La vita è bella(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.



Malèna(2000)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.



Il postino(1994)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.



Farinelli(1994)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes to be a very ...



Johnny Stecchino(1991)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.



Nirvana(1997)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the...



Chiedimi se sono felice(2000)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

James meets John, a close friend of his, with whom he had quarreled three years ago and persuades him to go visit their third friend Aldo, who is dying in Sicily. Through flashbacks we ...



Lamerica(1994)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. ...



La leggenda del Titanic(1999)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A grandfather mouse tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic disaster, including himself, evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling scheme.



Aprile(1998)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.



Fiorile(1993)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti ...



Demonia(1990)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns who were murdered 500 years earlier, and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.



Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa(1990)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the Eighteenth Century, the "Traveling Company of Scenic Arts" composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling ...



Il portaborse(1991)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (...



La scuola(1995)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ultimo giorno di scuola in un Istituto superiore romano ed ultime interrogazioni prima degli scrutini finali. Inoltre, bisogna festeggiare un'anziana insegnante che va in pensione. Gli ...



Ferie d'agosto(1996)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in Ventotene, a tiny island in the Tirrenian sea. Too many political and cultural differences divide the two ...



Zora la vampira(2000)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Transilvania, anno 2000. Affascinato dalle 'veline' televisive italiane che riceve con la parabolica, il conte Dracula decide di partire per l'Italia, in cerca di sangue e carne fresca. In ...



La carne(1991)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to ...



Il grande cocomero(1993)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After many years of medical treatment Valentina, apparently an epileptic girl, has been sent to a psychiatric clinic. Here she finds Arturo, a young psychiatrist, who notwithstanding his ...



La seconda volta(1995)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the...




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