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Movies that feel likeNo manches, Frida (2016)

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

If you loved No manches, Frida, the closest films we have are My Mom Is a Character (2013), The Boss of It All (2006) and Adrift in Tokyo (2007). All three share No manches, Frida'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 The Green Butchers (2003).

🍅 13% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nacho G. Velillawittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido (2019)

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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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The Boss of It All
2006 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 74%★ 6.6comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The owner of an IT firm wants to sell his business for profit; however, when he started his firm, he invented a nonexistent president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with 'The Boss' face to face, the owner hires a failed actor to play the part.

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

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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The Green Butchers
2003 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 63%★ 7.2comedy

The shared currency is play

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

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I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
★ 7comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

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.

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Till Luck Do Us Part
2012 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 5.6comedy

Comedy approached the same way

Check out the hilarious story of luck and misadventures of Tino, a family man whose life is transformed after he wins the lottery. Dazzled by wealth, this boaster spends all his money on a life of luxury and ostentation. But after finding out that he is bankrupt, he faces comical situations: besides not telling his wife he is broke because she is pregnant and cannot get upset, Tino must accept help from his neighbor who is an extremely thrifty financial adviser and the only one capable of getting him out of the rut.

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

Both working the same comedy territory

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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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 5.7comedy

Both are comedy through and through

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
★ 5.9comedy

Comedy in the same key

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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Welcome to the North
2012 · dir. Luca Miniero
★ 5.4comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

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

Comedy of the same temperament

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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