Italian Cinema
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1. Identification of a Woman (1982)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance
A director's wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women's relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel
Votes: 3,235
2. The Visit (1963)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Twenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair's lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Sandra Milo, François Périer, Mario Adorf, Gastone Moschin
Votes: 638
3. Come Have Coffee with Us (1970)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Emerenziano, a middle-aged tax inspector, is in search of a wealthy wife. He travels to Italy where he meets three sisters, who, though wealthy, are not by any stretch of the imagination young or beautiful. He decides to marry one of them.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Milena Vukotic, Angela Goodwin
Votes: 581
4. Bellissima (1951)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli
Votes: 5,394
5. The Betrayer (1961)
127 min | Drama
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Isabelle Corey
Votes: 364
6. Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In this riveting Italian exploitation thriller, three young men embark upon a terrifying series of bloody crimes, engaging in robbery, gunplay, and murder. As the entire police force ... See full summary »
Director: Romolo Guerrieri | Stars: Stefano Patrizi, Benjamin Lev, Max Delys, Eleonora Giorgi
Votes: 559
7. Pierino contro tutti (1981)
92 min | Comedy
Pierino is a precocious but mischievous boy who often plays pranks and makes jokes at school. His enemy is his old teacher. One day Pierino pulls a dirty trick on her, making her break an arm.
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Alvaro Vitali, Michele Gammino, Michela Miti, Sofia Lombardo
Votes: 522
8.
Brivido giallo (1987–1989)
Episode:
A cena con il vampiro
(1989)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A 1000-year-old vampire from Mesopotamia becomes a famous horror film director; but what he really wants is an end to his existence.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: George Hilton, Patrizia Pellegrino, Riccardo Rossi, Isabel Russinova
Votes: 362
9. Ulysses (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that depicts Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Votes: 4,651
10. The Girl from Trieste (1982)
113 min | Drama, Thriller
An aging artist sees a beautiful young woman drowning near the beach and helps her. They become lovers. At first he is smitten by her youth, beauty and free spirit but soon he starts worrying that she might actually be insane.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 465
11. Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
101 min | Drama
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert
Votes: 2,965
12. Dorian Gray (1970)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A corrupt young man seemingly sells his soul to eternally retain his youthful beauty, all while a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl
Votes: 1,278
13. The Automobile (1971 TV Movie)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.
Director: Alfredo Giannetti | Stars: Anna Magnani, Vittorio Caprioli, Christian Hay, Donato Castellaneta
Votes: 127
14. Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi, Halil Ergün
Votes: 7,215 | Gross: $0.66M
15. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo
Votes: 2,041
16. The Girlfriends (1955)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 3,408 | Gross: $0.05M
17. Adua e le compagne (1960)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva
Votes: 1,408
18. L'amico del cuore (1998)
100 min | Comedy
Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of ... See full summary »
Director: Vincenzo Salemme | Stars: Vincenzo Salemme, Eva Herzigova, Carlo Buccirosso, Maurizio Casagrande
Votes: 462
19. Fantasma d'amore (1981)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 822
20. Holiday Island (1957)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Isabelle Corey, Antonio Cifariello, Nadia Gray
Votes: 76
21. Fast and Sexy (1958)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
Directors: Reginald Denham, Carlo Lastricati | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Dale Robertson, Amedeo Nazzari
Votes: 239
22. Polvere di stelle (1973)
142 min | Comedy, Musical
Mimmo Adami and Dea Dani are local professional dancers in the impoverished Italy of World War II. Their lives change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, John Phillip Law, Edoardo Faieta
Votes: 480
23. Cuore matto... matto da legare (1967)
96 min | Musical
Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.
Director: Mario Amendola | Stars: Little Tony, Eleonora Brown, Ferruccio Amendola, Lucio Flauto
Votes: 32
24. Madly in Love (1981)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
Barnaba, a rude bus driver who enjoys the attention of women, one day meets Principessa Cristina, the princess of a local principality.
