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Movies that feel like Vice (2018)

If you loved Vice, the closest films we have are The Big Short (2015), Rose Island (2020) and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). All three share Vice'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 Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

🍅 64% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam McKaycontemplativewittyplayfulepic

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The Big Short
2015 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 89%7.8comedy · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Adam McKay

The difference: Reviewed even better

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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Rose Island
2020 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
🍅 75%7comedy · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: politics

The difference: Missing the stillness of Vice

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 74%6.3comedy

Adam McKay working the same nerve twice

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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There's Still Tomorrow
2023 · dir. Paola Cortellesi
🍅 89%7.7drama · comedy · history

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

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An Honest Liar
2014 · dir. Tyler Measom
🍅 98%7.4history · comedy · documentary

Common ground: biography

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Vice does

An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. The film brings to life Randi's intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos.

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

Both land play and scale at once

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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🍅 66%7.1comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
2015 · dir. Kabir Khan
🍅 89%8.1comedy · drama · adventure

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.

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The Post
2017 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 88%7.2drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: washington dc, usa

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

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

History built on play, twice over

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

One thread runs through both: biography

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 Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 73%7.2adventure · comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

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