my italian movies
by self_bias2006 | created - 09 Oct 2022 | updated - 05 Nov 2022 | PublicItalian movies that i have seen
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1. Scuola di ladri (1986)
96 min | Comedy
The incredible funny story of 3 strangers with the same last name that are drawn together by one criminal mastermind.
Director: Neri Parenti | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 1,392
2. I Am Afraid (1977)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Journey into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf, Angelica Ippolito
Votes: 678
3. The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
88 min | Adventure, Drama
Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.
Directors: Mario Caserini, Eleuterio Rodolfi | Stars: Fernanda Negri Pouget, Eugenia Tettoni Fior, Ubaldo Stefani, Antonio Grisanti
Votes: 623
4. Keoma (1976)
R | 105 min | Drama, Western
A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, William Berger, Olga Karlatos, Orso Maria Guerrini
Votes: 6,195
5. Il caso Moro (1986)
110 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin, Consuelo Ferrara
Votes: 493
6. The Boss (1973)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Henry Silva, Richard Conte, Gianni Garko, Antonia Santilli
Votes: 2,342
7. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,843
8. 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: 14,181
9. 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: 21,208
10. La banda degli onesti (1956)
106 min | Comedy
Three decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's involvement.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini, Giacomo Furia
Votes: 1,598
11. Dante's Inferno (1911)
71 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne
Votes: 3,460
12. Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
TV-MA | 91 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Biographical film about Italian footballer Roberto Baggio, a man who inspired entire generations to play football. A unique footballer, capable of thrilling fans all over the world.
Director: Letizia Lamartire | Stars: Andrea Arcangeli, Valentina Bellè, Thomas Trabacchi, Andrea Pennacchi
Votes: 5,164
13. 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: 112,072 | Gross: $3.45M
14. The Italian Connection (1972)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Milanese pimp is pursued by - and then pursues - a pair of New York hitmen and the gangsters who framed him for stealing a shipment of heroin.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 2,862
15. Day of Anger (1967)
M | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla, Christa Linder
Votes: 5,563
16. Nightmare Castle (1965)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé
Votes: 2,709
17. Toto Double or Nothing (1956)
94 min | Comedy
The Duke Gagliardo della Forcoletta, penniless and expert in horse-races, finds out he has a daughter, Emma Marini, who works in the bar Aurora. The Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o... See full summary »
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Totò, Mike Bongiorno, Dorian Gray, Valeria Moriconi
Votes: 494
18. 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: 28,991
19. Opera (1987)
R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 19,504
20. On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018)
TV-MA | 100 min | Biography, Drama
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime but in just one week's time, a family is changed forever.
Director: Alessio Cremonini | Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Massimiliano Tortora, Milvia Marigliano, Jasmine Trinca
Votes: 10,190
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: 1,078
22. Devil in the Flesh (1986)
X | 114 min | Drama, Romance
A sizzling, erotic thriller about a triangle between a teenage boy, an older woman an her fiance, an imprisoned terrorist, set in a world of intrigue, betrayal and erotic pleasure, from which may be no escape.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi, Alberto Di Stasio
Votes: 1,815 | Gross: $0.55M
23. The Last 4 Days (1974)
PG | 91 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 874
24. Almost Human (1974)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps a young heiress, prompting a cop to pursue him before he can kill the girl once the hefty ransom is paid.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Laura Belli, Gino Santercole
Votes: 2,908
25. Adiós, Sabata (1970)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, War
Sabata helps a band of Mexican revolutionaries steal a wagon-load of gold from the occupying Austrian forces of Emperor Maximilian I.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Gérard Herter
Votes: 2,307 | Gross: $0.55M
26. The Conformist (1970)
R | 113 min | Drama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
Votes: 33,718 | Gross: $0.54M
27. The Third Eye (1966)
Not Rated | 98 min | Thriller, Horror
A young count living with his domineering mother spirals into madness after his mother and fiancée are killed by his jealous, lovesick servant.
Director: Mino Guerrini | Stars: Franco Nero, Gioia Pascal, Erika Blanc, Olga Solbelli
Votes: 561
28. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 232,838 | Gross: $14.50M
29. Cannibal Ferox (1981)
93 min | Adventure, Horror
Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lorraine De Selle, Danilo Mattei, Zora Kerova
Votes: 10,800
30. City of the Living Dead (1980)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi
Votes: 19,369
31. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 61,183
32. Black Sunday (1960)
Approved | 87 min | Horror
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 17,612
33. 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: 5,667
34. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,523
35. The Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, War
A Jewish woman who survived the horrors of a concentration camp revisits the ruins of the camp, along with a former SS officer, and recollects the humiliation, the torture, and the constant abuse she went through.
