Movies Like L'arte del fai da te

If you liked L'arte del fai da te (2013), a comedy movie directed by Alessandro Tamburini, here are 19 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
My Name Is Tanino (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home…
2
Fantozzi (1975)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
3
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.
4
A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
5
Caprice Italian Style (1968)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
6
The Most Beautiful Day in the World (2019)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Arturo Meraviglia is a struggling impresario who has to take care of Gioele and Rebecca, two children "inherited" by an old uncle. When he realizes that little Gioele has superpowers, his luck changes.
7
Driver's Ed (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
8
The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local…
9
Hard Luck (1921)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his…
10
The Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
11
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.
12
The New Monsters (1977)
★ 7/10Also comedy
A collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a…
13
Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
14
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
15
Love & Slaps (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany…
16
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
17
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…
18
The F**k-It List (2020)
★ 6/10Also comedy
After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
19
Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally.