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Movies that feel like Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)

If you loved Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, the closest films we have are Mon Oncle (1958), PlayTime (1967) and The Castle (1997). All three share Monsieur Hulot's Holiday'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 HBO Max, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jacques Tatiwittyplayfulhopeful
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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%7.7comedy

The same hand behind both of them: Jacques Tati

The difference: Not nearly as hopeful as Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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PlayTime
1967 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 98%7.8comedy

Both are Jacques Tati's work, and they rhyme

Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.

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The Castle
1997 · dir. Rob Sitch
🍅 87%7.6drama · comedy

Common ground: underdog

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Monsieur Hulot's Holiday does

The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives.

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My Life as a Dog
1985 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 100%7.6drama · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: underdog

The difference: 32 years apart, and the 1980s show

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

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American Movie
1999 · dir. Chris Smith
🍅 94%7.8documentary · comedy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.

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Triumph of the Will
1935 · dir. Leni Riefenstahl
🍅 84%7.1documentary

Hopeful comedy, and it commits to that

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

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Genevieve
1953 · dir. Henry Cornelius
🍅 86%7.1comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

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Clockwise
1986 · dir. Christopher Morahan
🍅 83%6.6comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: train

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.

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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 72%6.7comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

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The Bank Dick
1940 · dir. Edward F. Cline
🍅 96%7.1comedy

Both work the same wit

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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8.4comedy

The shared currency is play

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

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Sons of the Desert
1933 · dir. William A. Seiter
🍅 100%7.5comedy

Both are comedy through and through

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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