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Movies Like Napoleon and Me

If you liked Napoleon and Me (2006), a comedy and history movie directed by Paolo Virzì, 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. 1Goodnight, 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.

  2. 2What 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…

  3. 3Ho 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.

  4. 4Thus 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)…

  5. 5Fantozzi

    Fantozzi (1975)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy

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

  6. 6Ma che bella sorpresa

    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…

  7. 7Fun with Dick and Jane

    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.

  8. 8Duck Soup

    Duck Soup (1933)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

  9. 9The 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…

  10. 10A 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.

  11. 11Adventures in Public School

    Adventures in Public School (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.

  12. 12Nothing Left to Do But Cry

    Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy

    Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

  13. 13My 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…

  14. 14Too Much

    Too Much (1986)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

  15. 15Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry

    Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry (2016)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Hawaiian-shirt enthusiast Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias finds the laughs in racist gift baskets, Prius-driving cops and all-female taco trucks.

  16. 16Special Features: Handsome

    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.

  17. 17Ignorance Is Bliss

    Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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…

  18. 18My Best Enemy

    My Best Enemy (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    When a neurotic hotel manager fires a maid for allegedly stealing a laptop, her son swears revenge and begins to expose his deepest secrets — only to regret it after falling for his daughter.

  19. 19The Cheap Detective

    The Cheap Detective (1978)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

  20. 20American Dreamer

    American Dreamer (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.

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