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Movies that feel likePlayTime (1967)

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.

If you loved PlayTime, the closest films we have are Mon Oncle (1958), Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) and The Party (1968). All three share PlayTime's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Genevieve (1953).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jacques Tatiwittyplayful
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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedyMax

The same hand behind both of them: Jacques Tati

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.

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures poster
★ 8.4comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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.

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The Party
1968 · dir. Blake Edwards
🍅 83%★ 7.4comedyPrime Video

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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

Both lean on play more than on comedy

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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Real Life
1979 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 84%★ 7comedyRent or buy

Witty comedy in both cases

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".

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Genevieve
1953 · dir. Henry Cornelius
🍅 86%★ 7comedy

The shared currency is play

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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Used Cars
1980 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 77%★ 6.7comedyPrime Video

Both know what they want from comedy

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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French Fried Vacation 2
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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Clockwise
1986 · dir. Christopher Morahan
🍅 83%★ 6.6comedy

Comedy in the same key

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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Animal House
1978 · dir. John Landis
🍅 89%★ 7.4comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

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

Both working the same comedy territory

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

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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Best in Show
2000 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedyParamount+

Comedy of the same temperament

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

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