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Movies that feel likeOnce Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

If you loved Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, the closest films we have are Death Proof (2007), This Is the End (2013) and The Intouchables (2011). All three share Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood's warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Elling (2001).

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Quentin Tarantinowittyplayfulcontemplativetensewarmdread
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Death Proof
2007 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 66%★ 7action · thriller

Tarantino's other love letter to stunt work and muscle-car menace

The difference: A grindhouse slasher riff — hangout charm curdles into gore

Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.

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This Is the End
2013 · dir. Evan Goldberg
🍅 82%★ 6.6action · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: celebrity

The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.

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

Two mismatched men whose easy company carries the whole film

The difference: Feel-good and uncomplicated — no menace humming underneath

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

Two men late in the game finding something worth doing together

The difference: Sentimental and neatly resolved, with none of the ambient dread

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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The Intern
2015 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 59%★ 7.1comedyParamount+

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

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

A friendship doing the heavy lifting while life turns uncertain

The difference: Illness at the center, and the feelings get said out loud

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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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%★ 6.4comedyStarz

Two stalled friends whose make-believe careers get real consequences

The difference: Broad studio comedy — none of the craft or period texture

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Common ground: male friendship

The difference: Lighter on tension

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: male friendship

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1990s show

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Aldo Baglio
★ 7.7comedy

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

Drama built on wit, twice over

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Playful thriller, and it commits to that

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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