Movies like La petite mort (2020)
The best movies like La petite mort (2020) are 27 Nights (2025), Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (2023) and Homo Argentum (2025). If La petite mort hooked you with its comedy, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNo manches, Frida (2016)7.7/10 from 983 votes
- NewestRicky Gervais: Mortality (2025)Released 2025
- In Spanish27 Nights (2025)Also in Spanish
27 Nights (2025)
When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRicky Gervais: Armageddon (2023)
Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisAdventures 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 thisRed Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Tired of always playing the same roles, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother and the Wolf demand a new version of the tale. The story then plays out in a more contemporary urban environment, with Little Red Riding Hood working as a pin-up girl in a night club.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRicky Gervais: Mortality (2025)
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trouble with Angels (1966)
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIf I Were a Rich Man (2019)
A man which wife is filing to divorce him wins 25 million EUR in the lotto, hiding her to prevent sharing the half of the prize.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sexologist (2023)
A sexologist (Flavia Dos Santos) dedicates herself to meticulously investigating every detail of the sexual lives of 3 couples and tries to save their marriages without affecting their love lives. This fun and unorthodox methodology will take each of its patients on a journey where the smell, accents, role-playing and other events will force them to leave their comfort zone with the sole purpose of saving their relationships. .
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSo Much Love to Give (2020)
A bigamist with one family in Buenos Aires and the other in Mar del Plata sees his life turned upside down when his wives discover what he has hidden from them for so many years and unite to take revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMás respeto que soy tu madre (2022)
Mirta is doing her best to navigate the social and economic crisis pummeling Argentina on the eve of the 21st century, after all, she's got an unemployed husband, three stressed-out kids, and a drug addict father-in-law to look after. As the crisis promises to boot the family from the middle class, Mirta decides to open a pizzeria that will serve slices with lots of laughs and extra drama.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAs If It Were the First Time (2019)
A man falls in love with a girl who has short-term memory loss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRicky Gervais: Humanity (2018)
In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDie Hart (2023)
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull it off.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChinese Take-Away (2011)
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHard to Die (1990)
While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Paper Tigers (2020)
Three middle aged men polish their martial arts skills to avenge their fallen master.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo manches, Frida (2016)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPorn for Newbies (2019)
An amateur filmmaker’s life gets complicated when a mobster hires him to direct a pornographic horror movie starring a frighteningly sexy actress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGrumpy Christmas (2021)
Bitter, grumpy patriarch Don Servando and his family travel to spend Christmas with Doña Alicia, a relative who becomes his "ultimate nemesis". It may be Christmas, but Don Servando is set on proving to everyone that Doña Alicia is a terrible person.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like La petite mort?
The closest matches to La petite mort are 27 Nights (2025), Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (2023) and Homo Argentum (2025). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after La petite mort?
Start with 27 Nights (2025), the closest match to La petite mort.
What is the highest-rated movie like La petite mort?
No manches, Frida (2016), rated 7.7/10 by 983 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like La petite mort?
Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like La petite mort?
Yes: 27 Nights (2025), Homo Argentum (2025) and If I Were a Rich Man (2019).
How are movies similar to La petite mort chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside La petite mort, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.