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Movies that feel like Two Is a Family (2016)

If you loved Two Is a Family, the closest films we have are Instant Family (2018), No manches, Frida (2016) and Sunshine Cleaning (2008). All three share Two Is a Family'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

🍅 43% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hugo Gélincontemplativewittyplayful

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Instant Family
2018 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 82%7.3comedy · drama

Common ground: parenting

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

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No manches, Frida
2016 · dir. Nacho G. Velilla
🍅 13%5.5comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Two Is a Family

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%6.8comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: single parent

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%7.3comedy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%7.2comedy · drama

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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Instructions Not Included
2013 · dir. Eugenio Derbez
🍅 63%7.5comedy · drama

Witty drama, and it commits to that

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · dir. Daniel Rezende
🍅 85%7.9comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 · dir. James Franco
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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The Descendants
2011 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 87%7.3comedy · drama

Comedy built on wit, twice over

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Both work the same play

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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Hit the Road
2021 · dir. Panah Panahi
🍅 95%7.2comedy · drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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Hustle
2022 · dir. Jeremiah Zagar
🍅 94%7.3drama · comedy

Both play comedy straight

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.

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