Films like Europa '51
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conf...
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Red Desert
Film · 1964 · also dramaIn 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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Bellissima
Film · 1952 · also dramaFilm 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...
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Ride
Film · 2018 · also dramaA woman and her 10-year-old son face, in their own way, the mourning for the death of the husband and father, which took place in a factory, while the waiting and the rec...
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The Children's Train
Film · 2024 · also dramaIn late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
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Umberto D.
Film · 1952 · also dramaWhen elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire...
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Mia Madre
Film · 2015 · also dramaMargherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
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I, Daniel Blake
Film · 2016 · also dramaA 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal...
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Small Body
Film · 2022 · also dramaA young woman in early-1900s Italy searches for a mystical sanctuary where her stillborn child can be brought back to life long enough to be baptized.
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Second Best
Film · 1994 · also dramaThe difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
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Prayers for Bobby
Film · 2009 · also dramaBobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. S...
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