Movies Like The Amusements of Private Life
If you liked The Amusements of Private Life (1990), a comedy movie directed by Cristina Comencini, 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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Pretty Persuasion (2005)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyA 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
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Long Live the Seal (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyAndrea, a nice girl, move from Veneto (north of Italy) to Roma. She is employed as a nurse in a medical practice. She soon is involved in a never-ending game of misunderstanding, couples exchange, sexual seductions.
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Ladies First (2026)
★ 6/10Also comedyAn arrogant but charismatic ladies' man finds his life of money, power and casual flings upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.
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City of Women (1980)
★ 7/10Also comedyThe charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz…
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The Monster (1994)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is…
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The Last One for the Road (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also comedyA couple of jovial life-long drunkards run into a shy architecture undergrad, whose way of seeing things will be transformed as the trio wanders from pub to pub in search of a buried treasure.
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Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyAfter 20 years in space, Rocko returns to a technologically advanced O-Town and makes it his mission to get his favorite show back on the air.
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Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyHendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
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Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyThree characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into…
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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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Driver's Ed (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA 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.
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Stark Raving Mad (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyA crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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Clear History (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyNathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
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The Willoughbys (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyWhen the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyTwo young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
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Hard to Die (1990)
★ 6/10Also comedyWhile doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyA collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and…
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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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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyMary 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…
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Babes (2024)
★ 6/10Also comedyAfter getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.