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The Italian (2002)
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Original name: L'italiano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
August 1991. As post-Communist Albania starts falling apart, Giorgio seeks refuge in Italy.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, crime drama, tension, melancholic
Plot:
love triangle, immigration, love and romance, love affair, relationship problems, problem, love story, love interest, survival, prison, escape, jealousy, human trafficking, organized crime, desperation, deportation, redemption, identity, moral ambiguity, revenge, mountain, prostitution, smuggling, fatherhood, guilt ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
italy, albania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and melancholic films with plots about love affair, love interest, love story, relationships, couple relations, love and romance and relationship problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Italian: The Mongrel (2012), Provenance (2017), Princess (2022), Between Men and the Gods (2017), The Temptation (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a ...
Style:
crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
fatherhood, drug dealing, immigration, father son relationship, social realism, street life, illegal drugs, moral ambiguity, poverty, urban decay, violence, survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A classical musician travels to the South of France to escape his demons and wait for his new love, a younger woman named Sophia. Trying to come to peace with his new life in these slow, peaceful surroundings, his seemingly chance meeting with ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, reflective ...
Plot:
classical music, love story, changing lives, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, love interest, love, relationship problems, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
29%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hozumi is a doctor and he is friends with manga artist Soeda. They both like Asako who works at a tropical fish shop. Hozumi eventually gives up Asako for his friend Soeda. Soeda and Asako decide to get married, but, after they get married, Soeda ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
love triangle, problem, love and romance, male female relationship, love affair, rich and poor, relationships, love story, relationship problems, love, love interest, jealousy ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Toni leads a normal life with his wife Paola but full of enthusiasm and passion. The chance meeting with the young and wealthy Chiara will rekindle in him the desire to redeem himself and to realize his secret dream: to become an artist. The paths ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
affair, lovers, love triangle, love story, problem, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, love affair, intrigue, couple relations, love interest ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
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Story:
Chien Ching-fen realizes that her life has become a dull routine because she can’t find another goal. The goals she set for herself — a house, a car, a son, and a good husband — have been achieved after enduring endless suffering. What will ...
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
jealousy, love triangle, rivalry, female rivalry, romantic relationship, relationships, love affair, problem, love story, relationship problems, love interest, love ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
retirement home, problem, relationships, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, actor's life, love interest, actor, couple relations, love affair, escape ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, romantic drama, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
love and romance, love triangle, love interest, love affair, relationship problems, love, female protagonist, couple relations, problem, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A young man tries to explain to his lover that her fiance is a crook. She refuses to believe him. Later, she realizes her mistake and comes back to him. But the man now loves another woman.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
relationships, love triangle, groom, misunderstanding, love and romance, troubled past, relationship problems, love interest, male female relationship, problem, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
24%
265
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sawako enjoys taking photos of older men and making scrapbooks with them. Although the men she has dated have always been older than her, she has been unable to speak well with her father and they have grown apart.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic ...
Plot:
self discovery, sexual awakening, problem, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, couple relations, love interest, love, relationship problems, love affair, love and romance ...
Similarity:
23%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
revenge, singer, relationships, in love, couple relations, love interest, love story, star crossed lovers, love affair, love and romance, female singer, obsessive love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The relationship between a gaana singer and his girlfriend goes topsy-turvy after they realise a shocking truth about their respective fathers.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
love, couple relations, problem, love triangle, father son relationship, family problems, relationships, love and romance, male female relationship, heartbreak, love interest, love story ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rouh is living in Boulak Al Dakrour, a poor neighborhood , when she bankrupt and broke she try to make a living by singing in a nightclubs , she starting to suffer from the people around her that are attracted by her beauty
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, foot fetish, singing, beauty, slum, poverty, love interest, money problems, love, female singer, male female relationship, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A love story between a Polish guestworker and a farmer's daughter in the strawberry fields of Sweden.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension ...
