Comedy movies when nothing feels right from the 2020s. Includes Hustle, Rich in Love, The Gentlemen and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Nothing sounds good. Pick one anyway. It might surprise you.
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them - a damaged, brainy troublemaker - and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
The best films for when nothing feels right have a quality of steadiness. They don't demand anything of your mood.
More useful than it seems when nothing feels right. Give it a shot.
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. When a documentarian discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, his resulting short film brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia's deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they'll fit in without being judged.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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