Directors: Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Stars: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi, Milla Sannoner
Votes: 4,243
25. The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
A grouchy farmer, known around his small Italian town as being wonderful to his employees, but actively driving everyone else away, is in for a surprise when a beautiful girl from the city,... See full summary »
Directors: Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Stars: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters, Pippo Santonastaso
Votes: 9,634
26. The Widower (1959)
91 min | Comedy
A mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Nando Bruno
Votes: 1,477
27. Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)
113 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In the 80s, two friends misteriously wake up in the XV century and clumsly try to intermingle with the society of the time.
Directors: Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi | Stars: Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, Iris Peynado, Amanda Sandrelli
Votes: 7,097
28. Il medico e lo stregone (1957)
102 min | Comedy
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini, Lorella De Luca
Votes: 371
29. The Lucky Five (1952)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Titina De Filippo, Walter Chiari
Votes: 61
30. Ti ho sempre amato! (1953)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Mario Costa | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Myriam Bru, Jacques Sernas, Adriano Rimoldi
Votes: 20
31. Ghosts of Rome (1961)
101 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Several ghosts in an ancient palazzo in Rome join together to save their home from destruction. Mastrianni plays several parts and is hilarious. The other actors are great too.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Belinda Lee, Sandra Milo, Eduardo De Filippo
Votes: 669
32. Asso (1981)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the 'final' game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can ... See full summary »
Directors: Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Stars: Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 2,242
33. My Widow and I (1945)
81 min | Comedy
Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother for help in wooing the widow, the new fortune from the insurance loses some of its appeal.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Gino Cervi, Dina Galli
Votes: 34
34.
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964– )
Episode:
L'innamorato della signora Maigret
(1966)
105 min | Crime
Mrs. Maigret has a faithful suitor who every day seats in the gardens in front of Maigret's house. Jules Maigret and his wife joke on the thing until a day when the man is found dead in those same gardens, killed by a gun shot.
Director: Mario Landi | Stars: Gino Cervi, Andreina Pagnani, Manlio Busoni, Antonio Guidi
Votes: 21
35. Horse Fever (1976)
94 min | Comedy
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is always at the track together with his friends Armando Pellicci,... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Gigi Proietti, Enrico Montesano, Catherine Spaak, Mario Carotenuto
Votes: 2,253
36. La bella di Roma (1955)
99 min | Comedy
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Silvana Pampanini, Paolo Stoppa, Luisella Beghi
Votes: 185
37. Il medico dei pazzi (1954)
91 min | Comedy
Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, Franca Marzi, Aldo Giuffrè, Vittoria Crispo
Votes: 324
38. 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: 16,430 | Gross: $4.53M
39. Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Married couple Pasquale and Maria live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard. he thinks the ghosts are at work, but it is ... See full summary »
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 589
40. More Than a Miracle (1967)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In 17th century Italy, a Spanish prince, who's searching for a bride, falls in-love with a beautiful local peasant girl.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Georges Wilson, Leslie French
Votes: 1,539
41. A che servono questi quattrini? (1942)
85 min | Comedy
After squandering all his wealth for not caring about his finances, Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo spends his time professing to young people his philosophy of life.
Director: Esodo Pratelli | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Clelia Matania, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 59
42. Miami Supercops (1985)
PG | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con returns to Miami after completing a seven-year sentence for thieving $20,000,000 and is murdered. Two FBI agents are then shipped to Miami to investigate the case under the guise of cops.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, C.B. Seay, William 'Bo' Jim
Votes: 8,210
43. The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani
Votes: 5,978
44. Love in the City (1953)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini | Stars: Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia, Donatella Marrosu
Votes: 1,466
45. Signori si nasce (1960)
95 min | Comedy
Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Delia Scala, Riccardo Garrone
Votes: 716
46. Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello
Votes: 2,531
47. Totò cerca pace (1954)
90 min | Comedy
Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, Isa Barzizza, Ave Ninchi, Enzo Turco
Votes: 119
48.
