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Movies that feel like Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

If you loved Saving Mr. Banks, the closest films we have are The Founder (2016), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and The Squid and the Whale (2005). All three share Saving Mr. Banks' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Lee Hancockwittyplayfulcontemplativeepicmelancholywistful
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If Saving Mr. Banks hit the spot, these will too

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The Founder
2016 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 80%7.2drama · history

Both are John Lee Hancock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the wit of Saving Mr. Banks

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%6.7comedy · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%7.3comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: writer

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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The King's Speech
2010 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 94%8drama · history

Both are working the same pair: biography, a true story

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

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The Holdovers
2023 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 97%7.9drama · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alcoholism

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%7.3comedy · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then wistfulness

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Toni Erdmann
2016 · dir. Maren Ade
🍅 93%7.3comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.

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The Hand of God
2021 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 83%7.3drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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Lady Bird
2017 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 99%7.4drama · comedy

Both lean on wit more than on history

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

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3 Idiots
2009 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 94%8.4drama · comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

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Step Brothers
2008 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 54%6.9comedy

Wistful drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

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Vice
2018 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 64%7.2drama · comedy · history

The same preoccupation in both: biography

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

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