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Movies that feel likeThe Kid (1921)

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

If you loved The Kid, the closest films we have are City Lights (1931), After Hours (1985) and The Holdovers (2023). All three share The Kid'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 The Circus (1928).

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City Lights
1931 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 95%★ 8.5comedy · drama · romancePrime VideoMax

Both are Charlie Chaplin's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than The Kid does

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

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After Hours
1985 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 90%★ 7.6comedy · thriller · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Kid does

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then melancholy

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than The Kid

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: 82 years apart, and the 2000s show

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

Both lean on play more than on drama

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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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%★ 7.2comedy · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative comedy in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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.

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

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

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

The same two preoccupations: suicide attempt, and slapstick comedy

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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The Gold Rush
1925 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 98%★ 8.1adventure · comedy · dramaPrime VideoMax

Charlie Chaplin working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Kid does

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, 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

Playful drama in both cases

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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The Circus
1928 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 97%★ 8.1comedy · drama · romancePrime VideoMax

Common ground in both: black and white and silent film

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

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