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964– )
Episode:
La vecchia signora di Bayeux
(1966)
93 min | Crime
Director: Mario Landi | Stars: Gino Cervi, Carlo Alighiero, Sergio Ammirata, Aldo Barberito
Votes: 23
49. A Night Full of Rain (1978)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspectives of love and life.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Candice Bergen, Michael Tucker, Mario Scarpetta
Votes: 343
50. White Nights (1957)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Votes: 9,011
51. Everybody Go Home! (1960)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam
Votes: 1,453
52. The Climax (1967)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy
Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child... by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic... except to drive ... See full summary »
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Renée Longarini, Maria Grazia Carmassi
Votes: 246
53. The Man Who Will Come (2009)
115 min | Drama, War
In 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.
Director: Giorgio Diritti | Stars: Greta Zuccheri Montanari, Claudio Casadio, Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa
Votes: 1,813
54. 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: 5,444
55. The Priest's Wife (1970)
PG | 103 min | Comedy
Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Venantino Venantini, Jacques Stany
Votes: 724 | Gross: $0.04M
56. The Double Hour (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi | Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno
Votes: 4,216 | Gross: $1.51M
57. Amarcord (1973)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Votes: 46,849 | Gross: $0.58M
58. The Ship Sails On (1983)
PG | 128 min | Drama, History, Music
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Votes: 6,732
59. Teorema (1968)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Votes: 15,280
60. Accattone (1961)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi
Votes: 10,164
61. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Umberto Bevilacqua
Votes: 5,619
62. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini
Votes: 13,026
63. Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (1978)
88 min | Drama, Horror
An interview with a mobster propels newswoman Emanuelle into an undercover investigation of the seedy world of white slavery and the infamous mansion of Madame Claude.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Laura Gemser, Ely Galleani, Gabriele Tinti, Venantino Venantini
Votes: 841
64. The Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
98 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Joan has nightmares of Etruscan sacrifices. She knows very well the Etruscan language and her husband Arthur is an archeologist studying Etruscan tombs. In a nightmare she foresees her ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Elvire Audray, Paolo Malco, Claudio Cassinelli, Marilù Tolo
Votes: 678
65. Sono stato io! (1973)
108 min | Comedy, Crime
A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala. "It's a film close to my heart. It was an old project called ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Silvia Monti, Hiram Keller, Patricia Chiti
Votes: 68
66. Penne nere (1952)
95 min | Drama, War
Penne Nere is set in Italy during the last crucial two years of World War II, after the Badoglio government signed an armistice with the Allies. Throughout the nation the original Fascist ... See full summary »
Director: Oreste Biancoli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Marina Vlady, Camillo Pilotto, Vera Carmi
Votes: 54
67. It Was I (1937)
72 min | Comedy
A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Isa Pola
Votes: 42
68. The City Stands Trial (1952)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini, Paolo Stoppa, Dante Maggio
Votes: 155
69. Ferdinando I° re di Napoli (1959)
105 min | Comedy
In 1806 Naples, King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is frowned upon by the people, especially the comic theatrical Pulcinella, who continually delivers hard sermons, earning a reputation among the Neapolitans.
Director: Gianni Franciolini | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi
Votes: 200
70. The Accomplices (1955)
95 min | Comedy
Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Borghesio | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 79
71. Saturday, Sunday and Monday (1990)
119 min | Comedy
Peppino and Rosa have been married for about 30 years. They live in a large house with a sea view in the Rione Terra with their children Rocco and Giulianella, grandfather Don Antonio, and Aunt Amelia.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Sophia Loren, Luca De Filippo, Luciano De Crescenzo, Alessandra Mussolini
Votes: 276
72. Bitter Rice (1949)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone
Votes: 4,881
73. The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
Approved | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, History
While holidaying in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín
Votes: 4,218
74. Un militare e mezzo (1960)
114 min | Comedy
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who returns to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
Director: Steno | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Renato Rascel, Virna Lisi, Robert Alda
Votes: 115
75. 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
76. The Great Beauty (2013)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso
Votes: 97,443 | Gross: $2.85M
77. The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
R | 105 min | Comedy
As an aging widower begins suffering from cardiac trouble, his greedy heirs hire a super-seductive nurse in the hopes of inducing a heart attack, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him.
