Movies like Nineties
If Nineties's comedy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Nineties's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Talcum Powder
1982 · Directed by Carlo Verdone · 97 min6.8
Why you'll like itWith Christian De Sica · Also 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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The Marquis of Grillo
1981 · Directed by Mario Monicelli · 139 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso 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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Bianco, rosso e Verdone
1981 · Directed by Carlo Verdone · 110 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Three very different Italians travel to their hometowns on election day: Pasquale, a Southern immigrant living in Munich, finds a country far removed from the one he left behind; Roman civil servant Furio's relentless…
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Don Camillo in Moscow
1965 · Directed by Luigi Comencini · 109 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
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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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Be Sick… It's Free
1968 · Directed by Luigi Zampa · 94 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
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The New Monsters
1977 · Directed by Mario Monicelli · 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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The Monster
1994 · Directed by Roberto Benigni · 112 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy · From the same decade (1990s)
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…
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Sun in Buckets
2013 · Directed by Gennaro Nunziante · 90 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
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La matassa
2009 · Directed by Valentino Picone · 98 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the…
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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · Directed by Gennaro Nunziante · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Checco, 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.