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Movies that feel like Clerks (1994)

If you loved Clerks, the closest films we have are Three Men and a Leg (1997), That's Life (1998) and Let's Be Cops (2014). All three share Clerks' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 3 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kevin Smithwittyplayfulwarm
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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Aldo Baglio
7.7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: male friendship

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

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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Ask Me If I'm Happy
2000 · dir. Giovanni Storti
7.1comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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.

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

Playful comedy in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%7.5comedy · drama

Both run warm where it counts

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Clerks does

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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My Girl
1991 · dir. Howard Zieff
🍅 57%6.9comedy · drama

Both work the same wit

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%7.3drama · comedy

The shared currency is play

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

A streak of warmth through both

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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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%7.5action · comedy

Comedy approached the same way

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
6.7action · comedy

Both know what they want from comedy

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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