Holocaust in Italy/Italian Holocaust Films
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3. The Fascist Jew (1980)
102 min | Drama
Oberdan Rossi is half Jewish and a fascist. After coming back from the Ethiopian war, he becomes disillusioned and works as a journalist.
Director: Franco Molè | Stars: Ray Lovelock, Martine Brochard, Silvia Dionisio, Adalberto Rossetti
Votes: 18
4. 18000 giorni fa (1994)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Gabriella Gabrielli | Stars: Maurizio Donadoni, Silvia Cohen, Massimo Foschi, Alfredo Pea
Votes: 10
5. Sotto il cielo di Roma (2010 TV Movie)
200 min | Biography
Papacy of Pius XII focusing on years during World War Two.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Alessandra Mastronardi, Marco Foschi, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Ettore Bassi
Votes: 323
6. The Swing Girls (2010 TV Movie)
210 min | Drama
Three Dutch girls become famous as close harmony singers in Mussolini's Italy. When the war breaks out, suddenly questions are asked about their background and the deeper meaning of the lyrics in their songs.
Director: Maurizio Zaccaro | Stars: Andrea Osvárt, Lotte Verbeek, Elise Schaap, Giuseppe Battiston
Votes: 108
7. Il peccato e la vergogna (2010– )
Drama
In the Rome of the '30s lives Nito Valdi, a difficult boy just out of the reformatory, who works for a boss in the area with his friend Tony.
Stars: Stefano Santospago, Manuela Arcuri, Gabriel Garko, Tamara Di Giulio
Votes: 198
8. Mi ricordo Anna Frank (2009 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Freely inspired by Alison Leslie Gold's "Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend," the film tells of Anne Frank and her friend, Hanneli Goslar, their first meeting in ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Negrin | Stars: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Gábor Jászberényi, Emilio Solfrizzi, Miklós Szurdi
Votes: 311
9. 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
10. Wild Blood (2008)
148 min | Biography, Drama
The story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Alessio Boni, Luca Zingaretti, Maurizio Donadoni
Votes: 1,023
11. Salvo D'Acquisto (2003 TV Movie)
160 min | Drama, War
After enlisting himself in the well-known Italian police corps, "Carabinieri", and after becoming friend with the young Guido, at the breakout of the war, Salvo D'acquisto leaves Naples and... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Sironi | Stars: Giuseppe Fiorello, Luigi Maria Burruano, Biancamaria D'Amato, Domenico Balsamo
Votes: 25
12. Facing Windows (2003)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro
Votes: 11,664 | Gross: $0.54M
13. La fuga degli innocenti (2004 TV Movie)
200 min | Drama, War
This is a true story about 40 Jewish children on their way to Palestine who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in ... See full summary »
Director: Leone Pompucci | Stars: Ken Duken, Jasmine Trinca, Ennio Fantastichini, Toni Bertorelli
Votes: 114
14. Perlasca: Un eroe italiano (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 104 min | Biography, Drama, History
The real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa and in the Spanish Civil War where he received safe conduct ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Negrin | Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Jérôme Anger, Amanda Sandrelli, Franco Castellano
Votes: 546
15. De Gasperi, l'uomo della speranza (2005 TV Movie)
200 min | Biography, Drama
The biography of one of most influential Italian politicians, through the dramatic years of fascism, WWII and country economic and social rebuilding. First victim of political persecution, ... See full summary »
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Fabrizio Gifuni, Sonia Bergamasco, Stefano Scandaletti, Ana Caterina Morariu
Votes: 42
16. Karol, un uomo diventato Papa (2005 TV Movie)
186 min | Biography, Drama
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Director: Giacomo Battiato | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Malgorzata Bela, Ken Duken, Hristo Shopov
Votes: 2,815
17. Faith: Pope John Paul II (2005)
201 min | Biography, Drama
Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up by his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20th century. An outstanding student with a ... See full summary »
Stars: Christopher Lee, Ben Gazzara, Daniele Pecci, Vittoria Belvedere
Votes: 1,249
18. Il cielo cade (2000)
102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Enrichi, Gianna Giachetti
Votes: 490
19. Canone Inverso (2000)
107 min | Drama
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin ... See full summary »
Director: Ricky Tognazzi | Stars: Hans Matheson, Mélanie Thierry, Lee Williams, Nia Roberts
Votes: 1,257
20. Concorrenza sleale (2001)
110 min | Drama, War
Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in Italy.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Castellitto, Gérard Depardieu, Antonella Attili
Votes: 1,572
21. Senza confini (2001 TV Movie)
190 min | War
Director: Fabrizio Costa | Stars: Sebastiano Somma, Chiara Caselli, Antonella Fattori, Umberto Bellissimo
Votes: 9
22. 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
23. Look to the Sky (1993)
100 min | Drama
Amsterdam, 1942: four-year-old Jonah and his parents are deported to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany where the child learns to cope with an incomprehensible world of war, brutality and persecution.
