Movies like Cinema Paradiso
If Cinema Paradiso's mix of parent child relationship, sicily, italy and movie business stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Cinema Paradiso's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Fireworks
2023 · Directed by Giuseppe Fiorello · 134 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: sicily, italy, coming of age · Also a Italian drama
The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudicial Sicily of 1982.
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Happy as Lazzaro
2018 · Directed by Alice Rohrwacher · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: magic realism, nostalgic · Also a Italian drama
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, flashback
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
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Perfect Strangers
2016 · Directed by Paolo Genovese · 97 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
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Bellissima
1952 · Directed by Luchino Visconti · 115 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star.
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The Fabelmans
2022 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 151 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him…
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Red Desert
1964 · Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni · 117 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
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The Goddess of Fortune
2019 · Directed by Ferzan Özpetek · 114 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis.
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A Royal Winter
2017 · Directed by Ernie Barbarash · 83 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: nostalgic
While on a last-minute European holiday, a young woman finds herself in the middle of a real-life fairy tale when a chance meeting with a handsome local leads to something more.
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Vermiglio
2024 · Directed by Maura Delpero · 119 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
In the last days of the Second World War, a deserting soldier disrupts a tranquil and isolated mountain community. For one family, his arrival brings excitement and romance, but tragedy lies in wait.
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Caught by a Wave
2021 · Directed by Massimiliano Camaiti · 99 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.
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Euphoria
2018 · Directed by Valeria Golino · 109 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from.