Best Italian movies of 2000s

Actors : Alba Rohrwacher, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Flavio Parenti, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Luca Guadagnino,

Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

Actors : Giuseppe Sulfaro, Matilde Piana, Luciano Federico, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

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.

Actors : Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Actors : Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Accorsi, Claudio Santamaria, Giovanna Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gabriele Muccino,

Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and ...

Actors : Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Emanuele Crialese,

On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.

Actors : Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano, Artemio Vallone,
Directors : Michelangelo Frammartino,

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have ...

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Kseniya Rappoport,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Actors : Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Filippo Timi, Kseniya Rappoport,
Directors : Giuseppe Capotondi,

A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.

Actors : Maya Sansa, Paolo Briguglia, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

Actors : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Nicoletta Romanoff, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Gabriele Muccino,

In the dysfunctional Italian middle-class family Ristuccia, the middle-aged executive Carlo has a stalled life without passion, bored in his work and having a monotonous life with his wife ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Marco Messeri, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valerio Mastandrea,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.

Actors : Max Casella, Massimo Ranieri, Angela Luce, John Turturro,
Directors : John Turturro,

A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.

Actors : Lulu Pecorari, Mauro Pirovano, Ingrid de Souza, Cesare Bocci,
Directors : Henrique Goldman,

Fernando, a.k.a. Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance sex-change surgery. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman, ...

Actors : Michela Cescon, Vitaliano Trevisan, Roberto Comacchio, Alberto Re,
Directors : Matteo Garrone,

Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to ...

Actors : Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Giuseppe Battiston, Teresa Saponangelo,
Directors : Silvio Soldini,

One day at a colleague's going away party, Anna meets Domenico, a virile, slightly older chap who's married with two small kids. Passion's flames are rapidly kindled and result in steamy encounters.

Actors : Riccardo Scamarcio, Ennio Fantastichini, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi,
Directors : Ferzan Ozpetek,

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Vanessa Incontrada, Nino D'Angelo, Neri Marcorè,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Nello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in ...

Actors : Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Walter Saabel, Asia Crippa,

A circus woman and her husband find a two year old girl in the trailer park where they are living. With the help of another child, they search for her mother.

Actors : Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Silvio Orlando, Michele Placido,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.