Best Italian movies

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi, Saro Urzì, Lando Buzzanca,
Directors : Pietro Germi,

Agnese, a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister Matilde's fiancé. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything. He wants to force Peppino to ...

Actors : Elio Germano, Leonardo Carrozzo, Oliver Ewy, Pietro Traldi,
Directors : Giorgio Diritti,

Antonio is expelled from Switzerland to Italy against his will. For years he lives in poverty in the Po floodplains, but he never gives up his passion for drawing. The story of Antonio Ligabue, a revolutionary loner in modern art.

Actors : Alba Rohrwacher, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Luigi Lo Cascio,
Directors : Daniele Luchetti,

A marriage-in-crisis drama set in Naples and Rome over a long period starting in the 1980s.

Actors : Carolina Crescentini, Francesco Arca, Filippo Scicchitano, Kasia Smutniak,
Directors : Ferzan Ozpetek,

Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to ...

Actors : Maria de Medeiros, Alessandro Gassman, Michela Cescon, Massimo Poggio,
Directors : Marco Filiberti,

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Actors : Pietro Castellitto, Claudio Santamaria, Giancarlo Martini, Aurora Giovinazzo, Franz Rogowski,
Directors : Gabriele Mainetti,

Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone start looking for the four freaks with a plan that could change the fate of the whole world.

Actors : Alfonso Santagata, Mariella Valentini, Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As ...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Telly Savalas, Alessio Orano,

A total re-edit of Mario Bava's gothic classic Lisa e il diavolo (1973) for US release in 1975. Cheesy exorcism scenes were shot to try to capitalize on the success of The Exorcist (1973).

Actors : Remo Girone, Beppe Fiorello, Claudio Bisio, Kasia Smutniak,
Directors : Riccardo Milani,

A mr. No One is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic.

Actors : Flavio Insinna, Nancy Brilli, Claudia Gerini, Silvio Orlando,
Directors : Fausto Brizzi,

Couples in trouble cross paths in this bittersweet comedy.

Actors : Michael Vartan, Galatea Ranzi, Claudio Bigagli, Lino Capolicchio,

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 ...

Actors : Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis, Michele Riondino, Elio Germano,
Directors : Mario Martone,

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.

Actors : Terence Hill, George Eastman, José Torres, Horst Frank,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

A gunfighter forms a gang of "deceased" execution victims to get revenge on the politician and outlaw who killed his wife.

Actors : Antonio Folletto, Laura Adriani, Vincenzo Nemolato,
Directors : Umberto Riccioni Carteni,

Drowning in debt, two brothers concoct a plan to scam a wealthy heiress and save their home in Naples - but unexpected love soon complicates the scheme.

Actors : Luca Zingaretti, Isabella Ragonese, Raoul Bova, Elio Germano,
Directors : Daniele Luchetti,

Claudio, a construction worker, works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, when he finds the remains of an ...

Actors : Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he'll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. His impending absence strains his ...

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Romolo Valli, Shelley Winters, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Actors : Ángela Molina, Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi,

A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.

Actors : Valeria D'Obici, Henry Silva, Mark Gregory, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A rag-tag group of people must fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.

Actors : Jess Hahn, Lee Van Cleef, Alberto Dentice, Horst Frank,
Directors : Giancarlo Santi,

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.