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Movies that feel like I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)

If you loved I Can Quit Whenever I Want, the closest films we have are Rose Island (2020), Suck Me Shakespeer (2013) and My Mom Is a Character (2013). All three share I Can Quit Whenever I Want'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 Netflix and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

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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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass (2017)

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Rose Island
2020 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
🍅 75%7comedy · adventure

Both are Sydney Sibilia's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Played as adventure first

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

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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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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Philippe Lacheau
6.8comedy

Both lean on play more than on comedy

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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

The shared currency is play

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 working the same comedy territory

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

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My Mom Is a Character 3
2019 · dir. Susana Garcia
7.1comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

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

Comedy in the same key

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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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.5comedy

Both are comedy through and through

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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