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Movies that feel like One Week (1920)

If you loved One Week, the closest films we have are Seven Chances (1925), Zero for Conduct (1933) and The Navigator (1924). All three share One Week's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Criterion Channel and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Buster Keatonwittyplayful
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Seven Chances
1925 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 94%7.8comedy · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Buster Keaton

The difference: Sits closer to romance than One Week does

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

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Zero for Conduct
1933 · dir. Jean Vigo
🍅 94%7.2comedy · drama

Common ground: short film

The difference: Leans harder into drama than One Week does

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

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The Navigator
1924 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 100%7.5comedy · action · adventure

Both are Buster Keaton's work, and they rhyme

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.

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Sherlock Jr.
1924 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 87%8.2action · comedy · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: silent film

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949 · dir. Clyde Geronimi
7.7family · animation · horror

The same preoccupation in both: short film

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1940s show

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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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Steamboat Willie
1928 · dir. Walt Disney
🍅 100%7.4animation · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

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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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The Skeleton Dance
1929 · dir. Walt Disney
7.6animation · family · music

Both sit in the same playful register

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

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Safety Last!
1923 · dir. Fred C. Newmeyer
🍅 97%8.1comedy · romance · thriller

One thread runs through both: silent film

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

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Three Little Pigs
1933 · dir. Burt Gillett
7.5music · animation · comedy

Comedy in the same key

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

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