Movies Like The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
If you liked The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966), a comedy movie directed by Pietro Germi, 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.
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Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyThree 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…
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyAn episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
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The New Monsters (1977)
★ 7/10Also comedyA 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…
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Complexes (1965)
★ 7/10Also comedyIn the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode…
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Roaring Years (1962)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyIn 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…
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Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyIn three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
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Ci hai rotto papà (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyKids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
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What a Beautiful Day (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyChecco, 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…
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Toto and the Women (1952)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyAntonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
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Bagnomaria (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyIn Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of…
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The Monster (1994)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is…
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Confessions of a Lady Cop (1976)
★ 6/10Also comedyGianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome…
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Totòtruffa '62 (1961)
★ 7.6/10Also comedyAntonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their…
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Fantozzi (1975)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyA good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
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Special Features: Handsome (1983)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyForty-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.
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Duck in Orange Sauce (1975)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyWhen his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be…
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyThe 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.
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The Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976)
★ 7.5/10Also comedyThe frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
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You Upset Me (1983)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyThe 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…
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Welcome Mr. President! (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyIn 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…