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Movies that feel like The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

If you loved The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, the closest films we have are Housekeeping (1987), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). All three share The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

πŸ… 75% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Wes Andersoncontemplativewittyplayfulcozy
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Housekeeping
1987 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Common ground: small town life

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· comedy Β· drama

Wes Anderson directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Lighter on comfort

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

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

The same hand behind both of them: Wes Anderson

The difference: Not nearly as cozy

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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Local Hero
1983 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: small town life

The difference: Reviewed even better

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

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The Darjeeling Limited
2007 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 69%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· drama Β· comedy

Both land stillness and wit at once

The difference: Played as adventure first

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

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Dangal
2016 Β· dir. Nitesh Tiwari
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8.3drama Β· family Β· comedy

The same mix in both: play, then comfort

Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

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

The same two preoccupations: journalist, and journalism

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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Bottle Rocket
1996 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

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Tolo Tolo
2020 Β· dir. Checco Zalone
β˜… 5.7comedy Β· drama Β· family

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.

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Chocolat
2000 Β· dir. Lasse HallstrΓΆm
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama Β· romance

One thread runs through both: france

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

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Paper Planes
2014 Β· dir. Robert Connolly
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.2comedy Β· family Β· drama

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Hit the Road
2021 Β· dir. Panah Panahi
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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