Movies like The Teacher (2013)
The best movies like The Teacher (2013) are El mesero (2021), Me gusta, pero me asusta (2017) and Crazy Magical Mexico (2026). If The Teacher hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedEl mesero (2021)8.0/10 from 358 votes
- NewestCrazy Magical Mexico (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishEl mesero (2021)Also in Spanish
El mesero (2021)
A waiter pretends to be an important businessman in order to reach the upper class through his entrepreneurial dreams.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMe gusta, pero me asusta (2017)
Brayan Rodriguez is an innocent heir to a criminal Sinaloa family sent to Mexico City to expand the business, and where he meets Claudia, and their worlds collide. Love and fun are everywhere.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCrazy Magical Mexico (2026)
A man finds the best motivation to secure and save his town: making an independent Mexican film.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs (2023)
In a rowdy stand-up set, Shane Gillis riffs on his girlfriend's Navy SEAL ex, touring George Washington's house and being bullied by an Australian Goth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Key Game (2022)
Laura has been with Antonio all her life and, just when she begins to wonder if that is really the life she wants, Sergio and Siena cross paths in their lives. Sergio is a former high school classmate and Siena, his millennial girlfriend who arrives to revolutionize everyone's lives. Laura, Raquel and Cris, close friends for years, convince their respective husbands to play a game that Siena proposes to them: the game of keys. The game consists of everyone putting their keys in a bowl. At random, each one chooses some keys and he must go to spend the night with the owner of the keys. This game will revolutionize the group of friends and their lives. It will make them discover who they are and what they really want.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLadies First (2026)
An arrogant but charismatic ladies' man finds his life of money, power and casual flings upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChilangolandia (2021)
Mexico City, or "Chilangolandia," is a chaotic metropolis where millions of stories take place every day. Some of them are part of this fun comedy full of familiar characters and others that defy stereotypes. Ramiro is a taxi driver who hopes his problems will end when his nephew "El Chulo" becomes a national soccer star. On the other hand, Carmen and Miguel are couple who unexpectedly receive a suitcase with a large sum of money, just what they need to get out of their financial situation. But when the true owners of the cash realize that it fell into the wrong hands, endless adventures and misunderstandings break out within this complex city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisValentina's Wedding (2018)
Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrandma's Wedding (2019)
A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca to celebrate their grandmother’s wedding.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJimmy Carr: His Dark Material (2021)
Jimmy Carr finds humor in the darkest of places in this stand-up special that features his dry, sardonic wit — and some jokes he calls "career enders."
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTod@s Caen (2019)
A pair of seducers try to prove who has the best techniques while trying not to fall in love with each other.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDylan Moran: Like, Totally (2006)
Dylan Moran returns with an all-new stand-up show. Unpredictable, startling, bizarre, elegiac, but above all brilliant and hilariously funny, Moran is a master of comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUndercover Wedding Crashers (2021)
Geeky-looking Sebas is a surprisingly good classical musician. He’s also a complete unknown in the criminal underworld, and as a new newbie on the police force, that makes him the perfect man for a dangerous mission: to go undercover as a keyboard player for “Los Lolos”, a cheesy flamenco-trap band, who have been hired to play at the wedding of a local mafia boss’ daughter that a major drug trafficker will be attending. Sebas is keen to take on the mission, blissfully unaware that he will turn out to be even cheesier than Lolo, the band’s lead singer, and fall in love with his sister, Luci. Now Sebas will face a tough choice: remain loyal to his new friends or complete his police mission.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIliza Shlesinger: Confirmed Kills (2016)
The standup sensation tackle's TV's "Shark Tank," what it means to be a woman and how to deal with the lawless party goblin that lives in us all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA la mala (2015)
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJohn Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)
John Mulaney relays stories from his childhood and "SNL," eviscerates the value of college and laments getting older in this electric comedy special.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Wedding Year (2019)
A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo manches, Frida 2: paraíso destruido (2019)
Zequi and Lucy are about to get married. Although he promises not to overdo it during the bachelor party, things get out of control.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisJimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer (2024)
Jimmy Carr refutes the idea that you can't joke about anything these days with his edgy takes on gun control, religion, cancel culture and consent.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMirreyes vs Godínez (2019)
A group of yuppies fight over a group of office stooges for the control of a shoe factory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEl sexo me da risa 4 (2015)
The most hilarious stories, featuring some new comedians and the best sexual comedy masters of all times.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa más sabrosa del barrio (2020)
Two couples cross their lives as neighbors in the same building, one of them can no longer stand her husband who, in addition to mistreating her, cheats on her and is a compulsive gambler. She, determined to take her life from her, throws herself off her balcony into the void, being rescued by her neighbor who heals her wounds and pampers her sexually, restoring her joy for living.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Mexican Garañon (2014)
Elver is an indigenous man who arrives in the capital in search of opportunities and by a twist of fate comes to work at Don Toribio's residence, where the women discover his enormous sexual attractiveness.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrímenes de pasión 2 (2017)
After being the best hit man of all time, now he has to be the victim of a revenge that not even with all the men in the world could finish him off. However, they only left him with a thirst for revenge which increased his level of cruelty to settle scores, because if anyone knows about this perverse business, it is the famous Quebrantahuesos.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
La suegra de todos (2016)
Everyone's mother in law
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
El taxista caliente (2016)
Pancho has a wife, fiance, and several girlfriends, and juggling them all can be messy, especially when one of their drug kingpin husbands finds out.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
El vecindario 4 (2019)
A couple of criminals, after getting out of prison, decide to continue their criminal career, taking advantage of the stature of the leader of the gang, making him pass as a child and thus drive the police behind them crazy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Despedida de soltera 2 (2020)
A young married couple vacations on their honeymoon when the husband falls in love with a sensual girl who is celebrating her bachelorette party and is about to marry a dangerous man. Unfaithful lovers agree to elope with their partners and abandon them forever. The humiliation of the abandoned girl is so great that when she returns to the city to not look bad, she invents that her husband drowned in the sea. This lie causes hilarious complications when the dead man shows up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
El vecindario 3 (2016)
The adventures of Juan and the situations that he will find in the neighborhood where he lives to try to rescue him from the bad guys who want to turn it into a drug sales place.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Una familia de poca... (2015)
This is a story of a family where the mother takes care of all the housework. Tired of being treated like a servant, the mother's strike makes things very difficult, causing great entanglements and conflicts in the family. But this family, like many, turns out to be a phenomenal family in the end.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Teacher?
The closest matches to The Teacher are El mesero (2021), Me gusta, pero me asusta (2017) and Crazy Magical Mexico (2026). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Teacher?
Start with El mesero (2021), the closest match to The Teacher.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Teacher?
El mesero (2021), rated 8.0/10 by 358 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Teacher?
Crazy Magical Mexico (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like The Teacher?
Yes: El mesero (2021), Me gusta, pero me asusta (2017) and Crazy Magical Mexico (2026).
How are movies similar to The Teacher chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Teacher, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.