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Movies that feel like The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016)

If you loved The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill 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 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.

6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Måns Herngrenepicwittyplayfuldarkly funny
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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Common ground: 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 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%6.8drama · fantasy · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Without the same scale

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 · dir. Jan Belcl
5.9comedy · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Leans further into drama

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

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%6.7comedy

Comedy built on dark humor, twice over

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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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
7comedy

Witty 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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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%7.4comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 83%7.1comedy

Darkly funny adventure in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 · dir. Umesh Shukla
8.1comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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

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The Ruling Class
1972 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 83%7.2comedy · drama

Adventure with a pulse of play, in both cases

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%7comedy

Both run darkly funny where it counts

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · dir. Richard Lester
🍅 64%6.1comedy · science fiction

Both are comedy through and through

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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🍅 85%6.6comedy

The same comedy instincts

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

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