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Juliet Aubrey, Jenner Del Vecchio, Luke Petterson
Votes: 460
24. The Truce (1997)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija, Massimo Ghini, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 1,826 | Gross: $0.07M
25. 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: 742,319 | Gross: $57.60M
26. The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
110 min | Drama
A Jewish family and a homosexual doctor suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. Based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Valeria Golino, Stefania Sandrelli
Votes: 670
27. 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
28. History (1986– )
Not Rated | 240 min | Drama
The story of the half-Jewish Ida Raimundo and her two sons Antonio and Giuseppe in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Lambert Wilson, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Maria Teresa Albani
Votes: 130
29. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,477 | Gross: $0.01M
30. Madam Kitty (1976)
X | 129 min | Drama, War
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power-hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner
Votes: 5,016
31. Women's Camp 119 (1977)
97 min | Horror, Thriller
A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Ivano Staccioli, Ria De Simone, Nello Riviè, Gabriele Carrara
Votes: 454
32. Storia d'amore e d'amicizia (1982– )
500 min | Drama
Stars: Barbara De Rossi, Claudio Amendola, Massimo Bonetti, Giovanna Mainardi
Votes: 28
33. The Damned (1969)
R | 157 min | Drama, War
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
Votes: 9,914 | Gross: $0.63M
34. 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: 7,663 | Gross: $0.60M
35. Massacre in Rome (1973)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner
Votes: 1,483
36. The Night Porter (1974)
R | 118 min | Drama
A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 14,700 | Gross: $0.63M
37. It Happened in '43 (1960)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman married to a man in a wheelchair, with a deserter from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the power grab of a ... See full summary »
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 453
38. General Della Rovere (1959)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, War
Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo, Giovanna Ralli
Votes: 3,675
39. Gold of Rome (1961)
96 min | Drama
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero, Jean Sorel, Filippo Scelzo
Votes: 192
40. Dieci italiani per un tedesco (Via Rasella) (1962)
95 min | Drama, War
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Director: Filippo Walter Ratti | Stars: Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi, Carlo D'Angelo, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 68
41. Everybody Go Home! (1960)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam
Votes: 1,448
42. The Condemned of Altona (1962)
114 min | Drama, History
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner
Votes: 648 | Gross: $2.40M
43. Kapo (1960)
116 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego
Votes: 2,588
44. The Earth Cries Out (1949)
90 min | Drama, War
After having been interned in a concentration camp by the Nazis, Professor Taumen, a Jewish surgeon, and his future daughter-in-law leave Italy for Palestine. Once there they are guided by ... See full summary »
Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Marina Berti, Andrea Checchi, Vivi Gioi, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 68
45. Monastero di Santa Chiara (1949)
90 min | Drama
Famous Italian writer Moravia is told a story set during WW2: Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Sequi | Stars: Edda Albertini, Massimo Serato, Nyta Dover, Lamberto Picasso
Votes: 13
46. L'ebreo errante (1948)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy
Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt. He incites the ... See full summary »
Director: Goffredo Alessandrini | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Valentina Cortese, Inga Gort, Noëlle Norman
Votes: 70
47. Paisan (1946)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, War
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon
Votes: 9,534
48. 16 ottobre 1943 (1960)
12 min | Short, Drama, History
Director: Ansano Giannarelli | Star: Arnoldo Foà
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