Movies Like Giants in Milan Vol. II

If you liked Giants in Milan Vol. II (2015), a movie directed by Andrea Bellati, 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
Rome, Open City (1945)
★ 8/10
During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
2
Attila Scourge of God (1982)
★ 6/10
The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
3
The Big Fake (2025)
★ 6.6/10
Toni 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…
4
La Notte (1961)
★ 7.9/10
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
5
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…
6
Genius (2016)
★ 6.5/10
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown…
7
Rose Island (2020)
★ 7/10
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The…
8
An Autumn Romance (2021)
★ 7/10
When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…
9
Super Fantozzi (1986)
★ 6.3/10
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical…
10
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
★ 7.2/10
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media…
11
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
★ 6.9/10
Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of eccentric and strange characters.
12
Our Godfather (2019)
★ 6.6/10
The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who…
13
The Best of Youth (2003)
★ 8/10
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following…
14
Caravaggio's Shadow (2022)
★ 6.4/10
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
15
The Current War (2018)
★ 6.7/10
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
16
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
★ 7/10
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
17
Conversation Piece (1974)
★ 7.3/10
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to…
18
Heart and Souls (1993)
★ 7/10
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians…
19
Alexander the Great (1956)
★ 6.1/10
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to…
20
Cabrini (2024)
★ 7.7/10
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and…