Director: Cesare Canevari | Stars: Adriano Micantoni, Daniela Poggi, Maristella Greco, Fulvio Ricciardi
Votes: 1,606
36. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
Votes: 65,869
37. Conquest (1983)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an outlaw to take down an evil witch bent on claiming the magic bow for evil.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Conrado San Martín, Violeta Cela
Votes: 2,802
38. Last Cannibal World (1977)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror
An oil prospector is captured and imprisoned by a violent and primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippines' rain forest. He manages to escape with a female hostage, and begins searching for his missing companion and their airplane.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai, Ivan Rassimov, Sheik Razak Shikur
Votes: 4,166
39. Hannibal (1959)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.
Directors: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale
Votes: 1,125
40. Adam and Eve (1983)
TV-MA | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
God casts Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because Eve decided to eat a forbidden apple that a talking snake told her to eat. The disgraced couple find themselves battling a coterie of various creatures.
Directors: Enzo Doria, Luigi Russo | Stars: Mark Gregory, Andrea Goldman, Ángel Alcázar, Costantino Rossi
Votes: 374
41. Libido (1965)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their respective wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.
Directors: Ernesto Gastaldi, Vittorio Salerno | Stars: Dominique Boschero, Mara Maryl, Giancarlo Giannini, Luciano Pigozzi
Votes: 585
42. Tenebrae (1982)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 27,447
43. Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
99 min | Adventure, Horror
A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the jungle.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina
Votes: 4,712
44. 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: 6,028
45. Street Law (1974)
76 min | Action, Thriller
An engineer seeks vigilante justice against the gangsters who took him hostage, and forms an unlikely partnership with a young robber to bring them down.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, Giancarlo Prete, Barbara Bach, Renzo Palmer
Votes: 1,771
46. Beyond the Law (1968)
PG | 90 min | Western
A trio of thieves plot to steal a town's silver shipment but a turn of events makes them the town's heroes.
Director: Giorgio Stegani | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Antonio Sabato, Lionel Stander, Graziella Granata
Votes: 1,461
47. The Knock Out Cop (1973)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Adventures of the police inspector "Flatfoot" Rizzo in the slums of Naples.
Director: Steno | Stars: Bud Spencer, Adalberto Maria Merli, Raymond Pellegrin, Juliette Mayniel
Votes: 4,181
48. To Live in Peace (1947)
90 min | Drama, War, Comedy
The peaceful, almost idyllic life of an Italian village is interrupted during the war by the appearance of two American soldiers who keep hiding in the house of one of the villagers.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Votes: 248 | Gross: $2.20M
49. Bomber (1982)
101 min | Comedy, Action, Crime
Bud "Bomber" Graziano (Bud Spencer) retired from boxing as heavyweight champion and has sworn to never fight again. While living his life on a ship he meets Jerry Cala' (Jerry Cala) who ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Bud Spencer, Jerry Calà, Stefano Mingardo, Kallie Knoetze
Votes: 4,414
50. 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
51. Demons (1985)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento
Votes: 26,581
52. 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: 6,321
53. Sister Emanuelle (1977)
16+ | 90 min | Drama
Having renounced her old life of promiscuity, a nun's sexual and religious identity is challenged by a free-spirited, nymphomaniacal new pupil at her convent and a fugitive killer.
Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Laura Gemser, Mónica Zanchi, Gabriele Tinti, Vinja Locatelli
Votes: 803
54. 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: 6,735
55. Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A small plane carrying fossil hunters crashes in the Amazon jungle, and the survivors must battle their way through cannibals, wild animals, and slave traders.
Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Suzane Carvalho, Milton Rodríguez, Marta Anderson
Votes: 2,421
56. The Wild Beasts (1984)
Unrated | 92 min | Horror
The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose.
Director: Franco Prosperi | Stars: Lorraine De Selle, Antonio Di Leo, Ugo Bologna, Louisa Lloyd
Votes: 1,181
57. Planet of the Vampires (1965)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi
Votes: 7,010 | Gross: $0.25M
58. Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Antonella Interlenghi, Mimmo Crao, Jim Sullivan, Tony Kendall
Votes: 798
59. Zombie 3 (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni
Votes: 5,498
60. Frivolous Lola (1998)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Set in the 1950s Italian countryside, the film tells the story of Lola and Masetto, a young couple whose views on premarital sex differ drastically.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Anna Ammirati, Patrick Mower, Max Parodi, Susanna Martinková
Votes: 4,438
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