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Movies that feel like Instructions Not Included (2013)

If you loved Instructions Not Included, the closest films we have are Taxi (2015), Gloria (2013) and The Trip (2011). All three share Instructions Not Included's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

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

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Eugenio Derbezwittyplayfulcontemplative
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Taxi
2015 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 96%7.3comedy · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

Drama built on wit, twice over

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

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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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Big Daddy
1999 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 39%6.5comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: bachelor

A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned. Now he's forced to grow up while navigating the challenges of fatherhood.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, 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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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%6.4comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%6.8comedy · drama

Drama built on play, twice over

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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

A streak of stillness through both

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

Both working the same comedy territory

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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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%7.2comedy · drama

Drama approached the same way

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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

Comedy in the same key

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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