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Movies that feel like Johnny Stecchino (1991)

If you loved Johnny Stecchino, the closest films we have are The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013), Igby Goes Down (2002) and The Dinner Game (1998). All three share Johnny Stecchino's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

🍅 46% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Roberto Benigniwittyplayfulromantic

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🍅 60%7.1romance · comedy · crime

The same city underneath both: Sicily

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Johnny Stecchino does

While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.

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Igby Goes Down
2002 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 75%6.8comedy · drama

Common ground: falling in love

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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The Dinner Game
1998 · dir. Francis Veber
🍅 73%7.6comedy

Both are built on the same subject: fool

The difference: Missing the romance of Johnny Stecchino

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...

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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2001 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 100%7.4comedy · drama

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Johnny Stecchino does

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%7.6fantasy · comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: falling in love

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%7.2comedy · romance

Comedy built on romance, twice over

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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The In-Laws
1979 · dir. Arthur Hiller
🍅 89%7.3comedy · adventure

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.

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Dragons Forever
1988 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
🍅 67%7.1action · comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: gangster

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

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My Man Godfrey
1936 · dir. Gregory La Cava
🍅 97%7.9comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

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American Graffiti
1973 · dir. George Lucas
🍅 95%7.4comedy · drama

Both work the same romance

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

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Little White Lies
2010 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 41%7.1comedy · drama

The shared currency is wit

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.

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Mafioso
1962 · dir. Alberto Lattuada
🍅 96%7.6crime · drama · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sicilian mafia

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

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