20 movies like Tea With Mussolini, ordered by similarity : Life Is Beautiful(1997), Bellissima(1951), The Human Comedy(1943), Somewhere(2010), The Night of the Shooting Stars(1982), My Art(2016), Aprile(1998), The Italian(2010), Amarcord(1973), Dil Hai Tumhaara(2002), Tickets(2005), Conversations With My Gardener(2007) ...
Comedy, Drama
Italy|UK
1999
116 Minutes
Cher Judi Dench Joan Plowright Maggie Smith Lily Tomlin Baird Wallace Charlie Lucas Massimo Ghini Paolo Seganti Paul Checquer Tessa Pritchard
expatriate artist businessman archaeologist young boy widow charming emotional moving florence, italy austria italy tuscany, italy fascist italy expatriates adolescence motherhood world war ii female bonding sacrifice
An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1997
122 Minutes
Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi Giorgio Cantarini Giustino Durano Sergio Bustric Marisa Paredes Amerigo Fontani Horst Buchholz Lidia Alfonsi Giuliana Lojodice Pietro De Silva
father mother son waiter schoolteacher nazi moving playful emotional sad bleak frightening italy concentration camp hotel household bookstore big city holocaust concentration camp
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1951
112 Minutes
Anna Magnani Walter Chiari Tina Apicella
mother daughter father celebrity child actor talent scout emotional heartwarming amusing hilarious lighthearted melodramatic italy talent agency ambition hope dream vs. reality childhood relationships mother/daughter relationship
A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan James Craig Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marsha Hunt Fay Bainter Darryl Hickman Donna Reed Van Johnson
young boy young girl boss man woman brother heartwarming emotional amusing small town house high school track office europe world war ii home front young love family communication
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Drama, Comedy
USA|UK|Italy|Japan
2010
98 Minutes
Stephen Dorff Elle Fanning Chris Pontius Michelle Monaghan Laura Chiatti Simona Ventura Benicio Del Toro Lala Sloatman
actor daughter father party girl mother stripper dreamy offbeat melodramatic engaging touching dark hollywood, calif. hotel ice-skating rink italy car city father/daughter relationship debauchery
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Drama
Italy
1982
106 Minutes
Omero Antonutti Margarita Lozano Claudio Bigagli Micol Guidelli Massimo Bonetti Enrica Maria Modugno Sabina Vannucchi Giorgio Naddi
villager girl nazi priest italian fascist italian partisan bleak brutal gripping emotional italy tuscany, italy world war ii fascism faith escape love pursuit quest 1940s
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Comedy, Drama
2016
86 Minutes
Parker Posey Lena Dunham John Rothman Joshua Safdie Robert Clohessy Barbara Sukowa Al Thompson Grace Dunham Laurie Simmons Benjamin Eakeley Garland Hunter
artist friend dog man amusing charming emotional endearing cheeky creative new york city gallery office garden restaurant artistic struggle creative process creative block friendship small town
Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.
Comedy
Italy|France
1998
78 Minutes
filmmaker artist father politician wife journalist amusing charming creative emotional melodramatic patriotic italy venice, italy documentary filmmaking political corruption politics art father/child relationship fatherhood
Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.
Comedy, Drama
France
2010
105 Minutes
Kad Merad Valérie Benguigui Roland Giraud Philippe Lefebvre Guillaume Gallienne Sid Ahmed Agoumi Farida Ouchani Saphia Azzeddine
algerian italian impostor car salesman father muslim cheeky amusing playful engaging hilarious charming car dealership family home office france italy nice hidden identity disguise
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1973
125 Minutes
Magali Noël Bruno Zanin Pupella Maggio Armando Brancia Ciccio Ingrassia Nando Orfei Luigi Rossi Gianfilippo Carcano Josiane Tanzilli
son father mother amusing cheeky dreamy spirited italy small town waterfront fascism family sex small-town life growing up transformation 1930s
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Comedy, Drama
India
2002
180 Minutes
Rekha Preity Zinta Arjun Rampal Jimmy Sheirgill Alok Nath Govind Namdeo Gajraj Rao Dilip Joshi
mother businessman half sister childhood friend father emotional charming endearing melodramatic moving positive india bungalow house love mother/daughter relationship sister relationship adoption death of father love
Raising her two daughters, Saritaji "Rekha" fears that history might repeat itself when both of them fall for the same guy.
Comedy, Drama
2005
106 Minutes
Abbas Kiarostami Carlo Delle Piane Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Silvana De Santis Filippo Trojano Carolina Benvenga Marta Mangiucca Martin Compston William Ruane Gary Maitland
professor beautiful woman ex-soldier fan father mother emotional profound train italy family train travel assignment culture clash desire discovery underdog 2000s
Three stories about train passengers involve a biochemist (Carlo Delle Piane) and an attractive woman (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a general's widow (Silvana De Santis), and rowdy soccer fans.
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships
Comedy, Drama
USA
1989
118 Minutes
Sally Field Dolly Parton Shirley MacLaine Daryl Hannah Olympia Dukakis Julia Roberts Tom Skerritt Sam Shepard Dylan McDermott Kevin J. O'Connor Bill McCutcheon
bride beautician mother friend widow husband heartwarming somber uplifting amusing moving charming louisiana beauty salon hospital small town family home wedding female bonding pregnancy
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1980
140 Minutes
Marcello Mastroianni Anna Prucnal Bernice Stegers Jole Silvani Donatella Damiani Ettore Manni Stéphane Emilfork Sylvie Matton
man beautiful woman doctor police officer ex-wife sultry outlandish italy wilderness hotel feminism sex strange happenings on the run escape underdog pursuit temptation 1980s
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1989
112 Minutes
Vittorio Duse Joseph Long Anita Zagaria Eileen Way Vittorio Amandola Ian Hawkes Tat Whalley Ray Marioni Sarah Hadaway Jimmy Lambert
husband wife mother-in-law son jilted lover shop owner touching emotional creative italy small town london coffee shop house true love family immigrants small business luck underdog
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a café in an Italian neighborhood. One day their father loses the... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2005
103 Minutes
Judi Dench Bob Hoskins Will Young Kelly Reilly Thelma Barlow Christopher Guest Anna Brewster Rosalind Halstead Sarah Solemani Natalia Tena Doraly Rosen
theater owner theatrical producer actress pregnant woman soldier widow amusing inspiring moving london theater world war i blitz of london bravery performance competition sacrifice transformation 1940s
Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.
Drama
Italy|France
1959
99 Minutes
Eleonora Rossi Drago Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacqueline Sassard Lilla Brignone Cathia Caro Raf Mattioli Federica Ranchi Enrico Maria Salerno
young man father widow son friend love interest engaging intense playful italy beach nightclub apartment romance world war ii father/son relationship mother/son relationship self-sacrifice ignorance discovery
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy|Switzerland|Armenia
2003
90 Minutes
Romen Avinian Lala Sarkissian Ivan Franek Armen Marutyan Astrik Avaguian Rousanne Mesropian Zahal Karielachvili
widower father poor person bar owner kurd widow charming touching quirky graveyard bar armenia village bus friendship small-town life bereavement romance sympathy soviet union
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
Drama
Italy
1949
107 Minutes
Silvana Mangano Vittorio Gassman Doris Dowling Raf Vallone Checco Rissone Nico Pepe Maria Grazia Francia Mariemma Bardi Adriana Sivieri Lia Corelli Dedi Ristori
criminal lover peasant soldier dark sultry emotional gripping italy train rice field the past crime romance on the run wealth labor transformation escape 1940s
Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.