Movies Like Poveri ma belli

A Place of Our Own

2014

My Friends

1975

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

1975

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

Totòtruffa '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.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

The Monsters

1963

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

I Thought It Was Love

1991

Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.

Fun 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.

Allegro non troppo

1976

An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named 'Prisney,' he rallies an orchestra of geriatric women, a bullish conductor, and an animator that he keeps locked in the dungeon. What could go wrong?

The 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.

Café Express

1980

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

Be Sick… It's Free

1968

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

The Girl with a Pistol

1968

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

Boccaccio '70

1962

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Nati stanchi

2002

Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.

1987

2014

In 1987, Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...

Much Ado About Nothing

2013

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

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.