BEST ITALIAN MOVIES 2000- 2010
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- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsLicia MagliettaBruno GanzGiuseppe BattistonAfter being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.Brilliant, melanchonic love-story.
- DirectorMassimo CeccheriniStarsMassimo CeccheriniAlessandro PaciMarco GialliniThe story of Massimo's creative crisis, a director on his second filmCynical, melanchonic vision of VIP-ness in Italy
- DirectorAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiStarsAldo BaglioGiovanni StortiGiacomo PorettiGiacomo meets Giovanni, his former best friend with whom he quarreled three years before. Giovanni persuades him to go visit their third friend Aldo, who is dying in Sicily; flashbacks tell their story: Aldo was the phantom in operas, Giacomo was dubbing films in which he only made noises, and Giovanni worked as a living department-store mannequin. Unsatisfied with their careers, they try to stage their own show but women troubles separate them.Three comedians realize an heart-warming hommage to Pirandello and Theatre.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioLuigi Maria BurruanoLucia Sardo"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 movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about the Mafia, and several politicians maintained that the Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti's criminal activities and the whole Mafia system, by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this conclusion. Note: This is a true story. More than twenty years after Peppino's death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in the USA for drug trafficking.A true mafia-movie.
- DirectorAlessandro PivaStarsDino AbbresciaMino BarbaresePaolo SassanelliA couple of criminals look for a little box full of drug, all around Bari
- DirectorAlex InfascelliStarsLorenza IndovinaClaudio SantamariaRolando RavelloA serial killer, called the Iguana, is terrorizing Bologna. He is able to change continuously identity. Grazia is investigating trying to find out the truth about the Iguana. Only a blind boy obsessioned by "Almost Blue", a jazz song, could help her.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsChristo JivkovSergio GrammaticoDimitar RachkovThe history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLaura MoranteJasmine TrincaA psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.One of the most important italian movies of 2000s.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloAndrea RenziAntonino BruschettaThe story of two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, who are on the decline and lead strangely parallel lives. One is a pop singer whose success ends after a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.Enchanting debut of Sorrentino: Naples like NYC.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsDiego AbatantuonoSergio CastellittoGérard DepardieuTwo textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in Italy.Italian jews during the Fascism.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsSergio CastellittoJacqueline LustigChiara ContiA celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
- DirectorAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiStarsAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiAl Caruso, John Gresco and Jack Amoruso are three gangsters working for the Genovese family. However, their efforts are more than headache-inducing, and when they are given one last chance to protect the boss's aunt, she is accidentally killed and the three men are sentenced to death. They come up with a plan to sell the boss to the police and the FBI. However, Al suffers from short-term memory loss and has to be told the story by John and Jack.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsErnesto MahieuxValerio Foglia ManzilloElisabetta RocchettiA solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, but the two get involved in a morbid and unhealthy professional and personal relationship.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsValeria GolinoVincenzo AmatoFrancesco CasisaOn an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsValerio MastandreaCristiano MorroniAlessia BarelaClaudio, age 17, has a simple aspiration: he wants to be a mechanic. His father, though, would like him to take over his small auto-wrecker company that he has built up over his lifetime.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsAitana Sánchez-GijónDino AbbresciaGiorgio CarecciaA young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.A '70s coming-of-age adventure.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMichael PittLouis GarrelEva GreenA young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.Masterpiece.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaya SansaLuigi Lo CascioRoberto HerlitzkaThe 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.The Piombo-Years (1976-1979) in Italy: Aldo Moro, the Red Brigades.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.1968 is over: and now?
- DirectorAlessandro PivaStarsSergio RubiniLuigi Lo CascioMariangela ArcieriTwo men, brothers- in-law, are on the hunt for a stolen car.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsLuigi Maria BurruanoFranco ScaldatiPietro GiordanoIn the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".Two of the most talented italian directors.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloOlivia MagnaniAdriano GianniniAn introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.Sorrentino is Italy's greatest Author.
- DirectorSaverio CostanzoStarsMohammad BakriLior MillerHend AyoubA Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
- DirectorFrancesco MunziStarsXhevdet FerriAnna FerruzzoLavinia GuglielmanAlbanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. Saimir helps his father, but a love interest makes him question his life and future.
