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Movies that feel like That's Life (1998)

If you loved That's Life, the closest films we have are Three Men and a Leg (1997), Son of Rambow (2007) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000). All three share That's Life's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Massimo Venierwittyplayfulwarm

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Aldo Baglio
7.7comedy

Both are working the same pair: male friendship, road movie

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%7comedy

Both land wit and play at once

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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Ask Me If I'm Happy
2000 · dir. Giacomo Poretti
7.1comedy

Common ground: male friendship

Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%6.4comedy

Warm comedy in both cases

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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Ghost World
2001 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 93%7.3comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than That's Life does

Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%7.3drama · comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%7.5comedy · drama

Both sit in the same warm register

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
6.7action · comedy

Both run witty where it counts

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%7.5action · comedy

Both work the same play

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%7.5comedy · drama

A streak of warmth through both

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
7.8comedy · crime · action

Both are built on the same subject: road movie

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 31%5.6comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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