Movies like A Serious Man
A Serious Man (2009) is a comedy movie directed by Joel Coen. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
★ 7.4 · 1,089 votes · Comedy
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
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2. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
★ 6.5 · 545 votes · Comedy, Drama
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
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3. 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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4. My Night at Maud's (1969)
★ 7.6 · 372 votes · Romance, Comedy, Drama
Devout Roman Catholic Jean-Louis subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of 17th-century physicist Blaise Pascal. When he spots a pretty girl at church, he promises to one day marry her. But then an old friend introduces him to alluring divorcee Maud. After a conversation about love and credo, the chaste Jean-Louis spends the night at Maud's, conflicted about his desires.
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5. Election (1999)
★ 6.9 · 1,249 votes · Comedy, Drama
A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
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6. Wonder Boys (2000)
★ 6.8 · 696 votes · Comedy, Drama
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
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7. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
★ 7.4 · 13,913 votes · Drama, Comedy
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
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8. Dream Scenario (2023)
★ 6.6 · 1,478 votes · Comedy, Fantasy
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
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9. Animal House (1978)
★ 6.9 · 1,741 votes · Comedy
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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10. Smoke (1995)
★ 7.2 · 554 votes · Comedy, Drama
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
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11. Kinds of Kindness (2024)
★ 6.5 · 1,376 votes · Comedy, Drama
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
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12. Barney's Version (2010)
★ 7.0 · 505 votes · Comedy, Drama
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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13. The Doom Generation (1995)
★ 6.5 · 333 votes · Comedy, Drama, Crime
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
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14. World's Greatest Dad (2009)
★ 6.6 · 682 votes · Comedy, Drama
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
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