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10 Best Movies Like The Cheerful Squadron

If you loved The Cheerful Squadron, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cheerful Squadron for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....

#2
Tickets

Tickets

2005★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cheerful Squadron for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal...

#3
Ugly, Dirty and Bad

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

1976★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cheerful Squadron for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a c...

#4
Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

2023★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cheerful Squadron for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tea...

#5
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cheerful Squadron for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

#6
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cheerful Squadron for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends hi...

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