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Movies that feel like What's Up, Doc? (1972)

If you loved What's Up, Doc?, the closest films we have are Some Like It Hot (1959), Trouble in Paradise (1932) and Focus (2015). All three share What's Up, Doc?'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

πŸ… 88% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Peter Bogdanovichwittyplayfulgrittyromantictender

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If What's Up, Doc? hit the spot, these will too

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Some Like It Hot
1959 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.2comedy Β· romance Β· crime

Witty and playful in the same breath

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

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Trouble in Paradise
1932 Β· dir. Ernst Lubitsch
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· crime Β· romance

Both land grit and romance at once

The difference: A 1930s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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Focus
2015 Β· dir. Glenn Ficarra
β˜… 6.6romance Β· comedy Β· crime

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

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Wheels on Meals
1984 Β· dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
β˜… 7romance Β· action Β· comedy

Chase sits at the heart of each

The difference: Plays it as action more than What's Up, Doc? does

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.

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Grease
1978 Β· dir. Randal Kleiser
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.2romance Β· comedy

Witty romance, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the grit that defines What's Up, Doc?

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

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The Mask
1994 Β· dir. Chuck Russell
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7comedy Β· fantasy Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Leans fantasy where What's Up, Doc? does not

Timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask infused with the spirit of the Norse god Loki. Donning it transforms him into an unrestrained, green-faced, cartoon-like wild man. While the mask grants him the confidence to woo a local singer, it also makes him the target of a ruthless mobster.

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Pretty Woman
1990 Β· dir. Garry Marshall
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.1romance Β· comedy

Both trade on romance more than on being comedy

Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges Edward's no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are teaching each other – and falling in love!

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Coming to America
1988 Β· dir. John Landis
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· romance

Tender romance in both cases

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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The Palm Beach Story
1942 Β· dir. Preston Sturges
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance

Both keep circling back to screwball comedy

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 Β· dir. John Schlesinger
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· romance

Witty crime, and it commits to that

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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The Philadelphia Story
1940 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

Screwball comedy is the engine of both

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

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His Girl Friday
1940 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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