Films like Jakob the Liar (1999)
Jakob the Liar (1999) is comedy, drama, history. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.
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Green Book (2018)
Also comedy and drama.
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and…
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Dumb Money (2023)
Also comedy and drama.
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a…
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Blue Moon (2025)
Also comedy and drama.
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the…
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The Favourite (2018)
Also comedy and drama.
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter…
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The Apprentice (2024)
Also comedy and drama.
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help…
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BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Also comedy and drama.
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…
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La Vénus électrique (2026)
Also comedy and drama.
Artist Antoine has lost all inspiration and slipped into alcoholism since the death of his wife Irène, a loss he blames himself for. Suzanne is a penniless sideshow performer…
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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Also comedy and drama.
A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.
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Vice (2018)
Also comedy and drama.
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive…
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The Death of Stalin (2017)
Also comedy and drama.
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to…
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Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Also comedy and drama.
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with…
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BlackBerry (2023)
Also comedy and drama.
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in…
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Also comedy and drama.
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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Man on the Moon (1999)
Also comedy and drama.
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Also comedy and drama.
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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Battle of the Sexes (2017)
Also comedy and drama.
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Also comedy and drama.
Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps…
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The Madness of King George (1994)
Also comedy and drama.
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent…
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Mexico 86 (2026)
Also comedy and drama.
When a last-minute chance to host the 1986 World Cup appears, a cunning Mexican bureaucrat, armed with nothing but guts and audacity, cons his way through FIFA to beat the United…
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The Floating Castle (2012)
Also comedy and drama.
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in…
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Toast (2010)
Also comedy and drama.
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father…
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The Duke (2021)
Also comedy and drama.
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the…
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There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
Also comedy and drama.
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter…
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Also comedy and drama.
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his…