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Movies Like Chicken and Futility

If you liked Chicken and Futility (2014), a movie directed by Donald Glover, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Dug's Special Mission

    Dug's Special Mission (2009)

    ★ 7/10

    Dug is sent on foolish missions by Alpha, Beta, and Gamma so they can hunt for the Bird of Paradise Falls by themselves. Dug may find that where he belongs is not where he's been looking.

  2. 2Our Wife

    Our Wife (1931)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to…

  3. 3Mater and the Ghostlight

    Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight…

  4. 4Beau Hunks

    Beau Hunks (1931)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

  5. 5Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

    Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.

  6. 6Amazon Women on the Moon

    Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some…

  7. 7Mike's New Car

    Mike's New Car (2002)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't…

  8. 8Ferdinand the Bull

    Ferdinand the Bull (1938)

    ★ 6.7/10

    This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via…

  9. 9For the Birds

    For the Birds (2000)

    ★ 7.5/10

    One by one, a flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire. Sitting close together has problems enough, and then comes along a large dopey bird that tries to join them. The birds of a feather can't help but make…

  10. 10Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

    Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

    ★ 5.9/10

    When the American Chicken Bunker, a military-themed fast-food restaurant, builds its latest chain restaurant on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits take revenge on unsuspecting…

  11. 11Shanghaied

    Shanghaied (1915)

    ★ 6/10

    A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The…

  12. 12Small Fry

    Small Fry (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A fast food restaurant mini variant of Buzz forcibly switches places with the real Buzz and his friends have to deal with the obnoxious impostor.

  13. 13Laughing Gravy

    Laughing Gravy (1931)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.

  14. 14Perfect Day

    Perfect Day (1929)

    ★ 7/10

    Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and…

  15. 15Groot Takes a Bath

    Groot Takes a Bath (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Everybody needs some alone time to relax and wash up, but things go quite differently when you’re a Flora Colossi toddler.

  16. 16A Woman

    A Woman (1915)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for…

  17. 17Yes, God, Yes

    Yes, God, Yes (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.

  18. 18Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  19. 19Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

    ★ 6/10

    Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in New York City - and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the…

  20. 20Baseball Bugs

    Baseball Bugs (1946)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.

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