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Movies that feel likeErnest & Celestine (2012)

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

If you loved Ernest & Celestine, the closest films we have are Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and Millions (2005). All three share Ernest & Celestine's warm and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Elling (2001).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Vincent Patarwarmgrittycontemplativewittyplayful
6 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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If Ernest & Celestine hit the spot, these will too

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to action than Ernest & Celestine does

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · dir. Michael Cimino
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · crime

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Ernest & Celestine does

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

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Millions
2005 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 87%★ 6.8comedy · crime · dramaDisney+

Warm where it counts, gritty underneath

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?

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T2 Trainspotting
2017 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 81%★ 7.1drama · comedy · crimeNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then wit

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Comedy built on play, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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Dangal
2016 · dir. Nitesh Tiwari
🍅 89%★ 8.3drama · family · comedyNetflix

Family with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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Queen
2014 · dir. Vikas Bahl
🍅 90%★ 8.1comedy · drama

Witty animation in both cases

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

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Hera Pheri
2000 · dir. Priyadarshan
★ 8.2comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on crime

Two tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.

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Pleasure
2021 · dir. Ninja Thyberg
🍅 88%★ 6.3dramaRent or buy

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Bella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.

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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
2013 · dir. Ayan Mukerji
🍅 69%★ 7.3romance · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.

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