Best Italian movies of 1970s

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Silvana Mangano, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Jacques Perrin, Helmut Griem, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

Actors : Piero Galletti, Luisa Rossi, Nanni Moretti, Lina Sastri,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

An ironic peak into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.

Actors : George Eastman, Ely Galleani, Carroll Baker, Isabelle De Funès,
Directors : Corrado Farina,

A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.

Actors : Lila Kedrova, Klaus Kinski, Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery,

A woman is tormented by strange dreams of astronauts on the moon. She visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her even though she does not know them.

Actors : Sonja Jeannine, John Steiner, Donald O'Brien, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A bounty hunter arrives in a mining town and is hired to track down the missing daughter of the town's crippled mayor and learns she has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and a band of outlaws he is secretly working for.

Actors : Lloyd Battista, Magda Konopka, Tony Anthony, Ringo Starr,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

A blind, but deadly, gunfighter is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. When his business partners double cross him - selling them to bandits - he heads into Mexico in pursuit.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Franco Nero, Claudio Gora,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public ...

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Marc Porel, Franco Citti, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy whom are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops whom thrive on living dangerously.

Actors : Renzo Palmer, Fabio Testi, Orso Maria Guerrini, Vincent Gardenia,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.

Actors : Howard Ross, Ligia Branice, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Expensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Dustin Hoffman, Carla Gravina, Saro Urzì,
Directors : Pietro Germi,

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Actors : Jacques Herlin, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière, Renato Scarpa, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, ...

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings.

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Michele Placido, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Ray Milland,
Directors : Flavio Mogherini,

Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry...

Actors : Dino Emanuelli, Jack La Cayenne, Bud Spencer, Herbert Lom,
Directors : Marcello Fondato,

Con-man tries to pull a fast one on what appears to be an easy prey, but his "victim" scams him for five million dollars!

Actors : Marilù Tolo, Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, Teodoro Corrà,
Directors : Mario Bava,

Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native ...

Actors : Gianni Garko, Piero Lulli, Nieves Navarro, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giuliano Carnimeo,

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch ...