15 Movies Like Fellini's Casanova

Loved Fellini's Casanova? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

The Holy Boy
#1

The Holy Boy

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

The Ape Woman
#2

The Ape Woman

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Monika
#3

Monika

Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Lola's Secret
#4

Lola's Secret

Young man has his dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she also has a secret that leads to trouble.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Malena
#5

Malena

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Once Upon a Time in America
#6

Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Fellini's Casanova.

Life Is Beautiful
#7

Life Is Beautiful

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
#8

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Fellini's Casanova.

Cinema Paradiso
#9

Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Once Upon a Time in the West
#10

Once Upon a Time in the West

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Playing with Love
#11

Playing with Love

Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both are growing up. Laura is falling in love with Fabrizio, while he displays a new sexual awareness of her masked by his malice. Things develop further when they meet Sylvia who, unlike the innocent Laura, is confident and assertive. Fabrizio develops a fascination with her, eventually bribing Laura to fetch her to the forest to join them in play.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

Caligula
#12

Caligula

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Fellini's Casanova.

Casino
#13

Casino

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Fellini's Casanova.

The Key
#14

The Key

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.

White Cannibal Queen
#15

White Cannibal Queen

A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Fellini's Casanova.