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.
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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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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyA 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…
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Ho visto le stelle (2003)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyThe young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
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Thus Spoke Bellavista (1984)
★ 7.9/10Also comedyIn 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)…
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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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Ma che bella sorpresa (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyHigh 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…
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Duck Soup (1933)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyRufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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The Marquis of Grillo (1981)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyIn 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…
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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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Adventures in Public School (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyA socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
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Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyTwo 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
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My Name Is Tanino (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyDuring 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…
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Too Much (1986)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyOscar 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.
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Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyHawaiian-shirt enthusiast Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias finds the laughs in racist gift baskets, Prius-driving cops and all-female taco trucks.
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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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Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyErnesto 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…
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My Best Enemy (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyWhen 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.
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyA 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.
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American Dreamer (2022)
★ 6/10Also comedyIn 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.