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Movies that feel like This Is 40 (2012)

If you loved This Is 40, the closest films we have are Trainwreck (2015), The Farewell (2019) and Little White Lies (2010). All three share This Is 40'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 Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.

πŸ… 52% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Judd Apatowwittyplayfulromantic

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Trainwreck
2015 Β· dir. Judd Apatow
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.2comedy Β· romance

Judd Apatow working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.

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The Farewell
2019 Β· dir. Lulu Wang
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

One thread runs through both: family relationships

The difference: Sits closer to drama than This Is 40 does

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

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Little White Lies
2010 Β· dir. Guillaume Canet
πŸ… 41%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.

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Johnny Stecchino
1991 Β· dir. Roberto Benigni
πŸ… 46%β˜… 7.2comedy

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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Little Fockers
2010 Β· dir. Paul Weitz
πŸ… 10%β˜… 5.5comedy Β· romance

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

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The 40 Year-Old Virgin
2005 Β· dir. Judd Apatow
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· romance

Judd Apatow directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom.

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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
2020 Β· dir. Michael Fimognari
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.1romance Β· comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.

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Suck Me Shakespeer 2
2015 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
β˜… 5.9comedy

The shared currency is wit

The difference: Missing the romance of This Is 40

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

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Igby Goes Down
2002 Β· dir. Burr Steers
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· drama

Both work the same romance

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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Daddy's Home
2015 Β· dir. Sean Anders
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.2comedy

Common ground: family relationships

The story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 Β· dir. Claire Denis
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008 Β· dir. Kevin Smith
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· romance

Both sit in the same playful register

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

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