If you loved 24 Hour Party People, try A Cock and Bull Story

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. A Cock and Bull Story has roughly 3.4× fewer votes than 24 Hour Party People — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Michael Winterbottom, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to 24 Hour Party People, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

playful

What A Cock and Bull Story is

A film crew sets out to make an unfilmable novel. The movie follows the chaotic on-set antics during the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy." It seems to suggest that making a movie about the unfilmable might be the truly unfilmable act.

Ask for a deeper bridge

Discover modes
About & sources
Built with care for saturated cinephiles. · TBS Digital Studio ☕ Buy us a coffee
Refine your taste
What vibe?

Extra filters

Date night mode Skip gore, bleak endings
Watching with kids Age-appropriate only
Kids ages?