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10 Best Movies Like How I Lost the War

If you loved How I Lost the War, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

1975★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood....

#2
Totòtruffa '62

Totòtruffa '62

1961★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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-natur...

#3
I due carabinieri

I due carabinieri

1984★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way....

#4
I'm Back

I'm Back

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War 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 ...

#5
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War 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...

#6
Piedipiatti

Piedipiatti

1991★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Lost the War for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his ...

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