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1. Tale of Tales (2015)
R | 134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly
Votes: 31,208 | Gross: $0.08M
2. Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
An archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery.
Director: Andrea Bianchi | Stars: Karin Well, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Simone Mattioli, Antonella Antinori
Votes: 6,313
3. A Good Woman (2004)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
A 1930s American socialite creates a scandal in the expatriate high society of the Amalfi Coast of Italy when she forms a secretive relationship with a wealthy American unbeknownst to his young wife.
Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Milena Vukotic
Votes: 14,106 | Gross: $0.22M
4. Third Person (2013)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 29,336 | Gross: $1.02M
5. 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: 51,216 | Gross: $1.58M
6. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,697
7. Bambina (1974)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An older man plans to marry a mentally-challenged, sex-crazed, adolescent girl.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Gigi Proietti, Irene Papas, Teresa Ann Savoy, Bruno Cirino
Votes: 413
8. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Not Rated | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante
Votes: 13,712
9. Corpo Celeste (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher | Stars: Yile Yara Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Pasqualina Scuncia, Anita Caprioli
Votes: 1,905 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Unrated | 94 min | Horror
A disturbed young taxidermist exhumes his recently deceased girlfriend, brings her body to his family villa and proceeds to embalm her corpse, with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto
Votes: 5,666
11. Il capo dei capi (2007– )
100 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the life of Salvatore Riina ('Totò u Curtu'), a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.
Stars: Claudio Gioè, Daniele Liotti, Salvatore Lazzaro, Simona Cavallari
Votes: 3,808
12. Nightmare City (1980)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 6,733
13. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,488 | Gross: $0.01M
14. That Malicious Age (1975)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
Director: Silvio Amadio | Stars: Gloria Guida, Nino Castelnuovo, Anita Sanders, Mimmo Palmara
Votes: 511
15. Rabid Dogs (1974)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Lea Lander, George Eastman, Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy
Votes: 5,265
16. The Sicilian Clan (1969)
GP | 122 min | Crime, Drama
An ambitious young mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick
Votes: 9,153 | Gross: $3.00M
17. Lo chiamavano Bulldozer (1978)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
After his fishing boat is "periscoped", ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents and challenge the Yanks to a football game.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Bud Spencer, Raimund Harmstorf, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Nando Paone
Votes: 6,027
18. 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: 15,552 | Gross: $1.62M
19. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
150 min | Drama
A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari
Votes: 2,736 | Gross: $0.07M
20. Il demonio (1963)
98 min | Drama, Horror
A lonely, sexually-uninhibited young peasant is subjected to an exorcism after she hexes a man who rejects her advances.
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna María Aveta, Tiziana Casetti
Votes: 1,140
21. The Other Hell (1981)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Nuns become possessed by the Devil and lust after the abbot!
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Franca Stoppi, Carlo De Mejo, Francesca Carmeno, Susan Forget
Votes: 1,075
22. 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: 5,770 | Gross: $0.06M
23. The Hole (2021)
93 min | Drama
The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino | Stars: Nicola Lanza, Antonio Lanza, Leonardo Larocca, Claudia Candusso
Votes: 1,855
24. Hands Over the City (1963)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale
Votes: 3,287
25. Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento
Votes: 2,184
26. The Sucker (1965)
111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Criminals have chosen an ordinary man to carry drugs and jewels in his car across the border. The problem is that this man turned out too much ordinary.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini, Henri Génès
Votes: 8,049
27. Mondocane (2021)
116 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Taranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs are competing for territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
Director: Alessandro Celli | Stars: Dennis Protopapa, Giuliano Soprano, Alessandro Borghi, Barbara Ronchi
Votes: 768
28. Terraferma (2011)
R | 88 min | Drama
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Mimmo Cuticchio
Votes: 3,212
29. La casa delle donne (2003)
98 min | Drama
After Rocco marries, he gets his sister-in-law pregnant. Then his maid. They and their children and grandchildren all live in a house together. Further complications ensue.
Directors: Domenico Mongelli, Mimmo Mongelli | Stars: Vito Bruno, Stefania Caito, Ilaria Cangialosi, Francesco Capotorto
Votes: 33
30. Fort Apache Napoli (2009)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino, Massimiliano Gallo
Votes: 1,162
31. The Dead Are Alive! (1972)
R | 105 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
Director: Armando Crispino | Stars: Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Nadja Tiller
Votes: 1,060 | Gross: $0.11M
32. 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: 3,049
33. My Body Will Bury You (2021)
116 min | Drama, History
1860, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. While Garibaldi's troops are invading this lawless territory, four female bandits nicknamed the "Drudes" are looking for their own personal revenge.
