Movies like The Man-Eater
If The Man-Eater's mix of italy, sicily, italy and sexuality stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Man-Eater's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Divorce Italian Style
1961 · Directed by Pietro Germi · 104 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: italy, sicily, italy · Also a Italian comedy
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and…
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It’s the Law
2017 · Directed by Salvatore Ficarra · 88 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: sicily, italy · Also a Italian comedy
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
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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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An American in Rome
1954 · Directed by Steno · 85 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
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A Brighter Tomorrow
2023 · Directed by Nanni Moretti · 96 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
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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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Boris: The Film
2011 · Directed by Giacomo Ciarrapico · 108 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
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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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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.
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Like a Cat on a Highway
2017 · Directed by Riccardo Milani · 99 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
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When Mom Is Away
2019 · Directed by Alessandro Genovesi · 95 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
A stressed-out mom takes off on a 10-day solo vacation, sending her family into chaos as the dad tries to take over the household duties.