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Movies Like The Girl from Trieste

If you liked The Girl from Trieste (1982), a drama and thriller movie directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile, 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. 1Lockdown

    Lockdown (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and…

  2. 2The Infernal Machine

    The Infernal Machine (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…

  3. 3Walking Tall: Lone Justice

    Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and drama

    In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the…

  4. 4The Holy Boy

    The Holy Boy (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama

    A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy…

  5. 5In the Blood

    In the Blood (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

  6. 6Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  7. 7Until Death

    Until Death (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

  8. 8Suburbia

    Suburbia (1984)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller

    When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them…

  9. 9Hider in the House

    Hider in the House (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

  10. 10The Boss

    The Boss (1973)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama

    A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.

  11. 11Fanny Lye Deliver'd

    Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have…

  12. 12High Crime

    High Crime (1973)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

  13. 13Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  14. 14Hobo with a Shotgun

    Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…

  15. 15Dear Mr. Gacy

    Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller

    A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

  16. 16Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  17. 17Rampage: Capital Punishment

    Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.

  18. 18Blindfire

    Blindfire (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller

    A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the…

  19. 19Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.

  20. 20Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

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