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Movies that feel like Mediterraneo (1991)

If you loved Mediterraneo, the closest films we have are To Be or Not to Be (1942), The General (1926) and The Postman (1994). All three share Mediterraneo's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gabriele Salvatoreswittyplayfulromantictenderbleak

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To Be or Not to Be
1942 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 96%8.1comedy · war · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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The General
1926 · dir. Clyde Bruckman
🍅 92%8.1comedy · war · romance

The same preoccupation in both: army

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

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The Postman
1994 · dir. Michael Radford
🍅 92%7.8comedy · drama · romance

One thread runs through both: island

The difference: None of the bleakness Mediterraneo is built on

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

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Battle for Sevastopol
2015 · dir. Sergey Mokritsky
7war · drama · romance

Common ground: world war ii

The difference: Not nearly as witty as Mediterraneo

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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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Strictly Ballroom
1992 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
7.2comedy · drama · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mediterraneo does

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003 · dir. Guel Arraes
7.6comedy · romance

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

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Say Anything...
1989 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 98%7.3romance · comedy · drama

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

Average student and eternal optimist Lloyd Dobler seeks to capture the heart of Diane Court, a beautiful but unattainable valedictorian classmate. He surprises just about everyone - including himself - when she returns the sentiment. However, Diane's divorced, over-protective father soon begins to disapprove of the match, and Lloyd realises that it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

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Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · dir. Andrzej Wajda
🍅 96%7.7drama · war · romance

Bleak war in both cases

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 · dir. Patrice Leconte
🍅 88%7.5drama · comedy · romance

Comedy built on romance, twice over

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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

Both lean on wit more than on war

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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