Critically acclaimed Italian movies of recent years

The Hand of God(2021)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 77

In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.



The Eight Mountains(2022)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 53

The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up ...



Nostalgia(2022)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 45

After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.



A Chiara(2021)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.



The Hole(2021)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 35

The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.



America Latina(2021)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Massimo Sisti is the proprietor of a dental surgery that bears his name. Professional, courteous and calm, he has attained everything he could have desired: a villa in a peaceful setting ...



A Classic Horror Story(2021)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 8

In this gruesome suspense film, strangers traveling in southern Italy become stranded in the woods, where they must fight desperately to get out alive.



Padre Pio(2022)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 7

It follows Roman Catholic Saint Padre Pio in his early years.



The Tale of King Crab(2021)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Italy, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the local tale of Luciano. Luciano lives as a wandering drunkard in a remote village of the region called Tuscia. Spiteful actions ensue ...



My Name Is Vendetta(2022)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.



Baggio: The Divine Ponytail(2021)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Biographical film about Italian footballer Roberto Baggio, a man who inspired entire generations to play football. A unique footballer, capable of thrilling fans all over the world.



Leonora addio(2022)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Three surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.



Security(2021)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A winter's tale in which an incident disrupts the lives of its characters and changes them forever. When the fear lives inside homes and people, what is the price of security?



Caught by a Wave(2021)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A summer adventure under the Sicilian sun soon becomes a painful love story



Yara(2021)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A determined prosecutor becomes consumed with the case of a missing 13-year-old and goes to extreme lengths to get to the truth. Based on a real case.



Freaks Out(2021)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Time Is Up(2021)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An accident will force 'Vivien' and Royan to come to a stop and reclaim their lives, one minute at the time, and finally start living in a present that perhaps will prove to be more exciting than any predefined.



My Brother, My Sister(2021)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla and Tesla's kids try to overcome their differences to become a family.



The King of Laughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The biography of Neapolitan comic theater legend Eduardo Scarpetta.



The Inner Cage(2021)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The last remains of a prison, guards and a few inmates, are waiting to be transferred and gradually the rules seem to make less and less sense and the waiting men become a new fragile community.




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