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Movies Like Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti

If you liked Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1960), a comedy and music movie directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, 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. 1School Dance

    School Dance (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and music

    High schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, Jason might have a shot. But before he…

  2. 2Krush Groove

    Krush Groove (1985)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more…

  3. 3The House of Tomorrow

    The House of Tomorrow (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy

    The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.

  4. 4On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian…

  5. 5Grace of My Heart

    Grace of My Heart (1996)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York City to make it big. Though she flops as a recording artist…

  6. 6Dying

    Dying (2024)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and comedy

    Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.

  7. 7CQ

    CQ (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…

  8. 8About Alex

    About Alex (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to…

  9. 9Almost Friends

    Almost Friends (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become…

  10. 10Breaking News in Yuba County

    Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes…

  11. 11Class Act

    Class Act (1992)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought…

  12. 1210,000 Saints

    10,000 Saints (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the…

  13. 13Small Apartments

    Small Apartments (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters…

  14. 14A Futile and Stupid Gesture

    A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.

  15. 15The Perfect Secret

    The Perfect Secret (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to…

  16. 16Treasure

    Treasure (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedy

    A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

  17. 17The Legend of Barney Thomson

    The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of…

  18. 18Family Weekend

    Family Weekend (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

  19. 19Landline

    Landline (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

  20. 20Coda

    Coda (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also music and drama

    A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.

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