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.

The Wedding Ringer
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...

King Lear
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....

Twelfth Night
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....

Melinda and Melinda
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 ...

Trees Lounge
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...

New in Town
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...