Movies like Love in the City

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   Story of a Love Affair

   Same director

   1950 · 98 min · Drama · Romance

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   A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.

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   • the same director
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   La Notte

   Same director

   1961 · 122 min · Drama · Romance

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   A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

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   • the same director
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   Le Amiche

   Same director

   1955 · 104 min · Drama · Romance

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   Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   White Nights

   Strong story similarity

   1957 · 101 min · Drama · Romance

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   A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Girl with a Suitcase

   Strong story similarity

   1961 · 121 min · Drama · Romance

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   Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Variety Lights

   Same director

   1950 · 93 min · Comedy · Drama

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   In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • a closely matched era

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   I Vitelloni

   Same director

   1953 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • a closely matched era

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   Paisan

   Strong story similarity

   1946 · 125 min · Drama · War

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   Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   The Widower

   Same director

   1959 · 87 min · Comedy

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   Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director

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    8½

    Same director

    1963 · 139 min · Drama

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    Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • substantial genre overlap

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