Movies like Tea with Mussolini

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   Don't Move

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 125 min · Drama · Romance

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   While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared production studio: Cattleya

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   Life Is Beautiful

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 116 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: italy and loss of loved one
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Best of Youth

   Strong story similarity

   2003 · 367 min · Drama · History · Romance

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   After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: florence, italy and loss of loved one
   • a closely matched era

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   The Tiger and the Snow

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 114 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   The Truce

   Shared cast

   1997 · 112 min · Drama · History · War

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   After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Bread and Tulips

   Strong story similarity

   2000 · 114 min · Comedy · Romance

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   An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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   Golden Door

   Strong story similarity

   2006 · 118 min · Drama · History · Romance

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   The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   Land and Freedom

   Genre overlap

   1995 · 109 min · Drama · History · War

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   Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded, he goes to Barcelona, where he joins another group of fighters.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Beyond the Clouds

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 110 min · Drama · Romance

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   Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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    Radio Days

    Strong story similarity

    1987 · 89 min · Comedy · Drama

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    The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: 1930s and 1940s
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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