
10 Best Movies Like The Joke
If you loved The Joke, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Julien Donkey-Boy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Joke for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, anorexic would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother...

Closely Watched Trains
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Joke for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance th...

Lara
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Joke for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Today is Lara’s 60th birthday, which happens to fall on the same day as her pianist son’s career-defining concert. A failed pianist herself, Lara spends the time before his perform...

Burning Cane
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Joke for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the love she has for her troubled...

Cash Claim Chaos
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Joke for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Hospital orderly Rozruch, denied his therapeutic treatment, is mistaken for Dr. Marek at the insurance office and sent to a spa. Councilor Pěna, plotting to wed his mistress after ...

Titanic
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Joke for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...