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Movies that feel likeKabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

If you loved Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, the closest films we have are Igby Goes Down (2002), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003). All three share Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham'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 Cold Comfort Farm (1995).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Karan Joharwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantic
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Igby Goes Down
2002 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 75%★ 6.8comedy · dramaPrime Video

Common ground: parents and children

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 71%★ 7.5romance · drama · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Karan Johar directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham does

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003 · dir. Guel Arraes
★ 7.6comedy · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%★ 7.9comedy · drama · romanceNetflixPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: loving

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%★ 7.2comedy · romance

Both lean on romance more than on comedy

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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Johnny Stecchino
1991 · dir. Roberto Benigni
🍅 46%★ 7.2comedy

Witty drama, and it commits to that

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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Little White Lies
2010 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 41%★ 7.1comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: parents and children

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.

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Obvious Child
2014 · dir. Gillian Robespierre
🍅 90%★ 6.7comedy · romance

Playful comedy in both cases

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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Minha Vida em Marte
2018 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 6.5comedy · romance

Drama built on romance, twice over

Fernanda is married to Tom, with whom she has a five-year-old daughter, Joana. The couple is in the midst of wear and tear caused by living together for many years, which generates constant friction. Who helps Fernanda to overcome the crisis is her partner Aníbal, inseparable partner during the arduous journey between saving the marriage or putting an end to it.

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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romance

One thread runs through both: family conflict

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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The Farewell
2019 · dir. Lulu Wang
🍅 97%★ 7.5comedy · dramaRent or buy

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

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Rich in Love
2020 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 6romance · comedyNetflix

From the 2020s, and it lands the same way

Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.

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