Globo d'oro al miglior film
by tmdaines | created - 02 Dec 2014 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicIl Globo d'oro is a film award that has been assigned intermittently since 1960 by the Associazione della stampa estera in Italia (Association of the Foreign Press in Italy) to the best film of the year.
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1. 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
1960
2. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Not Rated | 179 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 21,211
1961
3. Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 14,182
1962
4. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama, History
The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi, Pippo Agusta
Votes: 3,708
1963
5. The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
115 min | Comedy
Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Olga Villi
Votes: 1,744
1966
6. The Violent Four (1968)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Don Backy, Ray Lovelock, Ezio Sancrotti
Votes: 876
1968
7. Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968)
GP | 108 min | Drama
A female psychiatrist treats and heals a young schizophrenic girl using cutting-edge methods and establishing a deep emotional relationship with her.
Director: Nelo Risi | Stars: Ghislaine D'Orsay, Margarita Lozano, Umberto Raho, Marija Tocinoski
Votes: 73
1969
8. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,349 | Gross: $0.27M
1970
9. Death in Venice (1971)
GP | 130 min | Drama, Romance
While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci
Votes: 23,050 | Gross: $0.15M
1971
10. The Mattei Affair (1972)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
An Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Renato Romano
Votes: 2,461
1972
11. The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
120 min | Drama
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Franco Nero, Mario Adorf, Riccardo Cucciolla, Damiano Damiani
Votes: 350
1973
12. 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: 46,852 | Gross: $0.58M
1974
13. A Special Day (1977)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Votes: 15,849
1977
14. Three Brothers (1981)
PG | 113 min | Drama
Three men face their mother's death.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 1,794
1981
15. Cercasi Gesù (1982)
105 min | Comedy
Giovanni is a young man who has been used by a catholic publishing house to advertise, with his face, a publication by installments concerning Jesus life. Francesca is a mysterious girl he ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Beppe Grillo, Maria Schneider, Fernando Rey, Alexandra Stewart
Votes: 182
1982
16. 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: 4,655
1983
17. 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
1984
18. 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: 3,143 | Gross: $0.33M
1985
19. Ginger & Fred (1986)
PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Drama
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Friedrich von Ledebur
Votes: 5,547 | Gross: $0.84M
1986
20. The Family (1987)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Romance
With the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Emanuele Lamaro
Votes: 2,490 | Gross: $0.35M
1987
21. Intervista (1987)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori
Votes: 3,183 | Gross: $0.11M
1988
22. The Icicle Thief (1989)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A movie resembling Bicycle Thieves (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.
Director: Maurizio Nichetti | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Caterina Sylos Labini, Federico Rizzo, Renato Scarpa
Votes: 1,062 | Gross: $1.23M
1989
23. Open Doors (1990)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci
Votes: 1,002 | Gross: $0.12M
1990
24. The Conviction (1991)
92 min | Drama
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Claire Nebout, Grazyna Szapolowska
Votes: 323
1991
25. Una storia semplice (1991)
91 min | Drama
Returning from abroad to Sicily, a former diplomat informs the police about a strange discovery he has just made. The next day, police inspector Lepri comes to the man's place and finds him... See full summary »
Director: Emidio Greco | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Ricky Tognazzi, Massimo Dapporto
Votes: 300
1992
26. La fine è nota (1993)
97 min | Thriller
Young lawyer Bernardo returns home to discover that a man has committed suicide by jumping through a window of his house. His wife Maria says that she admitted the unknown man because he ... See full summary »
Director: Cristina Comencini | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Carlo Cecchi, Valérie Kaprisky, Mariangela Melato
Votes: 126
1993
27. Dear Diary (1993)
Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller, Claudia Della Seta
Votes: 9,157 | Gross: $0.47M
1994
28. L'amore molesto (1995)
104 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
When an elderly woman dies--apparently happy but in curious circumstances--her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Anna Bonaiuto, Angela Luce, Piero Tassitano, Giovanni Viglietti
Votes: 660
1995
29. Traveling Companion (1996)
104 min | Drama
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother's suicide, her ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Asia Argento, Lino Capolicchio, Silvia Cohen
