Worth to watch modern Italian stuff
by xLNRDx | created - 19 Oct 2015 | updated - 10 months ago | PublicItalian cinema industries is in a deep crisis. With few exceptions. Fairly decent and good recent stuff from Italy, in no particular order.
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1. Gomorrah (2014–2021)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ciro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.
Stars: Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito, Cristiana Dell'Anna
Votes: 44,410
2. Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008–2010)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller
This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
Stars: Vinicio Marchioni, Alessandro Roja, Marco Bocci, Daniela Virgilio
Votes: 6,714
3. 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: 51,199 | Gross: $1.58M
4. Il Divo (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 18,998 | Gross: $0.24M
5. The Consequences of Love (2004)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini, Antonio Ballerio
Votes: 18,680
6. 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: 15,553 | Gross: $1.62M
7. Denti (2000)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Antonio is a man who was born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth make him an outcast from his peers as a child, and he attempts more than once to break off the offending choppers.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Anouk Grinberg, Tom Novembre, Anita Caprioli
Votes: 851
8. A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012)
112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini, Andrea Sartoretti
Votes: 8,148
9. Suburra (2015)
130 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola, Alessandro Borghi
Votes: 21,822
10. Boris (2007–2022)
25 min | Comedy
A look at the daily misadventures of the troupe filming the low-quality TV series "Gli Occhi del Cuore 2".
Stars: Luca Amorosino, Antonino Bruschetta, Paolo Calabresi, Antonio Catania
Votes: 4,451
11. Boris - Il film (2011)
108 min | Comedy
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
Directors: Giacomo Ciarrapico, Mattia Torre, Luca Vendruscolo | Stars: Luca Amorosino, Valerio Aprea, Antonino Bruschetta, Paolo Calabresi
Votes: 3,162
12. I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
A university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.
Director: Sydney Sibilia | Stars: Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi
Votes: 9,564
13. The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015)
115 min | Comedy
Sergio, Fausto Diego and Claudio have to struggle against Camorra in order to open an agritourism.
Director: Edoardo Leo | Stars: Luca Argentero, Edoardo Leo, Anna Foglietta, Claudio Amendola
Votes: 2,511
14. The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Inspired by real events, this is a black comedy about 20 years of history of Sicily from 1970s to 1990s, mocking Mafia Bosses and restoring the generosity of the heroes of Antimafia. It's ... See full summary »
Director: Pif | Stars: Cristiana Capotondi, Pif, Alex Bisconti, Ginevra Antona
Votes: 8,874 | Gross: $0.04M
15. 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: 5,442
16. Hardboiled Egg (1997)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of Piero from childhood to fatherhood, over the background of Livorno's neighborhood Ovosodo.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Malcolm Lunghi, Regina Orioli, Alessio Fantozzi
Votes: 3,947
17. An Italian Name (2015)
94 min | Comedy
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio
Votes: 1,487
18. 1992 (2015)
Drama
Follows six people whose lives are intertwined with the rapidly changing political landscape of early 90's Italy.
Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Guido Caprino, Miriam Leone, Domenico Diele
Votes: 2,432
19. 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: 4,214 | Gross: $1.51M
20. After Midnight (2004)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to... See full summary »
Director: Davide Ferrario | Stars: Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi, Fabio Troiano, Francesca Picozza
Votes: 1,585 | Gross: $0.02M
21. Santa Maradona (2001)
96 min | Comedy
An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Director: Marco Ponti | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Anita Caprioli, Libero De Rienzo, Mandala Tayde
Votes: 2,353
22. Radio Arrow (1998)
112 min | Drama
Looking back at stories and myths of an Italian small town in the mid-70s.
Director: Luciano Ligabue | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Luciano Federico, Alessio Modica, Enrico Salimbeni
Votes: 2,498
23. 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: 16,281
24. Tiger Boy (2012)
20 min | Short, Drama
Matteo, a nine years old kid, builds a mask identical to the one of his hero: a wrestler of a roman suburb called "The Tiger". Once the mask is on, Matteo never wants to take it off. What ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriele Mainetti | Stars: Simone Santini, Francesco Foti, Lidia Vitale, Karim 'Brigante' Bartoli
Votes: 262
25. Don't Be Bad (2015)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Vittorio and Cesare are brothers for life, but their friendship is put to the test in their search for wealth.
Director: Claudio Caligari | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D'Amico, Roberta Mattei
Votes: 5,054
26. I Can Quit Whenever I Want: Masterclass (2017)
118 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The return of the team of researchers who, to delete their problems with law, decide to help police to find new smart drugs.
