Cross-media picks for Woody Allen fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share a particular flavour: romantic entanglements knotted up with self-deception, witty people making a mess of their own happiness, and the uneasy line between comedy and genuine heartache. From the layered parallel stories of Melinda and Melinda to the marital reckoning of Husbands and Wives, these choices reward viewers and readers who enjoy characters who talk too much, feel too much, and still can't quite figure out love — with an abiding affection for the absurd human comedy.
Film
Paris-Manhattan
A witty romantic comedy where an Allen obsessive finds love complicated by family rivalry and shifting affections.
Film
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
A summer weekend of mismatched couples, philosophical musings, and romantic chaos in a possibly enchanted countryside.
Film
Melinda and Melinda
Two writers debate whether the same woman's story is tragedy or comedy — a beautifully self-aware romantic puzzle.
Film
Anything Else
An aspiring New York writer navigates a chaotic romance with a free-spirited woman who resists all his plans.
Film
Husbands and Wives
A couple's quiet marital cracks widen as their best friends' separation forces uncomfortable self-examination.
Film
September
A country house retreat becomes a pressure cooker of grief, longing, and emotional dependency between damaged people.
Film
Interiors
Three grown daughters reckon with jealousy and resentment when their emotionally remote mother is suddenly abandoned.
Film
Love and Death
A neurotic soldier in czarist Russia philosophises about love and death while stumbling into a wild assassination plot.
Series
Crisis in Six Scenes
A middle-class 1960s suburban household is turned upside down by one destabilising houseguest in turbulent times.
Series
Committed
Two wildly eccentric New Yorkers attempt romance while their equally chaotic friends constantly interfere.
Series
Maison close
Trapped women in 1871 Paris negotiate desire, survival, and loyalty inside a gilded, morally complex establishment.
Series
That's Life
A New Jersey woman breaks free of expected domestic roles and pursues self-reinvention through education.
Series
What's Happening!!
Three young friends coming of age in 1970s Los Angeles stumble through mischief and mishap with warm, comic energy.
Series
Suburgatory
A father uproots his city daughter for the suburbs, exposing the absurd gap between wholesome ideals and reality.
Series
Love & War
A sharp-tongued New York bar owner navigates a combustible romance with an opinionated, egotistical columnist.
Series
Instant Star
A teenage songwriter wins a record deal and a complicated crush — ambition and messy feelings in equal measure.
Game
a new life.
A love story that grows old and asks whether being hurt is the price of loving at all.
Game
Lake
A forty-something city woman returns to her small hometown and rediscovers quiet life, old ties, and herself.
Game
City of Gangsters
Build a Prohibition-era criminal empire through wit and hustle in this strategy game full of period atmosphere.
Game
Loretta
A psychological thriller about betrayal and infidelity where the player becomes complicit in the heroine's choices.
Game
No More Money - Season 1
A young adult navigates financial hardship and fresh starts, making choices that shape an uncertain urban future.
Game
Blues and Bullets
A retired Eliot Ness is dragged back into a corrupt city's darkness — a noir-soaked tale of reluctant duty.
Game
Allumette
A tender, melancholy VR story of an orphan girl reaching for hope after tragedy, inspired by a classic fable.
Game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Tony Montana claws back everything he lost — a relentless power fantasy about ambition, vengeance, and survival.
Book
The Flame Is Love
A sheltered heiress escapes her chaperone in Paris and falls for a dashing stranger in this vintage romantic romp.
Book
Love by Degree
Domestic misunderstandings and romantic mix-ups unfold when a woman's living arrangement is badly misread.
Book
The Motherfucker With the Hat
A man fresh out of prison tries to stay clean while love, loyalty, and addiction pull him apart.
Book
Mere Anarchy
Absurdist short comic essays that stretch language and logic to their breaking point with relentless wordplay.
Book
Summer of '42
A coming-of-age summer on Nantucket in 1942 — first love, loss, and the ache of a moment that can't last.
Book
What falls away
A memoir moving between Hollywood childhood and a life shaped by extraordinary relationships and their fractures.
Book
Bargained Into Her Boss's Bed
Behind-the-scenes Hollywood power dynamics heat up when a producer's control over a deadline blurs into desire.
Book
The last Yankee
Two men bond in a hospital waiting room while their wives rebuild themselves — a quiet drama about marriage's limits.
Start with Husbands and Wives or Melinda and Melinda for that same blend of romantic wit and genuine emotional weight. On TV, Crisis in Six Scenes carries a similar period-set comedic sensibility with an ensemble pulled into social upheaval.
Mere Anarchy is the most direct fit — a humour collection of absurdist comic prose. For something more dramatic, The Last Yankee is a play about marriage, mental illness, and the quiet struggle for personal transformation.
Lake captures a similar introspective, character-driven mood — a middle-aged professional stepping back from city life to find clarity. Loretta goes darker, exploring betrayal and complicated love through a psychological thriller format.