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1. Desert War (1962)
92 min | Drama, War
Director: Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Stars: Peter Baldwin, Chelo Alonso, Ettore Manni, Claudio Gora
Votes: 107
2. Caccia al ladro d'autore (1985– )
50 min | Action, Crime
Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Vanni Corbellini, Tony Kendall, Carlo Cartier
Votes: 24
3. Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina (1956)
106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two clumsy provincial uncles visit a metropolis to stop the relationship between their nephew and a woman of ill repute.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Dorian Gray, Teddy Reno
Votes: 2,058
4. The Things of Life (1970)
GP | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau, Jean Bouise
Votes: 5,547
5. Gli italiani sono matti (1958)
106 min | Comedy
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
Directors: Duilio Coletti, Luis María Delgado | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Folco Lulli, Gabriella Pallotta, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 18
6. La marcia su Roma (1962)
94 min | Comedy
After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin, Mario Brega
Votes: 734
7. Il bandolero stanco (1952)
95 min | Comedy, Western
Director: Fernando Cerchio | Stars: Renato Rascel, Lauretta Masiero, Franco Jamonte, Lia Di Leo
Votes: 19
8. Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert
Votes: 7,959
9. The Widower (1959)
91 min | Comedy
A mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Nando Bruno
Votes: 1,475
10. Los jueves, milagro (1957)
84 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In the village of Fuentecilla is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but has now been forgotten by the public. To bring back the tourists, the "prominent men" of the village ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Richard Basehart, José Isbert, Paolo Stoppa, Juan Calvo
Votes: 904
11. L'alibi (1969)
106 min | Drama
Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine their life, to criticize one another on their achievements.
Directors: Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Luciano Lucignani | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Luciano Lucignani, Tina Aumont
Votes: 71
12. Gli angeli del quartiere (1952)
78 min | Drama
Five lovable Italian war orphans. living a hand-to-mouth existence are elated to discover a bagful of money in a cellar. Mario, an adult thief, intends to grab all the loot for himself, but then was forced to change his mind.
Director: Carlo Borghesio | Stars: Enzo Cerusico, Nicola Gallo, Ciccio Jacono, Beniamino Maggio
Votes: 18
13. Love and Larceny (1960)
103 min | Comedy
Gerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto
Votes: 844
14. I due marescialli (1961)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, War
September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Gianni Agus, Arturo Bragaglia
Votes: 648
15. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,732
16. 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: 1,924
17. Ti ho sposato per allegria (1967)
X | 100 min | Comedy
Pietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Giorgio Albertazzi, Maria Grazia Buccella, Rossella Como
Votes: 82
18. Un turco napoletano (1953)
90 min | Comedy
A petty criminal poses as a Turkish eunuch hired by a wealthy merchant to guard the women of his house.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, Ignazio Balsamo, Isa Barzizza, Primarosa Battistella
Votes: 654
19. Letto a tre piazze (1960)
100 min | Comedy
Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return, Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many years after the war ends, ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Nadia Gray, Cristina Gaioni
Votes: 405
20. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
R | 95 min | Horror
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.
Director: Jorge Grau | Stars: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso
Votes: 9,310
21. Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
A kind-hearted taxi driver runs into a glamorous girl and falls in love with her, but she turns out to be a cheap thief.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Mauro Sacripanti
Votes: 1,138
22. The Cop (1970)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
While investigating a drug case, an inspector is shot dead by a gangster. His colleague, Inspector Favenin, is assigned to solve this crime. He is ready to do anything to save his colleague's honor, even if it means going beyond the law.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Constantin
Votes: 701
23. Totò le moko (1949)
80 min | Comedy
Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Totò, Gianna Maria Canale, Carla Calò, Franca Marzi
Votes: 526
24. We Stole a Tram (1954)
91 min | Comedy
Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.
Directors: Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Bonnard | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Carlo Campanini, Juan de Landa, Lucia Banti
Votes: 162
25. Il gioco dei 9 (1988–1992)
Comedy, Game-Show
Stars: Raimondo Vianello, Luana Colussi, Gerry Scotti, Gene Gnocchi
Votes: 11
26. Cerasella (1959)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
Two people struggle between marriage for love instead of marriage of convenience.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Claudia Mori, Terence Hill, Luigi De Filippo, Alessandra Panaro
Votes: 123
27. O.K. Nero (1951)
105 min | Comedy
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero. They embark on a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Carlo Campanini, Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini, Jackie Frost
Votes: 97
28. Sbirulino (1982)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Family
The clown Sbirulino has to go to Rome for the division of an inheritance. Along the way, he experiences amazing adventures. Not all are happy, but Sbirulino never loses his sense of optimism.
Director: Flavio Mogherini | Stars: Sandra Mondaini, Gianni Agus, Sergio Leonardi, Tonino Micheluzzi
Votes: 20
29. Troppo per vivere... poco per morire (1967)
118 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow conspirators shoot him in the back. Smash manages to get a clue to newspaper reporter Robert ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Claudio Brook, Daniela Bianchi, Sydney Chaplin, Jess Hahn
Votes: 61
30. I cuori infranti (1963)
95 min | Comedy
Two romantic episodes.
Directors: Vittorio Caprioli, Gianni Puccini | Stars: Franca Valeri, Aldo Giuffrè, Paola Quattrini, Linda Sini
Votes: 34
31. The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, War
In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani
Votes: 10,389
32. Classe di ferro (1989– )
Comedy
The funny misadventures of a group of guys serving at a military barrack in the north-east of Italy.
Stars: Giampiero Ingrassia, Massimo Reale, Paolo Sassanelli, Guido Venitucci
Votes: 104
33. Lo scapolo (1955)
90 min | Comedy
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Nino Manfredi, Madeleine Fischer
Votes: 458
34. A Day in Court (1954)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Director: Steno | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi, Sophia Loren
Votes: 552
35. Number one (1973)
95 min | Crime, Drama
This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime and sexual scandals.
Director: Gianni Buffardi | Stars: Renzo Montagnani, Luigi Pistilli, Claude Jade, Chris Avram
Votes: 86
36. Times Gone By (1952)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Pina Renzi, Enzo Staiola, Luigi Cimara
Votes: 159
37. Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962)
103 min | Comedy
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Nadia Sanders, Luigi Pavese
Votes: 347
38. Cerca di capirmi (1970)
89 min | Comedy
Franco Bertoli, a young Roman man of humble origin starts flirting with Liz Sher, a beautiful well off American woman. But mere seduction blossoms into reciprocal love and the love birds ... See full summary »
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Massimo Ranieri, Beba Loncar, Philippe Hersent, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 12
39. Marcovaldo (1970– )
Comedy
Stars: Nanni Loy, Didi Perego, Carlo De Carolis, Arnoldo Foà
Votes: 9
40. Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
127 min | Comedy
Three episodes, three funny couples and many great Italian actors.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Luciano Salce, Alberto Sordi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Pietro Brambilla, Clara Colosimo
Votes: 578
41. Funniest Show on Earth (1953)
70 min | Comedy
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, May Britt, Franca Faldini, Tania Weber
Votes: 85
42. Donatella (1956)
96 min | Comedy
Donatella is a simple and honest Roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Elsa Martinelli, Gabriele Ferzetti, Walter Chiari, Aldo Fabrizi
Votes: 202
43. Mariti in città (1957)
95 min | Comedy
In Rome every year in August the wifes go on holiday on the seashore while their husbands stay at home to work. It is the period of the year most suitable to male unfaithfulness. Without ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Nino Taranto, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Richard McNamara
Votes: 82
44. Le cameriere (1959)
93 min | Comedy
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Giovanna Ralli, Valeria Moriconi, Xenia Valderi, Sergio Raimondi
Votes: 29
45. Totò cerca moglie (1950)
76 min | Comedy
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Totò, Ave Ninchi, Marisa Merlini, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 250
46. Carmela è una bambola (1958)
90 min | Comedy
Carmela defies her father who wants her to marry Baron Prospero and sleepwalks every night to Toto's room.
Director: Gianni Puccini | Stars: Marisa Allasio, Nino Manfredi, Ugo D'Alessio, Gianrico Tedeschi
Votes: 75
47. Master Stroke (1967)
111 min | Crime, Drama
In Madrid, actor Lang is hired by Monsieur Bernard to impersonate a certain Owen for a time. Lang is trained for his role, that is to replace Owen as the diamond pickup controller at General Diamond in London.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Richard Harrison, Adolfo Celi, Margaret Lee, Gérard Tichy
Votes: 125
48. Come rubammo la bomba atomica (1967)
98 min | Comedy
Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt carrying a nuclear weapon, and he is then pursued by shady spy, named Ciccio, working for... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Julie Menard, Youssef Wahbi
Votes: 79
49. Piccola posta (1955)
99 min | Comedy
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Director: Steno | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Sergio Raimondi, Anna Maria Pancani
Votes: 209
50. Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
G | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Leonora Ruffo, George Ardisson
Votes: 2,338