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Movies that feel like Smoke (1995)

If you loved Smoke, the closest films we have are The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and My Favorite Year (1982). All three share Smoke's 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 Disney Plus, Hulu and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Wayne Wangwittyplayfulcontemplative

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 Β· dir. David Frankel
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7drama Β· comedy

Both land wit and play at once

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 Β· dir. Valerie Faris
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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My Favorite Year
1982 Β· dir. Richard Benjamin
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Both trade on wit more than on being 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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The King of Comedy
1982 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8drama Β· comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protΓ©gΓ©. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 Β· dir. Christine Jeffs
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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The Big Short
2015 Β· dir. Adam McKay
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama

Playful drama, and it commits to that

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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The Trip
2011 Β· dir. Michael Winterbottom
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama

Both sit in the same contemplative register

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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I, Tonya
2017 Β· dir. Craig Gillespie
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5drama Β· comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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Due Date
2010 Β· dir. Todd Phillips
πŸ… 39%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· drama

Both are drama through and through

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.

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Gifted
2017 Β· dir. Marc Webb
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.6drama Β· comedy

Comedy approached the same way

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 Β· dir. James Franco
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

The same drama instincts

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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