Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Find Me is a 2019 novel by André Aciman, continuing the world of his Call Me by Your Name. It follows Samuel "Sami" Perlman, travelling from Florence to Rome to visit his son Elio — now a gifted classical pianist — when a chance encounter with a woman named Miranda on the train changes his plans entirely. The novel traces Samuel, Elio, and Oliver across time, exploring how unexpected connection reshapes lives and how longing persists across each of them.
Find Me is a 2019 novel by writer André Aciman. The novel follows the lives of Samuel "Sami" Perlman, his son Elio Perlman, and Oliver, characters established in Aciman's 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name.
From the Wikipedia article Find_Me_(novel), available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Call Me by Your Name
Elio and Oliver's charged summer in an Italian villa is the world *Find Me* grows directly out of.
Film
Elio
A space-obsessed kid lands in a cosmic misadventure, forging unlikely bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms.
Film
The Book of Life
A young man torn between family expectations and his own heart embarks on a journey to discover his true path.
Film
A Few Feet Away
A 20-year-old frustrated by the virtual world seeks genuine human connection in real Buenos Aires nightlife.
Series
Don't Be Afraid, I'm With You
Two young people on the cusp of adulthood face a life-altering event that upends both their families.
Series
Tanto Amor
Love struggles to survive and overcome every obstacle a wealthy family's expectations place in its way.
Series
Be with You
A promised return and a child's quiet, unwavering faith anchor this story of grief and enduring love.
Series
Ika-6 na Utos
A couple's seemingly perfect love is tested when family disapproval threatens what they have built together.
Series
Come What May
A selfish young woman staging a fake marriage finds her carefully constructed illusions challenged by real feeling.
Series
The Beginning of the Sea
A portrait of love between parents and children told through the many forms that connection can take.
Book
Call Me by Your Name
The original summer that defines Elio — the precocious 17-year-old at the Italian villa where it all began.
Book
Illegal
A boy named Ebo makes a dangerous journey driven entirely by the need to be reunited with those he loves.
Book
Letters of transit
An author traces a migration from Egypt through Italy and France, examining transience and the need to belong.
Book
The Shoemaker's Wife
Two young people meet in the Italian Alps and are then separated, carrying a longing that spans years and continents.
Book
Enigma variations
Five stories chronicle love's contradictory power, its ability to illuminate and to wound in equal measure.
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Road To Romance
A guided tour through Italy becomes something far more personal when suspicion and attraction complicate the journey.
Start with Call Me by Your Name, the novel that introduces Elio and Oliver — Find Me is its direct continuation. For another meditation on displacement and longing, Letters of Transit and Enigma Variations share similar emotional terrain.
The most direct companion is Call Me by Your Name, which brings the Italian villa and its characters to life on screen. A Few Feet Away shares the theme of a young person seeking real human connection beyond surfaces and screens.
The novel captures how a single chance encounter — like Samuel meeting Miranda on the train — can quietly restructure a life. Its warmth comes from the bond between father and son, and from the idea that love remains possible at every stage.