Movies Similar to The Odd-Job Men

dead calm

Coraline has grown tired of her routine and feels stuck in her day-to-day life. For this reason, she decides to find a way to escape it.

All About My Mother(1999)

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

The Spanish Apartment(2002)

A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.

1,2,3... Barcelona!(2025)

Tourists eating and taking photos. Tourists strolling and taking photos. Tourists bathing on the beach and taking more photos. Barcelona has become an overexploited photocall to the point of paroxysm, and this is what this film shows by turning the camera and pointing towards the visitors. A small gesture that, added to a powerful sound contrast and a caustic sense of humour, exposes without subterfuge a grotesque normality.

Nunca en horas de clase(1978)

Barcelona(1994)

During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.

Si te hubieses casado conmigo(1948)

Caresses(1998)

Eleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium.

Histèria de Catalunya(2018)

A punk documentary which is, at the same time, a history of Catalonia, an analysis of its political situation in 2017, a comic lamentation on the milestones of the Procés —the broken, unsuccessful path started October 1st which eventually should've ended with a true declaration of independence from Spain—, and a chaotic festival of references to pop culture, from Dumbo to Salvador Dalí.

To Barcelona, with Love(2025)

Erica, an American translator, secretly revises a novel set in Barcelona. Everything is fine until bookstore owner Nico invites the credited author, Anna, to the city for a book-signing.

To Barcelona, Forever(2025)

As Anna travels back to Barcelona, reuniting with Erica to celebrate her engagement to Nico, she meets a charming farmer and accidentally finds herself "engaged" to save his family's legacy.

Know your own city: Raúl Cimas(2013)

Raúl Cimas walks with the Venga Monjas thorugh the Paral‧lel, the Catalan Broadway.

Coneix la teva ciutat: El Mundo Today(2013)

Our two friends from the webpage El Mundo Today show the Venga Monjas Montjuïc, the holy mountain.

Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure(2003)

After robbing a Moscow casino right under Zenigata's nose, Lupin is given a job to return 6 treasures to their original areas for an old friend of his, so Lupin can receive an even better treasure to gain.

Barcelona Christmas Night(2015)

Multiple love stories unfold in Barcelona during Christmas's Eve.

Anita Takes a Chance(2001)

Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project...

Nocturnal Girls(2023)

Luna runs away from home in the middle of the night. In an unexpected encounter with a group of drag queens, she redefines her concept of family.

Emma(2024)

When Anna moves into a new apartment, she meets Emma, a girl she's instantly drawn to—one who harbors secrets she could never have imagined.

Makinavaja, el último choriso(1992)

A movie based on the Spanish comic strip of the same name.

Crimen para recién casados(1960)

Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his big opportunity.