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Movies that feel like Babysitting (2014)

If you loved Babysitting, the closest films we have are Project X (2012), My Mom Is a Character (2013) and I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014). All three share Babysitting's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 2 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on OVID and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

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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Project X
2012 · dir. Nima Nourizadeh
🍅 28%6.7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: birthday

Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.

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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Suck Me Shakespeer
2013 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
6.9comedy

Playful 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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My Mom Is a Character 2
2016 · dir. César Rodrigues
6.6comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.

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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Both run playful where it counts

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

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

Comedy in the same key

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

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

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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Suck Me Shakespeer 2
2015 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
5.9comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%7.3comedy · drama

Common ground: found footage

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Babysitting does

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…

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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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