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10 Best Movies Like Rome, Open City

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

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#1
Paisan

Paisan

1946★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rome, Open City for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the pu...

#2
Germany, Year Zero

Germany, Year Zero

1948★ 7.7

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

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family....

#3
Shoeshine

Shoeshine

1946★ 7.8

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

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll...

#4
Senso

Senso

1954★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rome, Open City for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant....

#5
General Della Rovere

General Della Rovere

1959★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rome, Open City for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates....

#6
Stromboli

Stromboli

1950★ 7.1

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

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept....