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Movies that feel like The Green Butchers (2003)

If you loved The Green Butchers, the closest films we have are Adrift in Tokyo (2007), The Boss of It All (2006) and The Invisible Woman (2009). All three share The Green Butchers' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Anders Thomas Jensenwittyplayful

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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
7.2comedy

Both land wit and play at once

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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The Boss of It All
2006 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 74%6.6comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the "Boss" face to face the owner has to hire a failed actor to play the part.

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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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Best Worst Movie
2009 · dir. Michael Stephenson
🍅 94%7.2documentary · comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Reviewed even better

A look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.

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Winnebago Man
2010 · dir. Ben Steinbauer
🍅 90%7.2documentary · comedy

Both run playful where it counts

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than The Green Butchers does

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.7comedy

Both know what they want from comedy

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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Best in Show
2000 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 93%7.5comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

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Flickering Lights
2000 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%7.5action · comedy · crime

The same hand behind both of them: Anders Thomas Jensen

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

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

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

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
2012 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.5comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

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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Clockwise
1986 · dir. Christopher Morahan
🍅 83%6.6comedy

The same comedy instincts

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.

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

Comedy of the same temperament

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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