Movies Like Welcome to the South

If you liked Welcome to the South (2010), a comedy movie directed by Luca Miniero, 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
Beat the Devil (1953)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
2
Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Three 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…
3
The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics…
4
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and…
5
The Band of Honest Men (1956)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the…
6
Ho visto le stelle (2003)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
7
They Called Him Bulldozer (1978)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a…
8
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.
9
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.
10
Duplex (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
11
Daddy Day Care (2003)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
12
Liar Liar (1997)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
13
Buen Camino (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Checco's life is a comfortable and luxurious one, and it couldn't be otherwise, considering he's the only son of Eugenio Zalone, a wealthy sofa manufacturer. Stranded by the pool in his luxurious villas, with an…
14
Ciao, Professore! (1992)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
15
Sons of the Desert (1933)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
16
Klaus (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy
A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.
17
Bagnomaria (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of…
18
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
A 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…
19
Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also 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…
20
Three Men and a Leg (1997)
★ 8/10Also comedy
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married…