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Movies Like La Cecilia

If you liked La Cecilia (1976), a drama movie directed by Jean-Louis Comolli, 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. 1The Mass Is Ended

    The Mass Is Ended (1985)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old…

  2. 2Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten

    Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake…

  3. 3Dormant Beauty

    Dormant Beauty (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

  4. 4The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  5. 5Things We Don't Say

    Things We Don't Say (2026)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    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…

  6. 6The Nest

    The Nest (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…

  7. 7Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  8. 8Herself

    Herself (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a…

  9. 9Sergio

    Sergio (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.

  10. 10The Dinner

    The Dinner (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and…

  11. 11Cardboard Boxer

    Cardboard Boxer (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

  12. 12Il Buco

    Il Buco (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the world’s deepest caves, the Bifurto Abyss, under the gaze of an old…

  13. 13Five Seconds

    Five Seconds (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.

  14. 14100 Sundays

    100 Sundays (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Antonio, a former shipyard worker, leads a mild and peaceful life: he plays bowls with friends, takes care of his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and Emilia, his only and beloved…

  15. 15Winter Lemons

    Winter Lemons (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Pietro and Eleonora, both avid gardeners, are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each other. The relationship that grows between them helps them to alleviate the pain each feels over…

  16. 16The Consequences of Love

    The Consequences of Love (2004)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery…

  17. 17Piranhas

    Piranhas (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves.

  18. 18Lamerica

    Lamerica (1994)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In post-communist Albania, two Italian con artists establish a fictitious shoe factory to embezzle government funds. When their elderly Albanian figurehead disappears, the younger accomplice sets out to find him…

  19. 19Nostalgia

    Nostalgia (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.

  20. 20Small Body

    Small Body (2022)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A young woman in early-1900s Italy searches for a mystical sanctuary where her stillborn child can be brought back to life long enough to be baptized.

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