Movies like The Monster

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   Johnny Stecchino

   Same director

   1991 · 115 min · Comedy

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   Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • several principal cast members

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   P.O. Box Tinto Brass

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 81 min · Comedy

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   A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans seeking his advice on how to spice up their sex lives. Thanks to his years of experience in both the film business and the sex industry, he has all sorts of tips at the ready and, in an emergency, is happy to make a house call himself to demonstrate his qualities in person.

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

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   La fame e la sete

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 90 min · Comedy

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   Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Too Much

   Similar atmosphere

   1986 · 110 min · Comedy

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   Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   My Name Is Tanino

   Strong story similarity

   2003 · 109 min · Comedy

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   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 summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Journey with Papa

   Strong story similarity

   1982 · 108 min · Comedy

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   Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   Bianca

   Strong story similarity

   1984 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama · Mystery

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   Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work. When Bianca, a new teacher at the local high school, enters his life, Michele finds himself falling in love. At the same time, a string of murders rocks the neighborhood, casting suspicion on him.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   L'amore è eterno finché dura

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 108 min · Comedy

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   Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.

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   Boys on the Outside

   Strong story similarity

   1990 · 110 min · Drama

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   Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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    The Doctor Prefers Sailors

    Strong story similarity

    1981 · 80 min · Comedy

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    A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more...

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