Movies Like Love in Progress
If you liked Love in Progress (1989), a comedy movie directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci, 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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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.
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Ho visto le stelle (2003)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyThe young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyAn anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the…
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Totòtruffa '62 (1961)
★ 7.6/10Also comedyAntonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their…
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Duplex (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyWhen a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
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He's Worse than Me (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyTwo 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…
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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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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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Feather (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyFerro and Cate, two kids trying to get to grips with an unplanned pregnancy, their families (rebellious Ferro’s hospitable, ‘normal’ family, and level-headed Cate’s unhinged, atypical one), exams at school, friends and…
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50 km/h (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyTwo brothers reunite at their father’s funeral after many years apart. Between bitterness from the past and forgotten affection they will embark on a trip onboard their motorbikes which they built when they were…
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Toto and the Women (1952)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyAntonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
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Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyErnesto 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…
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The New Monsters (1977)
★ 7/10Also comedyA collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a…
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Cado dalle nubi (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyAn aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.
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Serafino (1968)
★ 6/10Also comedySerafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
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Complexes (1965)
★ 7/10Also comedyIn 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…
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Roaring Years (1962)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyIn this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town…
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Fantozzi (1975)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyA good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
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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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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…