Director: Sydney Sibilia | Stars: Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Stefano Fresi, Paolo Calabresi
Votes: 4,323
27. There Is a Light: Il padre d'Italia (2017)
92 min | Drama
Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.
Director: Fabio Mollo | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Isabella Ragonese, Anna Ferruzzo, Mario Sgueglia
Votes: 939
28. Numero Zero: Alle origini del rap italiano (2015)
90 min | Documentary
In the eighties comes from overseas powerful, unstoppable, the wave of hip hop. Few years later the rap music begins to take roots in Italy with the firts album in 1990. Thus began a golden... See full summary »
Director: Enrico Bisi | Stars: Jari Ivan Vella, Albertino, Alessandro Aleotti, Dargen D'Amico
Votes: 193
29. Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Giacomo Ferrara, Filippo Nigro, Carlotta Antonelli
Votes: 16,505
30. I Can Quit Whenever I Want: Ad Honorem (2017)
98 min | Action, Comedy
Despite being in prison, Italy's most wanted gang of academics must stop Walter Mercurio from unleashing a deadly nerve gas on the elite.
Director: Sydney Sibilia | Stars: Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi, Libero De Rienzo
Votes: 3,462
31. Il cacciatore (2018– )
Action, Crime, Drama
Italy and the mafia were at war in the early 1990s. Saverio Barone, a determined young prosecutor, steps in to fight for the innocents caught up in the carnage.
Stars: Marco Rossetti, Roberto Citran, Miriam Dalmazio, Francesco Montanari
Votes: 1,212
32. Pure Hearts (2017)
115 min | Drama, Romance
Agnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother (a harsh but devoted woman and a regular church-goer) and is about to take a vow of chastity to ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto De Paolis | Stars: Selene Caramazza, Simone Liberati, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Fresi
Votes: 851
33. Io c'è (2018)
100 min | Comedy
To save his B&B from failure, Massimo decides to turn it into a place of worship, creating a new religion.
Director: Alessandro Aronadio | Stars: Edoardo Leo, Margherita Buy, Giuseppe Battiston, Giulia Michelini
Votes: 1,131
34. Dogman (2018)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi
Votes: 29,738 | Gross: $0.15M
35. Suspiria (I) (2018)
R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela
Votes: 92,096 | Gross: $2.47M
36. The Nest (2019)
107 min | Horror, Mystery
Samuel is a paraplegic boy who lives with his mother Elena in an isolated mansion. When he meets Denise, he finds the strength to open up to the world. Elena won't let him go so easily, and she is ready to do whatever it takes to stop him.
Director: Roberto De Feo | Stars: Francesca Cavallin, Justin Korovkin, Ginevra Francesconi, Maurizio Lombardi
Votes: 1,919
37. A Classic Horror Story (2021)
TV-MA | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In this gruesome suspense film, strangers traveling in southern Italy become stranded in the woods, where they must fight desperately to get out alive.
Directors: Roberto De Feo, Paolo Strippoli | Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Francesco Russo, Peppino Mazzotta, Will Merrick
Votes: 21,909
38. Freaks Out (2021)
141 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone starts looking for the four freaks with a plan that could change the fate of the whole world.
Director: Gabriele Mainetti | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto, Giancarlo Martini
Votes: 7,123
39. Mixed by Erry (2023)
TV-MA | 110 min | Comedy, History
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples and their "Mixed by Erry"-trademarked cassettes that brought pop music to 1980s Italian youth.
Director: Sydney Sibilia | Stars: Luigi D'Oriano, Giuseppe Arena, Emanuele Palumbo, Francesco Di Leva
Votes: 5,425
40. This World Can't Tear Me Down (2023)
TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
When an old friend returns to the neighborhood, Zerocalcare wants to help him find his place back in the world. But what's the right thing to do?
Stars: Zerocalcare, Valerio Mastandrea, James Acaster, Adam Rhys Dee
Votes: 3,599
41. Tear Along the Dotted Line (2021)
TV-14 | 20 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.
Stars: Zerocalcare, Valerio Mastandrea, Wayne Forester, Adam Rhys Dee
Votes: 12,421
42. Pesci piccoli - Un'agenzia, molte idee, poco budget (2023– )
Comedy
A small digital agency struggles against the odds while dreaming of something bigger. It finds itself in a tricky situation, between extravagant clients and the challenges of a modest provincial reality.
Stars: Francesca Romana Bergamo, Aurora Leone, Fabio Balsamo, Gianluca Colucci
Votes: 403
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