31 Movies Like The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) You Need to Watch Next
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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If you loved The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) by Wes Anderson, here are 31 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Dedicated to my ex, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Magic Mike. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
31 Movies Similar to The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Dedicated to my ex
2019 · Jorge Ulloa
The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get mone
In common: Comedy · Drama
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
2023 · Sammi Cohen
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 rit
In common: Comedy · Drama
Magic Mike
2012 · Steven Soderbergh
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
In common: Comedy · Drama
High School Musical
2006 · Kenny Ortega
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
In common: Comedy
Cheaper by the Dozen
2003 · Shawn Levy
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. Th
In common: Comedy · Drama
Uncle Buck
1989 · John Hughes
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older
In common: Comedy · Drama
Parenthood
1989 · Ron Howard
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, t
In common: Comedy · Drama
Dog
2022 · Channing Tatum
An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · Stephan Elliott
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
In common: Comedy · Drama
The King of Comedy
1982 · Martin Scorsese
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
In common: Comedy · Drama
A Real Pain
2024 · Jesse Eisenberg
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their
In common: Comedy · Drama
Patch Adams
1998 · Tom Shadyac
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own care
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · David Frankel
A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a majo
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 · David Frankel
Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily Charlton, now the head of a luxury brand th
In common: Comedy · Drama
Mean Girls
2004 · Mark Waters
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Friday
1995 · F. Gary Gray
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Annie
2014 · Will Gluck
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her som
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Big Short
2015 · Adam McKay
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Lolita
1962 · Stanley Kubrick
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon
In common: Comedy · Drama
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Jon Avnet
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in
In common: Comedy · Drama
Instant Family
2018 · Sean Anders
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 yea
In common: Comedy · Drama
Home Alone 4
2002 · Rod Daniel
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants,
In common: Comedy
Big Daddy
1999 · Dennis Dugan
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned. Now he's forced to grow up while navigating the challenges of fatherhood.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Due Date
2010 · Todd Phillips
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list.
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Holdovers
2023 · Alexander Payne
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond
In common: Comedy · Drama
Kinds of Kindness
2024 · Yorgos Lanthimos
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; an
In common: Comedy · Drama
Wild Tales
2014 · Damián Szifron
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an
In common: Comedy · Drama
BlacKkKlansman
2018 · Spike Lee
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
In common: Comedy · Drama
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Joel Coen
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling perf
In common: Comedy · Drama
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · Quentin Tarantino
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the ne
In common: Comedy · Drama
Inherent Vice
2014 · Paul Thomas Anderson
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
In common: Comedy · Drama