Votes: 297
1996
30. The Prince of Homburg (1997)
89 min | Drama, History, Romance
The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. He is court martialled however for disobeying orders and sentenced to... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli, Anita Laurenzi
Votes: 471
1997
31. 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: 743,772 | Gross: $57.60M
1998
32. Besieged (1998)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, John C. Ojwang
Votes: 5,223 | Gross: $2.03M
1999
33. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,873
2000
34. The Profession of Arms (2001)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, War
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Rachkov, Fabio Giubbani
Votes: 1,909
2001
35. My Mother's Smile (2002)
105 min | Drama
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig, Chiara Conti, Gigio Alberti
Votes: 1,978 | Gross: $0.04M
2002
36. Facing Windows (2003)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro
Votes: 11,683 | Gross: $0.54M
2003
37. 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: 8,512
2004
38. Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005)
115 min | Adventure, Drama
A coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Italy.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Alessio Boni, Michela Cescon, Rodolfo Corsato, Matteo Gadola
Votes: 1,010
2005
39. The Wedding Director (2006)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A film director falls in love with the daughter of a prince.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey, Gianni Cavina
Votes: 851
2006
40. 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
2007
41. 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
2008
42. 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: 51,227 | Gross: $1.58M
2009
43. 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: 13,398
2010
44. We Have a Pope (2011)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa
Votes: 14,304 | Gross: $0.48M
2011
45. The Entrepreneur (2011)
94 min | Drama
Strangled by debt and the banks, the owner of a factory that is on the brink of closing will go to any lengths to solve his financial and marital problems.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Carolina Crescentini, Eduard Gabia, Francesco Scianna
Votes: 459
2012
46. Human Capital (2013)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Matilde Gioli, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Guglielmo Pinelli
Votes: 13,437 | Gross: $0.16M
2014
47. Leopardi (2014)
143 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis
Votes: 3,050
2015
48. They Call Me Jeeg Robot (2015)
112 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Lonely, misanthropic small-time crook Enzo uses the superpowers he gained after falling into the Tiber River to chase down a crazy gangster called "The Gypsy."
Director: Gabriele Mainetti | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Ilenia Pastorelli, Stefano Ambrogi
Votes: 16,303
2016
49. La stoffa dei sogni (2016)
101 min | Comedy
Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover ... See full summary »
Director: Gianfranco Cabiddu | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Ennio Fantastichini, Teresa Saponangelo, Alba Gaïa Bellugi
Votes: 175
2017
50. L'intrusa (2017)
95 min | Drama
Social worker in Naples confronts moral dilemma risking her life's work after battling criminal mindsets in the city's daily conflicts.
Director: Leonardo Di Costanzo | Stars: Raffaella Giordano, Valentina Vannino, Martina Abbate, Anna Patierno
Votes: 434
2018
51. The Traitor (2019)
R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi
Votes: 13,003
2019
52. Hidden Away (2020)
120 min | Biography, Drama
Antonio is expelled from Switzerland to Italy against his will. For years he lives in poverty in the Po floodplains, but he never gives up his passion for drawing. The story of Antonio Ligabue, a revolutionary loner in modern art.
Director: Giorgio Diritti | Stars: Elio Germano, Oliver Ewy, Leonardo Carrozzo, Pietro Traldi
Votes: 1,719
2020
53. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (2020)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
As he awaits a transplant in a hospital, the main character (based on the director) flashes back to childhood and also experiences medically induced reveries.
Director: Francesco Bruni | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Lorenza Indovina, Barbara Ronchi, Giuseppe Pambieri
Votes: 386
2021
54. The Inner Cage (2021)
117 min | Drama
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.
Director: Leonardo Di Costanzo | Stars: Toni Servillo, Silvio Orlando, Fabrizio Ferracane, Salvatore Striano
Votes: 1,734
2022
55. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
134 min | Drama, History
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala
Votes: 2,762
2023
56. Michael H. Profession: Director (2013)
PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Biography
Michael Haneke, theorists of the image that knows better than any other the dregs of our society with their existential fears and emotional derail ment to bring to light - a portrait.
Director: Yves Montmayeur | Stars: Michael Haneke, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montmayeur, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 423
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