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10 Best Movies Like A Pure Formality

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

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#1
The Star Maker

The Star Maker

1995★ 7.1

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

The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome....

#2
Abbuzze! Der Badesalz-Film

Abbuzze! Der Badesalz-Film

1996★ 6.6

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

The film mainly consists of various, often grotesque episodes. There is also a frame story from which the episodes are derived. However, the connection between the frame story and ...

#3
No Problem

No Problem

2008★ 5.0

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

For Arturo, a forty-year-old actor, success has finally arrived: the TV series in which he plays a separated father is doing quite well. Unexpectedly, however, comes the flipside o...

#4
Casual Day

Casual Day

2007★ 5.0

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

Casual Day is a company practice imported from the USA. Every Friday the workers are asked to exchange their suits for more informal attire. Ruy has always lived as he liked. Thoug...

#5
La Voleuse

La Voleuse

1966★ 5.6

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

Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her....

#6
The Big Parade

The Big Parade

1925★ 7.5

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

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the ho...