Top 20 movies like Leopardi
Top 20 Movies like Leopardi
- 1. A Judge of Honor
- 2. We Believed
- 3. Lucia's Grace
- 4. Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
- 5. Alaska
- 6. There Is a Light
- 7. It Was the Son
- 8. The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro
- 9. The Fifth Wheel
- 10. The Time of Indifference
- 11. Incompreso
- 12. A Golden Boy
- 13. Brotherhood
- 14. Mother and Son
- 15. Poison
- 16. Vive L'Amour
- 17. Our Land
- 18. Break Free
- 19. Where the Shadows Fall
- 20. Count Tacchia
1. A Judge of Honor (Paolo Borsellino)
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
2. We Believed (Noi credevamo)
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
3. Lucia's Grace (Troppa grazia)
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be Mary, the Mother of God.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
4. Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood)
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
5. Alaska (Alaska)
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
6. There Is a Light (Il padre d'Italia)
Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia’s unborn daughter.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
7. It Was the Son (È stato il figlio)
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
8. The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro (The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro)
A teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
9. The Fifth Wheel (L'ultima ruota del carro)
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
10. The Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti)
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 property from the family - the attic in which they live. Michele tries to thwart Leo's plans, but when his attempts fail, young Carla takes over.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
11. Incompreso (Incompreso)
(Incompreso)
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
12. A Golden Boy (Un ragazzo d'oro)
A young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father's death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad's autobiography.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
13. Brotherhood (إخوان)
Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
14. Mother and Son (Мать и сын)
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
15. Poison (Veleno)
Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
16. Vive L'Amour (愛情萬歲)
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
It has an average vote of 7.091 on TMDB.
17. Our Land (La terra)
Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by his violent stepbrother Aldo. Things degenerate further when the four brothers find themselves embroiled in a murder.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
18. Break Free (Liberi)
Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi centers on the freckle-faced Vince , whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfilling, to say the least. His father Cenzo lost his job after a local chemical plant closed; shortly afterward, Cenzo's wife Paola dumped him for a politician. Fed up, Vince travels to the beach town of Pescara and lands a job as a junior cook at a tourist resort. While there, he falls in love with Genny , a waitress plagued by a phobia of traveling. Just as the romance begins to take off, Cenzo appears at Vince's doorstep demanding that his son help him get Paola back. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
19. Where the Shadows Fall (Dove cadono le ombre)
Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
20. Count Tacchia (Il conte Tacchia)
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
