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Movies that feel likeTony (2026)

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

If you loved Tony, the closest films we have are Hit the Road (2021), Caramelo (2025) and Le Week-End (2013). All three share Tony's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Adrift in Tokyo (2007).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Matt Johnsoncontemplativewittyplayful
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Hit the Road
2021 · dir. Panah Panahi
🍅 95%★ 7.2comedy · drama

Both land stillness and wit at once

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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Caramelo
2025 · dir. Diego Freitas
★ 7.1comedy · dramaNetflix

Drama built on play, twice over

After a life-changing diagnosis, a promising chef finds hope and humor with the help of a fur-midable dog friend.

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

Contemplative comedy in both cases

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: restaurant

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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Whisky
2004 · dir. Juan Pablo Rebella
🍅 100%★ 7.1comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on drama

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2000s show

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

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

Comedy with a pulse of play, 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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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
★ 7.2comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Tony does

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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Confessions of an Invisible Girl
2021 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 5.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Drama built on stillness, twice over

When the clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, she'll do anything to fit in. But the queen bee among her classmates has other ideas.

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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · dir. Daniel Rezende
🍅 85%★ 7.9comedy · drama

Both run playful where it counts

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

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Winnebago Man
2010 · dir. Ben Steinbauer
🍅 90%★ 7.2documentary · comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Tony does

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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Day of the Wacko
2002 · dir. Marek Koterski
★ 8.1comedy · drama

Drama in the same key

It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.

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