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Movies that feel like What a Beautiful Day (2011)

If you loved What a Beautiful Day, the closest films we have are Sun in Buckets (2013), Cado dalle nubi (2009) and The Invisible Woman (2009). All three share What a Beautiful Day's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. None of the picks below are on subscription streaming right now, so rental and purchase options are listed on each.

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...

6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gennaro Nunziantewittyplayful

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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Gennaro Nunziante working the same nerve twice

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.5comedy

The same hand behind both of them: Gennaro Nunziante

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.

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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
5.9comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.7comedy

Both lean on play more than on comedy

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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My Mom Is a Character
2013 · dir. André Pellenz
6.8comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
5.8comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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Till Luck Do Us Part
2012 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.5comedy

Comedy approached the same way

Check out the hilarious story of luck and misadventures of Tino, a family man whose life is transformed after he wins the lottery. Dazzled by wealth, this boaster spends all his money on a life of luxury and ostentation. But after finding out that he is bankrupt, he faces comical situations: besides not telling his wife he is broke because she is pregnant and cannot get upset, Tino must accept help from his neighbor who is an extremely thrifty financial adviser and the only one capable of getting him out of the rut.

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Welcome to the South
2010 · dir. Luca Miniero
6.6comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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Suck Me Shakespeer 2
2015 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
5.9comedy

Both are comedy through and through

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

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Welcome to the North
2012 · dir. Luca Miniero
5.4comedy

Comedy in the same key

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

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My Mom Is a Character 2
2016 · dir. César Rodrigues
6.6comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.

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