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10 Best Movies Like The Mandrake

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

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#1
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 The Mandrake 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...

#2
Ciao, Professore!

Ciao, Professore!

1992★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mandrake 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...

#3
Fun Is Beautiful

Fun Is Beautiful

1980★ 7.1

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

Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism t...

#4
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mandrake 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
Lo smemorato di Collegno

Lo smemorato di Collegno

1962★ 6.7

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

A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home;...

#6
Be Sick… It's Free

Be Sick… It's Free

1968★ 7.1

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

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it....

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