Best Italian Drama Movies of 2021

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Italian Drama Movies of 2021" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic, tense and suspenseful. Plot: female nudity, relationships, love, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, male nudity, teenager and family relations. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Romance. Country: Italy, France and USA.
Best Italian Drama Movies of 2021
Best Italian Drama Movies of 2021
TOP Movies: The Hand of God (2021), The Catholic School (2021), My Brother, My Sister (2021), The Miracle Child (2021), To Chiara (2021), France (2021), Luca (2021), Three Floors (2021), Time Is Up (2021), Mascarpone (2021), The Inner Cage (2021), Yara (2021), The Hidden Child (2021), The Last Paradiso (2021), The Turning Point (2021), A Classic Horror Story (2021), Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021), Superheroes (2021), Dogworld (2021), Our Ghost (2021).

List of Best Movies

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The Hand of God (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, psychological, semi autobiographical ...
Plot: coming of age, life, loss of virginity, poverty, lifestyle, society, city life, change of luck, european, feeling, youth, art ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: naples italy, nebraska, europe, italy
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The Catholic School (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, period piece
Audience: teen drama
Plot: rape and murder, sex with friend's mother, male pubic hair, sexualized violence, raped woman, male nudity, violence, catholic school, lgbt, graphic violence, massacre, strong violent content ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: rome italy
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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
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The Miracle Child (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a sunny district of Naples where everyone knows each other, Mario and Lino, two inseparable friends, live day by day in the monotony of neighborhood life until their fraternal friendship is put to the test.
Style: gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay erotica, gay friend, gay crush, friendship between men, milf, gay slur, gay subtext, lgbt, male homosexuality, bisexuality ...
Place: naples italy
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 6.8
 2K
To Chiara (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy ...
Style: social
Plot: peace, family relations, father, father daughter relationship, hiding place, school, money, bag of money, photograph, sister sister relationship, dancing, family secret ...
Place: italy
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 5.9
 4K
France (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Plot: female journalist, celebrity, news reporter, female protagonist, journalism, relationship vs career, paparazzi, problem, celebrity culture, changing lives, lifestyle change, journalist ...
Place: paris france, france
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 7.4
 191K
Luca (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Italy, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, two young boys experience an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another ...
Style: captivating, funny, entertaining, 3d animation, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: water, friendship, coming of age, ocean, sea voyage, disguise, seaside town, sea adventure, sea, monster, creature, male female friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 2020s, future, year 1959, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, riviera, mediterranean sea
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 6.4
 3K
Three Floors (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Plot: female pubic hair, family drama, bourgeoisie, car crash, madness, ego, psychosis, female nudity, hallucination, freudian, love affair, insanity ...
Place: rome italy
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 4.2
 4K
Time Is Up (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Vivien, an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy, a troubled young man, are involved in an accident that forces them to reclaim their lives one minute at the time.
Style: disturbing, romantic, captivating, psychological, teen
Plot: accident, love triangle, romantic rivalry, amnesia, romantic relationship, romantic triangle, unfulfilled love, relationships, male female relationship, in love, love affair, couple relations ...
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 6.8
 2K
Mascarpone (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Antonio is a 30 yo family man, whose life finds an unexpected twist when he's suddenly dumped by his husband, whom he depends both psychologically and economically: he needs to find a new place to stay, a job and a new purpose in life. Antonio ...
Style: psychological, talky, romantic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay couple, gay interest, gay love, gay marriage, gays and lesbians, breakup, homoeroticism, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
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The Inner Cage (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: lgbt, prison, prison life, jailed, prison guard, jail, society, social misfits, prison sentence, jail cell, life is a bitch, prison warden ...
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 6.3
 6K
Yara (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri only has one tenuous lead: a bit of DNA that's not much help without a database to compare ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: murder, prosecutor, murder investigation, investigation, true crime, cold case, forensics, uncover truth, crime investigation, murder mystery, murderer, homicide detective ...
Place: italy
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The Hidden Child (2021)
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: disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, captivating ...
Plot: camorra, friendship, friend, mafioso, friends, adult child friendship, italian mafia, mafia, child, child in peril, family relations, boy ...
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The Last Paradiso (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Italy, a farmer's dream of improving workers’ living conditions collapses when he falls for a landowner's daughter. Based on true events.
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: in love, lifestyle, male female relationship, tragic love, couple relations, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, love interest, fall in love, relationships, forbidden love ...
Time: 1950s
Place: italy
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The Turning Point (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, hood
Plot: unlikely friendships, lifestyle change, changing lives, social problems, criminal gang, lifestyle, swashbuckler, criminal, character change, bandit, escapades, ghetto ...
