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Movies that feel likeTaxi (2015)

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…

If you loved Taxi, the closest films we have are Gloria (2013), Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017) and The Trip (2011). All three share Taxi'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).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jafar Panahiwittyplayfulcontemplative
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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%★ 6.9comedy · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

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

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Soul Kitchen
2009 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 73%★ 7.2drama · comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

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Caramelo
2025 · dir. Diego Freitas
★ 7.1comedy · dramaNetflix

Playful drama, and it commits to that

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

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

Both run contemplative where it counts

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

Both are comedy through and through

The difference: Trades the stillness of Taxi for an angle of its own

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

Both know what they want from drama

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 approached the same way

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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Instructions Not Included
2013 · dir. Eugenio Derbez
🍅 63%★ 7.5comedy · drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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