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Movies Like The Little Professor

If you liked The Little Professor (1958), a comedy movie directed by Carlo Rim, 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. 1It Boy

    It Boy (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he…

  2. 2The Speech

    The Speech (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb…

  3. 3Themroc

    Themroc (1973)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and…

  4. 4Me, Myself and Mum

    Me, Myself and Mum (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the…

  5. 5Le Clan

    Le Clan (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Fred, Achille, Max and Belette form a good-for-nothing gang of crooks. Dismally failing their last raid, they decide to get back in the game, kidnapping Sophie Marceau.

  6. 6Daddy Cool

    Daddy Cool (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Adrien, 40 years old and totally immature, is dumped by Maude, 35 years old, eager to finally found a family. In an attempt to regain the love of his life, Adrien decides to move into the future ex-married apartment: a…

  7. 7No Filter

    No Filter (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But…

  8. 8The American Dream

    The American Dream (2026)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    No one would have bet on Jérémy, stuck behind the counter of a video store, or on Bouna, who cleans airports. With no money, no connections, and painfully poor English, who could have predicted they’d one day become…

  9. 9Comédie-Française

    Comédie-Française (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    At the Comédie-Française, there is one golden rule: the play is never canceled. Unfortunately for Nina, everything else is—just three hours before the premiere of her first staging. An actor is stuck on a train…

  10. 10Dead Tired

    Dead Tired (1994)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to…

  11. 11LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour

    LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure. And to make…

  12. 12Heartbeat

    Heartbeat (1938)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.

  13. 13Driver's Ed

    Driver's Ed (2026)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.

  14. 14The Nannies

    The Nannies (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Paris, hired by Hélène, the single mom…

  15. 15Alter Ego

    Alter Ego (2026)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    A quiet, middle-aged man spirals into obsession and paranoia when a charismatic look-alike moves in next door, featuring the exact same face—and a full head of hair.

  16. 16Papi Sitter

    Papi Sitter (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Franck and Karine are offered a job on a cruise ship they can’t refuse. The only problem: their daughter Camille has to study for her finals but has other ideas of fun in mind instead… No problem! To straighten his…

  17. 17My Dog Stupid

    My Dog Stupid (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to…

  18. 18Gabriel 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.

  19. 19The Small Victories

    The Small Victories (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life…

  20. 20John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City

    John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy

    John Mulaney relays stories from his childhood and "SNL," eviscerates the value of college and laments getting older in this electric comedy special.

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