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Movies that feel like The Farewell (2019)

If you loved The Farewell, the closest films we have are Igby Goes Down (2002), I, Tonya (2017) and Gifted (2017). All three share The Farewell'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 fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

πŸ… 97% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lulu Wangwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantic

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Igby Goes Down
2002 Β· dir. Burr Steers
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· drama

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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I, Tonya
2017 Β· dir. Craig Gillespie
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5drama Β· comedy

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Missing the romance of The Farewell

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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Gifted
2017 Β· dir. Marc Webb
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.6drama Β· comedy

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

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The Big Short
2015 Β· dir. Adam McKay
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 Β· dir. James Franco
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama

Witty comedy in both cases

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protΓ©gΓ©. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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Babylon
2022 Β· dir. Damien Chazelle
πŸ… 57%β˜… 7.1drama Β· comedy

Drama built on play, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 Β· dir. Valerie Faris
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama

Both built around family relationships

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 Β· dir. David Frankel
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7drama Β· comedy

Both run contemplative where it counts

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

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The Trip
2011 Β· dir. Michael Winterbottom
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama

Both are comedy through and through

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 Β· dir. Christine Jeffs
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· drama

Drama approached the same way

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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Life Is Beautiful
1997 Β· dir. Roberto Benigni
πŸ… 80%β˜… 8.6comedy Β· drama

Both sit in the same romantic register

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

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