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Movies that feel like The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)

If you loved The Fundamentals of Caring, the closest films we have are Hit the Road (2021), The Trip (2011) and Instant Family (2018). All three share The Fundamentals of Caring's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Burnettwittyplayfulcontemplative
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Hit the Road
2021 · dir. Panah Panahi
🍅 95%7.2comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: road trip

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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The Trip
2011 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 89%7comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: road trip

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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Instant Family
2018 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 82%7.3comedy · drama

Common ground: comforting

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

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Thank You for Smoking
2005 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 86%7.5comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: affectation

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

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Pieces of April
2003 · dir. Peter Hedges
🍅 83%7comedy · drama

Both land wit and play at once

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.

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Babylon
2022 · dir. Damien Chazelle
🍅 57%7.1drama · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: affectation

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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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%7.3comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%7.2comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on drama

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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Instructions Not Included
2013 · dir. Eugenio Derbez
🍅 63%7.5comedy · drama

Playful comedy in both cases

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · dir. Daniel Rezende
🍅 85%7.9comedy · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

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Two Is a Family
2016 · dir. Hugo Gélin
🍅 43%7.3drama · comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Playful drama in both cases

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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