Italy 1996
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1. Stealing Beauty (1996)
R | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 30,430 | Gross: $4.57M
2. The Apartment (1996)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A recently engaged man sees a former lover and becomes obsessed with meeting her again.
Director: Gilles Mimouni | Stars: Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Monica Bellucci
Votes: 15,918
3. Jane Eyre (1996)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks ... See full summary »
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Nic Knight
Votes: 10,205 | Gross: $5.20M
4. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Not Rated | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 9,211
5. Walking and Talking (1996)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Director: Nicole Holofcener | Stars: Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Amy Braverman, Miranda Rhyne
Votes: 3,939 | Gross: $1.28M
6. Il maresciallo Rocca (1996–2005)
90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Marshal Rocca dei carabinieri who operates in Viterbo, takes place on two levels: on the one hand, each episode is a case in itself and Rocca finds himself having to solve the ... See full summary »
Stars: Gigi Proietti, Sergio Fiorentini, Mattia Sbragia, Francesca Rinaldi
Votes: 163
7. North Star (1996)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually ... See full summary »
Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: James Caan, Christopher Lambert, Catherine McCormack, Burt Young
Votes: 1,360
8. Fatal Frames (1996)
125 min | Horror, Mystery
Alex Ritt (Rick Gianasi), a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer who videotapes his victims for ... See full summary »
Director: Al Festa | Stars: Stefania Stella, Rick Gianasi, David Warbeck, Ugo Pagliai
Votes: 384
9. Freedomfighters (1996)
125 min | Drama, History, War
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Ana Belén, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Blanca Apilánez
Votes: 2,209
10. Un posto al sole (1996– )
Drama
The daily events of the inhabitants of the "Palladini Palace" are intertwined with each other between love stories and deceptions, and the splendid Gulf of Naples as a background.
Stars: Giorgia Gianetiempo, Lucio Allocca, Luisa Amatucci, Marina Giulia Cavalli
Votes: 263
11. Bambola (1996)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (Doll). Upon her mother's death, she and her homosexual brother Flavio open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then ... See full summary »
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Valeria Marini, Jorge Perugorría, Stefano Dionisi, Manuel Bandera
Votes: 1,543
12. Alisea and the Dream Prince (1996)
180 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Alisea and her brothers have been captured by Azaret, an evil wizard. Alisea escapes the castle and meets the young Prince Demian, with whom she falls in love.
Stars: Nicole Grimaudo, Veronica Logan, Jürgen Prochnow, Oliver Christian Rudolf
Votes: 401
13. Arcane Sorcerer (1996)
96 min | Horror
A seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Stefano Dionisi, Arnaldo Ninchi, Andrea Scorzoni
Votes: 918
14. La lupa (1996)
95 min | Drama
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.
Director: Gabriele Lavia | Stars: Monica Guerritore, Giancarlo Giannini, Michele Placido, Raoul Bova
Votes: 200
15. How the Toys Saved Christmas (1996)
Not Rated | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.
Director: Enzo D'Alò | Stars: Dario Fo, Mary Tyler Moore, Lella Costa, Tony Randall
Votes: 615
16. The Nymph (1996)
110 min | Drama, Romance
During World War II, in a small Italian village, Nunziata is an easy woman married to cuckold tailor Gioacchino. Her teenage daughter Miluzza teases men with her clothes and gets them to ... See full summary »
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Raoul Bova, Lucia Cara, Lorenzo Crespi
Votes: 281
17. The Cyclone (1996)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
Levante lives in a small city near Florence (Tuscany, Italy) and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life.
Director: Leonardo Pieraccioni | Stars: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Lorena Forteza, Barbara Enrichi, Massimo Ceccherini
Votes: 4,412
18. Elective Affinities (1996)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The novel (1809) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The marriage of Edward and Charlotte gets worse with the arrival at the castle Young Ottilia, grandson of Carlotta, and Brass. Edward is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Gillain
Votes: 671
19. Kaiketsu Zoro (1994–1997)
TV-Y7 | 105 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Diego Vega returns from his study trip to discover his homeland is under the army's dictatorship. Diego, refusing to watch idly, disguises himself as Zorro to protect the weak and oppressed.
Stars: Rica Matsumoto, Toshihiko Seki, Jûrôta Kosugi, Maria Kawamura
Votes: 733
20. Il cielo è sempre più blu (1996)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Vignettes of Roman life feature a jogger, robbers, newlyweds, an opportunistic mechanic and a sadistic meter-maid.
