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Movies that feel likeSun in Buckets (2013)

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

If you loved Sun in Buckets, the closest films we have are My Mom Is a Character (2013), Suck Me Shakespeer (2013) and I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014). All three share Sun in Buckets' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is What's in a Name (2012).

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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

Witty comedy in both cases

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

Comedy built on play, twice over

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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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

The shared currency is play

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

Both are comedy through and through

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

Gennaro Nunziante working the same nerve twice

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

Gennaro Nunziante directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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

The same comedy instincts

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

Both know what they want from comedy

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

Both working the same comedy territory

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

Cut from the same comedy cloth

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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