Movies Like Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

If you liked Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986), a comedy movie directed by Lina Wertmüller, 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
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
2
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…
3
Lions Love (1969)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
4
Confessions of a Lady Cop (1976)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome…
5
A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
6
Boris: The Film (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
7
An Italian Name (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s…
8
Totòtruffa '62 (1961)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
Antonio, 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…
9
Grand Hotel Excelsior (1982)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has…
10
The Widower (1959)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from…
11
The Monster (1994)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A 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…
12
Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Bepi, a gondolier with a girl in every port becomes entangled in too many romances. While Bepi is overly focused on a pair of gamine American tourists, fellow motor-boatman, Toni, threatens to steal away his childhood…
13
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.
14
Mr. Roosevelt (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
A young woman returns home and must confront her ex-boyfriend when an unexpected tragedy occurs.
15
Seriously Single (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
While her free-living bestie urges her to embrace singlehood, a commitment-craving social media expert can't stop following the life of a former love.
16
Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
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Adventures in Public School (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
18
My Best Enemy (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
When a neurotic hotel manager fires a maid for allegedly stealing a laptop, her son swears revenge and begins to expose his deepest secrets — only to regret it after falling for his daughter.
19
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.
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Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.