realism movies

Kick-Ass (2010)
7.123 / 10

Action, Crime

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers,...

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
8.201 / 10

Drama

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to...

7 Prisoners (2021)
7.048 / 10

Drama, Crime

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

Central Station (1998)
8.1 / 10

Drama

An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search...

Tragedy of the Street (1927)
5.8 / 10

Drama

Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking...

Baden Baden (2016)
6 / 10

Comedy, Drama

Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long...

Lautrec (1998)
5 / 10

Comedy, Drama

The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He...

Hands over the City (1963)
7.5 / 10

Drama

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

Where the Day Takes You (1992)
6.1 / 10

Drama, Thriller, Crime

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts...

Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid (1989)
6.893 / 10

History, Western, TV Movie

Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.

The Lower Depths (1936)
7.2 / 10

Drama, Romance, Crime

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

Spaces and Reservations (2014)
5 / 10

Drama, Romance

Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by...

Writhing (2018)
7 / 10

Fantasy, Drama

Part work of ethereal realism, part dance film, this contemporary-set short follows a young man facing the probability of an HIV+ diagnosis.

It (1966)
5.9 / 10

Drama

Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they...

Harold's Going Stiff (2011)
4.5 / 10

Comedy, Drama, Horror

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

The Prefab People (1982)
6.4 / 10

Drama

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

A Place of Our Own (2014)
10 / 10

Drama, Comedy, History, Documentary

Trash (1969)
0 / 10

Drama

March, 2021. Claudia, a 24-year-old girl, tries to barely survive in the pandemic and precarious Madrid. After being threaten by his landlord in case...

The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes (1948)
6.3 / 10

Drama

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and...

Take Out Lunch (2024)
0 / 10

Crime, Drama

A man gets attacked while trying to take home food for his brother.