Films like A Serious Man

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   Wonder Boys

   Film · 2000 · also comedy and drama

   Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves...

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   The Gambler

   Film · 1974 · also drama

   New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threaten...

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3. 3

   Election

   Film · 1999 · also comedy and drama

   A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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4. 4

   Life During Wartime

   Film · 2010 · also comedy and drama

   Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

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   Dream Scenario

   Film · 2023 · also comedy

   Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearance...

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   Class

   Film · 1983 · also comedy and drama

   Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonath...

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   Fading Gigolo

   Film · 2013 · also comedy

   Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quick...

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   Smoke

   Film · 1995 · also comedy and drama

   Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid...

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   Animal House

   Film · 1978 · also comedy

   At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

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    Kinds of Kindness

    Film · 2024 · also comedy and drama

    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 an...

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