Movies like Welcome Mr. President! (2013)
The best movies like Welcome Mr. President! (2013) are Welcome Back Mr. President (2019), Whatsoeverly (2011) and Ciao, Professore! (1992). If Welcome Mr. President! hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Marquis of Grillo (1981)7.8/10 from 508 votes
- NewestI Am the End of the World (2025)Released 2025
- In ItalianWelcome Back Mr. President (2019)Also in Italian
- Same seriesWelcome Back Mr. President (2019)Benvenuto Presidente - Collezione
Welcome Back Mr. President (2019)
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.
Why it matches: Same series: Benvenuto Presidente - Collezione · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhatsoeverly (2011)
Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 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 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 thisLong Live Freedom (2013)
Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal, the upper echelons of the party concoct a risky plan: to replace him with his identical twin, a philosopher with BPD, whose eclectic ideas and direct approach unexpectedly make the party surge in the polls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWelcome to the North (2012)
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDifferent from Whom? (2009)
Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisI'm Back (2018)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 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 thisFantozzi The Return (1996)
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisJohnny Stecchino (1991)
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like this7 and 8 (2007)
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmicidio all'italiana (2017)
To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReality (2012)
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Fellow Americans (1996)
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDave (1993)
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAprile (1998)
Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a rematch against Berlusconi.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa matassa (2009)
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhere Am I Going? (2016)
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am the End of the World (2025)
Forced to come back to Palermo to take care of his elderly parents, a deadpan driver-for-hire takes advantage of the situation to get back at the rigid authority figures who ruined his teenage years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisThere's No Place Like Home (2018)
An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFun Is Beautiful (1980)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFantozzi (1975)
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Welcome Mr. President!?
The closest matches to Welcome Mr. President! are Welcome Back Mr. President (2019), Whatsoeverly (2011) and Ciao, Professore! (1992). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Welcome Mr. President!?
People who watched Welcome Mr. President! most often go on to Whatsoeverly (2011), Ciao, Professore! (1992) and Welcome to the South (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Welcome Mr. President!?
The Marquis of Grillo (1981), rated 7.8/10 by 508 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Welcome Mr. President!?
I Am the End of the World (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Welcome Mr. President! part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Benvenuto Presidente - Collezione, which includes Welcome Back Mr. President (2019).
Are there Italian movies like Welcome Mr. President!?
Yes: Welcome Back Mr. President (2019), Whatsoeverly (2011) and Ciao, Professore! (1992).
How are movies similar to Welcome Mr. President! chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Welcome Mr. President!, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.