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10 Best Movies Like Fred Allen's Prize Playlets

If you loved Fred Allen's Prize Playlets, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Wedding Ringer

The Wedding Ringer

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fred Allen's Prize Playlets for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is refe...

#2
King Lear

King Lear

2018★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fred Allen's Prize Playlets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....

#3
Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1996★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fred Allen's Prize Playlets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves....

#4
Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda

2004★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fred Allen's Prize Playlets for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both ...

#5
Trees Lounge

Trees Lounge

1996★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fred Allen's Prize Playlets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets...

#6
New in Town

New in Town

2009★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fred Allen's Prize Playlets for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, her cars, and climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment — in...

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