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Movies that feel likeWhat's in a Name (2012)

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...

If you loved What's in a Name, the closest films we have are Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), My Mom Is a Character (2013) and I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014). All three share What's in a Name'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).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alexandre de La Patellièrewittyplayful
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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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I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
★ 7comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

The shared currency is play

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

Comedy in the same key

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

Comedy approached the same way

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

Comedy of the same temperament

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

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

Cut from the same comedy cloth

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 play comedy straight

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

Both working the same comedy territory

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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