Plot:
love story, love, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love interest, workplace, family relations, fall in love, love affair, love and romance ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, intercultural ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, love triangle, identity crisis, friendship, identity, coming of age, love story, grownups, male female relationship, in love, adolescence vs adulthood, relationship problems ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, delhi
Similarity:
22%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
smuggling, social problems, smuggler, life is a bitch, gambler, family problems, money problems, human trafficking, desperation, illegal immigration, gambling addiction, social commentary ...
Place:
bahamas, caribbean, florida
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A woman invites her ex-lover, to spend 10 days with her and her husband to show that she is actually leading a happy life.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic, romantic drama
Plot:
ex couple relations, love triangle, romantic relationship, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, male female relationship, relationships, problem, love story, unrequited love, romantic triangle ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A love story between a husband and wife who got lost, and not just because of a betrayal.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, domestic drama, marriage, love story, love affair, couple relations, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Noémie (15 years old) has lived in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken back by her mother, Noémie runs away in search of meaning and freedom. She goes to join her friend Léa, a former member of the center, who ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, teenage girl, pimp, female protagonist, social issues, exploitation, sexploitation, underage, teen romance, teenager, relationship problems, tragic love ...
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
gay relationship, gay brother, breaking up with girlfriend, longing, passion, male female relationship, relationship problems, love story, love interest, broken heart, romantic relationship, looking for love ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Ghawre Bairey Aaj is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's novel 'Ghawre Bairey' (Home and the World) and is a contemporary retelling of love triangle involving Tagore's characters Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, love, adaptation, literary, love affair, love story, relationships, couple relations, problem, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, Bulgaria
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania. Clara has just ended a relationship and is about to lose her job at the ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, road movie
Plot:
relationships, migration, immigration, unemployment, love story, love affair, in love, fall in love, male female relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations ...
Place:
italy, romania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Raama Raavanan is a 2010 film based on the novel Manomi by Madhavikutty. It is directed by Biju Vattappara and produced by Rafi Mathira under the banner Ifar International. It stars Suresh Gopi, Mithra Kurian, Nedumudi Venu, Biju Menon, Sudheesh, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, poignant, intercultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
orphan, love, relationships, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, problem, love story, male female relationship, relationship problems, love interest, forbidden love ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A love story between a lonely bar owner and a young African immigrant working in his restaurant leads to scandal and violence in a small Italian town.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
violence, immigration, male female relationship, love story, relationships, small town life, love affair, couple relations, love interest, tragic love, employer employee relationship, relationship problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marta's surprise birthday party sets in motion a spiral of tragic events.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
wedding planning, relationship problems, love affair, love interest, relationships, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, male female relationship, love story, love triangle, romantic relationship, escalation ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Solange is a typical 13 year old, curious and full of life, with perhaps the peculiarity of being overly sentimental and adoring her parents. But when her parents begin to argue, fight and slowly drift apart, the threat of divorce looms near and ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
divorce, love, parent child relationship, family drama, family problems, love and romance, family relations, love interest, love affair, love story, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
20%
483
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship ...
Style:
thrilling
Plot:
male pubic hair, love affair, love and romance, relationships, female protagonist, couple relations, problem, writer's life, writers, love story, female writer, love interest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Over the course of a week-long beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim's new boyfriend.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, sensual, rom com
Plot:
love triangle, female friendship, love interest, problem, male female relationship, love story, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, couple relations, love affair, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
20%
436
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A brother attempts to get his younger brother married to the girl he loves by kidnapping her, but the plan goes so wrong and results in messy situations...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, tension ...
Plot:
kidnapping, family drama, brotherhood, relationships, male female relationship, love story, love affair, love interest, family disapproval, love and romance, brother brother relationship, couple relations ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men to put a roof over her head. But when she meets the guy of her dreams her secret threatens to ruin their perfect relationship.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
con artists, secret, homelessness, love affair, relationship problems, female protagonist, couple relations, love and romance, intrigue, love interest, male female relationship, relationships ...
Similarity:
19%
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