Director: Giovanni La Parola | Stars: Miriam Dalmazio, Antonia Truppo, Margareth Madè, Rita Abela
Votes: 145
34. Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
With his crooked face and rough demeanor Abel Ferrara looks and acts like he could have been born in Naples, Italy, the subject and location of his raw and hyper reality film Naples Naples ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Fabio Gargano, Shanyn Leigh, Peppe Lanzetta, Luca Lionello
Votes: 239
35. Lost and Beautiful (2015)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo ... See full summary »
Director: Pietro Marcello | Stars: Tommaso Cestrone, Sergio Vitolo, Gesuino Pittalis, Elio Germano
Votes: 652
36. We Believed (2010)
205 min | History
The 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.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Raffaele Di Florio, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Bosca, Edoardo Natoli
Votes: 631
37. Des Teufels Advokat (1977)
109 min | Drama
A high ranking Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Blaise Meredith (Sir John Mills), finds out he has terminal cancer. His faith is tested when faced with imminent death. At the same time, he ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Green | Stars: John Mills, Stéphane Audran, Jason Miller, Paola Pitagora
Votes: 90
38. Eaters (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror
The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has... See full summary »
Directors: Luca Boni, Marco Ristori | Stars: Alex Lucchesi, Guglielmo Favilla, Claudio Marmugi, Rosella Elmi
Votes: 1,496
39. Indivisible (2016)
100 min | Drama
Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is ... See full summary »
Director: Edoardo De Angelis | Stars: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo, Tony Laudadio
Votes: 1,390
40. Flight of the Innocent (1992)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Carlei | Stars: Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici, Sal Borgese, Lucio Zagaria
Votes: 559 | Gross: $0.05M
41. Tutto l'amore che c'è (2000)
95 min | Drama
Souther Italy in the 1970s. The arrival of three beautiful girls from the north wreaks havoc among the youngsters of a small town.
Director: Sergio Rubini | Stars: Damiano Russo, Michele Venitucci, Francesco Cannito, Pierluigi Ferrandini
Votes: 384
42. The Basilisks (1963)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
The story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Antonio Petruzzi, Stefano Satta Flores, Sergio Ferranino, Enrica Chiaromonte
Votes: 939
43. Immacolata e Concetta, l'altra gelosia (1979)
94 min | Drama, Romance
A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".
Director: Salvatore Piscicelli | Stars: Ida Di Benedetto, Marcella Michelangeli, Tommaso Bianco, Lucio Allocca
Votes: 104
44. YouTube Money (2014–2024)
Comedy
Paolo and Alessio are both two people without a job, nearly homeless and without money. So they have to come up with a plan to obtain some money, they think of getting a job at YouTube but their journey will be long and difficult.
Stars: Mario Palladino, Nicola Palmieri, Emanuele Criasia, Giuseppe Villani
Votes: 49
45. Il dono (2003)
80 min | Drama
An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino | Stars: Angelo Frammartino, Gabriella Maiolo
Votes: 251
46. Nostra signora dei turchi (1968)
124 min | Drama
Avant Garde piece from Carmelo Bene. A series of vignettes drive a whirl of sounds, images and poetry - is it horror, is it comedy, make your own mind up.
Director: Carmelo Bene | Stars: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Anita Masini
Votes: 363
47. Anija (La nave) (2012)
83 min | Documentary, Drama, History
In early March 1991, a number of ships laden with men, women and children appeared off the Adriatic coast of southern Italy. It was the beginning of the so-called "Exodus of the Albanians."... See full summary »
Director: Roland Sejko | Stars: Ivo Calebotta, Eneida del Prete, Avni Delvina, Ardian Elezi
Votes: 72
48. Il tempo dell'inizio (1974)
127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
Director: Luigi Di Gianni | Stars: Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Jean Martin, Claudio Camaso
Votes: 52
49. Pummarò (1990)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Claudio Bonivento, Thywill Amenia, Pamela Villoresi, Jacqueline Williams
Votes: 47
50. Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995)
98 min | Comedy
Set in apocalyptic Palermo peopled by ignorant, inbred, flatulent gluttons and deformed Mafiosi, a dark comedy which centers on a poor family of three-middle aged brothers who are coerced, ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco | Stars: Salvatore Gattuso, Pippo Agusta, Salvatore Schiera, Gaspare Marchione
Votes: 296