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10 Best Movies Like The Return

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

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#1
Fantozzi to the Rescue

Fantozzi to the Rescue

1990★ 6.1

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

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career....

#2
Fantozzi in Heaven

Fantozzi in Heaven

1993★ 5.8

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

One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in ...

#3
7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough

7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough

2006★ 5.5

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

Snow White asks the seven dwarfs for help, because if they don't manage to find out the name of a little boy (Rumpelstiltskin) within two days, her newborn child will be taken away...

#4
My Friends Act II

My Friends Act II

1982★ 7.6

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

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes...

#5
Manon of the Spring

Manon of the Spring

1986★ 7.6

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

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily...

#6
Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame

1958★ 7.0

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

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father...