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Movies that feel likeA Man Called Otto (2022)

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

If you loved A Man Called Otto, the closest films we have are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Holdovers (2023) and Toni Erdmann (2016). All three share A Man Called Otto's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Red Dog (2011).

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%★ 7.5comedy · drama

The same two preoccupations: friendship, and suicide attempt

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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The Holdovers
2023 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 97%★ 7.9drama · comedyPeacock

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

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Toni Erdmann
2016 · dir. Maren Ade
🍅 93%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Contemplative and melancholy in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than A Man Called Otto does

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.

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Asteroid City
2023 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 76%★ 6.4comedy · dramaPeacock

Comedy built on wit, twice over

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%★ 7.2comedy · dramaPrime Video

Playful drama, and it commits to that

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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Girl, Interrupted
1999 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 53%★ 7.3drama

Both are built on the same subject: suicide attempt

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2009 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%★ 6.8comedy · dramaMax

Contemplative comedy in both cases

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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Captain Fantastic
2016 · dir. Matt Ross
🍅 82%★ 7.8drama · comedy

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.

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Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · dir. Wolfgang Becker
🍅 91%★ 7.7comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

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Patch Adams
1998 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 22%★ 6.9comedy · drama

Drama built on play, twice over

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

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Saving Mr. Banks
2013 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 79%★ 7.5comedy · drama · historyDisney+

Both sit in the same contemplative register

The difference: Sits closer to history than A Man Called Otto does

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

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Red Dog
2011 · dir. Kriv Stenders
🍅 84%★ 7.3drama · comedy · familyPrime Video

The shared currency is warmth

The difference: Leans harder into family than A Man Called Otto does

The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

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