Top 20 movies like The Scent of the Night
Top 20 Movies like The Scent of the Night
- 1. Don't Be Bad
- 2. Il popolo delle donne
- 3. Musica per vecchi animali
- 4. Voyage in Time
- 5. I REC U
- 6. Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
- 7. Tutti giù per terra
- 8. The Guest
- 9. Wiener-Dog
- 10. A Quiet Life
- 11. Toxic Love
- 12. Aprile
- 13. Our Father
- 14. First Love
- 15. Superheroes
- 16. Boys Cry
- 17. Horse Fever
- 18. Corsage
- 19. Streets of Fire
- 20. Two Women
1. Don't Be Bad (Non essere cattivo)
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
It has an average vote of 7.797 on TMDB.
2. Il popolo delle donne (Il popolo delle donne)
The film highlights the relationship between women’s growing social empowerment and the rise in sexual abuse by men – a trend that was the opposite of what was largely expected to happen. The film revolves around Marina Valcarenghi, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with a forty-five-year career in clinical work that has allowed her to observe the persistence of women’s insecurity, despite the economic and social independence they have gradually achieved, and understand why. Valcarenghi was the first to introduce psychoanalysis in prisons, starting with the Opera and Bollate penitentiaries. For twelve years she worked with male inmates held in solitary confinement; most of them had been convicted of sexual violence.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
3. Musica per vecchi animali (Musica per vecchi animali)
(Musica per vecchi animali)
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
4. Voyage in Time (Tempo di viaggio)
The travels in Italy of director Andrei Tarkovsky in preparation for the making of his film Nostalghia.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
5. I REC U (I REC U)
19 years old Neve sees women out of focus - but he can see them properly when they are recorded on magnetic tape or film. This is why he wears a special pair of camera-glasses which, recording every single moment of his life, allow him to see everything correctly. His life actually becoming one of the movies he has been watching since he was a child. Until the day he meets the one and only woman he can see at naked eye.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
6. Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco) (Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco))
Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
7. Tutti giù per terra (Tutti giù per terra)
Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
8. The Guest (L'ospite)
Dumped by his girlfriend and finding himself stranded on different couches at friends’ places, Guido tries to transform his drift into an opportunity for a new beginning.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
9. Wiener-Dog
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
It has an average vote of 5.633 on TMDB.
10. A Quiet Life (Una vita tranquilla)
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. Toxic Love (Amore tossico)
The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
12. Aprile (Aprile)
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
13. Our Father (Padrenostro)
Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
14. First Love (初恋)
Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict but still innocent. But, little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. All their fates intertwine in spectacular Miike style, at his most fun and anarchic.
It has an average vote of 6.696 on TMDB.
15. Superheroes (Supereroi)
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
16. Boys Cry (La terra dell'abbastanza)
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Horse Fever (Febbre da cavallo)
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
18. Corsage (Corsage)
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
It has an average vote of 6.295 on TMDB.
19. Streets of Fire
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.
It has an average vote of 6.902 on TMDB.
20. Two Women (La ciociara)
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
