Movies like Welcome to the South (2010)
The best movies like Welcome to the South (2010) are Cado dalle nubi (2009), Welcome to the North (2012) and Sun in Buckets (2013). If Welcome to the South hooked you with its comedy, 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 2,194 votes
- NewestThe Great Day (2022)Released 2022
- In ItalianCado dalle nubi (2009)Also in Italian
- Same seriesWelcome to the North (2012)Welcome to the...
Cado 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 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: Same series: Welcome to the... · 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 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 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 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 thisSotto una buona stella (2014)
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
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 thisNatale a Rio (2008)
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisMom or Dad? (2017)
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisEscort in Love (2011)
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Vacation 2000 (1999)
Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent the same chalet, will spend the Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWelcome Mr. President! (2013)
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisModalità aereo (2019)
Diego is a successful entrepreneur. Rich and not caring for the good of others, no scruples to belittle the next. His attitude turns against him when he forgets in his airport bathroom his latest-generation mobile phone with social profiles, contacts and credit cards.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPut Grandma in the Freezer (2018)
Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.
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 thisThe Worst Christmas of My Life (2012)
Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Great Day (2022)
In a large villa on Lake Como, everything is ready to celebrate Elio and Caterina's wedding. It will be the most beautiful day of their lives and also of their parents' lives, especially their respective fathers, Giacomo and Giovanni. Too bad that together with Margherita, Giovanni's ex-wife and mother of the bride, Aldo, her new partner, also arrives at the wedding. Friendly, outgoing and above all a total troublemaker. Giacomo and Giovanni try to contain him in every way, but under Aldo's blows, cracks open up from which a hidden malaise emerges, destined to call into question the friendship between Giovanni and Giacomo, their marriages and more. And that will force everyone to deal with their own doubts and with the courage it takes to allow themselves happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPoorly Rich (2016)
The Tuccis, a close-knit family of country bumpkins, become millionaires overnight. When word gets out, nagging neighbors and acquaintances force them to leave for the big city to start anew—and openly flaunt their newfound wealth. Soon they'll realize they ain't got the faintest idea how today's upper classes actually live.
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 thisA Son Named Erasmus (2020)
Four friends in their 40s find out a deceased old flame of theirs had a child, conceived with one of them during an Erasmus (EU student exchange program) in Portugal 20 years earlier. They embark on a journey in search of the offspring, while waiting for the DNA results to find out which one is the father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHave You Met Claudia? (2004)
Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who'll win her heart?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTutta colpa di Freud (2014)
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 thisTolo Tolo (2020)
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
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 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Welcome to the South?
The closest matches to Welcome to the South are Cado dalle nubi (2009), Welcome to the North (2012) and Sun in Buckets (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Welcome to the South?
People who watched Welcome to the South most often go on to Cado dalle nubi (2009), Sun in Buckets (2013) and Christmas Holidays (1983).
What is the highest-rated movie like Welcome to the South?
Three Men and a Leg (1997), rated 8.0/10 by 2,194 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Welcome to the South?
The Great Day (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Welcome to the South part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Welcome to the..., which includes Welcome to the North (2012).
Are there Italian movies like Welcome to the South?
Yes: Cado dalle nubi (2009), Welcome to the North (2012) and Sun in Buckets (2013).
How are movies similar to Welcome to the South chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Welcome to the South, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.