Best movies like Land in Between
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Plot Summary:
SILHOUETTE: Nigerian prostitutes dealing with miscellaneous customers EUGLEN & GERTIAN: Daily recruitment of Albanian immigrants seeking work but without working residency permit. SELF SERVICE: a night with Ahmed, egyptian illegal gas station attender, who has been living in italy for many years.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, independent film
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Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial. He leaves for the mountains with his brother but life is difficult and his flock dies. Returning to the town he discovers his family in abject poverty. He procures a gun and, forced by his social predicament, resorts to banditry.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Come Together (1971)
Plot Summary:
An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Traffic Jam (1979)
Plot Summary:
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: road movie, deep, weird, italian comedy
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The Life Ahead (2020)
Plot Summary:
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, profound, beautiful
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Vesna Goes Fast (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vesna, a Czech girl, arrives in Italy without money and, because of poverty, is forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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To Love the Damned (1980)
Plot Summary:
What happened to Italy during the absence of one young rebel. Svitol (Flavio Bucci) has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed. The radical left is now in business or shooting up drugs, and Svitol finds he has no "home" left. Terrorists seem to set the stage for near anarchy and nothing is as he had imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The movie makes a subject out of their everyday lives and the helpless attempt for them to build a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Il dono (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They seem to be waiting apathetically for their end and resemble the old boat abandoned on the shore. Il Dono is the story of those who have left, told by those who have stayed; a tale of disaster and exodus.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: semi documentary
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The Thursday (1964)
Plot Summary:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Odds and Ends (1986)
Plot Summary:
Essay film by Alexander Kluge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: experimental, semi documentary
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Roman Summer (2000)
Plot Summary:
Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Scavengers (1969)
Plot Summary:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Manuel (2017)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings, of their hopes and little acts of cowardice. But it is also the story of a time of waiting, of a soul going around in circles, a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive, marginal context that becomes a character in its own right.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Fontamara (1980)
Plot Summary:
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags:
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His Days Are Numbered (1962)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: existential
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Born Black (1969)
Plot Summary:
A convoluted roundelay of sexual encounters and unwitting fluid exchanges results in a white woman giving birth to a black baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Splendor (1989)
Plot Summary:
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi (Troisi) and ushurette Chantale (Vlady). However, Jordan is finally forced to sell the Splendor to businessman Lo Fazio (Piperno), which plans to transform it in some kind of furniture store. When Jordan leaves the theater for the last time (the very first scene), he recalls the glorious days of Splendor and movies in general.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional
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The Hookers (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Whores (1994)
Plot Summary:
The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ill-mannered Neapolitan, Orlanda, entertains North African visitors in her home. They do not seem to mind her constant barrage of racist comments. One of her clients falls for her and protects her from a client who stalks her. She is surprised. The male prostitute finds himself becoming violent after his client is too attentive. Liucca gets beaten in lieu of a payment. A mother struggles with her profession and homelife. Grimaldi dehumanizes clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, gay cinema
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La bambola (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Terraferma (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, sincere, touching
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Ospiti (1998)
Plot Summary:
Italian drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Cricket (1980)
Plot Summary:
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Mamma Roma (1962)
Plot Summary:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and Ettore becomes her pride and joy. However, the boy that does not want to study or work, joins to idle friends, has a crush on a bitch, and Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straight Ettore and make him an honest man. However, her past haunts her with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sad, emotional, social, gloomy, independent film, road movie
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The Way We Laughed (1998)
Plot Summary:
Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, juvenile
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The Scrounger (1961)
Plot Summary:
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological, rough, erotic
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Princesses (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in Spain, the story is about friendship and love in the world of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, disturbing, erotic, captivating, social, hispanic, touching, realistic
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The Four Times (2010)
Plot Summary:
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, surreal, emotional, realistic, contemplative, existential, philosophical, spiritual, art house
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Reality (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, cynical, semi serious, social, surreal, cult classic, clever, bleak, realistic
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Plot Summary:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic