27 Best Movies Like Withnail And I ...

27 Best Movies Like Withnail And I ...

If you liked this one , you will probably love these too! In this list we highlight some of the best films that share a very similar premise to '', and are worth checking out.

1. Beautiful People (1999)

1h 47m War Comedy Drama

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

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2. The History Boys (2006)

1h 49m Comedy Drama

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

3. The Rum Diary (2011)

2h Comedy Drama

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals.  It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

4. A Merry War (1997)

1h 41m Comedy Drama Romance

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

5. The Trip (2010)

30m Comedy

Steve agrees to review six restaurants and takes Rob with him.

6. The Trip to Italy (2014)

7. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

8. Living in Oblivion (1995)

1h 29m Drama Comedy

Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in three acts, each representing a different scene to shoot, this film is an essential for amateur filmmakers.

9. Love and Death on Long Island (1997)

10. I Really Hate My Job (2007)

11. Dom Hemingway (2013)

1h 33m Comedy Crime Drama

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

12. The Full Monty (1997)

13. A Deal Is a Deal (2008)

14. Naked (1993)

2h 11m Drama Comedy

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

15. Kitchen Stories (2003)

1h 35m Drama Comedy

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.

16. Peter&`s Friends (1992)

17. Trust (1990)

1h 47m Drama Comedy

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.

18. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

2h 8m Drama Comedy

In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding.

19. Career Girls (1997)

1h 23m Drama

Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.

20. Driving Lessons (2006)

1h 38m Comedy Drama

A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.

21. Life Is Sweet (1990)

22. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

1h 34m Comedy

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

23. Educating Rita (1983)

1h 50m Drama Comedy

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself so she joins an Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.

24. Cemetery Junction (2010)

1h 34m Drama Comedy

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

25. Stuart Saves His Family (1995)

1h 35m Comedy Drama

Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.

26. My Favorite Year (1982)

1h 32m Comedy Drama

New York City, 1954: Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show. His idol Alan Swann, an actor with a drinking problem, is to be that week's guest star.

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