Movies Like You're on Your Own
If you liked You're on Your Own (1959), a comedy movie directed by Mauro Bolognini, 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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Ci hai rotto papà (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyKids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
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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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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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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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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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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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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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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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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
★ 6/10Also comedyCristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
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St. Vincent (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyA young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
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What a Beautiful Day (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyChecco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that…
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Put Grandma in the Freezer (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also comedySimone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to…
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyThe 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.
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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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Thus Spoke Bellavista (1984)
★ 7.9/10Also comedyIn Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends)…
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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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29th Street (1991)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyAfter winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.
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Married to the Mob (1988)
★ 6/10Also comedyAngela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and…
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Don't Stop Me Now (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyPaola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyA petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.