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Movies that feel like My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

If you loved My Life as a Zucchini, the closest films we have are The Triplets of Belleville (2003), Mary and Max (2009) and The Big Short (2015). All three share My Life as a Zucchini'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 Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Claude Barraswhimsicalwittyplayfulcontemplative

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

Both keep circling back to adult animation

The difference: Leans adventure where My Life as a Zucchini does not

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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Mary and Max
2009 · dir. Adam Elliot
🍅 96%8.1animation · comedy · drama

Whimsical and witty in the same breath

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.

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The Big Short
2015 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 89%7.8comedy · drama

The same mix in both: play, then stillness

The difference: None of the whimsy that defines My Life as a Zucchini

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 92%8.1comedy · drama

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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Gifted
2017 · dir. Marc Webb
🍅 73%7.6drama · comedy

Both trade on play more than on being drama

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

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I, Tonya
2017 · dir. Craig Gillespie
🍅 90%7.5drama · comedy

Contemplative animation, and it commits to that

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 · dir. James Franco
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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Babylon
2022 · dir. Damien Chazelle
🍅 57%7.1drama · comedy

Alcoholic sits at the heart of each

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · dir. Valerie Faris
🍅 91%7.8comedy · drama

Playful drama in both cases

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 75%7drama · comedy

Contemplative animation, and it commits to that

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

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

Cut from the same comedy cloth

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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A Cat in Paris
2010 · dir. Alain Gagnol
🍅 83%6.9animation · comedy

Both trade on whimsy more than on being animation

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

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