- DirectorGuido ChiesaStarsMarco LuisiTommaso RamenghiClaudia PandolfiThis documentary-style film takes place in Bologna, Italy. The Radio Alice program began on February 9, 1976. The radio station used an ex-military transmitter. They were mao-dadaists. The government wanted to have early elections. THere were many political problems. The main characters needed jobs, so they got an illegal job of digging a tunnel beneath buildings. They eventually got caught when one of the boys ran out of the tunnel and a cop saw him. They were almost done digging the tunnel. Anyone could come in and talk about whatever they wanted on Radio Alice. The creators did not want the channel to be affiliated with politics or to play mainstream music. They wanted to let creativity flow. The feminists took their own time slot on Radio Alice. During a protest, the police killed a fellow college student. The students set everything on fire. The protesters believed that they had to work too much. The carabinieri (Italian military police) shut down the station on March 12, 1977. This film was based on the 1977 protest.1977: Bologna, the students are revolting.
- DirectorGiorgio DirittiStarsThierry ToscanAlessandra AgostiDario AnghilanteThe aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.Diritti is one of the best directors in Italy: this is his great debut movie.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartAnna MouglalisPierfrancesco FavinoSet in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.Fictionalised Banda della Magliana (Rome) story.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniJean RenoNicoletta BraschiA love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.Benigni's look over War.
- DirectorLibero De RienzoStarsElio GermanoEmanuela BarilozziLuca LionelloWeird, avant-garde cinema.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsSergio CastellittoLing TaiAngelo CostabileLabourer Vincenzo travels from Italy to China in search of a machine with a deficiency that was produced in the now defunct establishment at which Vincenzo worked for years.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsSilvio OrlandoMargherita BuyJasmine TrincaA skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.Analysis of Power.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsCharlotte GainsbourgVincenzo AmatoVincent SchiavelliA Sicilian peasant begins the journey to the promised land and meets a beautiful Englishwoman. But neither is prepared for the harsh realities of Ellis Island. Can they make it through the golden door to the America of their dreams?
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsKseniya RappoportMichele PlacidoClaudia GeriniHaunted by a horrible past, a young Ukrainian woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.Giallo-style with dramatic elements: brilliant movie.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsGiacomo RizzoLaura ChiattiGigi AngelilloGeremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...One of the worst character in world's cinema.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRiccardo ScamarcioAngela FinocchiaroTwo brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.Different political visions divide two brothers.
- DirectorAndrea MolaioliStarsToni ServilloDenis FasoloNello MasciaThe body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.A very good giallo.
- DirectorDavide MarengoStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoValerio MastandreaEnnio FantastichiniFranz is a bus driver. One night in his empty bus, Leila, a girl on the run, gets on. He doesn't have time to deny her a cigarette that the woman has already got rid of her wig and slipped into his bed, but only to have a place to hide till the next morning. In fact, Leila is a charming scammer, shrewd and liar.
- DirectorFabrizio BentivoglioStarsAntimo MerolilloLina SastriPierluigi TortoraA talented guitarist tries to make a living out of his music, ending up to collaborate with an unreliable manager and a famous pianist.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloAnna BonaiutoGiulio BosettiThe story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.The best italian movie of the decade: explains what Power is.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsGianfelice ImparatoSalvatore AbbruzzeseToni ServilloScampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.Ex-aequo withe Il Divo: mafia, politics, everyday lives.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsIsabella RagoneseMassimo GhiniValerio MastandreaA 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.Being young and educated in the crisis Italy.
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsElio GermanoMichele RiondinoChiara CaselliA promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.Great thriller.
- DirectorAntonello GrimaldiStarsNanni MorettiValeria GolinoIsabella FerrariA look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.A different movie.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsSilvio OrlandoFrancesca NeriEzio GreggioIn pre-war Bologna, Michele Casali's teenage daughter Giovanna kills her best friend out of jealousy. Deemed mentally unfit, she is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsFilippo TimiElio GermanoAlvaro CalecaA dark drama centered on a 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad, who are both outcasts in their suburban town.Harsh, cruel movie.
- DirectorGiulio ManfredoniaStarsClaudio BisioAnita CaprioliGiuseppe BattistonNello is a recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law, many former patients were left hopeless. With the intention of improving the lives of his pupils, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities.
- DirectorMatteo RovereStarsChiara ChitiNadir CaselliDesirèe NoferiniElena is a rich girl, leader of the school, that spend all nights dancing at disco consuming drugs with two friends who treats as slaves. They will play a dangerous game to harass a professor of their high school.Brilliant thriller-drama.
