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10 Best Movies Like Ratzinger is Back

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

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#1
I'm Back

I'm Back

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ratzinger is Back 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 ...

#2
The Audition

The Audition

2015★ 6.2

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

Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio must compete for the lead role in Martin Scorsese's next film....

#3
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ratzinger is Back 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...

#4
Welcome Mr. President!

Welcome Mr. President!

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ratzinger is Back 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. ...

#5
God Willing

God Willing

2015★ 6.5

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

The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest....

#6
Complexes

Complexes

1965★ 7.0

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

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avo...

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