Movies like Tutto suo padre (1978)
The best movies like Tutto suo padre (1978) are Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976), A Night in Casablanca (1946) and An Italian Name (2015). If Tutto suo padre 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
- NewestA Beautiful Day (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianGoodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)Also in Italian
Goodnight, 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 thisA Night in Casablanca (1946)
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Italian Name (2015)
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.
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 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 thisCi hai rotto papà (1993)
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
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 Monk of Monza (1963)
Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Trouble with Angels (1966)
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisTotò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962)
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrand Hotel Excelsior (1982)
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter the Ball (2015)
After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department her godmother's vintage clothes and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company -- and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Beautiful Day (2026)
Tommaso, a single father of four, has shut himself off from the world. When his daughters push him to start over, he meets Lara — a brilliant, captivating woman. But both carry secrets that could change everything.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTotòtruffa '62 (1961)
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAccident Man (2018)
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nasty Girl (1990)
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEverything Is Illuminated (2005)
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Blues Brothers (1980)
Just released from prison, Jake Blues puts his old band back together with his brother Elwood to save the Catholic home where they were raised.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTo Be or Not to Be (1983)
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
In 1967, OSS 117 is sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a bigger international intrigue.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOperation Luchador (2021)
At the dawn of the Second World War, Nazism was extending its grip over South America. The Golden Angel, a Mexican masked wrestler, was recruited by the Americans in order to flush out the spies of the Third Reich and put a stop to their nefarious schemes. The Golden Angel’s assignments, still classified Top Secret and therefore absent from the history books, even brought him to a pivotal confrontation with Hitler himself. Inspired by the spirit of classic mockumentaries such as Woody Allen’s ZELIG and Peter Jackson’s FORGOTTEN SILVER, the film takes viewers on a unique version of the fight against the Third Reich, joyfully erasing the border between fiction and reality for the viewers who, taken on this unique ride, can’t help but ask: did this really happen?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Pandemonium (1987)
Azaria Chamberlain was not killed by a dingo but saved and raised by said dingos. She is raised in an incestuous dingo environment and travels back to Sydney transformed as the second coming... a new messiah for a new age.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Yoga Hosers (2016)
Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Producers (1968)
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tutto suo padre?
The closest matches to Tutto suo padre are Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976), A Night in Casablanca (1946) and An Italian Name (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tutto suo padre?
Start with Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976), the closest match to Tutto suo padre.
What is the highest-rated movie like Tutto suo padre?
The Marquis of Grillo (1981), rated 7.8/10 by 508 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tutto suo padre?
A Beautiful Day (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Tutto suo padre?
Yes: Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976), An Italian Name (2015) and The Marquis of Grillo (1981).
How are movies similar to Tutto suo padre chosen?
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