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Movies Like Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film

If you liked Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018), a drama and comedy movie directed by Joachim Lang, 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. 1Afterlife of the Party

    Afterlife of the Party (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and comedy

    A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.

  2. 2Secret Society of Second-Born Royals

    Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and fantasy

    A rebellious teenage princess discovers she has superhuman abilities and joins a secret society of extraordinary second-born royals tasked with protecting the world.

  3. 3Hooking Up

    Hooking Up (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the…

  4. 4Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2014)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her…

  5. 5The Bra

    The Bra (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely…

  6. 6My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  7. 7Slumberland

    Slumberland (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and fantasy

    A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.

  8. 8Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls

    Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and fantasy

    Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the…

  9. 9All About Me

    All About Me (2018)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedy

    Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians, Hape Kerkeling.

  10. 10The Willoughbys

    The Willoughbys (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy

    When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.

  11. 11SubUrbia

    SubUrbia (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

  12. 12It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

  13. 13Dear Eleanor

    Dear Eleanor (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

  14. 14What You Can See from Here

    What You Can See from Here (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to…

  15. 15Invisible Sister

    Invisible Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and comedy

    Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.

  16. 16The Cable Guy

    The Cable Guy (1996)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the…

  17. 17A Dog Year

    A Dog Year (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined…

  18. 18Cold Souls

    Cold Souls (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He…

  19. 19Kermit's Swamp Years

    Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and comedy

    At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.

  20. 20Six Pack

    Six Pack (1982)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn…

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