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10 Best Movies Like Elementary School

If you loved Elementary School, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elementary School for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French...

#2
Cado dalle nubi

Cado dalle nubi

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elementary School for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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....

#3
Ciao, Professore!

Ciao, Professore!

1992★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elementary School for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples...

#4
Totòtruffa '62

Totòtruffa '62

1961★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elementary School for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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-natur...

#5
Roaring Years

Roaring Years

1962★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elementary School for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fasc...

#6
Welcome Mr. President!

Welcome Mr. President!

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elementary School for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. ...

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