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Best Comedy Movies Alone On A Rainy Night From The 2020S That Will Make You Cry

These comedy films were selected by the Moviepiq editorial team for a rainy night in. Popularity and critic scores don't factor in here. Emotional fit does.

The best comedy movies alone on a rainy night from the 2020s that will make you cry. Includes One Battle After Another, Babylon, Bugonia and more - curated b...

A rainy night alone is one of the few situations that genuinely calls for a great film. No interruptions, no compromises on what to watch, no one talking over the quiet moments.

The 2020s have already produced films that will be studied for decades - lean, precise, unafraid to take audiences seriously.

Comedy at its best doesn't ask you to laugh. It creates situations so specific and so true that laughter is the only honest response.

One Battle After Another movie poster
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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

Babylon movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

Bugonia movie poster
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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

The One and Only Ivan movie poster
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2020 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

A gorilla named Ivan who's living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.

Migration movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 7.3/10

After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, the Mallard family embarks on a family road trip, from New England, to New York City, to tropical Jamaica.

What makes great comedy is specificity. The more precise the observation, the more universal the feeling. These films nail that balance.

Through My Window movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.3/10

Raquel's longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family's objections.

Palm Springs movie poster
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2020 · ★★★½☆ 7.3/10

When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.3/10

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.

The Boss Baby: Family Business movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.3/10

The Templeton brothers - Tim and his Boss Baby little bro Ted - have become adults and drifted away from each other. But a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again ... and inspire a new family business.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 7.3/10

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Great films that make you cry do so because they've made you care. By the time the emotion lands, you're not surprised - you're just not ready for it.

A great comedy earns its place in memory not through jokes but through character. The funniest moments are the ones that are also somehow true.

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