Movies like Santa Maradona (2001)
The best movies like Santa Maradona (2001) are Days and Clouds (2007), The Last Kiss (2001) and His Secret Life (2001). If Santa Maradona hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Best of Youth (2003)8.0/10 from 625 votes
- NewestBreaking Up in Rome (2021)Released 2021
- In ItalianDays and Clouds (2007)Also in Italian
Days and Clouds (2007)
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Kiss (2001)
Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHis Secret Life (2001)
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEvery Blessed Day (2012)
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoose Cannons (2010)
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDrifters (2011)
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRemember Me, My Love (2003)
A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage—does what she does best to appear on TV.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Postman (1994)
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe First Beautiful Thing (2010)
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ages of Love (2011)
In Italy, three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man falls in love with his friend's daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Manual of Love (2005)
Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCaterina in the Big City (2003)
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Years (2020)
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreaking Up in Rome (2021)
Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for advice on how to break up with her man: it is none other than Zoe, his partner of ten years, unaware of his pseudonymous side job. Tommaso can't believe his eyes and answers her in private to learn more.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Love You in All Languages of the World (2005)
A divorced high school PE teacher falls in love with a single mom before learning that her daughter is the student who's been hitting on him between classes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBread and Tulips (2000)
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBarcelona (1994)
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Street in Palermo (2013)
Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn than the ferocity of the men who surround them. For, as in every duel, it is a question of life or death... It’s a Sunday afternoon. The sirocco is blowing pitilessly in Palermo when Rosa and Clara lose their way in the streets of the city and end up in a sort of alley: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same moment, another car driven by Samira, crammed with members of the Calafiore family, arrives from the opposite direction and enters the same street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The Night Before the Exams (2006)
Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFacing Windows (2003)
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCheeky (2000)
While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets a real estate agent by the name of Moira.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Whole Life Ahead (2008)
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Steps Over Heaven (2004)
A bad boy and a socialite girl hook-up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisOne Man Up (2001)
Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiranda (1985)
In 1950s Ferrara, a lonely innkeeper explores a series of relationships while awaiting her missing husband’s return from war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Best of Youth (2003)
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Second Wife (1998)
In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
A Magnificent Haunting (2012)
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL.A. Without a Map (1999)
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHe Said, She Said (1991)
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Santa Maradona?
The closest matches to Santa Maradona are Days and Clouds (2007), The Last Kiss (2001) and His Secret Life (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Santa Maradona?
People who watched Santa Maradona most often go on to Days and Clouds (2007), The Last Kiss (2001) and His Secret Life (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like Santa Maradona?
The Best of Youth (2003), rated 8.0/10 by 625 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Santa Maradona?
Breaking Up in Rome (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Santa Maradona?
Yes: Days and Clouds (2007), The Last Kiss (2001) and His Secret Life (2001).
How are movies similar to Santa Maradona chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Santa Maradona, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.