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Movies that feel like50/50 (2011)

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

If you loved 50/50, the closest films we have are The Bucket List (2007), Ghost World (2001) and Elling (2001). All three share 50/50's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Queen (2014).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonathan Levinewittyplayfulcontemplativewarm
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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%★ 7.3drama · comedy

Both are working the same pair: friendship, parents and children

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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Ghost World
2001 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 93%★ 7.3comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: best friend

Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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The Terminal
2004 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 61%★ 7.4comedy · dramaParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Warm comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than 50/50 does

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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The Intouchables
2011 · dir. Éric Toledano
🍅 75%★ 8.5drama · comedy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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Queen
2014 · dir. Vikas Bahl
🍅 90%★ 8.1comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Bobby Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

Playful drama in both cases

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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I Vitelloni
1953 · dir. Federico Fellini
🍅 100%★ 7.8comedy · dramaMax

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: 58 years apart, and the 1950s show

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%★ 6.4comedyStarz

Both run witty where it counts

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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Grown Ups 2
2013 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 8%★ 5.4comedyHuluStarz

A streak of play through both

Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.

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