Movies Like Once in a Blue Moon
If you liked Once in a Blue Moon (1935), a comedy and drama movie directed by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, 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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It Runs in the Family (2003)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaThis is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
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Don't Think Twice (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaAn improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
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The Good Half (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaRenn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
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Class Act (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaDuncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought…
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Wild Oats (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaEverything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of…
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Chloe and Theo (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We…
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The Trip to Italy (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaYears after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
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Best Man Down (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaA newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
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The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaA happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her…
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Feel the Beat (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaAfter failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.
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Madea Goes to Jail - The Play (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaMadea returns in another hilarious story in which she gets sent to the big house. But regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of…
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Roll Bounce (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaIn the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Dear Eleanor (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaTwo teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Where the Money Is (2000)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaHenry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing…
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The One and Only Ivan (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaA gorilla named Ivan who’s living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
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The Comedy (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaIndifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
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The Four Musketeers (1974)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaThe Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
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Arctic Dogs (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyAnimals band together to save the day when the evil Otto Von Walrus hatches a sinister scheme to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle.
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The Truman Show (1998)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and dramaIn a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.