Movies like Complexes

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   A Girl in Australia

   Shared cast

   1971 · 107 min · Comedy

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   The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

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   • principal cast overlap

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   Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses

   Same director

   1968 · 104 min · Comedy

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   When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Widower

   Same director

   1959 · 87 min · Comedy

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   Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   A Difficult Life

   Same director

   1961 · 118 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • principal cast overlap

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   Totòtruffa '62

   Strong story similarity

   1961 · 102 min · Comedy

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   Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Roaring Years

   Shared cast

   1962 · 106 min · Comedy

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   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 fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

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   • a principal cast member

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   Sex Can Be Difficult

   Shared cast

   1962 · 115 min · Comedy

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   A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   • a principal cast member

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   In the Name of the Italian People

   Same director

   1971 · 99 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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   An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • a principal cast member

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   Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

   Strong story similarity

   1958 · 85 min · Comedy

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   A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.

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    Normal Young Man

    Same director

    1969 · 88 min · Comedy

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    Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy. The husband is an older and worldly professor of archaeology while his wife is interested in exploring living things. The young hitchhiker is seduced by the beautiful wife, while her husband continues to gaze at ancient ruins.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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