
Movies that feel like The Invention of Lying (2009)
If you loved The Invention of Lying, the closest films we have are Rich in Love (2020), The Mermaid (2016) and When We First Met (2018). All three share The Invention of Lying's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 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.
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If The Invention of Lying hit the spot, these will too

Common ground: romance
The difference: None of the dream logic The Invention of Lying is built on

Witty where it counts, playful underneath
The difference: Reviewed even better

Dreamlike and romantic in the same breath

Both are built on the same subject: romcom

Both lean on tenderness more than on comedy

One thread runs through both: romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: heaven
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Invention of Lying does

The same preoccupation in both: romcom


Fantasy built on play, twice over

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Romantic romance, and it commits to that
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