Italian films (from 80's)
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1. Don't Move (2004)
125 min | Drama, Romance
A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).
Director: Sergio Castellitto | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini, Natalia Barcelò
Votes: 8,511
Nota: 9,4
2. The Star Maker (1995)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A photographer and the types of people he encounters.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 5,481 | Gross: $0.12M
Nota: 9
3. Mid-August Lunch (2008)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama
Broke, and armed with only a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni lives with his mother in their old apartment. The debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager's mother during the Ferragosto, all will be forgiven.
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio | Stars: Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì, Grazia Cesarini Sforza
Votes: 4,298 | Gross: $0.67M
Nota:8,9
4. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 743,559 | Gross: $57.60M
nota:8,9
5. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 174 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 283,080 | Gross: $11.99M
Nota: 8,8
6. I Am Love (2009)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher
Votes: 24,000 | Gross: $5.01M
Nota: 8,5
7. Malena (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
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.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Votes: 112,069 | Gross: $3.45M
Nota: 8,2
8. I'm Not Scared (2003)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Riccardo Zinna
Votes: 15,555 | Gross: $1.62M
Nota: 8,1
9. Italians (2009)
116 min | Comedy
Fortunato is a trucker who specializes in the transport of luxury vehicles, especially Ferraris, in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Tired of a life away from home and in the process ... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Remo Girone, Makram Khoury
Votes: 1,215
Nota: 8
10. Manual of Love 2 (2007)
120 min | Comedy, Romance
Four episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized ... See full summary »
Directors: Andy Tennant, Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Fabio Volo
Votes: 2,203
Nota: 7,9
11. Gomorrah (2008)
Not Rated | 137 min | Crime, Drama
Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo, Simone Sacchettino
Votes: 51,221 | Gross: $1.58M
Nota: 7,9
12. Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio
Votes: 6,762 | Gross: $0.25M
Nota: 7,9
13. Manual of Love (2005)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Luciana Littizzetto, Silvio Muccino, Sergio Rubini
Votes: 3,729
Nota: 7,5
14. Mediterraneo (1991)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio
Votes: 16,427 | Gross: $4.53M
Nota: 7,1
15. Reality (II) (2012)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Aniello Arena, Paola Minaccioni, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone
Votes: 5,771 | Gross: $0.06M
Nota: 7
16. Melissa P. (2005)
100 min | Drama
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: María Valverde, Letizia Ciampa, Primo Reggiani, Fabrizia Sacchi
Votes: 7,050
Nota:6,9
17. Tutta la vita davanti (2008)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A brilliant recent graduate struggles to find work. After falling into a babysitting job, she is introduced by the child's mother to the world of the international call center, its employees, and the fast pace that drives them.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Ghini, Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti
Votes: 3,330
Nota: 6,3
18. Twice Born (2012)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War
A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Director: Sergio Castellitto | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Adnan Haskovic, Saadet Aksoy
Votes: 17,373 | Gross: $0.01M
Nota: 5,9
19. The Ignorant Fairies (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
After a deathly car accident, Antonia starts dating her husband's friends and finds the truth about his life.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Gabriel Garko
Votes: 10,043 | Gross: $0.22M
Nota: 5,9
20. Questo piccolo grande amore (2009)
110 min | Comedy, Romance
From the album of the same name by Claudio Baglioni the film tells the love story of two teenagers during the legendary seventies. A story so overwhelming as to compel the world to retreat,... See full summary »
Director: Riccardo Donna | Stars: Emanuele Bosi, Maria P. Petruolo, Daniela Giordano, Mariella Valentini
Votes: 280
Nota: 5,7
21. One Hundred Steps (2000)
114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 6,401
Nota:5,5
22. The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Drama
A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudia Pandolfi
Votes: 5,443
Nota: 5,1
23. The Big Dream (2009)
101 min | Drama
Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among the students who are against the government and the ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Argentero, Massimo Popolizio
Votes: 919
Nota: 5
24. Cado dalle nubi (2009)
95 min | Comedy
A Southern Italian singer moves to Milan to have more chances with his career, bringing a little bit of the South with him.
Director: Gennaro Nunziante | Stars: Checco Zalone, Giulia Michelini, Dino Abbrescia, Fabio Troiano
Votes: 6,033
Nota 5
25. La febbre (2005)
108 min | Comedy
Mario Bettini, a provincial quantity surveyor, is a young man full of ideas, enthusiastic about life and eager to live it.
Director: Alessandro D'Alatri | Stars: Fabio Volo, Valeria Solarino, Vittorio Franceschi, Massimo Bagliani
Votes: 712
Nota: 4,7
26. L'amore non basta (2008)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Love is not enough to sustain a relationship between two young Italians whose families are hoping to split them apart.
Director: Stefano Chiantini | Stars: Alessandro Tiberi, Rocco Papaleo, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Ivan Franek
Votes: 144
Nota: 4,5
27. Vincere (2009)
Unrated | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon
Votes: 5,915 | Gross: $0.62M
Nota: 4,5
28. The Son's Room (2001)
R | 99 min | Drama
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice
Votes: 21,446 | Gross: $1.01M
Nota: 4,4
29. Dormant Beauty (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino
Votes: 1,767
Nota: 4,2
30. Tutto l'amore del mondo (2010)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Riccardo Grandi | Stars: Nicolas Vaporidis, Ana Caterina Morariu, Alessandro Roja, Myriam Catania
Votes: 318
Nota: 4,1
31. Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso (2010)
110 min | Comedy
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Luciana Littizzetto, Michele Placido, Margherita Buy
Votes: 608
Nota:3,5
32. Ho voglia di te (2007)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man gets a second chance at true love.
Director: Luis Prieto | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Laura Chiatti, Katy Louise Saunders, Ottavio Amato
Votes: 1,519
Nota: 3
33. Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004)
101 min | Romance
A bad boy and a socialite girl hook-up.
Director: Luca Lucini | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Katy Louise Saunders, Maria Chiara Augenti, Ivan Bacchi
Votes: 3,620
Nota: 3
34. The Ages of Love (2011)
125 min | Comedy, Romance
In Italy three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man (Robert DeNiro) falls in love with his friend's daughter (Monica Bellucci).
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido
Votes: 4,485
Nota: 2,9
35. Loose Cannons (2010)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini
Votes: 13,391
Nota: 2,9
36. The Salt of Life (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio | Stars: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini
Votes: 1,860 | Gross: $0.32M
Nota: 2,8
37. Nina (II) (2012)
TV-PG | 84 min | Drama
Nina spends August in Rome, when the city is nearly empty. But her days are full of encounters.
Director: Elisa Fuksas | Stars: Diane Fleri, Luca Marinelli, Ernesto Mahieux, Luigi Catani
Votes: 206
Nota: 2,5
38. What a Beautiful Day (2011)
97 min | Comedy
Checco is an immigrant from Southern Italy living in Milan, in the North. After failing his exam to join the Italian gendarmerie, he's hired as a security guard at Milan's Cathedral, but is spotted by Muslim extremists.
Director: Gennaro Nunziante | Stars: Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Ivano Marescotti, Michele Alhaique
Votes: 6,116
Nota: 2
39. Eighteen: The World at My Feet (2010)
86 min | Drama
The story of a misfit guy, orphan, grown up without the love of a family, and his relationships with adult women, trying to get back to normal.
Director: Elisabetta Rocchetti | Stars: Marco Rulli, Marco Iannitello, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Alessia Barela
Votes: 73
Nota: 1
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