Movies like Elementary School
If Elementary School's comedy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Elementary School's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Marquis of Grillo
1981 · Directed by Mario Monicelli · 139 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Riccardo Billi · Also a Italian comedy
In 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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Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
1975 · Directed by Luciano Salce · 108 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
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The Second Tragic Fantozzi
1976 · Directed by Luciano Salce · 110 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
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Ciao, Professore!
1992 · Directed by Lina Wertmüller · 93 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
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Fun Is Beautiful
1980 · Directed by Carlo Verdone · 97 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian 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…
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The New Monsters
1977 · Directed by Dino Risi · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
A 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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Talcum Powder
1982 · Directed by Carlo Verdone · 97 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.
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Marilyn's Eyes
2021 · Directed by Simone Godano · 110 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions.
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On Our Watch
2021 · Directed by Pif · 108 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Arturo loses his tech job to an algorithm he created and ends up working as a delivery man, monitored by an unreasonably strict app. His only solace comes from Stella, a hologram-for-girlfriend whose free trial is…
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Too Much
1986 · Directed by Carlo Verdone · 110 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
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My Name Is Tanino
2003 · Directed by Paolo Virzì · 109 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background.