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Movies that feel likeThe Man in the White Suit (1951)

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

If you loved The Man in the White Suit, the closest films we have are Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973), Barbarella (1968) and Sullivan's Travels (1941). All three share The Man in the White Suit's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Genevieve (1953).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alexander Mackendrickwittyplayfulcerebral
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
★ 8.2comedy · science fiction

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

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Barbarella
1968 · dir. Roger Vadim
🍅 64%★ 5.9science fiction · adventure · comedy

Both lean on ideas more than on comedy

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

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Sullivan's Travels
1941 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 100%★ 7.9comedy · romance · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

The difference: Leans further into romance

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%★ 7.5comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: ealing

The difference: Lighter on ideas

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

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Key of Life
2012 · dir. Kenji Uchida
★ 7.3comedy · crime

Witty science fiction in both cases

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.

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Genevieve
1953 · dir. Henry Cornelius
🍅 86%★ 7comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

The difference: Goes its own way on the ideas

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

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A Boy and His Dog
1975 · dir. L.Q. Jones
🍅 80%★ 6.4drama · science fiction · comedyPrime Video

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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The Face of Another
1966 · dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama · science fiction

One thread runs through both: black and white

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.

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The Bank Dick
1940 · dir. Edward F. Cline
🍅 96%★ 7.1comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · dir. Richard Lester
🍅 64%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

Science fiction with a pulse of play, in both cases

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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Sexmission
1984 · dir. Juliusz Machulski
★ 7.5science fiction · adventure · comedy

A streak of ideas through both

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

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Dark Star
1974 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 74%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

Comedy in the same key

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

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