- DirectorAgo PaniniStarsRaoul BovaVanessa IncontradaGabriel GarkoA different story.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsFrancesco SciannaMargareth MadèLina SastriBaaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.Italian historical Kolossal.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsVincenzo MottaMary MonacoFranco LeoThe story of a criminal Vincenzo and his trans lover Mary, who waited for him for many years while he served his prison sentence.
- DirectorGiorgio DirittiStarsGreta Zuccheri MontanariClaudio CasadioAlba RohrwacherIn the winter of 1943 a young girl named Martina stays silent following the death of her brother several years before. Her mother's pregnancy gives her hope, but as her brother is born the Nazis begin rounding up civilians.Nazi occupation during WWII in Northern Italy: one the greates movie of the decade.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoFilippo TimiFausto Russo AlesiThe story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.Mussolini and Love.
- DirectorGiambattista AvellinoSalvatore FicarraValentino PiconeStarsSalvatore FicarraValentino PiconeAnna SafroncikTwo cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.Light comedy dealing with mafia, immigration, politics and... family affairs.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneLaura ChiattiMarco GuadagnoWhen Father Carlo returns home after years spent in Africa in an humanitarian mission, instead of getting the expected peace of mind with his family, he'll face their problems: for instance, his father has married Olga, a much-younger Moldavian woman, and his brother and sister are worried about their inheritance--or what's left of it.Melanchonic Verdone.
- DirectorFederico ZampaglioneStarsJake MuxworthyKarina TestaOttaviano BlitchWhen a young soldier leaves for a mountain biking excursion, he meets the girl of his dreams as well as a group of violent locals who want to see them dead at any cost.The first step for the renaissance of Italian horror?
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsRaffaele Di FlorioFrancesca InaudiAndrea BoscaThe stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.The first best movie of the new decade: historic drama at his best.
- DirectorMichelangelo FrammartinoStarsGiuseppe FudaBruno TimpanoNazareno TimpanoAn old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.Frammartino is the best new author in italian cinema.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValerio MastandreaMicaela RamazzottiStefania SandrelliA misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRaoul BovaIsabella RagoneseClaudio works in the suburbs of Rome. He is in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. A dramatic event upsets his life. Claudio fights against an injustice. Love and support from his friends will help him to get by.A true drama.
- DirectorStefano IncertiStarsToni ServilloMi YangGeppy GleijesesMarino Pacileo, known as "Gorbaciof" due to the prominent birthmark on his forehead, is an accountant at Poggioreale Prison in Naples. Pacileo, silent and shy, has only one passion in life: poker. He's in love with a Chinese girl called Lila and when he discovers that her father can't pay a debt incurred at the card table, Pacileo steals the money from the prison coffers and gives it to the girl. From that moment on, between losing games, collecting backhanders and committing robberies, he sets out on a slippery slope from which there is no turning back.Almost no dialogue, with characters that speak through eyes and gestures: atypical noir set in deep Naples.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsToni ServilloMarco D'AmoreFrancesco Di LevaThe story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead. Instead, he was living in a little hotel near Frankfurt, with a wife and a young German son. Then, when the trains filled with waste departed from Naples, the past climbed on board. This is the story of a man who, while trying to kill a chestnut tree with a copper nail, was grabbed from behind by his past. And was forced to settle the score.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartFilippo TimiValeria SolarinoA biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca.A solid action-movie: the life and loves of a different gentle-hearted "thief".
- DirectorMatteo BotrugnoDaniele ColucciniStarsMaurizio TeseiUghetta D'OnorascenzoMichele BotrugnoIn a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome the crime, drugs and graffiti are pervasive. A large apartment complex seems to be a prison for the inhabitants. Marco returns to the hood after serving time in prison for dealing drugs but he's rejected and abandoned by his wife. His old friends still want him to deal cocaine for them. At first he's reluctant but it seems to be all he knows to do. Faustino, Massimo and Federico are delinquents who hang out together while doing drugs, petty crime, and looking for sex. Sonia is different from the rest because she studies and works all the time but even Sonia won't escape without being a victim. A tragic incident brings the main characters together and leaves behind a trail of fire, blood and violence.Harsh life in roman suburbia.