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Movies that feel like Hit the Road (2021)

If you loved Hit the Road, the closest films we have are The Trip (2011), Babylon (2022) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006). All three share Hit the Road's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Panah Panahiwittyplayfulcontemplative

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

Both keep circling back to road trip

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · dir. Valerie Faris
🍅 91%7.8comedy · drama

Family holiday is the engine of both

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

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

Witty drama in both cases

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

Comedy built on play, twice over

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

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

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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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 75%7drama · 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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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Stillness is the shared currency

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.

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

The same comedy instincts

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

Both are drama through and through

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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