Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "italy", "poet"

1. The Great Beauty (2013)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso

Votes: 97,434 | Gross: $2.85M

2. Tea with Mussolini (1999)

PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, War

An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher

Votes: 14,200 | Gross: $14.35M

3. Dangerous Beauty (1998)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Director: Marshall Herskovitz | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward

Votes: 19,641 | Gross: $4.53M

4. Inferno (1980)

R | 106 min | Horror

An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi

Votes: 24,028

5. Anonymous (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Thriller

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto

Votes: 42,138 | Gross: $4.46M

6. The Postman (1994)

PG | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Directors: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi | Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa

Votes: 39,011 | Gross: $21.85M

7. Spirits of the Dead (1968)

R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Directors: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp

Votes: 6,950

8. Fellini Satyricon (1969)

R | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone

Votes: 17,191 | Gross: $1.14M

9. Little Ashes (2008)

R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Director: Paul Morrison | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell

Votes: 9,626 | Gross: $0.48M

10. 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: 19,918 | Gross: $0.10M

11. Children of the Century (1999)

135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.

Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci

Votes: 2,022 | Gross: $0.05M

12. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

R | 94 min | Drama, History, War

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi

Votes: 7,679 | Gross: $0.60M

13. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Not Rated | 128 min | Fantasy, Music, Musical

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars

Votes: 3,946 | Gross: $0.09M

14. Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)

94 min | Drama, Romance

Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.

Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi, Halil Ergün

Votes: 7,215 | Gross: $0.66M

15. 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: 2,735 | Gross: $0.07M

16. Rowing with the Wind (1988)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.

Director: Gonzalo Suárez | Stars: Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley

Votes: 1,139

17. Lord of the Ants (2022)

134 min | Biography, Drama

Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner's father.

Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Sara Serraiocco, Leonardo Maltese

Votes: 1,224

18. Haunted Summer (1988)

R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex.

Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz

Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.01M

19. Stars of Eger (1968)

157 min | Adventure, History, Romance

1552, the great Turkish Empire wants to conquer Europe, and the world. The last stand is Hungarian Kingdom, and the castle of Eger. The brave soldiers decides they will fight till the end of their lives.

Director: Zoltán Várkonyi | Stars: István Kovács, Vera Venczel, Imre Sinkovits, György Korga

Votes: 2,641

20. Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend (1992)

1,416 min | Drama, History

Hermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.

Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Frank Röth, Armin Fuchs

Votes: 354

21. The Sign of Venus (1955)

97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone

Votes: 1,627

22. Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)

R | 92 min | Comedy

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Ugo Pagliai

Votes: 748

23. 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

24. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna

Votes: 567

25. For the First Time (1959)

Unrated | 92 min | Musical

An opera singer with a bad attitude falls in love with a deaf girl who changes his life.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Mario Lanza, Johanna von Koczian, Kurt Kasznar, Hans Söhnker

Votes: 354

26. Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017)

Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

An in-depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self-confessed 'cobbler' and the man regarded by most influential fashion figures as 'the best shoe-maker of the 20th and 21st centuries. A film for ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Roberts | Stars: Manolo Blahnik, David Bailey, Mary Beard, Lucy Burley

Votes: 573 | Gross: $0.06M

27. A Scandalous Journey (2002)

Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life and scandalous loves of early 20th century poet Sibilla Aleramo.

Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Laura Morante, Stefano Accorsi, Alessandro Haber, Galatea Ranzi

Votes: 399

28. Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)

100 min | Crime, Drama

A film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Carlo De Filippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli, Andrea Occhipinti

Votes: 643

29. Il ritorno del cigno (2014 TV Movie)

Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on the life of the great composer Gioachino Rossini.

Director: Ettore Florio | Stars: Bruno Praticò, Alessandro Gimelli, Angela Pascucci, Paola Antonucci

30. Mama Steps Out (1937)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance

This madcap comedy depicts a rich housewife dragging her family to France to absorb culture.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Alice Brady, Betty Furness, Dennis Morgan

Votes: 149

31. The Seven Sages of Antiquity (2010 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The Seven Wisest Men of Ancient Greece did not include Socrates, Plato or Aristotle. However, even the Seven Sages would choose only One as the Wisest of All.

Director: Giorgos Petritsis | Stars: Robert MacLean, Iren Theotokatou, Telis Zotos

Votes: 10

32. Michelangelo: The Early Life

Biography | Pre-production

The plot revolves around Michelangelo Buonarroti his early life in Rome and follows him at his stages in Florence - where he completes his most famous work, the Statue of David, always accompanied by his apprentice "Ascanio".

Stars: Remo Vinzens, Vivien Kemeny, Gianfranco Piccione

33. Frammenti Della Vita: Jefferson Rubin (2015)

56 min | Documentary

Filmed in Italy and Colorado, this documentary, produced by CPT12PBS, reveals the fascinating life story of neo-classical sculptor Jefferson Rubin. Jefferson named the male and female ... See full summary »

Director: David Schler | Stars: Georgi Marcello, Bunny Rubin, Marjorie Rubin, Steven Rubin

34. Elizabeth Adams - Art and Selected Poetry (2010)

7 min | Documentary, Short

Elizabeth Nelson Adams, Ph.D. was an artist and poet from Columbia, South Carolina. Her paintings spanned many artistic styles (expressionism, figurativism, realism, portraiture, and more) ... See full summary »

Director: Todd Robinson | Stars: Elizabeth Nelson Adams, Weston Adams, Julian Adams, Tippi Hedren

35. The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero... in Life, in Sound (2010)

61 min | Documentary

The Sonosopher is an experiential voyage into the peculiar life and art of Alex Caldiero. Tracing his birth and childhood in rural Sicily as well as his coming of age as a poet in New York ... See full summary »

Directors: Torben Bernhard, Travis Low | Stars: Scott Abbott, Alex Caldiero, Scott Carrier, Trent Harris

Votes: 10

36. Palermo flüstert (2001)

90 min | Drama

Mimmo is a poet who learned to write, while in exile. His father was a "boss" and, as a child, Mimmo repeatedly witnessed violence and murder in Palermo. But he didn't want to remain silent... See full summary »

Director: Wolf Gaudlitz | Stars: Mimmo Cuticchio, Francesco Di Gangi, Donatella Febraro, Simone Genovese

Votes: 20

37. A History of Philosophy (2015– )
Episode: The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (2015)

Documentary, History

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Star: Arthur Holmes

38. Secret Life of... (2012– )
Episode: Lord Byron (2012)

Documentary, Biography, History

He was a playboy poet, and one of the first true celebrities in history. Lord Byron's words made women swoon (as well as a men). One of the great Romantic poets, he embraced fame like no other. Welcome to the Secret Life of Lord Byron.

Director: Michelle Métivier | Stars: Russell Brand, Lady Gaga, Lisa Hilton, Tom Holland