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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
The Children's Train

The Children's Train

2024★ 7.4

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

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....

#2
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...

#3
The Truce

The Truce

1997★ 6.1

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

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace....

#4
Suite Française

Suite Française

2015★ 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.

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husban...

#5
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

1970★ 8.2

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

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and t...

#6
Two Women

Two Women

1960★ 7.8

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

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them....

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