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Movies Like Weekend, Italian Style

If you liked Weekend, Italian Style (1965), a comedy movie directed by Dino Risi, 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. 1A Girl in Australia

    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.

  2. 2Fun Is Beautiful

    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…

  3. 3Duck in Orange Sauce

    Duck in Orange Sauce (1975)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    When 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…

  4. 4The Most Beautiful Day in the World

    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.

  5. 5Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

    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.

  6. 6Bagnomaria

    Bagnomaria (1999)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    In 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…

  7. 7Thus Spoke Bellavista

    Thus Spoke Bellavista (1984)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy

    In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends)…

  8. 8Fantozzi

    Fantozzi (1975)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy

    A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.

  9. 9Grand Hotel Excelsior

    Grand Hotel Excelsior (1982)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has…

  10. 10My Name Is Tanino

    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…

  11. 11Ho visto le stelle

    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. 12Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses

    Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first…

  13. 13What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

    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…

  14. 14Fantozzi Retires

    Fantozzi Retires (1988)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to…

  15. 15Zoran: My Nephew the Idiot

    Zoran: My Nephew the Idiot (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Paolo, 40 years old, lives in a small Friulian town close to the north-eastern border. Unreliable and with a passion for good wine, he spends his days at the local tavern and stubbornly stalks his ex-wife.

  16. 16Ciao, Professore!

    Ciao, Professore! (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples

  17. 17The Marquis of Grillo

    The Marquis of Grillo (1981)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy

    In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize…

  18. 18Mid-August Lunch

    Mid-August Lunch (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Broke, and armed only with his sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni lives with his mother in their old apartment. The debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager's mother during the Ferragosto, a…

  19. 19Put Grandma in the Freezer

    Put Grandma in the Freezer (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to…

  20. 20Talcum Powder

    Talcum Powder (1982)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.

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