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The Intruder (2017)
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Original name: L'intrusa
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. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.
Plot:
neighborhood, mother daughter relationship, urban, coming of age, mafia, children, police, helicopter, baby, little girl, conflict, painting, camorra, female protagonist, social worker, arrest, soccer, police arrest, violence, youth, non professional cast, caterpillar, spit, crime, crimes
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, naples italy, napoli italy
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Most similar movies to The Intruder
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about mother daughter relationship, coming of age, female protagonist, urban, family relations, female nudity and friendship mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like The Intruder: Lea - Something About Me (2015), The Dazzled (2019), Ultras (2020), Lilet Never Happened (2012), The Stolen Caravaggio (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Style:
semi autobiographical
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
Style:
aesthetic
Plot:
soccer, hooligan, motorcycle, conflict, football hooligan, coming of age, smoking, wedding dress, cell phone, mobile phone, police, tattooed man ...
Place:
naples italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
child prostitute, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, danger, society, prostitution, social worker, police, children, call girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manila philippines, the philippines, asia
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
lifestyle change, female protagonist, female writer, ghost writer, changing lives, writer's life, mysterious character, secret, screenwriter, assassination, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
58%
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:
back in hometown, past, friend, city, mother son reunion, church, life, catholic priest, catacomb, death, mafia, photograph ...
Time:
70s, 2010s
Place:
naples italy, italy, cairo egypt
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, romantic drama, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
defloration, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, debt, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, sex for money, loss of innocence, loss of virginity, virgin, financial problem ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
separated parents, half sister half sister relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, suicide attempt, arrest, girl, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot:
refugee, empathy, personal growth, immigration, divorce, healing, child protagonist, compassion, female protagonist, hopes, resilience, humanitarian ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
48%
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:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style:
sincere, touching, inspirational, visually stunning, aesthetic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
friendship, poverty, social services, mother daughter relationship, children, motel, single mother, little girl, childhood, swimming pool, eviction, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
florida, nebraska, orlando florida
Similarity:
41%
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:
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Plot:
terrorism, arrest, worker, activism, friendship, extremism, underground movement, working class, betrayal, civil unrest, labor movement, conscience ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
41%
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, touching, emotional
Plot:
boy, coming of age, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, life is a bitch, society, computers and web, police detective, mother daughter relationship, housewife, pedophile, obsessive quest, injustice, internet ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and ...
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, land dispute, young girl, woman, politics, first kiss, car, siege, indigenous people, pregnancy, underage drinking ...
Time:
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Place:
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259
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
Style:
heartfelt, life affirming, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
36%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fixated on romantic fantasies, a kindly and strong-willed young woman with a mild mental disability embarks on a relationship — much to the concern of her protective mother.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Group of friends go to a playground around the corner, to play Cricket, on a typical Sunday. However, that special day has unexpected events in store for them.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, tension, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
34%
244
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a nation where educating girls is seen as rebellion, a visionary woman dares to teach young minds to dream. When their innovation draws global attention, their success sparks hope—and opposition. As threats loom and sacrifices are made, their ...
Style:
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Plot:
courage, female protagonist, education, social justice, inspiration, human rights, empowerment, teacher, activism, resistance, hopes, oppression ...
Time:
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Similarity:
33%
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Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place.
Style:
captivating, social, independent film, entertaining
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
house arrest, coming of age, mother son relationship, social realism, family drama, loneliness, isolation, slice of life, humanity, identity, poverty, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds ...
Style:
rough, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, camorra, gang, criminal, teen angst, boyhood, hooliganism, rivalry, self discovery, gangster, fistfight ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A solitary actress devoted to caring for her daughter decides to return to acting with a new movie; many comedic ironies occur during the filming of this new film.
Style:
light hearted, uplifting
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
actress, single mother, mother daughter relationship, film set, female protagonist, behind the scenes, female empowerment, showbiz, satire, bittersweet, improv, urban
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Demi-Tarif follows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo, Launa, and the youngest - Leo, left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment. One of them narrates, wistfully explaining how their mother abandoned them and calls them once ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
little girl, children, child protagonist, female nudity, shoplifting, siblings, childhood, poverty, urban, abandonment, neglect, street life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style:
serious, crying, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, gender, child protagonist, children, transsexual, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, child, sexual identity, soccer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, indiana, europe
Similarity:
30%
744
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees ...
Style:
surreal
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
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Place:
poland
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Helena, 29, a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter, is a moderately successful actress who earns a living as an escort in the sex industry. Her relationship with her own mother, a singing teacher, is tense, and she’s also increasingly ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, mother daughter relationship, sex work, single parent, sexual content, family problems, family relations, sexual relations, life is a bitch, sexuality, sexploitation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
30%
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