← Back to Review

10 Best Movies Like Padre Padrone

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

#1
Late Spring

Late Spring

1949★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Padre Padrone for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off ...

#2
Tenebre

Tenebre

1982★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Padre Padrone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel....

#3
Kings of the Road

Kings of the Road

1976★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Padre Padrone for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicid...

#4
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Padre Padrone for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishm...

#5
Band of Outsiders

Band of Outsiders

1964★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Padre Padrone for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at ...

#6
Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma

1962★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Padre Padrone for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable midd...