Movies like A Brighter Tomorrow: 20 to watch next
If you loved A Brighter Tomorrow (2023) — a comedy film directed by Nanni Moretti — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of A Brighter Tomorrow most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like melancholy, filmmaking and critical. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Boris: The Film 2011★ 6.9
Shares: Comedy
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ma che bella sorpresa 2015★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy
High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE teacher himself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Garibaldi's Lovers 2012★ 6.6
Shares: Comedy
A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.
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Fantozzi Against the Wind 1980★ 6.7
Shares: Comedy
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
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Ciao, Professore! 1992★ 7.2
Shares: 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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The Chaplin Revue 1959★ 7.4
Shares: Comedy
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
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Fantozzi Retires 1988★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.
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Real Life 1979★ 6.6
Shares: Comedy
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
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A Very Jonas Christmas Movie 2025★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy
Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Clowns 1970★ 6.8
Shares: Comedy
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
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Love & Slaps 2010★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved that the love affair of their teenage daughter Rose with another boy, Luke, is over, prepare to meet their daughter's new boyfriend. The problem is that the two adults, who still feel pretty young, do not know what to expect, and what they are about to discover will leave them speechless ...
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An Italian Name 2015★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen 1976★ 6.7
Shares: Comedy
An 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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Son of Rambow 2007★ 6.7
Shares: Comedy
Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.
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Thunderstruck 2012★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
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The Trouble with Angels 1966★ 6.7
Shares: Comedy
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
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If You Love Me 2019★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy
After a suicide attempt, depressed lawyer Diego decides to take up the mantle of good Samaritan by helping his loved ones fix the problems in their life, but ends up bringing only utter havoc.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2013★ 6.8
Shares: Comedy
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
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My Name Is Tanino 2003★ 6.3
Shares: 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. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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...Watch Out, We're Mad 2022★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy
Estranged, quarreling brothers Carezza and Sorriso have to put aside their differences to reclaim their father's beloved dune buggy from predatory real estate developer Torsillo, with the help of beautiful circus performer Miriam, whose family business is threatened by Torsillo's enforcers.
Stream in India on Netflix