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10 Best Movies Like On the Dark Continent

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

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#1
The Grumpy

The Grumpy

1986★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Dark Continent for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, s...

#2
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Dark Continent 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...

#3
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

1966★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Dark Continent for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife fo...

#4
My Name Is Tanino

My Name Is Tanino

2003★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Dark Continent for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summ...

#5
Puff, Puff, Pass

Puff, Puff, Pass

2006★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Dark Continent for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big ...

#6
Brain Donors

Brain Donors

1992★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Dark Continent for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit th...

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