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Woman in the Moon (1988)

An Italian-American woman traveling to Sicily picks up a teenager who claims to be in trouble with some drug dealers.

Directed byVito Zagarrio

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  1. 01

    The Star Maker

    Strong story similarity

    1995 · 113 min · Drama · Romance

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    In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  2. 02

    Cinema Paradiso

    Strong story similarity

    1988 · 124 min · Drama · Romance

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    A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  3. 03

    Identification of a Woman

    Strong story similarity

    1982 · 128 min · Drama · Romance

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    Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  4. 04

    Gila and Rik

    Strong story similarity

    1987 · 105 min · Drama · TV Movie

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    The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagonists.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
    • shared production studio: Reteitalia
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  5. 05

    Fire with Fire

    Similar atmosphere

    1986 · 103 min · Drama · Romance

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    A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  6. 06

    Moonstruck

    Genre overlap

    1987 · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  7. 07

    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
    • substantial genre overlap
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  8. 09

    Act of Sorrow

    Strong story similarity

    1990 · 102 min · Drama

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    In this painful melodrama, an aging mother (Claudia Cardinale) attempts to cope with the progressive deterioration of her grown son due to his drug addiction. At first only manipulative, in addition to stealing from her he eventually becomes abusive and violent, and she must take strong measures if she is to save her own life, much less his.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  9. 10

    Caro diario

    Strong story similarity

    1993 · 101 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted, sun-drenched summertime Rome; in the second, he visits a reclusive friend on an island, who ropes him into an impromptu journey between islets in search of quiet; and in the last, he finds himself grappling with an unknown illness.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
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