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A Classic Horror Story (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five carpoolers travel in a motorhome to reach a common destination. Night falls, and to avoid a dead animal carcass, they crash into a tree. When they come to their senses, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere. The road they were traveling ...
Style: suspense, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: violence, occult, survival horror, travel, unwanted pregnancy, survival, woods, trapped, night, mysticism, forest, struggle for survival ...
Time: 2020s
Place: italy
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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A chronicle biopic of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including depictions of his difficult debut as a player, his deep rifts with some of his coaches, his triumph over injuries and personal discovery of Buddism.
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: football, soccer, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life, football player, soccer coach, playing football, price of fame, career change, rising to stardom, european ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 2000, year 1985 ...
Place: italy
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 6.7
 2K
Superheroes (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Style: romantic, touching, sincere, sentimental, romantic drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couple relations, love story, couples, male female relationship, love, love affair, physicist, female protagonist, relationships, female artist, relationship problems, fall in love ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
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Dogworld (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the near future, a small town is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs compete for the territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans who grew up together, ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: gang, criminal gang, gang leader, urban decay, gang war, bandit, crime boss, teenager, city life, juvenile delinquency, urban setting, outlaw gang ...
Time: future
Place: italy, southern italy
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 6.1
 125
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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 5.8
 380
Mad Dog (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two young people go missing after a rave party in the woods. Meda and Rio, a man defeated by life and an uncompromising captain, are the two cops leading the investigation. It’s an old nightmare coming back to haunt the people from the small ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: teenager, mysterious disappearance, puzzle, crime investigation, forensics, undercover, sleuth, investigation, secret, private investigation, vanished man, son ...
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 6.4
 1K
On Our Watch (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Arturo is a manager who, without suspecting it, introduces an algorithm into his company that makes his job superfluous. In a short time, he loses his job, his fiancée and his friends, and decides to work as a rider. His only consolation is Stella, ...
Style: futuristic, satirical, disturbing, captivating, semi serious
Plot: socially awkward, looking for love, relationships, love and romance, couple relations, social problems, relationship problems, satire, lifestyle, money problems, economist, bicycle ...
Place: italy
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American Night (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, car chase, fight, art, criminal heroes, betrayal, violence, revenge, brutality, death, crime boss ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, asia
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Caught by a Wave (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.
Style: sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: summer romance, supportive friend, relationships, romantic friendship, yacht, couple relations, love and romance, fighting illness, love affair, romantic relationship, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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Freaks vs the Reich (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Four circus freaks with superpowers find themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied Rome after their owner and father figure goes missing in the aftermath of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allies.
Plot: circus, world war two, nazism, electricity, nazi occultism, superhero, hunting, piano, partisan, bee, swastika, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: rome italy, italy
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 5.7
 28K
Beckett (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: While vacationing in Greece, Beckett, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating car accident forces him to run for his life across the country to clear his name but tensions escalate as the authorities close in and political unrest mounts ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: political conspiracy, tourist, tragic event, car accident, conspiracy, government conspiracy, anxiety, runaway, life risking, political unrest, escape attempt, evil plot ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
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Still Out of My League (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After breaking up with her dreamboat, Marta finds love with an artist. But life throws a few twists into the mix for the ailing woman and her friends.
Style: captivating, satirical, romantic, psychological, thrilling
Plot: love and romance, romantic relationship, social problems, relationships, relationship problems, fall in love, couples, love, couple relations, breakup, in love, love affair ...
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 5.6
 250
Comedians (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For ...
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: stand up comedian, satire, public speaking, joke, humour, comedian, ethical dilemma, agent, school, group, stand up
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Forever Out of My League (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
Style: satirical, sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: orphan, fighting illness, love and romance, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, male female relationship, love story, satire, couple relations, summer
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 611
The Guest Room (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The morning Stella decides to take her own life, a stranger knocks at her door claiming the guest room he booked for the night. Surprised but charmed by this man who seems to know her very well, Stella decides to let him in. But when Sandro, the man ...
Style: psychological thriller, crying, ambiguous ending, minimal cast
Plot: time travel, home invasion, ex husband, suicide attempt, violence, suffocation, mysterious man, blood, stranger, self mutilation, fear, bare breasts ...
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