Movies Like What Really Matters

If you liked What Really Matters, a movie directed by Lorenzo Atzei, 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.

1
Ovosodo (1997)
★ 7.2/10
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
2
Paternal Leave (2025)
★ 6.4/10
Torn between longing and anger, 15-year-old Leo travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. The two are complete strangers to each other. They struggle to find truth, affinity, love and the…
3
Stealing Beauty (1996)
★ 6.7/10
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian…
4
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
★ 8.1/10
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver…
5
A Chiara (2021)
★ 6.8/10
The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the…
6
Things We Don't Say (2026)
★ 6.9/10
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in…
7
Perfect Strangers (2016)
★ 7.8/10
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
8
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
★ 8.4/10
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.
9
My Friends (1975)
★ 8.1/10
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
10
Totòtruffa '62 (1961)
★ 7.6/10
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their…
11
The Anonymous Venetian (1970)
★ 7.5/10
Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
12
Death in Venice (1971)
★ 7.2/10
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel…
13
The Goddess of Fortune (2019)
★ 7.1/10
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take…
14
The Hand of God (2021)
★ 7.5/10
In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
15
Misunderstood (1967)
★ 7.6/10
The story of a widower and his two sons, focusing on their complex and sometimes difficult relationships.
16
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
★ 6.7/10
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
17
Avanti! (1972)
★ 6.9/10
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
18
5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)
★ 6.3/10
Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his…
19
Everything's Gonna Be Alright (2020)
★ 7.2/10
Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele and the seventeen-year-old Tito. Following a sudden illness, Bruno is…
20
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
★ 7/10
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.