Movies like FILIVS (2025)
The best movies like FILIVS (2025) are San Babila-8 P.M. (1976), The Day of the Owl (1968) and Adulthood (2008). If FILIVS hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBoys Cry (2018)6.9/10 from 297 votes
- NewestTwo thirds (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianSan Babila-8 P.M. (1976)Also in Italian
San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Day of the Owl (1968)
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 shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAdulthood (2008)
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boss (1973)
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWinged Creatures (2009)
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNostalgia (2022)
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Hundred Days in Palermo (1984)
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 in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGolden Men (2019)
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPanic (2000)
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTony Arzenta (1973)
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPiranhas (2019)
A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelly (1998)
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarron's Cove (2025)
When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSiberian Education (2013)
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bygone (2019)
When a young rancher crosses paths with a Lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a search that uncovers a harrowing past and hints at a dire future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoys Cry (2018)
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLucky Luciano (1973)
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlunder Road (1957)
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Quiller Memorandum (1966)
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn the Blood (2014)
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisVorrei solo dirti (2024)
A young aspiring actress has an argument with her father on the phone just before recording a self-tape. Later, as she begins to perform her part, she struggles to concentrate and can’t stop thinking about her father’s hurtful words.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Two thirds (2026)
Giorgio is struggling with the monotonous routine with his father, who has never appreciated him, until he decides to change his ways to turn the situation to his advantage.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Faccende di paese (2026)
Through the perspectives of the inhabitants of a provincial town, we follow the events of a dangerous love triangle.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
XVII. The Stars (2024)
A young woman returns to her hometown for a brief stay, a journey that will lead her to confront her past. The homecoming becomes an opportunity to reprocess memories tied to her parents, a family marked by atypical and complex dynamics. Now an adult, the protagonist finally grasps the depth of her parents' choices, shedding new light on aspects of her childhood that once eluded her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Echo (2025)
Two young people find themselves in a place surrounded by nature, where everything seems suspended and every gesture brings back an intimacy built up over time. Between light-hearted conversations and meaningful silences, the sound of water accompanies their words, while the boundary between reality and memory becomes increasingly blurred. An encounter that oscillates between what has been and what remains, leaving an echo in the air that is difficult to grasp.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Burden of Flesh (2025)
Nando secretly prostitutes himself to survive the day, but will they manage to discover his secret?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
R-Existence (2026)
Unresolved family traumas lead a young woman to make choices that go beyond all limits. When all semblance of control vanishes, the line between victim and perpetrator becomes increasingly blurred.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Veramente (2026)
Young Vera decides to organise a dinner for friends who haven’t seen each other for a long time. To persuade them to come, she reveals to each of them an embarrassing secret about one of the others. But things don’t go as planned, and Vera’s secret is also exposed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Thoughts (2024)
Angela has a big revelation to make and will have to accept life's compromises.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Cecilia (1954)
Teenage Cecilia comes from a working class family. She lives with her mother, three brothers, and alcoholic father. Cecilia finds emotional relief and security with Tore, an older girl at her school.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like FILIVS?
The closest matches to FILIVS are San Babila-8 P.M. (1976), The Day of the Owl (1968) and Adulthood (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after FILIVS?
Start with San Babila-8 P.M. (1976), the closest match to FILIVS.
What is the highest-rated movie like FILIVS?
Boys Cry (2018), rated 6.9/10 by 297 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like FILIVS?
Two thirds (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like FILIVS?
Yes: San Babila-8 P.M. (1976), The Day of the Owl (1968) and The Boss (1973).
How are movies similar to FILIVS chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside FILIVS, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.