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Movies that feel like The Kid (1921)

If you loved The Kid, the closest films we have are City Lights (1931), The Gold Rush (1925) and The Circus (1928). All three share The Kid'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 HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Charlie Chaplinwittyplayfulcontemplativedreamlike
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City Lights
1931 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 95%8.5comedy · drama · romance

Both are Charlie Chaplin's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as The Kid

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

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The Gold Rush
1925 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 98%8.1adventure · comedy · drama

Charlie Chaplin working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the dream logic of The Kid

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

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The Circus
1928 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 97%8.1comedy · drama · romance

Common ground in both: black and white and silent film

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Kid does

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

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One Week
1920 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 100%8.1comedy

One thread runs through both: silent film

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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Modern Times
1936 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 98%8.5comedy · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: slapstick comedy

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

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Harvey
1950 · dir. Henry Koster
🍅 88%7.9comedy · fantasy

Common ground: black and white

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1950s show

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

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Songs from the Second Floor
2000 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 88%7.5drama · comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 85%8.1comedy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.

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L'Âge d'or
1930 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 89%7.2romance · comedy · drama

Dreamlike drama in both cases

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

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🍅 90%6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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Zero for Conduct
1933 · dir. Jean Vigo
🍅 94%7.2comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

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A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 97%8romance · fantasy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: angel

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

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