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Movies that feel likeThe Intouchables (2011)

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

If you loved The Intouchables, the closest films we have are That's Life (1998), The Bucket List (2007) and 50/50 (2011). All three share The Intouchables' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Éric Toledanocontemplativewittyplayfulwarm
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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

Strangers thrown together on the road, bickering into friendship

The difference: A minor Italian comedy that's hard to even track down

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%★ 7.3drama · comedy

Opposites from different worlds teaching each other to live

The difference: Terminal-diagnosis sentiment, broader strokes

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Friendship as the medicine no doctor prescribes

The difference: Cancer comedy, younger and rawer

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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

An unlikely pair whose friendship redraws both their worlds

The difference: A small British childhood story — whimsy, not wit under pressure

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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The Intern
2015 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 59%★ 7.1comedyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Intouchables

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

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

One thread runs through both: male friendship

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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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

A mismatched pair whose loyalty outlasts every disaster

The difference: Lowbrow gags on repeat — 31% on RT, none of the heart

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%★ 6.4comedyStarz

Two stalled lives jolted awake by a shared reckless lark

The difference: A broad dude comedy — 18% on RT, friendship played for dumb laughs

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

Common ground: friendship

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7.7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: male friendship

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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The Terminal
2004 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 61%★ 7.4comedy · dramaParamount+

An outsider's charm dissolving an institution's cold rules

The difference: Spielberg whimsy, one-location fable

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

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Grown Ups
2010 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 10%★ 6comedyHuluStarz

The same mix in both: wit, then play

After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

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