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by andrea-baratti-94 | created - 12 Jul 2014 | updated - 26 Jul 2014 | PublicMy favourites Italian movies, from De Sica to Sorrentino
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1. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,088 | Gross: $0.33M
2. 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: 742,875 | Gross: $57.60M
3. The Bullocks (1953)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 19,901 | Gross: $0.10M
4. 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: 16,416 | Gross: $4.53M
5. The Easy Life (1962)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Votes: 12,406
6. 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: 46,797 | Gross: $0.58M
7. That's Life (1998)
108 min | Comedy, Adventure
Aldo, called Bancomat, has been detained for two years and four months in the San Vittore prison for forgery of credit cards.
Directors: Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Massimo Venier | Stars: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Marina Massironi
Votes: 5,516
8. Viva l'Italia (2012)
100 min | Comedy
After a stroke in the brain politician, Michele Spagnolo loses all his virtues and the ability to lie, something which soon has dire consequences.
Director: Massimiliano Bruno | Stars: Raoul Bova, Ambra Angiolini, Michele Placido, Alessandro Gassmann
Votes: 2,004
9. Basilicata Coast to Coast (2010)
105 min | Comedy, Musical
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.
Director: Rocco Papaleo | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Paolo Briguglia, Max Gazzè, Rocco Papaleo
Votes: 2,271
10. 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
11. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,152 | Gross: $0.05M
12. Amici miei (1975)
R | 140 min | Comedy, Drama
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret, Duilio Del Prete
Votes: 7,984
13. Amici miei - Atto II° (1982)
127 min | Comedy, Drama
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi, Renzo Montagnani
Votes: 3,294
14. Rome, Open City (1945)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico
Votes: 28,955
15. 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: 15,824
16. N (Io e Napoleone) (2006)
110 min | Comedy, History, War
When Napoleon arrives to Elba Island in exile, Martino, an idealist teacher and writer, plots to kill him.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Sabrina Impacciatore
Votes: 1,448
17. The Caiman (2006)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido
Votes: 5,280
18. The Great War (1959)
Approved | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Folco Lulli
Votes: 4,602
19. The Cyclone (1996)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
Levante lives in a small city near Florence (Tuscany, Italy) and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life.
Director: Leonardo Pieraccioni | Stars: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Lorena Forteza, Barbara Enrichi, Massimo Ceccherini
Votes: 4,403
20. Fantozzi (1975)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder, Giuseppe Anatrelli
Votes: 6,993
21. Fantozzi 2 (1976)
110 min | Comedy
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who spends all of his time fulfilling his bosses' wishes and desires.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder, Ugo Bologna
Votes: 4,535
22. An American in Rome (1954)
94 min | Comedy
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Maria Pia Casilio, Ilse Peterson, Anita Durante
Votes: 1,925
23. 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: 7,081
24. Baaria (2009)
Not Rated | 163 min | Comedy, Drama
Baaria 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.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina
Votes: 7,985 | Gross: $0.00M
25. Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
98 min | Comedy
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 656
26. 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: 13,428 | Gross: $0.16M
27. Three Men and a Leg (1997)
100 min | Comedy
Three friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.
Directors: Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Massimo Venier | Stars: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Marina Massironi
Votes: 10,169
28. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,912 | Gross: $0.75M
29. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 174 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 282,761 | Gross: $11.99M
30. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,173 | Gross: $19.52M
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