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Gli Invisibili (1988)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker at the steelworks in Terni with a past in the student struggles, decided to abandon his job as a soldier in an extreme left-wing group.
Style:
tense, bleak, serious, political thriller, political drama
Plot:
terrorism, worker, arrest, activism, friendship, extremism, underground movement, working class, betrayal, conscience, class struggle, political repression, police interrogation, civil unrest, labor movement, urban, surveillance, empathy, courtroom, prison, mafia, police, violence, past, soldier ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, bleak, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about betrayal, moral ambiguity, urban, corruption, isolation, violence and revenge mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Gli Invisibili: The Traitors (1973), I, the Other (2006), Segreti segreti (1985), Palazzina Laf (2023), Signorina Effe (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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serious, historical drama, period piece, bleak, political thriller ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Not available
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, terrorism, partner, rivalry, buddies, danger, confined, dishonesty, mind game, betrayal, disorder, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Laura participates in terrorist attack against a magistrate; a member of her commando is shot to death. Such begins the story of women: Maria and Rosa, the mother and sister of the killed terrorist; Gina, the old nanny of Laura; her mother Marta and ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, intense, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
terrorism, guilt, trauma, moral ambiguity, family secret, accomplice, political unrest, loss, betrayal, judiciary, mourning, urban ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, southern italy
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, tense, intense, tragic
Plot:
mole, factory, psychological manipulation, betrayal, surveillance, moral ambiguity, dehumanization, alienation, social realism, class struggle, oppression, blue collar ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Emma was born and raised in a working-class family, but she's long had bourgeois ambitions and has risen through the ranks to become a white-collar employee with the Fiat automobile company.
Style:
emotional, tense, melancholic
Plot:
union, realism, workplace, identity, ambition, economist, conflict, nostalgia, betrayal, factory worker, labor strike, working class ...
Time:
80s
Place:
turin italy, italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, serious, intense, heroic ...
Plot:
mafia, justice, organized crime, courage, assassination, social commentary, biopic, investigation, whistleblower, ethical dilemma, martyr, power struggle ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, dark, tense, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, camorra, organized crime, violence, crime boss, ambition, power struggle, rise to power, criminal underworld, gang war, urban ...
Time:
70s
Place:
naples italy, italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 2005, Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was kidnapped in Iraq by a group of terrorists. Nicola Calipari, a SISMI agent, is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises the operation. Despite the difficulties, and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, historical drama, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorism, sacrifice, kidnapping, heroism, rescue mission, espionage, journalism, middle east conflict, betrayal, moral ambiguity, biopic, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
iraq, italy
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
prison, women in prison, survival, moral dilemma, violence, sexism, corruption, isolation, law and order, realism, urban, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. …
Style:
tense, tension, bleak, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
oppression, authoritarianism, resistance, fight for freedom, survival, military police, escape, hopes, love story, courage, idealism, underground movement ...
Place:
portugal, italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two best friends get involved into the domination games of two mafia bosses in post-communist Bulgaria. Clutching like crayfish to the baits of everyday life, they determine their fates: without the other one knowing, they are manipulated to take ...
Style:
crime drama, political, atmospheric, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
mafia, social commentary, corruption, manipulation, realism, power struggle, moral ambiguity, friendship, organized crime, betrayal, desperation, working class ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Style:
dark, bleak, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
tragedy, violence, kidnapping, revenge, murder, betrayal, moral ambiguity, gang, criminal underworld, violent content, loss, organized crime ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
bleak, emotional, tense, crime thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
identity, immigrant, drug traffic, pimp, loyalty, loss, desperation, street life, organized crime, gang, tragedy, violence ...
Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante ...
Style:
political thriller, bleak, suspenseful, tension, tragic
Plot:
investigative journalism, air disaster, conspiracy, cover up, investigation, air force, whistleblower, political corruption, realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mediterranean sea, sicily, palermo italy, italy
Similarity:
40%
764
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A bunch of hopeless unemployed occupy a polling place during general election in Italy to protest and report the mafia affairs of Mr. Cannavacciuolo. He is candidate and is setting up a fraud to be elected anyway. Lucia, his daughter, is taken as ...
Style:
tense, political thriller, political drama
Plot:
hostage situation, mafia, corrupt politician, small town, unemployment, political candidate, social realism, desperation, class struggle, media circus, moral ambiguity, riot police ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern italy, italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, terrorist, politics, revolution, murder, dictator, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, state affairs, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, immigration, poverty, survival, thirtysomething life, life is a bitch, woman, illegal immigrant, 30 year old, life, immigrant ...
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
37%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
terrorism, stalking, character study, obsession, guilt, secrets, moral ambiguity, identity, regret, deception, realism, cat and mouse ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Style:
realistic, suspense, disturbing, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prisoner, friendship, jailed, urban, prison life, realism, convict, confined, social problems, maximum security prison, jail ...
Similarity:
34%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio ...
Style:
intercultural, realistic, independent film, bleak, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
italy, romania, eastern europe
Similarity:
33%
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Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, political thriller, tense, noir, political drama
Plot:
anti establishment, authoritarianism, rebellion, counterculture, propaganda, police chase, youth culture, urban, surveillance, activism, civil unrest, dystopia ...
Time:
near future, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Alex is a comrade and an active communist leader. Due to some unfortunate events, Alex gets arrested and is imprisoned but is compelled to come out on Parole to solve a mystery he left behind.
Style:
tense, intense, crime thriller, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
33%
14
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Forced to navigate dangerous environments to keep her mother alive, Glo gets entangled with a mob boss and finds her life spiraling out of control.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
desperation, survival, mother daughter relationship, mob boss, female protagonist, organized crime, violence, urban, underworld, corruption, crime family, moral ambiguity ...
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Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tense, independent film
Plot:
class struggle, labor strike, working class, solidarity, social change, political activism, depression era, strike, small town life, male protagonist, communism, immigrant ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marco is a judge investigating a case of arms trafficking, one of the judges fight against corruption of Italian political life. Carla, his wife, lives dominated by the fear that her husband is murdered and, unfortunately, their fears are realized. ...
Style:
political thriller, crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, political intrigue, political corruption, italian politics, mafia, female protagonist, conspiracy, fear, justice, investigation, danger, intimidation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, political thriller, detective
Plot:
buddy cop, undercover agent, terrorism, police procedural, investigation, drug smuggling, law enforcement, justice, collaboration, reconnaissance, intelligence agency, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
marseille
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, bleak, political thriller, political, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, frustration, working class, communism, political corruption, class struggle, social realism, activism, ethical dilemma, betrayal, cultural conflict, whistleblower ...
Time:
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Place:
dubai, cuba
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take ...
Style:
serious, suspense, tense, political drama
Plot:
corruption, investigation, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, politics, character study, power struggle, legal investigation, guilt, mistrust, law and order, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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