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1. Ennio (2021)
156 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Ennio Morricone, Silvano Agosti, Alessandro Alessandroni, Dario Argento
Votes: 5,553
2. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
3. Kaos (1984)
R | 187 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier, Biagio Barone
Votes: 3,145 | Gross: $0.33M
4. Padre Padrone (1977)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte
Votes: 4,373
5. Caesar Must Die (2012)
Unrated | 77 min | Drama
Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca
Votes: 6,823
6. Allonsanfan (1974)
115 min | Drama, History
A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti
Votes: 1,267
7. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 4,661
8. Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, History
10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti
Votes: 996
9. Night Sun (1990)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti, Margarita Lozano
Votes: 884
10. Good Morning Babylon (1987)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Désirée Nosbusch
Votes: 1,773 | Gross: $0.18M
11. Leonora addio (2022)
90 min | Drama
Three surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.
Director: Paolo Taviani | Stars: Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker
Votes: 610
12. Fiorile (1993)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama
While traveling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted 200 years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 1,182 | Gross: $0.43M
13. The Lark Farm (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, History
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.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi, Ángela Molina
Votes: 2,328
14. Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)
84 min | Drama, Romance, War
An Italian partisan torn between the resistance movement and his obsession with a young woman during World War II.
Director: Paolo Taviani | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Lorenzo Richelmy, Valentina Bellè, Francesca Agostini
Votes: 991
15. Resurrection (2001 TV Movie)
187 min | Drama, History
At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Stefania Rocca, Timothy Peach, Marie Bäumer, Cécile Bois
Votes: 234
16. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
17. Elective Affinities (1996)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The novel (1809) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The marriage of Edward and Charlotte gets worse with the arrival at the castle Young Ottilia, grandson of Carlotta, and Brass. Edward is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Gillain
Votes: 672
18. St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
90 min | Drama, History
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè, Vito Cipolla
Votes: 874
19. The Meadow (1979)
115 min | Drama
Giovanni, a Milan youth heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property. Giovanni falls in with several small-town rebels.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini, Angela Goodwin
Votes: 416
20. A Man for Burning (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Valentino Orsini, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Didi Perego, Spyros Fokas, Lidia Alfonsi
Votes: 201
21. Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy
In prehistoric times, a volcano erupts, resulting in loss a whole island under ash and lava. Survivors trying to convince a race (clan) to withdrawal, but something unexpected change their plans.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Lucia Bosè, Giulio Brogi, Samy Pavel
Votes: 239
22. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
96 min | Documentary
The film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral which took place in Rome is a set of mainly public images, the re-presentation of the political figure. The video briefly traces the political life ... See full summary »
Directors: Ugo Adilardi, Silvano Agosti, Gianni Amico, Alfredo Angeli, Giorgio Arlorio, Gioia Benelli, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Paolo Bianchini, Libero Bizzarri, Carlo Di Palma, Luigi Faccini, Giorgio Ferrara, Nicolò Ferrari, Andrea Frezza, Ansano Giannarelli, Franco Giraldi, Francesco Laudadio, Carlo Lizzani, Luigi Magni, Massimo Manuelli, Francesco Maselli, Giuliano Montaldo, Riccardo Napolitano, Piero Nelli, Renato Parascandolo, Luigi Perelli, Paolo Pietrangeli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Faliero Rosati, Roberto Russo, Massimo Sani, Ettore Scola, Raffaele Siniscalchi, Sergio Spina, Gabriele Tanferna, Anna Maria Tatò, Gianni Toti, Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Enrico Berlinguer, Giorgio Almirante, Michelangelo Antonioni, Yasser Arafat
