Favourite Italian movies
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1. 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
2. Loose Cannons (2010)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies ... See full summary »
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini
Votes: 13,384
3. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,199 | Gross: $0.27M
4. 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
5. The Ignorant Fairies (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
After a deathly car accident, Antonia starts dating her husband's friends and finds the truth about his life.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Gabriel Garko
Votes: 10,038 | Gross: $0.22M
6. 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: 7,083
7. Bread and Chocolate (1974)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.
Director: Franco Brusati | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco, Ugo D'Alessio
Votes: 1,972
8. 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: 742,908 | Gross: $57.60M
9. 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: 9,566
10. 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: 8,875 | Gross: $0.04M
11. Cado dalle nubi (2009)
95 min | Comedy
A Southern Italian singer moves to Milan to have more chances with his career, bringing a little bit of the South with him.
Director: Gennaro Nunziante | Stars: Checco Zalone, Giulia Michelini, Dino Abbrescia, Fabio Troiano
Votes: 6,025
12. The Head Is Spinning (2000)
75 min | Comedy, Crime
A couple of criminals look for a little box full of drug, all around Bari
Director: Alessandro Piva | Stars: Dino Abbrescia, Mino Barbarese, Paolo Sassanelli, Mimmo Mancini
Votes: 421
13. Mio cognato (2003)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two men, brothers- in-law, are on the hunt for a stolen car.
Director: Alessandro Piva | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Luigi Lo Cascio, Mariangela Arcieri, Alessandra Sarno
Votes: 453
14. One Hundred Steps (2000)
114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 6,395
15. 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
16. The Son's Room (2001)
R | 99 min | Drama
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice
Votes: 21,435 | Gross: $1.01M
17. 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
18. What a Beautiful Day (2011)
97 min | Comedy
Checco is an immigrant from Southern Italy living in Milan, in the North. After failing his exam to join the Italian gendarmerie, he's hired as a security guard at Milan's Cathedral, but is spotted by Muslim extremists.
Director: Gennaro Nunziante | Stars: Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Ivano Marescotti, Michele Alhaique
Votes: 6,104
19. Notte prima degli esami (2006)
100 min | Comedy
A group of Italian friends is preparing for their final exams.
Director: Fausto Brizzi | Stars: Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis, Sarah Maestri
Votes: 5,378
20. The Last Kiss (2001)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudio Santamaria
Votes: 8,787 | Gross: $1.05M
21. Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio
Votes: 6,757 | Gross: $0.25M
22. The Past Is a Foreign Land (2008)
120 min | Drama
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.
Director: Daniele Vicari | Stars: Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Chiara Caselli, Valentina Lodovini
Votes: 549
23. My Class (2013)
92 min | Drama
The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in ... See full summary »
Director: Daniele Gaglianone | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Bassirou Ballde, Mamon Bhuiyan, Gregorio Cabral
Votes: 280
24. Little Teachers (1998)
122 min | War, Drama
During World War II four Italian university students in Veneto join the resistance against the Fascist government.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Stefania Montorsi, Giorgio Pasotti, Diego Gianesini
Votes: 207
25. Distretto di polizia (2000–2012)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Life and work in a police station of Rome. The chief of the station, Giovanna Scalise, has arrived in town after a long period passed in the city of Palermo, Sicily, where she fought ... See full summary »
Stars: Simone Corrente, Gianni Ferreri, Roberto Nobile, Irma Carolina Di Monte
Votes: 323
26. Good Morning, Night (2003)
106 min | Drama
The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 4,042 | Gross: $0.01M
27. 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
28. The Right Distance (2007)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama
A writer's need to maintain an appropriate amount of professional "distance" from his or her subject; the journalist in question here is Giovanni, a late adolescent with a flair for journalistic correspondence.
Director: Carlo Mazzacurati | Stars: Giovanni Capovilla, Valentina Lodovini, Ahmed Hafiene, Giuseppe Battiston
Votes: 1,216
29. Perfect Strangers (2016)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
Director: Paolo Genovese | Stars: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo
Votes: 71,351
30. 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: 16,283
31. Quo vado? (2016)
86 min | Comedy
Checco was born into privilege in a small Italian town with a guaranteed job as a public servant. When a new reformist government vows to cut down on bureaucracy, Checco is forced to accept worsening conditions.
Director: Gennaro Nunziante | Stars: Checco Zalone, Eleonora Giovanardi, Sonia Bergamasco, Maurizio Micheli
Votes: 12,532
32. 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: 2,512
33. Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
127 min | Drama
A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
Director: Daniele Vicari | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Jennifer Ulrich, Elio Germano, Davide Iacopini
Votes: 4,057
34. 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: 3,948
35. Romanzo Criminale (2005)
152 min | Crime, Drama
Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria
Votes: 9,660
36. The Best Offer (2013)
R | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 128,547 | Gross: $0.09M
37. A Magnificent Haunting (2012)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every single way. He comes Rome and starts to ... See full summary »
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Elio Germano, Margherita Buy, Vittoria Puccini, Giuseppe Fiorello
Votes: 5,481
38. Viaggi di nozze (1995)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Carlo Verdone | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Veronica Pivetti, Cinzia Mascoli
Votes: 2,776
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