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Movies that feel like No manches, Frida (2016)

If you loved No manches, Frida, the closest films we have are Trouble (2024), Till Luck Do Us Part (2012) and Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015). All three share No manches, Frida'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 others, checked against today's data.

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

🍅 13% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nacho G. Velillawittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: No manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido (2019)

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Trouble
2024 · dir. Jon Holmberg
6.2action · comedy · crime

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Leans harder into action than No manches, Frida does

Wrongfully convicted of murder, a clumsy electronics salesman faces police corruption and criminal conspiracies in an attempt to prove his innocence.

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Till Luck Do Us Part
2012 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.5comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Check out the hilarious story of luck and misadventures of Tino, a family man whose life is transformed after he wins the lottery. Dazzled by wealth, this boaster spends all his money on a life of luxury and ostentation. But after finding out that he is bankrupt, he faces comical situations: besides not telling his wife he is broke because she is pregnant and cannot get upset, Tino must accept help from his neighbor who is an extremely thrifty financial adviser and the only one capable of getting him out of the rut.

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

Playful comedy in both cases

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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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
5.8comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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Till Luck Do Us Part 2
2013 · dir. Roberto Santucci
4.9comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitter failure, they see a light at the end of the tunnel with uncle Olavinho’s unexpected inheritance. However, the will carries an unusual request: the rich uncle wants his ashes to be scattered throughout the Grand Canyon. The couple takes the opportunity of the trip to fulfill this wish and decides to go to Las Vegas and end up getting into comical situations. Big time spender Tino will fall into the greatest temptations and indulge in the casinos of the gambling city.

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

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

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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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.7comedy

Both are comedy through and through

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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Two Is a Family
2016 · dir. Hugo Gélin
🍅 43%7.3drama · comedy

Both play comedy straight

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
5.9comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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Welcome to the North
2012 · dir. Luca Miniero
5.4comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

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My Mom Is a Character
2013 · dir. André Pellenz
6.8comedy

Comedy approached the same way

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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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

The same comedy instincts

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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