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Movies that feel like Gloria (2013)

If you loved Gloria, the closest films we have are The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Trip (2011) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). All three share Gloria'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 Disney Plus, Hulu and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sebastián Leliowittyplayfulcontemplative

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 75%7drama · comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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 Trip
2011 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 89%7comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 92%8.1comedy · drama

Drama built on wit, twice over

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 protégé. 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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Due Date
2010 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 39%6.5comedy · drama

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.

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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%6.4comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

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The Big Short
2015 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 89%7.8comedy · drama

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%6.8comedy · drama

Playful drama, and it commits to that

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 · dir. James Franco
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama

Both sit in the same contemplative register

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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I, Tonya
2017 · dir. Craig Gillespie
🍅 90%7.5drama · comedy

The same comedy instincts

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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Gifted
2017 · dir. Marc Webb
🍅 73%7.6drama · comedy

Both are drama through and through

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

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Babylon
2022 · dir. Damien Chazelle
🍅 57%7.1drama · comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

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Hit the Road
2021 · dir. Panah Panahi
🍅 95%7.2comedy · drama

Drama approached the same way

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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