Movies like Johnny Stecchino (1991)
The best movies like Johnny Stecchino (1991) are The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Baaria (2009) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000). If Johnny Stecchino hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMy Friends (1975)8.1/10 from 778 votes
- NewestWe Accept Miracles (2015)Released 2015
- In ItalianThe Seduction of Mimi (1972)Also in Italian
The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
Sicilian dockworker Mimi inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new employment. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organiser. Soon, Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaaria (2009)
In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAsk Me If I'm Happy (2000)
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI'm Starting from Three (1981)
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCiao, Professore! (1992)
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWelcome to the South (2010)
Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat a Beautiful Day (2011)
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. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSun in Buckets (2013)
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBomber (1982)
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFantozzi Retires (1988)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCado dalle nubi (2009)
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Friends Act II (1982)
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThat's Life (1998)
While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSorry for the Delay (1983)
Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
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 thisThe Monster (1994)
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 always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisMy Friends (1975)
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThree Men and a Leg (1997)
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisWe Accept Miracles (2015)
Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Friends Act III (1985)
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon Camillo (1984)
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEven Angels Eat Beans (1973)
Two mismatched buddies are mistaken for mob enforcers in Depression-era America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFantozzi to the Rescue (1990)
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStubborn Fate (1992)
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisThe 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Johnny Stecchino?
The closest matches to Johnny Stecchino are The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Baaria (2009) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Johnny Stecchino?
People who watched Johnny Stecchino most often go on to The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Baaria (2009) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like Johnny Stecchino?
My Friends (1975), rated 8.1/10 by 778 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Johnny Stecchino?
We Accept Miracles (2015) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Johnny Stecchino?
Yes: The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Baaria (2009) and Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000).
How are movies similar to Johnny Stecchino chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Johnny Stecchino, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.