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Movies that feel like Frances Ha (2013)

If you loved Frances Ha, the closest films we have are The Edge of Seventeen (2016), The Terminal (2004) and 50/50 (2011). All three share Frances Ha's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Hulu, fuboTV and MGM+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

πŸ… 92% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Noah Baumbachwittyplayfulcontemplativewarmlonely

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If Frances Ha hit the spot, these will too

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The Edge of Seventeen
2016 Β· dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Friendship and loneliness, at the center of both

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

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The Terminal
2004 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· drama

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

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50/50
2011 Β· dir. Jonathan Levine
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· drama

Both built around friendship

The difference: None of the loneliness that defines Frances Ha

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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The Intouchables
2011 Β· dir. Olivier Nakache
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.5drama Β· comedy

Both land wit and play at once

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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The Bucket List
2007 Β· dir. Rob Reiner
πŸ… 40%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy

Contemplative and warm in the same breath

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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Another Round
2020 Β· dir. Thomas Vinterberg
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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Ghost World
2001 Β· dir. Terry Zwigoff
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Female friendship sits at the heart of each

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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Mary and Max
2009 Β· dir. Adam Elliot
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8.1animation Β· comedy Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: loneliness

The difference: Plays it as animation more than Frances Ha does

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

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Mean Girls
2004 Β· dir. Mark Waters
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1drama Β· comedy

Both keep circling back to female friendship

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 Β· dir. David Frankel
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7drama Β· comedy

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protΓ©gΓ©. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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The Big Short
2015 Β· dir. Adam McKay
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama

Both trade on wit more than on being drama

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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