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10 Best Movies Like How I Lost the War

If you loved How I Lost the War, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

1975★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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

#2
Accident Man

Accident Man

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him....

#3
Talcum Powder

Talcum Powder

1982★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nad...

#4
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War 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...

#5
Roaring Years

Roaring Years

1962★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War 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
I'm Back

I'm Back

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old and new, his firebrand rhetoric ...

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