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Movies that feel like The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

If you loved The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, the closest films we have are Men & Chicken (2015), About Endlessness (2019) and All My Friends Are Dead (2020). All three share The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

πŸ… 68% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Felix Herngrenepicwittyplayfulcontemplativecerebraldarkly funny
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Men & Chicken
2015 Β· dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
β˜… 6.7comedy Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Not nearly as epic

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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About Endlessness
2019 Β· dir. Roy Andersson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy Β· comedy

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 Β· dir. Jan Belcl
β˜… 5.9comedy Β· drama Β· thriller

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Without the same scale

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts β€” and leads to a shocking outcome.

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Election
1999 Β· dir. Alexander Payne
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Both land stillness and dark humor at once

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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In the Loop
2009 Β· dir. Armando Iannucci
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.4comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, butβ€”behind the scenesβ€”government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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Look Who's Back
2015 Β· dir. David Wnendt
β˜… 7comedy

Playful adventure, and it commits to that

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

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Idiocracy
2006 Β· dir. Mike Judge
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Epic where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Played as science fiction first

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 Β· dir. Umesh Shukla
β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

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Carnage
2011 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· drama

Comedy with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

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PK
2014 Β· dir. Rajkumar Hirani
πŸ… 81%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama Β· science fiction

Both lean on ideas more than on drama

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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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 Β· dir. Michael Patrick Jann
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.7comedy

Both lean on wit more than on adventure

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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Withnail & I
1987 Β· dir. Bruce Robinson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: 26 years apart, and the 1980s show

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

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