Movies Like The Man Who Could Have Changed the World

If you liked The Man Who Could Have Changed the World (2026), a comedy and history movie directed by Anne Paulicevich, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Napoleon and Me (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and history
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile…
2
Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and history
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius…
3
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
4
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and history
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home…
5
Roaring Years (1962)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town…
6
Mixed by Erry (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and history
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
7
Ho visto le stelle (2003)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
8
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…
9
You Upset Me (1983)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's…
10
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and history
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the…
11
The Monsters (1963)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
12
A Girl in Australia (1971)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
13
Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead…
14
The Clowns (1970)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris…
15
Welcome Mr. President! (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends…
16
Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into…
17
Special Features: Handsome (1983)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Forty-something Mattia has every woman in town lusting after him. But every time a woman wants to get hitched, he drags out his 'daughter' (actually the girl next door) to pass judgment on this woman.
18
A Song Is Born (1948)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want…
19
What a Beautiful Day (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
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…
20
Ma che bella sorpresa (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE…