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1. 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: 112,329 | Gross: $3.45M

2. 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: 16,463 | Gross: $4.53M

3. A Bell for Adano (1945)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, War

During WWII, U.S. Army Major Joppolo and his troops are tasked with administering the war damaged Italian town of Adano where the locals decry the loss of the town bell.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Glenn Langan

Votes: 866

4. El Alamein - The Line of Fire (2002)

117 min | Drama, War

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel ... See full summary »

Director: Enzo Monteleone | Stars: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa, Emilio Solfrizzi

Votes: 2,020

5. The Fascist (1961)

102 min | Comedy

The quest of a Fascist soldier, whose mission is to catch a political enemy during at the end of World War II.

Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Mireille Granelli, Stefania Sandrelli

Votes: 838

6. Corbari (1970)

90 min | Action, War

The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari. He starts his career killing publicly one of his friends that was a fascist. Than, he set up a band of partisans in north Italy, completely ... See full summary »

Director: Valentino Orsini | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Tina Aumont, Antonio Piovanelli, Frank Wolff

Votes: 134

7. Cefalonia (2005 TV Movie)

210 min | Drama

8 September proved to be a fateful day for the Acqui Division, part of the predominately Italian force occupying Cefalonia: it was the day the Allies concluded an armistice with Italy. ... See full summary »

Director: Riccardo Milani | Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Luisa Ranieri, Roberto De Francesco, Jasmine Trinca

Votes: 134

8. Il partigiano Johnny (2000)

135 min | Drama, War

After 8 September 1943, Northern Italy is occupied by the Germans. The Italian army collapses and the soldiers escape to the mountains to set up a resistance. Many civilians do the same, ... See full summary »

Director: Guido Chiesa | Stars: Stefano Dionisi, Gabriele Montanari, Toni Bertorelli, Lina Bernardi

Votes: 327

9. Salvo D'Acquisto (1975)

100 min | Drama, War

In 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect.

Director: Romolo Guerrieri | Stars: Massimo Ranieri, Lina Polito, Isa Danieli, Massimo Serato

Votes: 83

10. The Garden of Redemption (1997 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, War

A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.

Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Marta Amaro, Anthony LaPaglia, João Arouca, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 376

11. Hotel Meina (2007)

115 min | Drama, History

How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of... See full summary »

Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Majlinda Agaj, Eugenio Allegri, Marta Bifano, Veronica Bruni

Votes: 126

12. Anni difficili (1948)

90 min | Drama, War

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Umberto Spadaro, Ave Ninchi, Enzo Biliotti, Massimo Girotti

Votes: 230

13. I giorni dell'amore e dell'odio (2001)

100 min | Drama, Romance, War

The massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia during World War II.

Director: Claver Salizzato | Stars: Daniele Liotti, Liberto Rabal, Mandala Tayde, Sarah Miles

Votes: 71

14. Baciami piccina (2006)

111 min | Comedy, Drama, History

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Cimpanelli | Stars: Neri Marcorè, Vincenzo Salemme, Elena Russo, Marco Messeri

Votes: 137

15. Porzûs (1997)

121 min | Drama, History, War

Italy 1945: the war is ending and the iron curtain is falling down. In the north eastern part of the country partisans of different political orientation begin to question about the future ... See full summary »

Director: Renzo Martinelli | Stars: Lorenzo Crespi, Gianni Cavina, Gastone Moschin, Gabriele Ferzetti

Votes: 103

16. Aeroporto (1944)

90 min | Drama

After Mussolini's regime in Italy collapsed on Sept. 8, 1943, a fighter pilot decides to continue fighting for fascism and flies his plane north, where the Germans created a satellite state with Mussolini as their puppet.

Director: Piero Costa | Stars: Anna Arena, Attilio Dottesio, Carlo Minello, Clara Zani

17. The Righteous Enemy (1987)

84 min | Documentary

Rochlitz's documentary about the non-Jewish Italian resistance to Hitler's "Final Solution" explores how Italian officials prevented the deportation of some 40,000 Jews in Italian-occupied France, Greece, and Yugoslavia.

Director: Joseph Rochlitz

Votes: 6

18. Cassino to Korea (1950)

Approved | 55 min | Documentary, War

This 58 (fifty-eight) minute feature was produced by the Paramount Newsreel department ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") and vaguely suggests that the Italian campaign of World War II that... See full summary »

Director: Eugene Genock | Stars: Quentin Reynolds, Jackson Beck, James W. Logan, David Ludlum

Votes: 12

19. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare (1996)

TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The career and personal life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He quickly became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialists. He broke with Italian Socialist Party ... See full summary »

Director: Molly Thompson | Stars: Peter Graves, Edda Mussolini, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 116