Votes: 124
23. La spada e la croce (1958)
105 min | Drama
Set against the magnificent backdrop of classic Rome, "The Sword and the Cross" is the story of a notorious harlot who must choose between her lascivious lifestyle and the love and affection of her decent-minded brother.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Jorge Mistral, Rossana Podestà, Massimo Serato
Votes: 160
24. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 229
25. Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1975–1980)
Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Drucker, Dalida, Michel Sardou, Eddy Mitchell
Votes: 34
26. Domani (2001)
88 min | Drama
This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The original story, a fiction about the historic earthquake was written by middle ... See full summary »
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Marco Baliani, Ornella Muti, Valerio Mastandrea, Ilaria Occhini
Votes: 164
27. Luisa Sanfelice (2004 TV Movie)
200 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Adriano Giannini, Cecilia Roth, Marie Bäumer
Votes: 106
28. Àrtic (2013–2022)
Talk-Show
Àrtic the culture and escape magazine from Barcelona Televisió (Betevé), hosted by Flora Saura. The program to keep up to date with Barcelona culture in all its aspects: performing and ... See full summary »
Stars: Anna Pérez Pagès, Flora Saura, Josep París, Esther Castarnado
Votes: 13
29. Outlaws of Love (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic ... See full summary »
Directors: Valentino Orsini, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Romolo Valli, Didi Perego
Votes: 78
30. You Laugh (1998)
99 min | Drama
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Cederna, Luca Zingaretti, Dario Cantarelli
Votes: 541
31. L'Italia non è un paese povero (1960)
135 min | Documentary
A documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art oil infrastructure are mixed with others ... See full summary »
Directors: Joris Ivens, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Star: Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 33
32. Another World Is Possible (2001)
60 min | Documentary
A collective documentary on the protest movement against the G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy in 2001.
Directors: Alfredo Angeli, Giorgio Arlorio, Mario Balsamo, Giuliana Berlinguer, Maurizio Carrassi, Guido Chiesa, Francesca Comencini, Massimo Felisatti, Nicolò Ferrari, Gianfranco Fiore, Massimiliano Franceschini, Andrea Frezza, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Giannarelli, Franco Giraldi, Simona Izzo, Wilma Labate, Salvatore Maira, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Mario Monicelli, Paolo Pietrangeli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Nino Russo, Gabriele Salvatores, Massimo Sani, Stefano Scialotti, Pasquale Scimeca, Ettore Scola, Daniele Segre, Carola Spadoni, Sergio Spina, Ricky Tognazzi, Fulvio Wetzl, Francesco Maselli
Votes: 118
33. The Subversives (1967)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
This film relates several disparate storylines, each representing a different type of lifestyle within Italian society at the time, through their common impersonal relationship to a social ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Giorgio Arlorio, Giulio Brogi, Pier Paolo Capponi, Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Votes: 211
34. La primavera del 2002 - L'Italia protesta, l'Italia si ferma (2002 Video)
53 min | Documentary
Directors: Alfredo Angeli, Franco Angeli, Giorgio Arlorio, Mario Balsamo, Marco Bellocchio, Giorgio Benelli, Giuliana Berlinguer, Mario Cambi, Maurizio Carrassi, Fiore De Rienzo, Carlo Di Carlo, Massimo Felisatti, Nicolò Ferrari, Gianfranco Fiore, Andrea Frezza, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Giannarelli, Franco Giraldi, Ugo Gregoretti, Sabina Guzzanti, Agenore Incrocci, Wilma Labate, Salvatore Maira, Giulio Manfredonia, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Francesco Maselli, Gianni Minà, Mario Monicelli, Cesare Noia, Lucio Pellegrini, Paolo Pietrangeli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Andrea Porporati, Marco Simon Puccioni, Nino Russo, Massimo Sani, Stefano Scialotti, Pasquale Scimeca, Ettore Scola, Gianni Serra, Paolo Sorrentino, Sergio Spina, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Riccardo Tortora, Marco Turco, Fulvio Wetzl
Votes: 13
35. Water and Sugar (2016)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life and work of Italian cinematographer, Carlo di Palma.
