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Movies that feel likeGhost World (2001)

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.

If you loved Ghost World, the closest films we have are Elling (2001), That's Life (1998) and Son of Rambow (2007). All three share Ghost World'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 Legend of Drunken Master (1994).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Terry Zwigoffwittyplayfulcontemplativewarm
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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Ghost World

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%★ 7comedyParamount+

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedyParamount+

Both lean on warmth more than on drama

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.

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: best friend

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

Contemplative comedy in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Drama built on wit, twice over

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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Ask Me If I'm Happy
2000 · dir. Giacomo Poretti
★ 7.2comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

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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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
★ 6.7action · comedy

Both run warm where it counts

The difference: Sits closer to action than Ghost World does

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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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

Both working the same comedy territory

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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

Both play comedy straight

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung 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-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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