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Movies that feel like Mary and Max (2009)

If you loved Mary and Max, the closest films we have are Frances Ha (2013), My Life as a Zucchini (2016) and The Intouchables (2011). All three share Mary and Max'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 Netflix, Philo and AMC Plus Apple TV channel and others, checked against today's data.

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam Elliotwhimsicalwittyplayfulcontemplativewarmlonely

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Frances Ha
2013 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 92%7.4comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: loneliness

The difference: None of the whimsy that defines Mary and Max

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

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My Life as a Zucchini
2016 · dir. Claude Barras
🍅 99%7.8animation · comedy · drama

Whimsical and witty in the same breath

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

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The Intouchables
2011 · dir. Olivier Nakache
🍅 75%8.5drama · comedy

The same mix in both: play, then stillness

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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The Edge of Seventeen
2016 · dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
🍅 94%7.3comedy · drama

Loneliness sits at the heart of each

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

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Ernest & Celestine
2012 · dir. Stéphane Aubier
🍅 98%7.8animation · family · crime

Animation with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Leans family where Mary and Max does not

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%7.6comedy · drama

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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The Terminal
2004 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 61%7.4comedy · drama

Drama built on play, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%7.3drama · comedy

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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Another Round
2020 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 93%7.7comedy · drama

Warm drama, and it commits to that

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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Ghost World
2001 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 93%7.3comedy · drama

Animation with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

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The Triplets of Belleville
2003 · dir. Sylvain Chomet
7.7animation · comedy · drama

Whimsical animation in both cases

The difference: Plays it as adventure more than Mary and Max does

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

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Mean Girls
2004 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 84%7.1drama · comedy

Both keep circling back to bullying

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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