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Movies that feel like Irrational Man (2015)

If you loved Irrational Man, the closest films we have are Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Café Society (2016) and Le Week-End (2013). All three share Irrational Man's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

🍅 47% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Woody Allencontemplativewittyplayful

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
2016 · dir. Nicholas Stoller
🍅 65%5.7comedy

The same preoccupation in both: college

The difference: None of the stillness Irrational Man is built on

A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.

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Café Society
2016 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 70%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Woody Allen working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Irrational Man does

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Playful drama in both cases

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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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%7.3comedy · drama

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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The Fundamentals of Caring
2016 · dir. Rob Burnett
🍅 80%7.3comedy · drama

Witty drama, and it commits to that

Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.

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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%7.2comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Instructions Not Included
2013 · dir. Eugenio Derbez
🍅 63%7.5comedy · drama

Witty comedy in both cases

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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

A streak of play through both

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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Two Is a Family
2016 · dir. Hugo Gélin
🍅 43%7.3drama · comedy

Both know what they want from drama

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

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Soul Kitchen
2009 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 73%7.2drama · comedy

The same comedy instincts

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

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