Movies like The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth (2003) is a history movie directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
★ 6.7 · 419 votes · Comedy, Drama, History
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
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2. One Hundred Steps (2000)
★ 7.8 · 746 votes · Drama, History
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.
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3. Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5 · 848 votes · War, History, Drama
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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4. Quo Vadis (1951)
★ 7.1 · 475 votes · Drama, History, Romance
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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5. Tristan & Isolde (2006)
★ 6.7 · 875 votes · Drama, Romance
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
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6. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
★ 7.7 · 2,132 votes · Adventure, Drama, History
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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7. The Forbidden City (2025)
★ 6.9 · 358 votes · Action, Drama, Romance
The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they’ll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld.
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8. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
★ 7.6 · 3,481 votes · Drama, Romance, History
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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9. Kidnapped (2023)
★ 7.3 · 392 votes · Drama, History
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
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10. Legends of the Fall (1994)
★ 7.4 · 2,971 votes · Drama, Western, Romance
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
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11. Richard Jewell (2019)
★ 7.4 · 2,828 votes · Drama, History, Crime
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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12. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6 · 1,326 votes · Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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13. Hamnet (2025)
★ 7.7 · 1,687 votes · Drama, Romance
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
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14. Martin Eden (2019)
★ 7.0 · 703 votes · Romance, Drama
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
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