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Movies that feel likeA New Leaf (1971)

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

If you loved A New Leaf, the closest films we have are The Ruling Class (1972), Ninotchka (1939) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). All three share A New Leaf'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 Last Night (1998).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Elaine Maywittyplayfulromanticdarkly funny
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The Ruling Class
1972 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 83%★ 7.2comedy · dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than A New Leaf does

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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Ninotchka
1939 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 95%★ 7.8comedy · romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy

Darkly funny comedy in both cases

The difference: Trades the romance of A New Leaf for an angle of its own

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Romance with a pulse of wit, in both cases

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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Last Night
1998 · dir. Don McKellar
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy · romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to drama than A New Leaf does

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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Miracle Mile
1989 · dir. Steve De Jarnatt
🍅 91%★ 7science fiction · thriller · comedyPrime Video

Both lean on romance more than on romance

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than A New Leaf does

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!

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
★ 6.7comedy · drama

Comedy built on dark humor, twice over

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

Romance built on wit, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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Withnail & I
1987 · dir. Bruce Robinson
🍅 84%★ 7.5comedy · dramaMax

Both run playful where it counts

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · dir. Richard Lester
🍅 64%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

The shared currency is dark humor

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%★ 7.4comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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