Movies like The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Name: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Released: 2014

10 films to watch after The Grand Budapest Hotel, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

1

Barton Fink (1991)

Fit 70%

Shares Comedy and Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
2

Gosford Park (2001)

Fit 69%

Shares Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
3

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Fit 59%

Shares Drama and Comedy with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
4

Kontroll (2003)

Fit 53%

Shares Comedy and Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks.
5

Charade (1963)

Fit 53%

Shares Comedy with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
6

Lord of War (2005)

Fit 45%

Shares Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
7

The Dish (2000)

Fit 43%

Shares Comedy and Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.
8

The Big Kahuna (1999)

Fit 43%

Shares Comedy and Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
9

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Fit 41%

Shares Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
10

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Fit 37%

Shares Drama with The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.