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Movies that feel likeIgby Goes Down (2002)

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

If you loved Igby Goes Down, the closest films we have are Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Obvious Child (2014) and Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003). All three share Igby Goes Down'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 Cold Comfort Farm (1995).

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Burr Steerswittyplayfulcontemplativeromantic
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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2001 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 100%★ 7.5comedy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: parents and children

The difference: Reviewed even better

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

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Obvious Child
2014 · dir. Gillian Robespierre
🍅 90%★ 6.7comedy · romance

New York City shapes both of them

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Igby Goes Down does

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003 · dir. Guel Arraes
★ 7.6comedy · romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Igby Goes Down does

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

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Johnny Stecchino
1991 · dir. Roberto Benigni
🍅 46%★ 7.2comedy

One thread runs through both: falling in love

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%★ 7.2comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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.

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Definitely, Maybe
2008 · dir. Adam Brooks
🍅 71%★ 7.1comedy · romanceApple TV+

Both are built on the same subject: parents and children

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

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Minha Vida em Marte
2018 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 6.5comedy · romance

Drama built on wit, twice over

Fernanda is married to Tom, with whom she has a five-year-old daughter, Joana. The couple is in the midst of wear and tear caused by living together for many years, which generates constant friction. Who helps Fernanda to overcome the crisis is her partner Aníbal, inseparable partner during the arduous journey between saving the marriage or putting an end to it.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%★ 7.9comedy · drama · romanceNetflixPrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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Little White Lies
2010 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 41%★ 7.1comedy · drama

Playful drama in both cases

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.

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Squared Love
2021 · dir. Filip Zylber
🍅 20%★ 5.1romance · comedyNetflix

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

A celebrity journalist and renowned womanizer starts to rethink his life choices after he falls for a mysterious model who leads a double life.

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DJ Cinderella
2019 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 4.7romance · comedyRent or buy

Witty drama, and it commits to that

Cintia is modern princess, she's connected, decided and loves music. This "pop" princess used to live with their parents in a huge castle with a nice view to the city. Every night she looked through the window and watch the view dreaming with a prince she didn't met yet. But one day her castle crumbles with everything around her, after her parents divorce she went to live with her aunt and stops believing in love. What she didn't knew was that there was a charming prince in her history, that wanted to break the ice around our modern day cinderella.

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004 · dir. Beeban Kidron
🍅 27%★ 6comedy · romanceParamount+Starz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: falling in love

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

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