Movies like Why
If Why's mix of prison, bureaucracy and italian stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Why's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Be Sick… It's Free
1968 · Directed by Luigi Zampa · 94 min7.0
Why you'll like itWith Alberto Sordi · Also 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 Dino Risi · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itWith Alberto Sordi · Also a Italian comedy · From the same decade (1970s)
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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Life Is Beautiful
1997 · Directed by Roberto Benigni · 116 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp…
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974 · Directed by Ettore Scola · 125 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama · From the same decade (1970s)
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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On My Skin
2018 · Directed by Alessio Cremonini · 100 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention.
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Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
1975 · Directed by Luciano Salce · 108 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy · From the same decade (1970s)
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
1971 · Directed by Giuliano Montaldo · 125 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama · From the same decade (1970s)
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad
1976 · Directed by Ettore Scola · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy · From the same decade (1970s)
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the…
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Sing Sing
2024 · Directed by Greg Kwedar · 107 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
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Roma
1972 · Directed by Federico Fellini · 120 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy · From the same decade (1970s)
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
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We Can Do That
2008 · Directed by Giulio Manfredonia · 111 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian comedy
The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many…
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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