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Movies that feel likeCaramelo (2025)

After a life-changing diagnosis, a promising chef finds hope and humor with the help of a fur-midable dog friend.

If you loved Caramelo, the closest films we have are Hit the Road (2021), Gloria (2013) and The Trip (2011). All three share Caramelo's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Adrift in Tokyo (2007).

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Hit the Road
2021 · dir. Panah Panahi
🍅 95%★ 7.2comedy · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%★ 6.9comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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The Trip
2011 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · drama

Drama built on wit, twice over

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%★ 6.4comedy · dramaPrime Video

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · dir. Daniel Rezende
🍅 85%★ 7.9comedy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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Confessions of an Invisible Girl
2021 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 5.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Both lean on play more than on drama

When the clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, she'll do anything to fit in. But the queen bee among her classmates has other ideas.

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Whisky
2004 · dir. Juan Pablo Rebella
🍅 100%★ 7.1comedy · drama

A streak of stillness through both

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

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My Mom Is a Character 3
2019 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 7.1comedy

Comedy approached the same way

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Caramelo

Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.

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Pieces of April
2003 · dir. Peter Hedges
🍅 83%★ 7comedy · drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.

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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
★ 7.2comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
★ 5.8comedy

Comedy in the same key

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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