Movies like Movie Rush (1976)
The best movies like Movie Rush (1976) are Driver's Ed (2026), The Comics (1990) and Why Worry? (1923). If Movie Rush hooked you with its comedy, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Last One for the Road (2025)7.5/10 from 311 votes
- NewestLouis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianThe Comics (1990)Also in Italian
Driver's Ed (2026)
A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Comics (1990)
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisMy Name Is Tanino (2003)
During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Most Beautiful Day in the World (2019)
Arturo Meraviglia is a struggling impresario who has to take care of Gioele and Rebecca, two children "inherited" by an old uncle. When he realizes that little Gioele has superpowers, his luck changes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor on Call (2021)
65 year old doctor Pierfrancesco works as a night-shift medical guard. He’s a grumpy man, full of aches and pains and is very rough with his patients. One night, he’s involved in a road collision with 30 year old delivery man Mario. While uninjured, Mario's bicycle is destroyed, and Pierfrancesco's sciatica flares up, making it impossible for him to drive. With both of their jobs in jeopardy, the doctor has an idea that could help them both: “remotely guided” by Pierfrancesco via wireless headset, Mario will visit his patients, and they’ll also carry out Mario’s delivery in Pierfrancesco’s car. After a range of daring (mis)adventures, they will learn to support each other, and the night will end with their lives both changed for the better.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBoris: The Film (2011)
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMa che bella sorpresa (2015)
High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE teacher himself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisToo Much (1986)
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Best Enemy (2006)
When a neurotic hotel manager fires a maid for allegedly stealing a laptop, her son swears revenge and begins to expose his deepest secrets — only to regret it after falling for his daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015)
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last One for the Road (2025)
A couple of jovial life-long drunkards run into a shy architecture undergrad, whose way of seeing things will be transformed as the trio wanders from pub to pub in search of a buried treasure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeau Hunks (1931)
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThunderstruck (2012)
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like this2 Minutes of Fame (2020)
An up-and-coming stand-up comic moves to L.A. to pursue a film career after video clips of his act make him an online sensation.
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 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 thisHo visto le stelle (2003)
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Movie Rush?
The closest matches to Movie Rush are Driver's Ed (2026), The Comics (1990) and Why Worry? (1923). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Movie Rush?
Start with Driver's Ed (2026), the closest match to Movie Rush.
What is the highest-rated movie like Movie Rush?
The Last One for the Road (2025), rated 7.5/10 by 311 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Movie Rush?
Louis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Movie Rush?
Yes: The Comics (1990), My Name Is Tanino (2003) and The Most Beautiful Day in the World (2019).
How are movies similar to Movie Rush chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Movie Rush, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.