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Movies that feel likeThe Bucket List (2007)

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.

If you loved The Bucket List, the closest films we have are 50/50 (2011), Elling (2001) and Ghost World (2001). All three share The Bucket List's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Three Men and a Leg (1997).

🍅 40% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Reinercontemplativewittyplayfulwarm
8 of 12 streaming nowParamount Plus Premium · Starz

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Both are working the same pair: friendship, parents and children

The difference: Reviewed even better

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: male friendship

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

Contemplative where it counts, witty underneath

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 Terminal
2004 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 61%★ 7.4comedy · dramaParamount+

Common ground: friendship

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Playful and warm in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Bucket List

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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When Harry Met Sally...
1989 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedy · romance · dramaParamount+

Rob Reiner working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to romance than The Bucket List does

Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry's fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other?

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

One thread runs through both: male friendship

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.

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The Intouchables
2011 · dir. Éric Toledano
🍅 75%★ 8.5drama · comedy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

Playful comedy in both cases

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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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedyParamount+

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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