Movies like The Marquis of Grillo: 20 to watch next

If you loved The Marquis of Grillo (1981) — a comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli — these 20 movies are the closest matches.

The first picks are what fans of The Marquis of Grillo most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.

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The Most Beautiful Day in the World 2019★ 6.0
Shares: Comedy
Arturo Meraviglia is a struggling impresario who has to take care of Gioele and Rebecca, two children "inherited" by an old uncle. When he realizes that little Gioele has superpowers, his luck changes.
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Welcome Back Mr. President 2019★ 5.8
Shares: Comedy
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must ﬁght against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
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I'm Back 2018★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy
Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old and new, his firebrand rhetoric wins him once again the hearts and minds of millions of Italians — who see him as a wacky reenactor who speaks inconvenient truths to power.
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Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill 2020★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy
Jerry Seinfeld takes the stage in New York and tackles talking vs. texting, bad buffets vs. so-called "great" restaurants and the magic of Pop Tarts.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Fun Is Beautiful 1980★ 7.1
Shares: 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 his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.
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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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The New Monsters 1977★ 7.0
Shares: 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 pornographic film, and a conniving husband.
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno 1984★ 6.9
Shares: Comedy
During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
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Complexes 1965★ 7.0
Shares: Comedy
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
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Class Rank 2017★ 6.9
Shares: Comedy
Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
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American Dreamer 2022★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
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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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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino 1962★ 6.5
Shares: Comedy
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
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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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Puerto Escondido 1992★ 6.7
Shares: Comedy
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
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Zoran: My Nephew the Idiot 2013★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy
Paolo, 40 years old, lives in a small Friulian town close to the north-eastern border. Unreliable and with a passion for good wine, he spends his days at the local tavern and stubbornly stalks his ex-wife.
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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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Welcome Mr. President! 2013★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
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Adventures in Public School 2018★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy
A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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A Girl in Australia 1971★ 6.7
Shares: Comedy
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
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