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10 Best Movies Like It Was the Son

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

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#1
One Hundred Days in Palermo

One Hundred Days in Palermo

1984★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Was the Son for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect i...

#2
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Was the Son for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

#3
The Day of the Owl

The Day of the Owl

1968★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Was the Son for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocke...

#4
The Con Artists

The Con Artists

1976★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Was the Son for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix ...

#5
The Treasure of San Gennaro

The Treasure of San Gennaro

1966★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Was the Son for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli....

#6
In the Name of the Italian People

In the Name of the Italian People

1971★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Was the Son for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the ma...

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