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Movies like Complexes

If Complexes hooked you with its comedy, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.

  1. Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)

    Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

  2. 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

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  3. Confessions of a Lady Cop (1976)

    Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  4. The 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

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  5. Ho 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

  6. What 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  7. The 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

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  8. The New Monsters (1977)

    A collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a pornographic film, and a conniving husband.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  9. A Girl in Australia (1971)

    The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  10. Super 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  11. Fantozzi Against the Wind (1980)

    The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  12. 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  13. Grand 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

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  14. Fantozzi 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  15. He's Worse than Me (1985)

    Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a crisis ...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  16. Bagnomaria (1999)

    In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria".

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

  17. Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970)

    Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  18. Don't Stop Me Now (2019)

    Paola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  19. Ma 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

  20. Welcome 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Complexes?

The closest matches to Complexes are Ignorance Is Bliss, Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen, Confessions of a Lady Cop.

How are movies similar to Complexes chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Complexes, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

Are there Italian movies like Complexes?

Yes: Ignorance Is Bliss, Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen, Confessions of a Lady Cop.

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