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Movies that feel likeIrrational Man (2015)

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

If you loved Irrational Man, the closest films we have are Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Café Society (2016) and Le Week-End (2013). All three share Irrational Man'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 Gloria (2013).

🍅 47% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Woody Allencontemplativewittyplayful
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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
2016 · dir. Nicholas Stoller
🍅 64%★ 5.7comedyNetflixStarz

The same preoccupation in both: college

The difference: Trades the stillness of Irrational Man for an angle of its own

A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.

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Café Society
2016 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 70%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Woody Allen working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Irrational Man does

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%★ 6.4comedy · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%★ 6.9comedy · drama

Playful drama in both cases

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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The Trip
2011 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · drama

Witty drama, and it commits to that

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 46%★ 6.4comedy · romancePrime Video

The same hand behind both of them: Woody Allen

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Irrational Man does

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

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Instructions Not Included
2013 · dir. Eugenio Derbez
🍅 63%★ 7.5comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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My Mom Is a Character 2
2016 · dir. César Rodrigues
★ 6.6comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.

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Two Is a Family
2016 · dir. Hugo Gélin
🍅 43%★ 7.3drama · comedy

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

The shared currency is play

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

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Soul Kitchen
2009 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 73%★ 7.2drama · comedy

The same drama instincts

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

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