Movies Like Aprile

If you liked Aprile (1998), a comedy movie directed by Nanni Moretti, 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
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
God Willing (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.
3
Whatsoeverly (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.
4
A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
★ 7/10Also comedy
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
5
Black Sheep (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets…
6
Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also 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…
7
Complexes (1965)
★ 7/10Also comedy
In 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…
8
Welcome Mr. President! (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
In 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…
9
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
Be Sick… It's Free (1968)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
11
He's Worse than Me (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a…
12
My Name Is Tanino (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also 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…
13
Bianco, rosso e Verdone (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Three very different Italians travel to their hometowns on election day: Pasquale, a Southern immigrant living in Munich, finds a country far removed from the one he left behind; Roman civil servant Furio's relentless…
14
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…
15
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas…
16
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.
17
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…
18
Fantozzi (1975)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
19
La matassa (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the…
20
What a Beautiful Day (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Checco, 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…