last Night, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.