30 Funny Movies Like Crazy Rich Asians Ranked

"The Farewell" is a story about a lie, yet it's all true (more or less). In Lulu Wang's directorial debut, Billie (Awkwafina) travels to China to visit her grandmother (Zhao Shu-zen). Billie's Nai Nai is slowly dying of a terminal illness, but she doesn't know it, because the whole family agreed it would be better if they kept her in the dark. The film draws from Wang's personal experiences. Just like Billie, Wang kept her grandmother's diagnosis hidden, and it wasn't until Wang's grandmother read reviews of the final film that she realized the movie was actually about her.

In the hands of a different filmmaker, "The Farewell" would've been a gloomy movie, but it's actually quite sweet and uplifting, and at times it can be downright hilarious. Even the scene in the cemetery is funny. When Nai Nai pays her respects to her late husband by placing offerings of food at his grave, she tells her family not to give her husband any cigarettes, because he quit smoking. Her son replies, "Let the man smoke. He's already dead, what else can happen?"

Just like "Crazy Rich Asians," this film explores what happens when Eastern and Western worldviews clash, and it gives both sides a fair hearing.