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Movies that feel like Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000)

If you loved Ask Me If I'm Happy, the closest films we have are Three Men and a Leg (1997), That's Life (1998) and Son of Rambow (2007). All three share Ask Me If I'm Happy's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.

7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Giacomo Porettiwittyplayfulwarmromantic

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Aldo Baglio
7.7comedy

Two things both keep coming back to: male friendship and three guys

The difference: None of the romance Ask Me If I'm Happy is built on

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
7comedy

Common ground: male friendship

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%7comedy

Both land wit and play at once

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

Warm and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Ask Me If I'm Happy does

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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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Italian for Beginners
2000 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 87%7comedy · drama · romance

Comedy built on play, twice over

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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Johnny Stecchino
1991 · dir. Roberto Benigni
🍅 46%7.2comedy

Romantic comedy in both cases

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 67%7.5romance · drama · comedy

Both work the same warmth

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

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The 40 Year-Old Virgin
2005 · dir. Judd Apatow
🍅 85%7.1comedy · romance

Both run witty where it counts

Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom.

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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
2013 · dir. Ayan Mukerji
🍅 64%7.3romance · comedy

A streak of play through both

On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.

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

The shared currency is warmth

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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Muriel's Wedding
1994 · dir. P.J. Hogan
🍅 82%7.3comedy · drama · romance

Both sit in the same romantic register

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.

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