Movies Like Il MediCazzo

If you liked Il MediCazzo (1998), a movie directed by Mario Bianchi, 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
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
★ 6.7/10
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
2
The Roof (1956)
★ 7.3/10
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This film follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed…
3
Il Sorpasso (1962)
★ 8.2/10
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into…
4
Be Sick… It's Free (1968)
★ 7/10
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
5
My Voyage to Italy (1999)
★ 7.6/10
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
6
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
★ 8.4/10
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
7
Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019)
★ 7.6/10
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of…
8
The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
★ 6.9/10
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
9
To Rome with Love (2012)
★ 5.8/10
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a…
10
An American in Rome (1954)
★ 7.1/10
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
11
The Monsters (1963)
★ 7.4/10
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
12
Rose Island (2020)
★ 7/10
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The…
13
White Nights (1957)
★ 7.5/10
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
14
La Dolce Villa (2025)
★ 6.3/10
When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and new purpose.
15
Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)
★ 6.5/10
Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an…
16
La Terra Trema (1949)
★ 7.8/10
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
17
The Boom (1963)
★ 6.9/10
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees…
18
A Bigger Splash (2015)
★ 6.2/10
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
19
Paisan (1946)
★ 7.5/10
Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign…
20
Made in Italy (2020)
★ 6/10
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.