Movies like What Did Stalin Do to Women? (1969)
The best movies like What Did Stalin Do to Women? (1969) are Whatsoeverly (2011), The Great Dictator (1940) and Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976). If What Did Stalin Do to Women? 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 Great Dictator (1940)8.3/10 from 3,877 votes
- NewestLouis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianWhatsoeverly (2011)Also in Italian
Whatsoeverly (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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Great Dictator (1940)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGoodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDuck Soup (1933)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dictator (2012)
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoaring Years (1962)
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mouse That Roared (1959)
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMarch on Rome (1962)
March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Monsters (1963)
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhy Worry? (1923)
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeriously Single (2020)
While her free-living bestie urges her to embrace singlehood, a commitment-craving social media expert can't stop following the life of a former love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTotò, Peppino e le fanatiche (1958)
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon Camillo in Moscow (1965)
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Under House Arrest (2019)
A young insurance salesman takes advantage of the fact that a beautiful young woman he is attracted to is under house arrest, so cannot go anywhere to escape him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bed Sitting Room (1969)
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Onion Movie (2008)
Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "depression hits losers hardest". This compilation of bogus news stories, celebrity profiles, movie trailers and skits come courtesy of the ace satirists at The Onion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLouis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026)
From a bee getting shot in New York City to paying strangers to take his aging father, Louis C.K. unleashes the ridiculous thoughts in his mind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Cloned Tyrone (2023)
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBob Roberts (1992)
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBulworth (1998)
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackifier (2022)
Karen, an entitled white woman who's not fond of black faces, embarks on a journey inside an alternate TV universe where she experiences a taste of what it’s like to be Black in America.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPeruchazhi (2014)
Jagannathan, a political advisor, is hired to help John, a politician in California. He employs various shrewd tactics to help John's party win the elections.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Affair of State (2014)
The story is a funny love story between Anna Bremer, the Bundeskanzlerin of Germany and Guy Dupont, the President of France.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Soda Pop Spencer Storms Atlanta (2025)
When a naive online “soda influencer” is radicalized against the Coca-Cola Corporation by an AI misinformation video, he travels to Atlanta on January 6th to expose the conspiracy. He is joined by his friend/documentarian and a new cameraman hired off of Craigslist to film the journey. But what started as a righteous political cause turns into a nightmare of deceit, libations, and, ultimately, a horrific act of violence.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Dinosauritis (2020)
Four characters get stuck in a boarding house after the spread of a contagious disease.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Hroch (1973)
The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's teeth Bedrich is swallowed by the hippo. The man does not die in the hippo's guts and he chats quite happily with his frightened wife Dása. Journalist Pip Karen, his friend is also present to the dialogue and he has immediately an idea how to use this special situation. He tells to the new minister Borovec and his opponent professor Fibinger that there is a hippo in the zoo which can speak. He also tells them how to use this situation for a political propaganda.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Skattefria Andersson (1954)
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like What Did Stalin Do to Women??
The closest matches to What Did Stalin Do to Women? are Whatsoeverly (2011), The Great Dictator (1940) and Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after What Did Stalin Do to Women??
Start with Whatsoeverly (2011), the closest match to What Did Stalin Do to Women?.
What is the highest-rated movie like What Did Stalin Do to Women??
The Great Dictator (1940), rated 8.3/10 by 3,877 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like What Did Stalin Do to Women??
Louis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like What Did Stalin Do to Women??
Yes: Whatsoeverly (2011), Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) and Roaring Years (1962).
How are movies similar to What Did Stalin Do to Women? chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside What Did Stalin Do to Women?, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.