Movies Like Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades
If you liked Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades (2007), a thriller and history movie directed by Giuseppe Ferrara, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Big Fake (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerToni Chichiarelli arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a painter, but his talent leads him elsewhere — from art galleries to state secrets. Between art, crime, and power, his signature ends up everywhere — even…
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also historyThe 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman…
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Mobsters (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerThe story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
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Baltimore (2024)
★ 6/10Also thriller and historyBased on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were…
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Retroactive (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
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Esterno Notte - Prima Parte (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also historyThe 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.
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Sicilian Letters (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also historyLoosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an…
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Plan A (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and historyGermany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families…
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All the Money in the World (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also history and thrillerThe story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerVice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
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The Spiral (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also thrillerOn a stormy night in Rome, Anna arrives at her daughter Alice’s apartment with a devastating confession: their entire family history is built on a lie. Twenty years earlier, after a horrific accident that nearly cost…
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Carlos (2010)
★ 7/10Also historyThe story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
★ 6/10Also thrillerThe true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
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Ripper's Revenge (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and historyOne year on from the notorious Ripper murders, London is terrorised once again by a series of brutal killings. When gruesome letters from the Ripper begin landing on his desk, an innocent reporter finds himself drawn…
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Live by Night (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also historyA group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Ritual Killer (2023)
★ 5.8/10Also thrillerUnable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an…
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Blood Ties (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerTwo brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
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The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerStefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
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Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerFederal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…
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The Born Losers (1967)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers…