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Movies Like One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future

If you liked One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future (1972), a drama movie directed by Giuseppe De Santis, 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. 1Things 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…

  2. 2Finally Dawn

    Finally Dawn (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.

  3. 3A Chiara

    A Chiara (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    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…

  4. 4The Roof

    The Roof (1956)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This film follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed…

  5. 5The Raffle

    The Raffle (1991)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.

  6. 6The Ties

    The Ties (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's…

  7. 7Hungry Hearts

    Hungry Hearts (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

  8. 8A Daughter

    A Daughter (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an…

  9. 9The Butcher

    The Butcher (1998)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Alina is a brilliant and enterprising woman who runs a successful art gallery in Palermo. Her husband Daniele, a successful orchestra conductor, cultured and intelligent, is not a regular presence. One day, while…

  10. 10What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…

  11. 11Gioia

    Gioia (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to…

  12. 12Along the Ridge

    Along the Ridge (2006)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.

  13. 13The 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.

  14. 14Perfect Strangers

    Perfect Strangers (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

  15. 15Bad Tales

    Bad Tales (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and…

  16. 16Everybody's Fine

    Everybody's Fine (1990)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

  17. 17Everything's Gonna Be Alright

    Everything's Gonna Be Alright (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    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…

  18. 18Bebo's Girl

    Bebo's Girl (1964)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in…

  19. 19Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  20. 20Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

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