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Movies that feel like Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

If you loved Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, the closest films we have are Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973), Used Cars (1980) and My Favorite Year (1982). All three share Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures' 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, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

8.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leonid Gaidaiwittyplayful

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
8.2comedy · science fiction

Leonid Gaidai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Played as science fiction first

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

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Used Cars
1980 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 77%6.7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: fight

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

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My Favorite Year
1982 · dir. Richard Benjamin
🍅 97%7.3comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: 1950s

The difference: Leans further into drama

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%7.7comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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The Party
1968 · dir. Blake Edwards
🍅 83%7.4comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964 · dir. Jean Girault
7.1comedy

Both work the same play

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.

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The Diamond Arm
1969 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
8.3adventure · comedy · crime

The same hand behind both of them: Leonid Gaidai

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

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

Comedy in the same key

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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

Both know what they want from comedy

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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1979 · dir. Patrice Leconte
7.4comedy

Comedy approached the same way

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.

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