Movies like Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
The best movies like Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984) are Johnny Stecchino (1991), Sun in Buckets (2013) and My Friends Act II (1982). If Nothing Left to Do But Cry hooked you with its comedy and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThree Men and a Leg (1997)8.0/10 from 2,193 votes
- NewestMixed by Erry (2023)Released 2023
- In ItalianJohnny Stecchino (1991)Also in Italian
Johnny 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 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 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 thisFor Love and Gold (1966)
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
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 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 thisOrdinary Happiness (2019)
Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to use this newfound time on Earth to fix his mistakes as a father and husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
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 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 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 thisStork Day (2004)
Filippo is a star on the Italian TV. He works for a documentary series about wild animals and nature. He is sent to Tenerife (Spain) to shot an issue about the local stork. It is the 13th of August. After he did his job is time to leave, but the ferry couldn't operate. He has to spend the night in the island. The day after is again the 13th of August, and Filippo live again the same day for different times. Something has to change to exit the paranoid and unrealistic situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAladdin (1986)
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisChristmas Holidays (1983)
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisFantozzi in Heaven (1993)
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMarrakech Express (1989)
After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail him out.
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 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 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 thisFantozzi Still Suffers (1983)
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisCompagni di scuola (1988)
A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisPuerto Escondido (1992)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLike a Cat on a Highway 2 (2021)
Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
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 thisThe Voice of the Moon (1990)
Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlatfoot in Egypt (1980)
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMixed by Erry (2023)
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Nothing Left to Do But Cry?
The closest matches to Nothing Left to Do But Cry are Johnny Stecchino (1991), Sun in Buckets (2013) and My Friends Act II (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Nothing Left to Do But Cry?
People who watched Nothing Left to Do But Cry most often go on to Johnny Stecchino (1991), Sun in Buckets (2013) and My Friends Act II (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Nothing Left to Do But Cry?
Three Men and a Leg (1997), rated 8.0/10 by 2,193 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Nothing Left to Do But Cry?
Mixed by Erry (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Nothing Left to Do But Cry?
Yes: Johnny Stecchino (1991), Sun in Buckets (2013) and My Friends Act II (1982).
How are movies similar to Nothing Left to Do But Cry chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Nothing Left to Do But Cry, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.