| Salaam Bombay! (1988) | 7.9 | |
| Walking, Walking (1983) | 7.1 | |
| The Embalmer (2002) | 7.0 | |
| Thanks Maa (2009) | 8.1 | |
| Capernaum (2018) | 8.4 |
Non professional cast movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant non professional cast movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, independent film, thought provoking and touching films and TV shows about / with non professional cast, poverty, coming of age, friendship, death, family relations, boy, singing, father daughter relationship and prostitute plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Italy, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as non professional cast: Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The Ciambra (2017), The Intruder (2017), Los hongos (2014), Between Two Worlds (2021), Paris Is Us (2019), Suzaku (1997), Capernaum (2018), A Polar Year (2018), 75 (2017).
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List of non professional cast movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style:
touching, uplifting, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
Style:
neorealism, psychological, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
gypsy, coming of age, male female relationship, friendship, chase, brother sister relationship, betrayal, petty criminal, father son relationship, teenager, family relations, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
southern italy, italy, rome italy
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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:
neighborhood, mother daughter relationship, urban, coming of age, helicopter, police arrest, little girl, painting, female protagonist, baby, arrest, police ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, naples italy, napoli italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, thought provoking
Plot:
graffiti, youth, against the rules, rebelliousness, teenage life, friendship, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, social decay, interracial relations, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
social issues, research, society, social problems, politics, dialectical materialism, hardship, city, working class, female friendship, ferry, journalist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
Style:
suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, teenager, couples, terrorist attack, economic crisis, struggle, youth, police, terrorism, conflict, riot, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the ...
Style:
slow cinema, independent film, aesthetic
Plot:
aunt nephew relationship, minimalism, family relations, village, coming of age, underground, woman, slice of life, uncle nephew relationship, little girl, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1997, 70s
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
sad, social, depressing, rough, cynical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, neglected child, child abuse, low lives, child neglect, child protagonist, starving child, child labor ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, sarajevo ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.
Style:
semi documentary, light, sincere, visually appealing, entertaining ...
Plot:
blizzard, polar bear, grandmother grandson relationship, isolation, language barrier, elementary school, language learning, fishing, seal the animal, remote village, death of grandfather, hunting ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, greenland
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, independent film, tension ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
double life, strong female character, social problems, social realism, secret, doctor patient relationship, friendship between men, secret life, organized crime, drug use, car accident, anguish ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, midwest, kentucky, cincinnati ohio ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
exile, dialogue, migration, singer, diaspora, politics, kidnapping, solidarity, absurdism, radical, anti fascist, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, chile, paris france
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Italian drama
Style:
melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
character study, city life, loneliness, social realism, alienation, working class, friendship, migration, slice of life, assimilation, language barrier, class conflict ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal."
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, grim, art house ...
Plot:
survival, poverty, post war, mountain, frustration, salvation, black market, alienation, social realism, desperation, working class, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1945
Place:
alps, italy
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera (Laurent Terzieff) and Rabbino (Franco Citti) were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet ...
Style:
crying, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film
Plot:
brothers, striptease, street dance, bad father, hairy chested man, old man, bare chested male, bare butt, nudity, dead body, drinking wine from a bottle, horniness ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Italian maestro Ermanno Olmi tells the tale of the journey of the Magi in this lyrical odyssey. The film focuses on a wise man who interprets his sighting of a comet streaking through the sky as a spiritual message. Joined by two associates, ...
Style:
biblical, crying, fairy tale, allegory
Plot:
theft, bible, bride and groom, punishment, stealing, voice over narration, old age, judgment, nativity, shakespeare, lifesaver, security guard ...
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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:
realistic, neorealism, melancholic, intercultural, semi documentary ...
Plot:
immigrant, social commentary, immigration, social realism, survival, exploitation, prostitution, sex work, slice of life, street life, poverty, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is ...
Style:
sexy, controversial, spoof, parody, weird ...
Plot:
female nudity, female pubic hair, surrealism, lesbian sex, sex scene, female psychopath, lgbt, rape, love, filmmaking, amputee, absurdism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his ...
Style:
life affirming, uplifting
Plot:
retirement home, aging, sea captain, elderly man, empathy, friendship, intimate, character study, companionship, humanism, mortality, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1970
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion.
Style:
satirical, controversial, dark comedy, absurd
Plot:
prison, performance art, female empowerment, moral ambiguity, dancing, singing, claustrophobia, redemption, shakespeare, last supper, jail, theater ...
Place:
turin italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice ...
Style:
folk tale
Plot:
escape, death, getting home, village life, travel, mythology, night, folklore, homecoming, legend, trip, countryside ...
Place:
chile
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Argentine learns that soccer star Diego Maradona is ailing in a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's discovered.
Style:
road movie, poignant, emotional, offbeat
Audience:
adult
Plot:
road trip, football, soccer, determination, character study, pilgrimage, melancholy, obsession, intimate, hopes, bittersweet, humanism ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
Style:
melancholic, art house, reflective, psychological, wistful
Plot:
summer, character study, depression, alienation, melancholy, getting home, nostalgia, identity crisis, memory, wandering, isolation, disappearance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poetic realism, italy, rome italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While on the run from the reformatory, a 12 year old boy named Municipality finds and saves a two day old abandoned baby from becoming the prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people whom he deemed responsible and ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, serious, dutch angle ...
Plot:
friendship, orphan, against the odds, second chance, poverty, following a dream, slum, orphanage, tragic event, search for mother, satire, drug ...
Place:
mumbai india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than fort walls, VANAJA explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, couples, village, family relations, injustice, youth, society, teenage life, rape, dancing, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
thought provoking, contemplative, slow cinema, serious, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, misfit, starting over, urban ghetto life, addiction, decolonization, husband wife relationship, military coup, lost love ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Peppino is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio, a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino's work. Peppino, in turn, becomes entranced by Valerio and offers him a large salary to come ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot:
love triangle, unrequited love, taxidermy, dangerous attraction, gay, couples, obsession, love and romance, couple relations, friendship, gays and lesbians, boss ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, saga, contemplative ...
Plot:
peasant, farm, hide and seek, friendship, countryside, village, family relations, clergy, life is a bitch, parents and children, family life, parent child relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, year 1978, 1890s, 20th century ...
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if ...
Style:
thought provoking, cynical, semi serious, humorous, surreal ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, dark humor, life turned upside down, obsession, disorder, society, audition, television, big brother, mental illness, lonely, power of media ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, southern italy, rome italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, death in the family, social relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
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