Best Italian movies of 1960s

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Marcel Dalio, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Abel Davis is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel's wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and ...

Actors : Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dominique Blanchar, Lea Massari,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

Actors : Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.

Actors : Salvo Randone, Martin Potter, Max Born, Hiram Keller,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.

Actors : Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Alain Delon,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

Actors : Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Bernhard Wicki,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

Actors : José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, José Canalejas, Franco Nero,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a half-breed prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

Actors : Anne Wiazemsky, Massimo Girotti, Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can ...

Actors : Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Ettore Garofolo, Silvana Corsini,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution....

Actors : Franca Pasut, Franco Citti, Paola Guidi, Silvana Corsini,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Agostino Salvietti, Aldo Giuffrè, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Actors : Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Umberto Bevilacqua, Femi Benussi,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Innocenti Totò and his son Innocenti Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy, when they meet a Marxist speaking crow. The trio travels together in a long journey as their hunger increases.

Actors : Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren,

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A ...

Actors : Frederico Zardi, Frank Wolff, Sennuccio Benelli, Salvo Randone,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

Actors : John Saxon, Titti Tomaino, Valentina Cortese, Letícia Román,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son...

Actors : Folco Lulli, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

Actors : Eduardo Ciannelli, Woody Strode, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer,
Directors : Giuseppe Colizzi,

Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.

Actors : Tomas Milian, Jolanda Modio, Gian Maria Volontè, William Berger,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

A history professor has a chance meeting with an infamous outlaw and eventually assumes leadership of his gang.