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Movies that feel like Caramelo (2025)

If you loved Caramelo, the closest films we have are Hit the Road (2021), Gloria (2013) and Confessions of an Invisible Girl (2021). All three share Caramelo's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

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

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

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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Confessions of an Invisible Girl
2021 · dir. Bruno Garotti
5.3comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on drama

When the clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, she'll do anything to fit in. But the queen bee among her classmates has other ideas.

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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%6.4comedy · drama

Comedy built on play, twice over

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

A streak of stillness through both

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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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Pieces of April
2003 · dir. Peter Hedges
🍅 83%7comedy · drama

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

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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Day of the Wacko
2002 · dir. Marek Koterski
8.1comedy · drama

The same drama instincts

It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.

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

Comedy approached the same way

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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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
2003 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
8.1comedy · drama

Both play drama straight

A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.

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