Films like Mamma Roma
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant....
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The Unknown Woman
Film · 2006 · also dramaA Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid...
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Malena
Film · 2000 · also drama12-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...
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Bad Tales
Film · 2020 · also dramaIn a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it...
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My Own Private Idaho
Film · 1991 · also dramaIn this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two...
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Finally Dawn
Film · 2024 · also dramaA young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infi...
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Boys Cry
Film · 2018 · also dramaMirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occa...
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Pimp
Film · 2018 · also dramaAn urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to...
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The Hand of God
Film · 2021 · also dramaIn 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legen...
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Boys on the Outside
Film · 1990 · also dramaYoung men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Pale...
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Lorelei
Film · 2020 · also dramaA man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret an...
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