
10 Best Movies Like It Happened in Rome
If you loved It Happened in Rome, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Spider Baby
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened in Rome for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from th...

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened in Rome for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the t...

Joker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened in Rome for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

Julieta
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened in Rome for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madnes...

Shutter Island
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened in Rome for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Happened in Rome for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie indust...