If You Liked Bicycle Thieves, Watch These Next
Finished Bicycle Thieves (1948) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Bicycle Thieves, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Children's Train(2024)
7.4DramaAlso drama
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
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2.Rome, Open City(1945)
8.0DramaWarAlso drama
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.
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3.Adopt a Highway(2019)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant…
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4.Five Seconds(2025)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.
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6.Golden Men(2019)
6.3CrimeDramaAlso drama
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.
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7.Europa '51(1952)
7.3DramaAlso drama
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions…
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8.On My Skin(2018)
8.0DramaAlso drama
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.
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9.American Flyers(1985)
6.2DramaAlso drama
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a…
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10.Euphoria(2018)
6.5DramaAlso drama
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live…
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11.L'immensità(2022)
6.3DramaAlso drama
Clara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrea, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions.
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12.Small Body(2022)
6.9DramaAlso drama
A young woman in early-1900s Italy searches for a mystical sanctuary where her stillborn child can be brought back to life long enough to be baptized.
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13.A Daughter(2025)
6.4DramaAlso 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 all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few…
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14.Gigi & Nate(2022)
7.7DramaAlso drama
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
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15.Perfect Strangers(2016)
7.9DramaAlso 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.
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16.Satyricon(1969)
6.7DramaFantasyAlso drama
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
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17.Everybody's Fine(1990)
7.3DramaAlso 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.
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18.The Company You Keep(2012)
6.2DramaThrillerAlso drama
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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19.Murder on the Orient Express(2017)
6.7MysteryDramaCrimeAlso drama
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
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