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Movies that feel likeI Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.

If you loved I Can Quit Whenever I Want, the closest films we have are Rose Island (2020), Suck Me Shakespeer (2013) and My Mom Is a Character (2013). All three share I Can Quit Whenever I Want'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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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass (2017)

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Rose Island
2020 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
🍅 75%★ 7comedy · adventureNetflix

Both are Sydney Sibilia's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Played as adventure first

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

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Suck Me Shakespeer
2013 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
★ 6.9comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

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My Mom Is a Character
2013 · dir. André Pellenz
★ 6.8comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

Both lean on play more than on comedy

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

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What's in a Name
2012 · dir. Alexandre de La Patellière
🍅 71%★ 7.3comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...

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

A streak of play through both

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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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

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Welcome to the South
2010 · dir. Luca Miniero
★ 6.6comedy

Comedy in the same key

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

Both know what they want from comedy

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.5comedy

Both are comedy through and through

An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

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

Comedy approached the same way

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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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
★ 6.3comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

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