Movies like Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia (1998)
The best movies like Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia (1998) are Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019), One Hundred Steps (2000) and Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976). If Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOne Hundred Steps (2000)7.8/10 from 750 votes
- NewestBugonia (2025)Released 2025
- In ItalianMafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019)Also in Italian
Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019)
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Hundred Steps (2000)
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl with a Pistol (1968)
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Voyage to Italy (1999)
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInvaders from Mars (1953)
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBe Sick… It's Free (1968)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Monsters (1963)
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDjango & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Traitor (2019)
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEverybody's Fine (1990)
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa Terra Trema (1949)
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLooking for Richard (1996)
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad Tales (2020)
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBugonia (2025)
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLola's Secret (1984)
A young man's dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she has a secret that leads to trouble.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisPorno (2019)
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCiao, Professore! (1992)
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia?
The closest matches to Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia are Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019), One Hundred Steps (2000) and Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia?
Start with Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019), the closest match to Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia.
What is the highest-rated movie like Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia?
One Hundred Steps (2000), rated 7.8/10 by 750 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia?
Bugonia (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia?
Yes: Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019), One Hundred Steps (2000) and Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976).
How are movies similar to Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cieli altissimi retrocedenti. Tricologia di Palermo di Salvo Cuccia, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.