Movies like Manuel

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Manuel (2017)
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Manuel (2017)
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 from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings, of their hopes and little acts of cowardice. But it is also the story of a time of waiting, of a soul going around in circles, a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive, marginal context that becomes a character in its own right.
Plot: brothel, panic attack, painting, house arrest, social worker, working class, carpenter, techno music, drug abuse, bakery, defense attorney, juvenile detention, solidarity, acting audition, underwater scene, snorting cocaine
Time: 2010s
Place: rome italy, italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and touching films with plots about female nudity, working class, family relations, prostitute, female full frontal nudity, society and painting mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Manuel: The Intruder (2017), His Days Are Numbered (1962), The Vice of Hope (2018), Fontamara (1980), Land in Between (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Intruder (2017)
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. ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, neighborhood, coming of age, urban, little girl, social worker, helicopter, soccer, arrest, police arrest, painting, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy, naples italy, napoli italy
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95%
His Days Are Numbered (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
Style: existential
Plot: job, tram, con game, labor, artist, aging, seaside, unhappy ending, countryside, prostitute, lawyer, painting ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Vice of Hope (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: To support her family, Maria works as a trafficker of surrogate mothers, transporting them from place to place along a river — but when one disappears, Maria is left with the task of finding her and must enter deeper into a world she wishes to ...
Plot: pregnant woman, child trafficking, nativity, human exploitation, female nudity, child rape, hopes, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, amusement park, heroin, unplanned pregnancy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 72
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
67%
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Honey (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, art house ...
Plot: poisoning, thirtysomething life, coping, life is a bitch, male female friendship, euthanasia, nudity, unfulfillment, sexual content, death, suicide, bare breasts ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, istanbul turkey, tijuana mexico, rome italy, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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 ⇓
59%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Dinner (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, biting, talky ...
Plot: family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, couples, under the surface, family problems, couple relations, siblings relations, family in crisis, disorder, suspicion ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Signorina Effe (2007)
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.
Plot: conflict, economist, labor strike, working class, factory worker, blue collar, years of lead, syndicate, strike, factory, worker, italian history ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy, turin italy
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55%
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Terraferma (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, sincere, touching
Plot: tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, family in crisis, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, southern italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
To Love the Damned (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: What happened to Italy during the absence of one young rebel. Svitol (Flavio Bucci) has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed. The radical left is now in ...
Plot: years of lead, frustration, communism, cocaine, drug use, assassination, heroin, police officer, heroine, drug addict, debauchery, partisan ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: milan italy, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, breakup, fall in love, human nature, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, friendship between men, affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Way We Laughed (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, juvenile
Plot: immigrant, working class, prostitute, school, emigration, brother brother relationship, bittersweet, power relations, family relations, idealism, politics, single parent ...
Time: 50s, year 1961, year 1958, year 1963, 60s ...
Place: italy, europe, turin italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Cricket (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Style: erotic
Plot: nudity, mother daughter relationship, murder, suicide by drowning, female nudity, parent child relationship, brothel, prostitute, maid, sex with friend's wife, horny wife, truck driver ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Lady Caliph (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
Plot: conflict, erotica, secret love, labor strike, working class, strike, industrialist, protest, widow, female nudity, entrepreneur, factory ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Inheritance (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Mario (Fabio Testi) and Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But Irene (Dominique ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, stylized, period drama
Plot: sex with sister in law, cuckolded husband, female nudity, erotica, unrequited love, bare breasts, female pubic hair, couples, family relations, infidelity, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 70s, 1880s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Great Beauty (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: writer's life, stripper, art, party, artist, aging, surrealism, friendship, high society, journalist, magic realism, old age ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Our Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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41%
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Boys Cry (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex ...
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, captivating
Plot: mafia, criminal, hitman, gang member, working class, gang leader, best friend, murder, society, danger, rivalry, prostitution ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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41%
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The Fiances (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.
Style: contemplative, neorealism, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: minimal dialogue, italian neorealism, european, worker, long distance relationship, longing, renewed love, promotion, couples, introspection, couple relations, starting over ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style: art house, talky, sexual, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot: architect, artist, art, cancer, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painter, painting, melancholy, insanity, tragedy ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Lulu the Tool (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, political ...
Plot: working class, factory, factory worker, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness, boss and employee, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Traffic Jam (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
Style: deep, road movie, weird
Plot: traffic jam, on the road, deception, stress, satire, traffic, male female relationship, smoking, dark humor, automobile, rape, claustrophobia ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Gloria Mundi (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, his spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, talky, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot: taxi driver, childbirth, ex convict, poverty, working class, egoism, ex husband, horny woman, drug, police, prison, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: marseille, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Time of Indifference (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. Rome, our days. Mariagration Ardengo and her children Michele and Carla are left without a livelihood. Mariagration's money-hungry lover Leo develops a plan to take the last ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: forced sex, financial problem, save the day, family life, greed, money problems, lack of money, problem solving, relationship problems, family relations, social problems, greedy man ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Family Portrait (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico, a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died. Enrico recalls their long ...
Style: non-linear, serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, voice over narration, brother brother relationship, death, grandmother, unemployment, illness, estrangement, unfulfillment, humble, terminal illness, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1962, 1930s, 1940s, year 1945, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, florence
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Lovemakers (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle.
Plot: misery, brothel madam, tragic love, atheist, femme fatale, lack of money, uncle nephew relationship, stolen money, cemetery, prostitute, farm, brothel ...
Time: year 1961, 1880s
Place: italy, florence
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Candido erotico (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A teenage girl falls in love with a man who works in live sex shows, and who just happens to be having an affair with the girl's stepmother--with her father's knowledge.
Style: erotic, sensual, sexy, sexual, erotic drama ...
Plot: sex show, nude model, sex, erotica, incest, lgbt, sleaze, coming of age, peeping, bare breasts, menage a trois, sex scene ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
My Mother's Smile (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, surreal, spiritual
Plot: self discovery, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, obsession, introspection, rebellion, destructive relationship, life turned upside down, family life, tragic love, religions or cults, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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