Movies like Nostalgia 2022
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Nostalgia (2022)
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
Style:
iconic
Plot:
mafia, italian mafia, life, motorcycle, female nudity, death, past, mother, beach, church, catacomb, photograph, city, catholic priest, camorra, death of mother, childhood friend, flashback, friend, mother son reunion, hometown, back in hometown, cigarette smoking, female full frontal nudity, catacombs
Time:
70s, 2010s
Place:
italy, naples italy, cairo egypt
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Most similar movies to Nostalgia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, beach, cigarette smoking, sex scene, nudity and death mostly in Drama, Crime and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Nostalgia: The Hidden Child (2021), The Hummingbird (2022), Small Body (2021), Creatura (2023), Diving (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, captivating, dramatic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
camorra, mafia, friends, adult child friendship, mafioso, child, friend, friendship, italian mafia, child in peril, music teacher, teaching ...
Place:
france, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
childhood love, platonic, telephone call, suicide, death of daughter, airplane, fencing, airplane crash, baby, female nudity, loss of daughter, tennis ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Slovenia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A 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.
Style:
breathtaking, weird
Plot:
journey, mountain village, miraculous event, birth, cave, mountain, death, priest, childbirth, pregnancy, catholic priest, female exploitation ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After moving in with her boyfriend, Mila becomes aware of her loss of desire.
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
female nudity, female exhibitionist, sexual repression, female sexuality, nightclub, teenage girl, sea, woman, phantom, nudity, beach, dancing ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
70%
643
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
Plot:
female nudity, husband wife relationship, existentialism, scuba diving, free diving, pregnancy, nudity, beach, husband wife conflict, nightmare, sex scene, radio ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the ...
Plot:
photographer, female protagonist, photograph, prison, photography, photojournalism, heroin, murder, hotel, newspaper, voice over narration, war photographer ...
Time:
90s, year 1980, year 1999, 80s, year 1993
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style:
serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, making love, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, rivalry, leadership, ransom, drug dealing, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. ...
Plot:
neighborhood, mother daughter relationship, urban, coming of age, helicopter, police arrest, little girl, painting, female protagonist, baby, arrest, police ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, naples italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have ...
Style:
road movie, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, transgender, teenager, lgbtq, feminism, death of mother, estranged father, rain, rainstorm, father daughter relationship, funeral, beach ...
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
chess, peasant, terrorism, mafia, death, funeral, family relations, hopes, farm, social worker, estrangement, family problems ...
Time:
year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, germany, southern italy ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the ...
Style:
inspirational, light, sincere, semi serious
Plot:
male objectification, seaside, military, sea, mother daughter relationship, mentor, female nudity, female soldier, women in the military, translator, sex scene, beach ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
53%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
coping, poisoning, thirtysomething life, life is a bitch, male female friendship, nudity, unfulfillment, sexual content, suicide, bare breasts, female nudity, beach ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, istanbul turkey, tijuana mexico, mexico, rome italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ...
Style:
psychological
Plot:
female nudity, psychiatric hospital, mental illness, womanizer, female pubic hair, mental disorder, cheating wife, bare breasts, mental institution, male female relationship, sex, adultery ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
italy, tuscany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy ...
Style:
social
Plot:
peace, motorcycle, drug, money, school, birthday, hiding, 18 year old, birthday party, hiding place, teenage girl, bag of money ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tommaso, a quiet, thoughtful child of five, lives in a world of his own, conversing daily with three imaginary friends. Seemingly loved by his parents, Tommaso senses that their affections are superficial and he yearns for something more. Golino ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
imagination, female nudity, boy, king, fire, robot, burned alive, alien, sex scene, young boy, older younger relationship, erotica ...
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy
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43%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Style:
mythical, captivating, psychological, crying
Plot:
high society, seaside, brother sister relationship, life, lifestyle, relationships, italian woman, female pubic hair, anthropology, professor, seductress, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1950, year 1982, year 1973, year 1968, year 1975 ...
Place:
italy, naples italy, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
lesbian interest, sexual harassment, female teacher, sexual desire, attraction, high school student, lesbian, photography, nudity, caress, private school, self doubt ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, small town, childhood, children, young girl, intergenerational friendship, coming of age, self discovery, female protagonist, slice of life, family drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
One Day in a Life is a 2008 Italian drama film directed by Stefano Tummolini. It entered the "Venice Days" section at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.
Style:
captivating, sincere, independent film
Plot:
friendship, beach, gay, society, life, social relations, lifestyle, relationships, rich and poor, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, nudity ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
41%
460
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
homecoming, integration, muslim, character study, back in hometown, life, changing lives, lifestyle change, ethical dilemma, neo fascism, moral ambiguity, introspection ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
italy, southern italy, naples italy
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
After a Vietnamese woman dies in a traffic accident in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
life, tragic past, getting home, troubled past, confronting the past, promiscuous past, haunted by the past, baby, church, religion, desire, uncle nephew relationship ...
Place:
vietnam, singapore, spain, asia, france ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
Style:
suspense, soap opera
Plot:
mother, on the road, friend, tragic event, drinking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, letter, airline, dog, death of mother, dying, boy ...
Place:
naples italy, milan italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
Style:
erotic
Plot:
teenage prostitution, prostitution, teenage girl, nudity, female pubic hair, family relations, friend, woman, female nudity, bare breasts, erotica, beach ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A photographer and her lover travel to Morocco for photo shoots. While traveling there she has erotic adventures with residents of the area. But she ends up having an affair with someone who ends up betraying her and she murders the man.
Style:
erotic, sensual
Plot:
gay sex, rough sex, wife leaves husband, female nudity, shot in the groin, making love, gays and lesbians, sex scene, female photographer, snake charmer, being followed, gay ...
Place:
morocco, italy
Similarity:
37%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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