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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.

If you loved August: Osage County, the closest films we have are Sunshine Cleaning (2009), Toni Erdmann (2016) and Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). All three share August: Osage County'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 City of Men (2007).

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

Common ground: suicide

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

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then melancholy

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

Witty comedy in both cases

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

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Comedy built on stillness, 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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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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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
★ 7.1drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the wit of August: Osage County for an angle of its own

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into history than August: Osage County 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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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

Both work the same melancholy

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Drive My Car
2021 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 97%★ 7.5dramaRent or buy

Both are drama through and through

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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

Both run playful where it counts

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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