Movies like Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys (2000) is a comedy movie directed by Curtis Hanson. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Saltburn (2023)
★ 6.9 · 3,167 votes · Drama, Comedy, Thriller
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
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2. A Serious Man (2009)
★ 6.7 · 2,477 votes · Comedy, Drama
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of nearly every aspect of his life.
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3. Superbad (2007)
★ 7.3 · 8,444 votes · Comedy
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
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4. Groundhog Day (1993)
★ 7.6 · 9,262 votes · Romance, Fantasy, Comedy
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
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5. Lost in Translation (2003)
★ 7.4 · 8,370 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
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6. Pitch Perfect (2012)
★ 7.3 · 7,030 votes · Comedy, Music, Romance
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing they have in common is how well they sing together. She takes the women of the group out of their comfort zone of traditional arrangements and into a world of amazing harmonic combinations in a fight to the top of college music competitions.
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7. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
★ 6.3 · 3,763 votes · Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.
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8. The Gentlemen (2020)
★ 7.7 · 6,972 votes · Action, Comedy, Crime
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
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9. We're the Millers (2013)
★ 6.8 · 9,727 votes · Comedy, Crime
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
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10. Manhattan (1979)
★ 7.7 · 2,694 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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11. Demolition (2016)
★ 6.9 · 2,647 votes · Comedy, Drama
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
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12. Boogie Nights (1997)
★ 7.6 · 3,734 votes · Drama, Comedy
In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.
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13. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
★ 8.0 · 26,721 votes · Crime, Drama, Comedy
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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14. To Die For (1995)
★ 6.6 · 934 votes · Drama, Comedy, Crime
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
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15. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
★ 6.8 · 1,393 votes · Drama, Crime, Comedy
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
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