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Movies that feel like Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
If you loved Cold Comfort Farm, the closest films we have are Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003), Obvious Child (2014) and Late Marriage (2001). All three share Cold Comfort Farm'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 The Palm Beach Story (1942).
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If Cold Comfort Farm hit the spot, these will too
The same mix in both: wit, then play
Romantic comedy in both cases
Both lean on wit more than on romance
Leans harder into drama than Cold Comfort Farm does
Comedy built on play, twice over
Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft
Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases
Sits closer to action than Cold Comfort Farm does
Playful romance, and it commits to that
Both work the same romance
The same comedy instincts
Both are romance through and through
Both know what they want from comedy
Romance approached the same way
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The best-reviewed films that share Cold Comfort Farm’s defining feeling.