Director: Nello Rossati | Stars: Ursula Andress, Duilio Del Prete, Mario Pisu, Daniele Vargas
Votes: 826
78. The Black Cat (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror
A professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck, Al Cliver
Votes: 4,245
79. The Machine to Kill Bad People (1952)
83 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A photographer in a small fishing village is visited by a man who claims to be Saint Andrea. The Saint gives him a special camera device to solve the village's ills - by taking a photograph of an existing picture, the photo subject dies.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs, Helen Tubbs
Votes: 890
80. White Sister (1972)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Sophia Loren, Adriano Celentano, Fernando Rey, Juan Luis Galiardo
Votes: 383
81. Eaten Alive! (1980)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Horror
A young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Mel Ferrer
Votes: 4,602
82. Madness (1980)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An escaped convict plays the occupants of a remote home against one another for his own sadistic pleasure while searching for the loot he buried there following a previous robbery.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Lorraine De Selle, Patrizia Behn, Gianni Macchia
Votes: 630
83. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
NC-17 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti
Votes: 8,234
84. La grande strada azzurra (1957)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of... See full summary »
Directors: Gillo Pontecorvo, Maleno Malenotti | Stars: Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal, Peter Carsten
Votes: 721 | Gross: $0.01M
85. 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: 112,085 | Gross: $3.45M
86. Craving Desire (1993)
97 min | Drama, Thriller
Luigi is engaged to a rich bourgeois, but unexpectedly his cousin Sonia comes back to Italy. She is very young and beautiful and once she loved Luigi. What is he to do?
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Vittoria Belvedere, Ron Nummi, Simona Borioni, Riccardo Parisio Perrotti
Votes: 369
87. Come Undone (2010)
Unrated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
One day at a colleague's going away party, Anna meets Domenico, a virile, slightly older chap who's married with two small kids. Passion's flames are rapidly kindled and result in steamy encounters.
Director: Silvio Soldini | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, Teresa Saponangelo, Giuseppe Battiston
Votes: 3,284
88. A Bullet for the General (1967)
M | 115 min | Action, Western
A band of Mexican gunrunners employed by a revolutionary General accept an American mercenary into their gang, unaware of his true intentions.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Lou Castel
Votes: 5,081
89. The Four of the Apocalypse... (1975)
Unrated | 87 min | Fantasy, Western
In 1873, four petty criminals - three men and a pregnant woman - wander through the trackless terrain of Utah, where they are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Fabio Testi, Lynne Frederick, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Baird
Votes: 2,950
90. Compañeros (1970)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Western
A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben
Votes: 4,978 | Gross: $0.02M
91. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 16,263
92. Black Lemons (1970)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Camillo Bazzoni | Stars: Antonio Sabato, Peter Carsten, Silvano Tranquilli, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 79
93. Ring of Darkness (1979)
87 min | Horror
Four women make a pact with the Devil. The 13-year-old daughter of one of them has begun to shown signs of a dark nature which causes preoccupation and somewhat regret on her mother.
Director: Pier Carpi | Stars: Anne Heywood, Valentina Cortese, Frank Finlay, John Phillip Law
Votes: 404
94. The Killer Nun (1979)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder.
Director: Giulio Berruti | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato, Daniele Dublino
Votes: 2,243
95. Cicciabomba (1982)
92 min | Comedy
An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Donatella Rettore, Dario Caporaso, Howard Napper, Paola Borboni
Votes: 95
96. The Facts of Murder (1959)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective and his team attempt to solve two crimes committed within a day of each other in neighboring apartment rooms.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Fabrizi, Cristina Gaioni
Votes: 1,496
97. Plot of Fear (1976)
Not Rated | 98 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man is strangled by a female prostitute in his home at the same time as a woman is killed by a man with a spanner on an empty bus. In both cases the killer leaves an illustration from the... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Cavara | Stars: Corinne Cléry, Michele Placido, Quinto Parmeggiani, Edoardo Faieta
Votes: 891
98. Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosè, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky
Votes: 3,421
99. The Vanquished (1953)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a ... See full summary »
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Etchika Choureau, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Sempey, Henri Poirier
Votes: 1,131
100. Il Grido (1957)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray
Votes: 5,446
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