Movies like The School Teacher (1975)
The best movies like The School Teacher (1975) are Malicious (1973), Lovers and Other Relatives (1974) and The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980). If The School Teacher hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDivorce Italian Style (1961)7.9/10 from 561 votes
- NewestBad Apples (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianMalicious (1973)Also in Italian
Malicious (1973)
A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLovers and Other Relatives (1974)
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Marquis of Grillo (1981)
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 society, and even the Pope himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976)
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIl gatto mammone (1975)
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Spaghetti at Midnight (1981)
Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise party for Savino's birthday, and that day things start to get complicated. First Savino kills accidentally the mafia killer in charge to kill Celeste; second his lover Elvira arrives to the party with the judge... not to mention the police and the mafia Don...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDesirable Teacher (1981)
In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside the school walls, in the family or in the streets of the village where he lives, Peter is not far behind and his antics continue to freewheel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTo Be Twenty (1978)
Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find Nazariota's commune, a place to stay for free and have all the sex they want... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become involved in prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Highschool Girl Repeating Class (1978)
Angela is torn between two lovers - one, who tries to romance her in a straightforward manner, and the other who pretends to be severely injured in a car accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTotòtruffa '62 (1961)
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDesirable Teacher 2 (1982)
Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Libertine (1968)
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
College Girl on Vacation (1980)
Massimo Castaldi is a social climber married to Violante who comes from a rich family. His relationship with his mistress Laura is jeopardised when the family moves to their summer house on the Pugliese coast. Nevertheless, Massimo seems to find a solution. His raunchy daughter Sonia failed in Italian and he plans to present Laura as a nun who will give Sonia private lessons for her compensation exam. On the other hand, there are two dim-witted criminals, Terenzio and Fulgenzio, who are planning to abduct a Castaldi family member for good ransom money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
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 murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBe Sick… It's Free (1968)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSuper Fantozzi (1986)
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)
A nine-episode anthology film about love, sex, and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIntimate Confessions of Stella (1978)
Stela, a young schoolgirl, leaves boarding school to spend Christmas vacation with her mother in the old but sumptuous house that belonged to her paternal grandfather. When Stela arrives, she is surprised by another guest, her mother's current lover. The girl's erotic temperament soon becomes apparent, for despite her childish appearance, her reactions are eminently erotic, the result of the repression she is subjected to at the boarding school for young ladies where her mother keeps her during the year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)
Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThat Malicious Age (1975)
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrivolous Lola (1998)
In 1950s northern Italy, a woman tests her fiancé's love and passion by trying to break his commitment to premarital chastity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBetween Miracles (1971)
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUgly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
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 insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBad Apples (2026)
A struggling primary school teacher is forced to take drastic action because of a foul-mouthed, violent student, and uncovers how her community will turn a blind eye to the most outrageous events to preserve harmony and their sense of safety.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFist Fight (2017)
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPretty Persuasion (2005)
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEasy! (2011)
The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ritz (1976)
To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The School Teacher?
The closest matches to The School Teacher are Malicious (1973), Lovers and Other Relatives (1974) and The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The School Teacher?
People who watched The School Teacher most often go on to Malicious (1973), Lovers and Other Relatives (1974) and The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980).
What is the highest-rated movie like The School Teacher?
Divorce Italian Style (1961), rated 7.9/10 by 561 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The School Teacher?
Bad Apples (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like The School Teacher?
Yes: Malicious (1973), Lovers and Other Relatives (1974) and The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980).
How are movies similar to The School Teacher chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The School Teacher, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.