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10 Best Movies Like Shoeshine

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

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#1
Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan

1951★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoeshine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the or...

#2
Totò Looking for a House

Totò Looking for a House

1949★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoeshine for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment....

#3
The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party

2016★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoeshine for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu....

#4
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

1966★ 7.1

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

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, th...

#5
Why

Why

1971★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shoeshine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?...

#6
The Devil, Probably

The Devil, Probably

1977★ 6.8

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

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he li...