Movies like The Gold of Naples

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   Marriage Italian Style

   Same director

   1964 · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

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

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   Miracle in Milan

   Same director

   1951 · 97 min · Comedy · Drama · Fantasy

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   Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

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   • the same director
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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
   • shared theme: naples, italy

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   Il medico dei pazzi

   Shared cast

   1954 · 83 min · Comedy

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   Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • several principal cast members
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

   Same director

   1963 · 119 min · Comedy · Romance

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   Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • several principal cast members

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   A Husband for Anna

   Strong story similarity

   1953 · 100 min · Drama · Romance

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   Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: naples, italy
   • a closely matched era

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   Neapolitan Turk

   Shared cast

   1953 · 86 min · Comedy

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   Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

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

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   Journey to Italy

   Strong story similarity

   1954 · 85 min · Drama · Romance

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   Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: naples, italy
   • a closely matched era

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   Boccaccio '70

   Same director

   1962 · 204 min · Comedy · Romance

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   An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

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   • the same director
   • a principal cast member

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    It Started in Naples

    Shared cast

    1960 · 100 min · Comedy · Romance

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    Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To complicate matters, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub performer.

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    • a principal cast member

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