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Movies that feel likeTed (2012)

John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.

If you loved Ted, the closest films we have are Isn't It Romantic (2019), A Man Called Ove (2015) and A Serious Man (2009). All three share Ted'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 About Endlessness (2019).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Ted 2 (2015)

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Isn't It Romantic
2019 · dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson
🍅 70%★ 5.9comedy · fantasy · romance

A high-concept fantasy premise mined for cheeky laughs

The difference: PG-13 and sweeter — the edge is sanded way down

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

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A Man Called Ove
2015 · dir. Hannes Holm
🍅 91%★ 7.7comedy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

Gruff exterior, buried sweetness, laughs edged with darkness

The difference: A tearjerker at heart — grief, not bong jokes

Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

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A Serious Man
2009 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · dramaPrime Video

Dark comedy about a man's life quietly falling apart

The difference: Coen existential dread — bleak, biblical and unresolved

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of nearly every aspect of his life.

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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%★ 6.8drama · fantasy · comedyRent or buy

Deadpan absurdity about the strangeness of ordinary lives

The difference: Austere Swedish tableaux — barely any jokes per minute

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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Barbie
2023 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 88%★ 6.8comedy · adventure · fantasyMax

A toy come to life colliding with human mess and disappointment

The difference: Slicker and more pointed, with real ideas running under the comedy

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

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Dogma
1999 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 72%★ 7.3fantasy · comedy · adventure

Profane comedy that still takes its fantasy mythology seriously

The difference: Talky 90s religious satire — more debate than hangout

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven.

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Dark Shadows
2012 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 35%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy

An impossible houseguest making a mess of somebody's ordinary life

The difference: Gothic and mannered, leaning on atmosphere far more than laughs

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

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Friends with Benefits
2011 · dir. Will Gluck
🍅 69%★ 6.5romance · comedy

Two things both keep coming back to: friendship and love

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Ted for an angle of its own

Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment.

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Just Like Heaven
2005 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 54%★ 6.7comedy · romance · fantasy

A supernatural roommate upending a stalled life

The difference: A gentle romcom — whimsy and longing, not raunch

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

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The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama · comedyRent or buy

A friendship breakup treated with dead-serious comic weight

The difference: Melancholy and violent — the laughs curdle into sorrow

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

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PK
2014 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 82%★ 8.1comedy · drama · science fictionNetflix

A childlike outsider whose innocence exposes adult absurdity

The difference: A Bollywood epic of faith — earnest where Ted is filthy

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

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Bruce Almighty
2003 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 48%★ 6.8fantasy · comedy

A wish granted to a man nowhere near ready to handle it

The difference: Broad and moralizing, with a tidy lesson waiting at the end

Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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