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10 Best Movies Like Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story

If you loved Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Test

Test

2016★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Test is a multi-screen work using three animated sequences, a person, a teddy bear and the word TEST, whose synchronicity is continually being broken by the destruction of a tower ...

#2
Dead

Dead

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological medication mixed with marijuana. Officer Jayson Tagg, a wannabe super-cop on the t...

#3
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

1898★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish....

#4
Testament: Dark Roots of Thrash

Testament: Dark Roots of Thrash

2013★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story for fans of Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Dark Roots of Thrash, is a release documenting Bay Area veterans TESTAMENT’s sold-out headlining performance at the Paramount Theatre, Huntington, New York, USA in February 15th an...

#5
War

War

2023★ 9.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mini-gladiators locked in an epic battle....

#6
Maine-Ocean Express

Maine-Ocean Express

1986★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi...