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An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. The film brings to life Randi's intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos.

If you loved An Honest Liar, the closest films we have are Roger & Me (1989), Winnebago Man (2010) and Best Worst Movie (2009). All three share An Honest Liar'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 Adrift in Tokyo (2007).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Justin Weinsteinepicwittyplayfulcontemplative
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Roger & Me
1989 · dir. Michael Moore
🍅 100%★ 7.5documentary · history · comedy

The same mix in both: scale, then wit

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

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Winnebago Man
2010 · dir. Ben Steinbauer
🍅 90%★ 7.2documentary · comedy

Playful where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Easier on the scale than An Honest Liar

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".

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Best Worst Movie
2009 · dir. Michael Stephenson
🍅 94%★ 7.2documentary · comedyPrime Video

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

A look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.

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Babette's Feast
1987 · dir. Gabriel Axel
🍅 97%★ 7.7drama · history · comedyMax

History with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than An Honest Liar does

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

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There's Still Tomorrow
2023 · dir. Paola Cortellesi
🍅 89%★ 7.7drama · comedy · historyRent or buy

Both lean on play more than on documentary

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

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Vice
2018 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 64%★ 7.2drama · comedy · historyRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · dir. Daniel Rezende
🍅 85%★ 7.9comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: biography

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

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Rose Island
2020 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
🍅 75%★ 7comedy · adventureNetflix

Epic comedy in both cases

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%★ 6.9comedy · drama

History built on stillness, twice over

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
★ 7.2comedy

Documentary with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%★ 6.4comedy · dramaPrime Video

Both lean on play more than on comedy

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

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🍅 60%★ 7.7documentary · historyPrime Video

History with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.

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