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10 Best Movies Like The Humorist

If you loved The Humorist, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Humorist for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

#2
How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Humorist for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor...

#3
Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

2023★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Humorist for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tea...

#4
Standing Up, Falling Down

Standing Up, Falling Down

2020★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Humorist for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. — forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs — and a tragically ...

#5
Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Humorist for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more....

#6
Hooking Up

Hooking Up

2020★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Humorist for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addi...

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