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Movies that feel likeAll About My Mother (1999)

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

If you loved All About My Mother, the closest films we have are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Boogie Nights (1997) and Day of the Wacko (2002). All three share All About My Mother'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 Whisky (2004).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pedro Almodóvarwittyplayfulcontemplative
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%★ 7.5comedy · drama

Pedro Almodóvar working the same nerve twice

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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Boogie Nights
1997 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 91%★ 7.9drama · comedy

Common ground: drug abuse

In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

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Day of the Wacko
2002 · dir. Marek Koterski
★ 8.1comedy · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.

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Smoke
1995 · dir. Wayne Wang
🍅 89%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
2003 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
★ 8.2comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on drama

A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.

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Volver
2006 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%★ 7.6comedy · drama · romance

Pedro Almodóvar directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into romance than All About My Mother does

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

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The Idiots
1998 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 73%★ 6.7comedy · dramaRent or buy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of 'idiots'. Their primary activity becomes going out into the world of 'normal' people and pretending to be mentally incompetent. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy, and, by every possible means, to make those around them miserable.

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Pieces of April
2003 · dir. Peter Hedges
🍅 83%★ 7comedy · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.

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The Dinner Game
1998 · dir. Francis Veber
🍅 73%★ 7.6comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Easier on the stillness than All About My Mother

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...

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Whisky
2004 · dir. Juan Pablo Rebella
🍅 100%★ 7.1comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

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Best in Show
2000 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedyParamount+

Comedy in the same key

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

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Thank You for Smoking
2005 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 86%★ 7.5comedy · drama

Both run contemplative where it counts

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

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