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Movies that feel likeYou, the Living (2007)

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

If you loved You, the Living, the closest films we have are A Mighty Wind (2003), Waiting for Guffman (1997) and Leto (2018). All three share You, the Living's stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006).

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If You, the Living hit the spot, these will too

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A Mighty Wind
2003 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · music

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the stillness than You, the Living

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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Waiting for Guffman
1997 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 91%★ 7.4comedy · music

Stylish comedy in both cases

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

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Leto
2018 · dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
🍅 78%★ 7.3music · drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

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Top Hat
1935 · dir. Mark Sandrich
🍅 100%★ 7.7music · comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: musical

The difference: Leans harder into romance than You, the Living does

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

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We Are the Best!
2013 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 97%★ 7.1drama · musicPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: sweden

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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Funny Face
1957 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 85%★ 7music · comedy · romance

Common ground: man woman relationship

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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White Christmas
1954 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 76%★ 7.6comedy · music · romancePrime Video

One thread runs through both: musical

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

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An American in Paris
1951 · dir. Vincente Minnelli
🍅 95%★ 7.1music · romance · comedy

Witty music, and it commits to that

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

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The Chorus
2004 · dir. Christophe Barratier
🍅 68%★ 7.9drama · comedy · music

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

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Animal Crackers
1930 · dir. Victor Heerman
🍅 97%★ 7.4comedy · musicPrime Video

Both lean on play more than on comedy

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
🍅 88%★ 7.9documentary · music

Music with a pulse of style, in both cases

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

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20 Feet from Stardom
2013 · dir. Morgan Neville
🍅 99%★ 7.4documentary · music

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

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