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Magical Nights (2018)
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Magical Nights (2018)
Original name: Notti magiche
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.
Style: tense, enigmatic, captivating, humorous, non-linear, nostalgic
Plot: murder mystery, film producer, friendship, murder, police investigation, murder suspect, police interrogation, ghost writer, death, rivalry, society, writers, film industry, screenwriter, struggling artist, lesbian, female nudity, satire, flashback, sarcasm, kiss, female full frontal nudity
Time: year 1990, 90s, 1990s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, humorous, realistic and tense films with plots about society, murder, friendship, family relations, female nudity, parents and children and investigation mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Magical Nights: The Terrace (1980), It Was the Son (2012), Hardboiled Egg (1997), Don't Be Bad (2015), Caterina in the Big City (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Terrace (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, hood
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