Movies like Zoo 1988

If you like "Zoo" you are looking for movies about / with zoo, gypsy, police, friendship, father, elephant and friend themes of Adventure and Drama genre shot in Italy or Switzerland.
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Zoo (1988)
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Zoo (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends...
Plot: zoo, gypsy, police, friendship, father, elephant, friend, young, female director
Place: rome italy, italy

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Most similar movies to Zoo

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, touching, serious and independent film films with plots about friendship, police, young, friend, father, youth and boy mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Zoo: Close Friends (1992), Gli Invisibili (1988), Fontamara (1980), The Thursday (1964), On the Road to Katanga (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Close Friends (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Style: erotic
Plot: father, incest, forced incest, love triangle, exploitation, jealousy, teenage boy, love, friendship, husband wife relationship, lesbian, friend ...
Place: rome italy
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95%
Gli Invisibili (1988)
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.
Plot: years of lead, communist, terrorism, prison riot, working class, prison, organized crime, mafia, violence, friendship, police, jail ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
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93%
 7.0
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Fontamara (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has ...
Plot: fascism, italian fascism, police, resistance, farm, countryside, leftist
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
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86%
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The Thursday (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, love, beach, divorce, priest, high society, soccer, seaside, diary, zoo, instructor ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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On the Road to Katanga (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his ...
Plot: mine, miner, ex girlfriend, dead father, worker, solidarity, smuggler, drifter, faked pregnancy, working class, smuggling, death of friend ...
Place: belgrade, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Life Is Beautiful (1979)
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. …
Plot: equality, murder, police, killer, politics
Place: portugal, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
My Brother, My Sister (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla — and Tesla's kids — try to overcome their differences to become a family.
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, emotional
Plot: brother sister reunion, family relations, family problems, family reunited, parents and children, father daughter relationship, kids and family, relationship problems, marital argument, living together, dysfunctional family, schizophrenic ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Lion (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are ...
Style: romantic drama
Plot: jungle, lion, lost world, safari, youth, explorer, wilderness, human animal relationship, stepfather, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, husband wife relationship, girl ...
Place: africa, kenya, east africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Last Adventure (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, ocean, friendship, airplane, death, pilot, friends, danger, escapades, killing an animal, summer ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: africa, paris france, france, congo, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Kings of the World (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Colombia, Luxembourg, France, Mexico, Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no kingdom, no law, no family, set out on a journey in search of the promised land. A subversive tale told through a wild and endearing clan, ...
Style: captivating, dramatic, bleak, gloomy, harsh ...
Plot: friendship, street life, life, youth, adaptation, society, survival, friends, fight, life is a bitch, coming of age, bare chested male ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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49 Days (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A woman undergoing a medical treatment. Will she survive?
Plot: military, russian soldier, young, uniform
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Buss till Italien (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The movie is about two young teenagers who leave for a trip around Europe to sing in a choir. They cross the entire continent straight to Domodossola, a little town on the north of Italy.
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, serious, road movie
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, friend, adultery, choir, marriage crisis, reconciliation, age-gap relationship, town, sexually dissatisfied wife, unfaithful husband, cheating wife, teenager ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his ...
Style: road movie, crying
Plot: coming of age, prison, traumatic childhood, boy, childhood, father, children, female nudity, prisoner, reform school, child abuse, girl ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Saul and David (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.
Style: stylized, epic, gloomy, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: old testament, ancient world, peplum, ancient, christian, bible, faith, battles, ancient history, friendship, royal family, political unrest ...
Place: israel, rome italy, holy land, middle east, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
On the Nickel (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friend, alcoholism, drunkenness, monologue, police, judge, friendship, homelessness, bum, street life, alcoholic, slum ...
Time: year 1980
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Our Ghost (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back ...
Plot: father, young
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46%
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Surfacing (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on Margaret Atwood's best seller, Surfacing plunges you into the mysterious depths of the hostile Northern wilderness. Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate (Kathleen Beller), and her city-bred companions brave the ...
Style: independent film, weird
Plot: nightmare, feminist, disappearance, female pubic hair, nudity, bare butt, friend, girl, rape, father, bare breasts, female nudity ...
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46%
Shikari: The Hunter (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: India, Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Shankar and Chanchal earn their living by doing road shows. Once, Shankar sees Natasha on a circus poster and dreams of working with her. He gets an offer to work in the circus in Russia
Plot: murder, train, elephant, zoo, interracial love
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Glass Labyrinth (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...
Plot: perestroika, militia, drunk, zoo, night, neighbor, suicide, friend, birthday, student, restaurant
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Style: feel good, touching, emotional, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: aging, youth, animal, runaway, motorcycle, camp, camping trip, camping, child, grief, wildlife, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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41%
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Beautiful Wave (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
Style: sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: surfing, self discovery, coming of age, youth, escapades, teenage life, surf, society, friendship, on the road, secret, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Farfallon (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No overview
Style: parody
Plot: fugitive, mother superior, convent, nun, escape, jail, revenge, police, prison
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Elephant (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: (Russian with English subtitles) The show is under way in the circus arena. But there is agitation behind the curtain: the audience's darling, Bodhi the elephant has fallen ill. The next morning a trailer arrives to pick Bodhi up. But his sad ...
Plot: elephant, on the road, girl, forgiveness, driver, circus, hopes
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Tiger's Nest (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the valleys of the Himalayas, an orphan boy saves a Bengal tiger cub from the ruthless poachers who killed the tiger's mother. Together they set out in the Himalayan mountains to the Taktsang monastery in Bhutan known as "The ...
Style: captivating, sincere, tense, exciting, visually appealing ...
Plot: tiger, forest, human animal friendship, monastery, tropics, wildlife, adventure hero, orphan, nature, boy, friendship, mountain ...
Place: himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
Style: psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: boy meets girl, friendship, boy, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, fall in love, runaway, love, love and romance, escapades, teenager ...
Time: year 1999
Place: sydney australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Changing Destiny (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A story of friendship in a squalid suburb of a city of southern Italy. Alexander and Ferdi come from poor families and live in a city in decline, where there is no future.
Plot: comic book, friend, sex, police, cooking, drunkenness, school, teenage boy, friendship, money, swimming, fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Land in Between (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story: SILHOUETTE: Nigerian prostitutes dealing with miscellaneous customers EUGLEN & GERTIAN: Daily recruitment of Albanian immigrants seeking work but without working residency permit. SELF SERVICE: a night with Ahmed, egyptian illegal gas ...
Style: independent film, semi documentary
Plot: television, prostitute, house painter, shepherd, landscape, racism, migration, immigrant, non professional cast
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Along the Ridge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Law of Courage (1994)
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 ...
Plot: cosa nostra, police, mafia, judge, murder, assassination, sicilian, carabinieri, judiciary
Time: 90s
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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