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Movies that feel like The Triplets of Belleville (2003)

If you loved The Triplets of Belleville, the closest films we have are The Darjeeling Limited (2007), My Life as a Zucchini (2016) and Isle of Dogs (2018). All three share The Triplets of Belleville's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel, Disney Plus and HBO Max Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sylvain Chometwhimsicalwittyplayfulcontemplativeepic

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The Darjeeling Limited
2007 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 69%7.2adventure · drama · comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Without the same whimsy

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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My Life as a Zucchini
2016 · dir. Claude Barras
🍅 99%7.8animation · comedy · drama

Adult animation sits at the heart of each

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

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Isle of Dogs
2018 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%7.8adventure · comedy · animation

Both built around dog

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

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An American Tail
1986 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 76%6.9adventure · animation · comedy

Whimsical where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Played as family first

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 97%7.8adventure · comedy · drama

Both keep circling back to dog

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

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The Favourite
2018 · dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
🍅 93%7.5history · comedy · drama

Both trade on scale more than on being comedy

England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

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Inside Out
2015 · dir. Pete Docter
🍅 98%8.1animation · family · adventure

Animation built on whimsy, twice over

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 52%7.3adventure · comedy · drama

Witty drama in both cases

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 50%7.5adventure · drama · comedy

Playful adventure, and it commits to that

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

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Mary and Max
2009 · dir. Adam Elliot
🍅 96%8.1animation · comedy · drama

Animation with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

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Ice Age
2002 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 76%7.5animation · comedy · family

Epic comedy, and it commits to that

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

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Up
2009 · dir. Pete Docter
🍅 98%8.3animation · comedy · family

Adventure built on whimsy, twice over

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

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