Overview
A heartfelt exploration of family bonds and the pursuit of love across borders.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- warm
- wistful
- melancholic
- lazy sunday
- family drama night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Gigi and Giancarlo meet again after a decade apart and look back over their shared lives.
The Amato family establishes a life in Duisburg while maintaining a powerful connection to Solino.
Romano, Rosa, and their sons build the first pizza restaurant in town, shaping the family's identity and conflicts.
Giancarlo and Gigi fall in love with Jo, turning their fraternal bond into an angry personal rupture.
Films like Solino, and why
The Godfather Part II
shared themes of immigrant family life, cultural displacement, sibling conflict, and bittersweet drama
The Emigrants
shared focus on migration, family bonds, generational memory, and emotionally textured European drama
The Big Night
shared Italian diaspora setting, family tensions, romance, and warm tragicomic tone
East Is East
shared themes of immigrant assimilation, family identity, and cross-cultural belonging with comedic warmth
Movie Details
- Director
- Fatih Akin
- Release Date
- 2002-09-23
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 (74)
Cast
- Barnaby Metschurat
- Moritz Bleibtreu
- Gigi Savoia
- Antonella Attili
- Patrycia Ziółkowska
- Hermann Lause
- Lucas Gregorowicz
- Tiziana Lodato
- Franco Javarone
- Christian Tasche
Common questions
- What is Solino about?
- An Italian immigrant family’s pizzeria becomes the battleground for two brothers divided by love, distance, and competing ideas of home.
- What is Solino like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Solino as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Solino violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Solino.
- Which films are like Solino?
- Films with a similar feel include The Godfather Part II, The Emigrants, The Big Night, and East Is East.
- How long is Solino?
- Solino runs 120 minutes.
