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Movies like Dim Sum Funeral (2008)

The best movies like Dim Sum Funeral (2008) are On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), Family Weekend (2013) and About Alex (2014). If Dim Sum Funeral hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

    On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  2. Family Weekend (2013)

    A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  3. About Alex (2014)

    When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  4. Small Apartments (2012)

    When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

  5. Chloe and Theo (2015)

    A 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 either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

  6. Treasure (2024)

    A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

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  7. Somewhere in Queens (2023)

    Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  8. Don't Think Twice (2016)

    An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  9. The Good Half (2024)

    Renn 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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  10. Landline (2017)

    A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  11. Death at a Funeral (2007)

    A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  12. Madea Goes to Jail - The Play (2006)

    Madea 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 letting go, moving on, and forgiveness.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  13. It Runs in the Family (2003)

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  14. Savage House (2026)

    Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  15. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)

    Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  16. Wild Oats (2016)

    Everything 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 a lifetime.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  17. Barney's Version (2010)

    The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  18. ¿Y cómo es él? (2022)

    Thomas is a meek man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite his situation he decides to fake a work trip to go to Vallarta to confront Jero, a taxi driver who is sleeping with his wife.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  19. 21 & Over (2013)

    Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

  20. Georgetown (2019)

    Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  21. Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

    Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

  22. Children of Invention (2010)

    Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

  23. Peace and Serenity (2025)

    While preparing for her father's surprise party, a resilient young woman works to mend a fractured relationship among her divergent family.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  24. Oedipus Rex (1967)

    In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  25. Lulu on the Bridge (1998)

    A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot. After discovering a mysterious package, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful aspiring actress, but their happiness is cut short by a series of strange, dreamlike events.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  26. Girls Gone Psycho (2006)

    Life's always been easy for trust-fund baby Sasha Childers (Kinsey Packard), who spends her nights with her glitterati friends at the hottest clubs in town. When a sex tape surfaces that puts Sasha in the tabloids, she takes revenge on the club owner who leaked it. But her crime puts her on someone else's hit list, sending Sasha and her friends someplace they've never been: on the run. Deanna Dozier, Monterey Salka and Robert Berson co-star.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

  27. The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)

    The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

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  28. Say Goodnight (2008)

    Three guys tell a friend the stories of how they met the loves of their lives, and how they managed to completely screw up the relationships.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

  29. Mira corpora (2004)

    The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual) seduces the young male prey with a running cinema projector which carves Murnau's Nosferatu extracts on their bodies. Metamorphosis, rituals passages, Eros and Thanotos, illusion and reality, film into the film are the themes and images in perpetual osmosis in this Stéphane Marti's opus.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  30. Symbol (2009)

    A Japanese man in polka-dot pajamas wakes up in a room with no doors. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Mexican wrestler prepares for his most challenging match ever.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Dim Sum Funeral?

The closest matches to Dim Sum Funeral are On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), Family Weekend (2013) and About Alex (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Dim Sum Funeral?

Start with On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), the closest match to Dim Sum Funeral.

What is the highest-rated movie like Dim Sum Funeral?

¿Y cómo es él? (2022), rated 7.5/10 by 260 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Dim Sum Funeral?

Savage House (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Dim Sum Funeral?

Yes: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), Family Weekend (2013) and About Alex (2014).

How are movies similar to Dim Sum Funeral chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dim Sum Funeral, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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