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10 Best Movies Like Abissinia

If you loved Abissinia, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Things Unspoken

Things Unspoken

2026★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abissinia for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally p...

#2
My Tennis Maestro

My Tennis Maestro

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abissinia for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Italy, 1989. After years of hard training, 13-year-old Felice, carrying his father's expectations on his shoulders, finally sets out to compete in the national tennis tournaments. ...

#3
Palazzina LAF

Palazzina LAF

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abissinia for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track...

#4
Family Diary

Family Diary

1962★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abissinia for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult rel...

#5
Loro 2

Loro 2

2018★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abissinia for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in po...

#6
Terraferma

Terraferma

2011★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abissinia for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island....

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