Movies Like Onésime's Theatrical Debut
If you liked Onésime's Theatrical Debut (1913), a comedy movie directed by Jean Durand, 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.
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Foresti Party (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyComedian Florence Foresti supersizes her act in an arena show packed with sketches, celebrity impressions, epic dance routines and special guests.
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It Boy (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he…
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Alter Ego (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyA quiet, middle-aged man spirals into obsession and paranoia when a charismatic look-alike moves in next door, featuring the exact same face—and a full head of hair.
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Comédie-Française (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyAt the Comédie-Française, there is one golden rule: the play is never canceled. Unfortunately for Nina, everything else is—just three hours before the premiere of her first staging. An actor is stuck on a train…
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Parade (1974)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyThe story of a big party during which Jacques Tati brings together audience members, performers, clowns, children, and himself.
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Pretty Persuasion (2005)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyA 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
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The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyThe whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his…
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Heartbeat (1938)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
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Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now (2018)
★ 7/10Also comedyThe gleefully irreverent Jefferies skewers “grabby” celebrities, political hypocrisy and his own ill-advised career moves in a brash stand-up special.
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
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The Severed Heads (1957)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyA short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
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Louise-Michel (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyIn this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
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Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyFrom his onstage tackle to the slap heard round the world, Dave Chappelle lets loose in this freewheeling and unfiltered stand-up comedy special.
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My Wife's Husband (1963)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyAfter thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when…
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Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyThe premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a…
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Sea Scouts (1939)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyDonald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.
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John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also comedyJohn Mulaney relays stories from his childhood and "SNL," eviscerates the value of college and laments getting older in this electric comedy special.
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Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyAziz Ansari presents his highly anticipated debut hour long stand-up special. The critically acclaimed stand-up and actor (Parks and Recreation, Funny People) discusses topics ranging from sheets with fraudulent thread…
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The Speech (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyMeet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb…
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Jim Jefferies: High n' Dry (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyNo topic is off limits for Jim Jefferies as he muses on stoned koalas, his dad’s vasectomy confusion and choosing between his hair and his sex drive.