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Movies that feel like It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

If you loved It's Kind of a Funny Story, the closest films we have are The Spectacular Now (2013), LOL (2012) and All the Bright Places (2020). All three share It's Kind of a Funny Story's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Anna Bodenwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictenderwistful

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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%7comedy · drama · romance

Common ground in both: growing up and based on young adult novel

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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LOL
2012 · dir. Lisa Azuelos
🍅 14%4.4drama · comedy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teen movie

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

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All the Bright Places
2020 · dir. Brett Haley
🍅 67%6.6romance · drama

Both are working the same pair: depression, suicide

The difference: Not nearly as witty

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Common ground: growing up

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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Love, Simon
2018 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 92%7.5comedy · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: teen movie

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 79%7.3romance · drama · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: depression

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
6.3comedy · romance · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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DJ Cinderella
2019 · dir. Bruno Garotti
4.7romance · comedy

One thread runs through both: based on young adult novel

The difference: Lighter on stillness

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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Licorice Pizza
2021 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 90%7.1drama · comedy · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 92%6.9drama · comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: psychiatric ward

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%7.6romance · drama · comedy

Tender where it counts, wistful underneath

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · dir. Gil Junger
🍅 72%7.4comedy · romance · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

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