Best movies like Fun Is Beautiful
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies related to Fun Is Beautiful? Contribute your knowledge to help others to tv series and movies you've already watched that might appeal to them too. Facilitate broadening the circle of people putting forward videos expertise one another. We encourage your involvement!
Plot Summary:
Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meets a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology
Best tv shows and movies like Fun Is Beautiful (1980):
Similar in 82%
Maid, Thief and Guard (1958)
Plot Summary:
Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
Me and My Sister (1987)
Plot Summary:
Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Silvia's child whom she left in a Hungarian children's home, but she soon abandons Carlo and the baby when she takes up with a British rock star.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
The Big Fox (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
Similar in 80%
Journey with Papa (1982)
Plot Summary:
Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
Similar in 76%
Countersex (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of sex themed stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
Similar in 88%
Mutande Pazze (1992)
Plot Summary:
Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business. The translation of the Italian title is "Mad Underpants".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
Plot Summary:
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
Soap and Water (1983)
Plot Summary:
La madre-manager di una giovanissima modella americana cerca un precettore per la figlia che deve lavorare per tre mesi a Roma. Le viene suggerito il nome di padre Spinetti, un sacerdote che insegna in un istituto femminile, ma la telefonata per l'incarico la intercetta Rolando, bidello laureato in cerca di fortuna. Rolando si presenta alla donna vestito da prete e viene assunto, la ragazza però non tarda a rendersi conto che l'impacciato professore non è un vero sacerdote e se ne innamora. Una commedia comico-sentimentale con un irresistibile Carlo Verdone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
The Two Cops (1984)
Plot Summary:
Episodic comedy drama about two recruits who join Italy's carabinieri, become friends and work together on several cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 90%
A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
Plot Summary:
A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexy
Similar in 86%
The Queens (1966)
Plot Summary:
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, italian comedy
Similar in 87%
Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes, three funny couples and many great italians actors.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
Similar in 85%
I'm Photogenic (1980)
Plot Summary:
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
Similar in 84%
Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
Plot Summary:
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 83%
All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
Plot Summary:
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
Similar in 89%
My Friends: How It All Began (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology
Similar in 78%
What Fault Is It of Ours? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
Similar in 81%
Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Plot Summary:
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
Similar in 81%
The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
Plot Summary:
This Italian political satire from filmmaker Lina Wertmuller will be most enjoyable for those well-grounded in Italian politics. Covering the late March through April general elections of 1994 in which right-wing conservatives routed the incumbent leftists. This is particularly upsetting for Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism. Fearing that his party is about to lose, he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. Their debate is fiery as is his growing and impossible-to-disguise passion for her. She too is intrigued with him, but their disparate ideologies threaten to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
Plot Summary:
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Similar in 86%
I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
Plot Summary:
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, surreal, independent film
Similar in 89%
Great! (1986)
Plot Summary:
Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 89%
The New Monsters (1977)
Plot Summary:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
Similar in 87%
A Chinese in a Coma (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tale about a talent agent with a talentless client roster. Ercole Preziosi (Verdone) represents middling girl groups, bad magicians, and even worse comics. When a grizzly traffic accident leaves his star comedian client bed-ridden, he turns to his young plucky driver to do stand-up duty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, not serious
Similar in 76%
Sotto una buona stella (2014)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
The Big Score (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino is a shabby “investigator” who chases cats escaped from their homes. When Arturo and Yuri cross paths, Yuri is under the mistaken impression that Arturo is a consummate professional. He contracts Arturo to follow his ex-wife in order to find proof of her infidelity. But when he accidentally comes into the possession of a mysterious suitcase containing 1 million Euro, a series of hilarious troubles and daring adventures will result in an unpredictable finale….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
Similar in 80%
Blessed Madness (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man dedicated to religion and very faithful husband suddenly finds himself single. The new shop assistant in his shop will overwhelm his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, happy
Similar in 82%
My best enemy (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a man fires a hotel maid for stealing, the woman's son gets his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 80%
Me, Them And Lara (2009)
Plot Summary:
A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining