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Movies that feel like Nuts! (2016)

If you loved Nuts!, the closest films we have are Grey Gardens (1976), The Painting (2011) and Summer Wars (2009). All three share Nuts!'s whimsical 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 Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

The true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a small-town Kansas doctor who discovers in 1917 that he can cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. And that’s just the tipping point in this stranger-than-fiction tale. With the balls of a P.T. Barnum, the gonads of goats, and the wishful dreams of flaccid men, Brinkley amassed a fortune, was almost elected Governor of Kansas, invented junk mail and the infomercial, and built the world’s most powerful radio station. By the time all of the twists and turns of Brinkley’s story are revealed, Nuts! certainly earns its title.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Penny Lanewhimsical

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If Nuts! hit the spot, these will too

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Grey Gardens
1976 · dir. Muffie Meyer
🍅 95%7.5documentary

Whimsical documentary in both cases

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

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The Painting
2011 · dir. Jean-François Laguionie
🍅 82%7.3fantasy · animation

Whimsical animation, and it commits to that

The difference: Plays it as fantasy more than Nuts! does

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

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Summer Wars
2009 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 81%7.4animation · science fiction

Animation built on whimsy, twice over

The difference: Leans science fiction where Nuts! does not

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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Vernon, Florida
1981 · dir. Errol Morris
🍅 100%7documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

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Waltz with Bashir
2008 · dir. Ari Folman
🍅 97%8animation · documentary · drama

Animation approached the same way

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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

The same animation instincts

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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The Lorax
2012 · dir. Chris Renaud
6.4animation · family

Both are animation through and through

A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

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The Illusionist
2010 · dir. Sylvain Chomet
🍅 90%7.4animation · drama

Both are animation through and through

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

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The Adventures of Tintin
2011 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 75%7.3adventure · animation · mystery

Both are animation through and through

Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.

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The Breadwinner
2017 · dir. Nora Twomey
🍅 95%7.7animation · war · drama

Cut from the same animation cloth

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

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The Congress
2013 · dir. Ari Folman
🍅 71%6.4drama · science fiction · animation

The same animation instincts

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

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Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
2011 · dir. Karen Disher
6.4animation · family · tv movie

Both are animation through and through

When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!

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