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Like the Wind (2013)
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Original name: Come il vento
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, non-linear
Plot:
prison, prison life, fighting crime, feminism, life is a bitch, society, fish out of water, government facility, price of justice, life sentence, government official, prison guard, trial, murder, rapist, confined, strong female presence, power relations, nudity, biopic, dog, mafia, mountain, italian mafia, pregnancy ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 2000s, 1990s
Place:
italy, europe, palermo italy
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Most similar movies to Like the Wind
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sincere films with plots about prison, murder, biopic, prison life, true crime, confined and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Like the Wind: Angel of Evil (2010), Fort Apache Napoli (2009), Longford (2006), One Hundred Steps (2000), Guilty (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
bank robber, criminal, kidnapping, murder, gangster, romancing a criminal, confined, gang, master criminal, prison, bandit, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, tense, gloomy
Plot:
journalism, idealism, mafia, uncover truth, investigation, italian gangster, danger, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, gangster, italian mafia ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Style:
realistic, serious, talky, tense, political ...
Plot:
prison, serial killer, lawyer, politician, cruelty, judge, family relations, trial, civil rights, friendship, social activist, notoriety ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, manchester, yorkshire
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story of Peppino Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily. One hundred steps was the number of steps it took to get from the Impastato house to the house of the Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, rough, political ...
Plot:
assassination, radio, gangster, rebelliousness, fighting the system, political activist, idealism, rebellion, society, dishonesty, media, incompetent police ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, europe
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
lawyer, prison, courtroom, legal, false accusation, police brutality, broken family, injustice, rape accusation, judge, life turned upside down, courtroom drama ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, flanders
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian ...
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, bleak, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay interest, homosexual, murder, gay subtext, biopic, legal, rise and fall, criminal heroes, confined, society, death row, gay ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot:
death row, murder, death sentence, prison, courtroom drama, price of justice, confined, going straight, journalism, legal, true crime, biopic ...
Time:
year 1976
Place:
utah, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, captivating, intense, factual ...
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, italian mafia, gangster, trial, sex, mob boss, sicilian mafia, organized crime, italian history, assassination attempt, assassination ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, year 2000, year 1992, year 1984 ...
Place:
sicily, italy, rome italy, rio de janeiro, miami ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, false accusation, courtroom, social misfits, fighting the system, confined, rebellion, legal, life is a bitch, injustice, courtroom drama ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1994, year 1998
Place:
france, europe, french riviera, cannes
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
prison, life sentence, jail, jailed, maximum security prison, prisoner, prison life, criminal, prison sentence, confinement indoors, confined, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Style:
intense, realistic, serious, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction, prison, prison life, false accusation, friendship, sex scene, african american, husband wife relationship, lie, injustice, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins ...
Style:
poliziottesco, historical drama, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
cosa nostra, mafia, mobster, ambition, organized crime, american mafia, intelligence agency, crime family, mafioso, democrat, gangster, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place:
italy, sicily, usa, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Bhagat Singh, a freedom fighter, is arrested for killing the British official responsible for the death of his mentor Lala Lajpatrai. He is ultimately hanged for his misdeed.
Style:
disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
prison, prison life, vengeance, politics, life sentence, legal, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, police brutality, trial, police officer killed, torture ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1931, 20th century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, manipulation, clergy, legal, gangster, cons and scams, bankruptcy ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, london, palermo italy, switzerland ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the 90's, In Rio de Janeiro, the middle-class João Guilherme Estrella is introduced to the world of drugs consuming maconha and cocaine first and later becoming a drug-dealer with many connections inclusive in Europe. However, he spends all ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
prison, drug lord, ambition, drug dealing, buddies, couple relations, life is a bitch, addiction, partner, hopes, criminal heroes, downfall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro, south america, venice, latin america, brazil
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
Style:
exciting, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
hopes, politics, fighting the system, idealism, rebellion, love and romance, danger, blind ambition, state affairs, society, youth, rebelliousness ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
betrayal, mafia, sicilian, village, murder, danger, testimony, family life, youth, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1991, year 1985
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, courtroom drama, death penalty, biopic, dishonesty, fugitives, legal, confined, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lea grew up in a crime family in Calabria. The father of her daughter Denise is also a member of the Mafia. Lea, however, wants a different life for her daughter, free of violence, fear and falsehood. She decides to cooperate with justice, to ...
Style:
suspense, tense, contemplative, disturbing
Plot:
trial, husband wife relationship, mafia, female protagonist, courtroom, police, mother daughter relationship, murder, biopic, daughter, train station, arrest ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 80s, 2010s
Place:
italy, milan italy
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the ...
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison life, male pubic hair, friendship, gang, confined, warden, murder, violence, muslim, racial slur, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, women in prison, gang, prison, nudity, violent content, profanity, fall in love, adoption, prison life, heist ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
prison, bird, warden, life sentence, alcatraz, redemption, medical, pet bird, biopic, rebel, self discovery, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1920s, 1940s ...
Place:
san francisco, bay area, kansas, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, crime drama, crying ...
Plot:
prison, mentor, friendship, prison life, criminal, confined, teaching the ways of the world, jail, gang, drug, anger, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
prison, prison riot, escape, dishonesty, fighting the system, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, youth, rivalry, society, vigilantism, one man army ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug addiction, musician's life, artists and showbiz, society, addiction, life is a bitch, kgb, songwriter, actor, concert, writers, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1979
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin (Sylvie Testud), and Léa Papin (Julie-Marie Parmentier) are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian incest, lesbian, lgbtq, murder, sister sister incest, true crime, forbidden love, violence, sister sister relationship, couple relations, master and servant, sexual relations ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian mafia, prison, mafia, mobster, hitman, organized crime, crime family, criminal, cosa nostra, good guy, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Time:
1940s, year 1972, 1920s, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place:
bronx new york city, europe, italy, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a ...
Style:
period piece, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, fascism, politics, world war one, dictator, male star appears nude, couples, hopes, world war two, cinema, coitus, resistance ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1910s, year 2009 ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, milan italy
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
police investigation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, murder of a girl, murder trial, obsession, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, true crime, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1995 ...
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style:
inspirational, political, thought provoking, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
prison, father son relationship, terrorist, lawyer, courtroom, terrorism, politics, trial, biopic, male nudity, justice, courtroom drama ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, nepal, britain ...
Similarity:
36%
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