Movies like Mamá es boba (1997)
The best movies like Mamá es boba (1997) are Adventures in Public School (2018), Three O'Clock High (1987) and Why Him? (2016). If Mamá es boba hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedZootopia (2016)7.8/10 from 18,732 votes
- NewestDave Chappelle: The Unstoppable... (2025)Released 2025
- In SpanishHomo Argentum (2025)Also in Spanish
Adventures in Public School (2018)
A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree O'Clock High (1987)
Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the infamous new delinquent transfer student, Buddy Revell. When Jerry accidentally invades Buddy's personal space and touches him, Buddy challenges Jerry to an afterschool fight in the parking lot, which Jerry tries to avoid at all costs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhy Him? (2016)
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHomo Argentum (2025)
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Love My Dad (2022)
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989)
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOld Man Made in Spain (1969)
A widow shepherd who lives at the Aragonese Pyrenees sees how his three young daughters, Cándida, Visi, and Nieves, go to Madrid to find a better life and leave him alone. There they all get married, have sons and forget their father. One day, Marcelino receives a letter from Cándida, who wants him to stay with her family for some time. What she really wants is some help from her father, as she's not able to take care of her ten daughters and her upcoming child. Marcelino goes to Madrid, but, once there, he only finds an unknown, frantic and hostile world, and also three unhappy daughters...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThunderstruck (2012)
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt's for Your Own Good (2017)
Three brothers-in-law try to get their daughters to dump their undesirable boyfriends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTomorrow Is Today (2022)
A family is on holiday in 1991 when their teenage daughter decides to elope with her boyfriend. Their parents travel forward in time to 2022 and see how much Spain has changed in three decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeroic Losers (2019)
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTo Hell With The Ugly (2010)
Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly, missing a breast and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the worst of his life is still to come. Nati thinks that the best of her life is still to come. The death of Eliseo's mother reunites them twenty years on in a last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when the woman of your life is married to your brother
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHow to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSon of Rambow (2007)
Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPadre no hay más que uno 5: Nido repleto (2025)
Some parents experience the anguish of the "empty nest" when their children leave home. Javier, on the other hand, suffers the trauma of the "full nest": no one wants to leave home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll the Freckles in the World (2019)
Teen comedy set in the school-year of 1994. José is the new kid on high-school, falling immediately for the popular and freckled Christina. Trying to impress her, he's going to unsuccessfully join the soccer try-outs. Is he shooting way out of his league?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCadet Kelly (2002)
Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBill Burr: Walk Your Way Out (2017)
No-nonsense comic Bill Burr takes the stage in Nashville and riffs on fast food, overpopulation, dictators and gorilla sign language.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDave Chappelle: The Unstoppable... (2025)
Facing a world gone sideways, comedy icon Dave Chappelle delivers bold truths and potent punchlines in this no-holds-barred special.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly (2000)
Dave Chappelle returns for a stand-up to D.C. and riffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs, Sesame Street and more.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisZootopia (2016)
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLucas (1986)
A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMillions (2005)
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaved! (2004)
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne More Shot (2025)
New Years Eve. 1999. Minnie discovers a bottle of time travelling tequila. Each shot takes her back to the start of the night - giving her a bottle’s worth of shots to win back her old flame Joe, and change the course of her millennium.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Still Crazy (1998)
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElsa & Fred (2014)
After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cat in the Hat (2003)
During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat. Fun soon turns to mayhem, and the siblings must figure out how to rid themselves of the maniacal Cat.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mamá es boba?
The closest matches to Mamá es boba are Adventures in Public School (2018), Three O'Clock High (1987) and Why Him? (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mamá es boba?
Start with Adventures in Public School (2018), the closest match to Mamá es boba.
What is the highest-rated movie like Mamá es boba?
Zootopia (2016), rated 7.8/10 by 18,732 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mamá es boba?
Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable... (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Mamá es boba?
Yes: Homo Argentum (2025), Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989) and Old Man Made in Spain (1969).
How are movies similar to Mamá es boba chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mamá es boba, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.