Director: Fariborz Kamkari | Stars: Carlo Di Palma, Carlo Vanzina, Valentina Di Palma, Giuliano Montaldo
Votes: 134
36. The Neorealism: We Were Not Just Bicycles Thieves (2013)
75 min | Documentary
This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this veritable cultural revolution rapidly ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Bozzacchi | Stars: Bernardo Bertolucci, Umberto Eco, Paolo Galluzzi, Gabriel García Márquez
Votes: 22
37. L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a small sea village where he meets people of various kinds.
Director: Glauco Pellegrini | Stars: Edoardo Nevola, Francisco Rabal, Eduardo De Filippo, Memmo Carotenuto
Votes: 35
38. Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli (1970)
45 min | Documentary
Directors: Elio Petri, Nelo Risi | Stars: Giancarlo Dettori, Luigi Diberti, Renzo Montagnani, Licia Pinelli
Votes: 47
39. La vera vita di Antonio H. (1994)
94 min | Drama
Antonio Hutter (Haber's alter ego) is on a stage and recalls his life dominated by his only great wish:to be an actor. So he tells about his childhood in Israel, his youth in Verona, his ... See full summary »
Director: Enzo Monteleone | Stars: Alessandro Haber, Ivan Accardi, Alessandra Acciai, Bernardo Bertolucci
Votes: 109
40. L'Italia con Togliatti (1964)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Gianni Amico, Giorgio Arlorio, Libero Bizzarri, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Lino Miccichè, Glauco Pellegrini, Elio Petri, Sergio Tau, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Marco Zavattini, Valerio Zurlini | Star: Enrico Maria Salerno
41. David 60 - Ieri oggi domani (2016)
59 min | Documentary
Sixty years of the David di Donatello awards represent a long history of successes, of famous actors and award-winning directors, of box-office hits and author films that have distinguished... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Treves | Stars: Gian Luigi Rondi, Enrico Lucherini, Manuela Pineschi, Caterina D'Amico
42. 40 x 15 (2008)
97 min | Documentary
A history of the Cannes Film Festival's "Director's Fortnight" selection.
Director: Olivier Jahan | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Sofia Coppola
Votes: 57
43. Sicilia all'addritta (1959)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Star: Ignazio Buttitta
44. Senza Lucio (2014)
86 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Mario Sesti | Stars: Marco Alemanno, Renzo Arbore, Charles Aznavour, Gino Castaldo
Votes: 14
45. Ritratti d'autore (1996– )
90 min | Documentary
The best among the new generation of Italian directors of the '90s meet their mentors. A confrontation between fathers and sons and a profound reflection on cinema and society.
Stars: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Joe D'Amato, Marco Bellocchio
Votes: 16
46. San Miniato, luglio '44 (1954)
Short, Drama
Toward the end of World War II, the village in Italy where the filmmakers are from is threatened with destruction by the Germans.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
47. Lino Miccichè, mio padre - Una visione del mondo (2013)
81 min | Documentary
This documentary on the life of Lino Miccichè, a leading Italian intellectual, film critic and historian, columnist and cultural organizer is narrated from the personal point of view of his... See full synopsis »
Director: Francesco Miccichè | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Adriano Aprà, Mino Argentieri, Marco Bellocchio
Votes: 10
48. Sabatoventiquattromarzo (1984)
77 min | Documentary
Directors: Gianni Amelio, Alfredo Angeli, Giorgio Arlorio, Gioia Benelli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Libero Bizzarri, Francesco Crescimone, Luigi Faccini, Massimo Felisatti, Nicolò Ferrari, Andrea Frezza, Ansano Giannarelli, Franco Giraldi, Ugo Gregoretti, Francesco Laudadio, Carlo Lizzani, Nanni Loy, Luigi Magni, Massimo Manuelli, Francesco Maselli, Gianni Minello, Giuliano Montaldo, Riccardo Napolitano, Piero Nelli, Luciano Odorisio, Paolo Pietrangeli, Rosalia Polizzi, Gillo Pontecorvo, Maurizio Ponzi, Faliero Rosati, Roberto Russo, Massimo Sani, Gianni Serra, Sergio Spina, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Gianni Toti, Piero Vivarelli
49. Uomini del mare (1960)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Valentino Orsini, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Star: Riccardo Paladini
50. Les ateliers du rêve: les grands studios de cinéma dans le monde (1985– )
Documentary
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Christopher Reeve, Federico Fellini, Monica Vitti