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Movies that feel like Welcome to the South (2010)

If you loved Welcome to the South, the closest films we have are Welcome to the Sticks (2008), Cado dalle nubi (2009) and What a Beautiful Day (2011). All three share Welcome to the South's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 3 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

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 ...

6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luca Minierowittyplayful

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Welcome to the North (2012)

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Welcome to the Sticks
2008 · dir. Dany Boon
🍅 67%7.1comedy · drama · romance

Both are working the same pair: lie, postman

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Welcome to the South does

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.5comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

The shared currency is play

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 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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Suck Me Shakespeer
2013 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
6.9comedy

Both are comedy through and through

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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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Comedy approached the same way

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

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.7comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

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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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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What's in a Name
2012 · dir. Alexandre de La Patellière
🍅 71%7.3comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

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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