Director: Antonello Grimaldi | Stars: Asia Argento, Luca Barbareschi, Margherita Buy, Roberto Citran
Votes: 256
21. Sacred Silence (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama
A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Capuano | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Emanuele Gargiulo, Tonino Taiuti, Rosaria De Cicco
Votes: 438
22. A spasso nel tempo (1996)
94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Dean Jones, Marco Messeri
Votes: 1,001
23. Albergo Roma (1996)
84 min | Comedy
In a small village in Tuscany, in 1939, all the people are looking forward for Mussolini's official visit. The Duce will inaugurate the village's primary school. Unexspectedly the corpse of... See full summary »
Director: Ugo Chiti | Stars: Alessandro Benvenuti, Claudio Bisio, Debora Caprioglio, Tchéky Karyo
Votes: 85
24. Delitti a luce rossa (1996)
82 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Italian erotic thriller in which a cheating husband wants to have his hotelier wife murdered so that he can be with his mistress.
Director: Pasquale Fanetti | Stars: Gabriella Barbuti, Gianluigi Ghione, Vassili Karis, Gaetano Russo
Votes: 57
25. Keys in Hand (1996)
94 min | Comedy
In medieval northern Italy, Baccello from Stimigliano loses the key to his wife's chastity belt while on his way back from the Crusades. He soon discovers that his wife, Ubalda, has been ... See full summary »
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Martufello, Angela Cavagna, Sergio Vastano, Cinzia Roccaforte
Votes: 115
26. The Seventh Room (1995)
108 min | Biography, Drama, War
This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. ... See full summary »
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Elide Melli, Jan Nowicki, Anna Polony
Votes: 235
27. Vite strozzate (1996)
108 min | Crime, Drama
Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to ... See full summary »
Director: Ricky Tognazzi | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Sabrina Ferilli, Luca Zingaretti, Ricky Memphis
Votes: 185
28. I'm Crazy About Iris Blond (1996)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a foreign singer named for a flower. In ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Verdone | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Andréa Ferréol, Nuccia Fumo
Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $0.00M
29. Giovani e belli (1996)
90 min | Comedy
In Rome Luca, looking for himself and coming from a very wealthy family, got to know Gino, who lives by expedients and petty thefts.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Anna Falchi, Luca Venantini, Edoardo Scatà, Gina Rovere
Votes: 101
30. The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
101 min | Comedy
Tunin and Zvanin are two metalworkers and left-wing militants who, with their families, look forward to the results of the 1994 elections.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Tullio Solenghi, Gene Gnocchi, Veronica Pivetti, Cyrielle Clair
Votes: 257
31. Land in Between (1996)
78 min | Drama
Three episodes of everyday immigration in 90s Italy: a group of Nigerian prostitutes, one-day Albanian workers, an Egyptian worker at an oil station.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Pascal, Barbara, Tina, Euglen Sota
Votes: 211
32. Celluloide (1996)
110 min | Drama, History
The difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just-ended WWII.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ghini, Anna Falchi, Lina Sastri
Votes: 197
33. Anna Oz (1996)
98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real.
Director: Eric Rochant | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gérard Lanvin, Sami Bouajila, Grégori Derangère
Votes: 187
34. Fantozzi - Il ritorno (1996)
97 min | Comedy
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can find him a place. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate... See full summary »
Director: Neri Parenti | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic, Gigi Reder, Maria Cristina Maccà
Votes: 1,314
35. Uomini e donne (1996– )
64 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV, Romance
A reality game/talk show about forming stable couples.
Stars: Maria De Filippi, Lana Young, Costantino Vitagliano, Roberto Siepi
Votes: 75
36. Traveling Companion (1996)
104 min | Drama
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother's suicide, her ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Asia Argento, Lino Capolicchio, Silvia Cohen
Votes: 297
37. Ferie d'agosto (1996)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
The political and cultural controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in the Tirrenian sea.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Ennio Fantastichini, Laura Morante
Votes: 1,147
38. Ilona llega con la lluvia (1996)
111 min | Drama
Out from prison in Ceuta, Abdul is going to buy a steamship in order to reach his friends, Maqroll and the fair Ilona, and to start back, in a sort of sentimental triangle, the adventurous ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Cabrera | Stars: Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Imanol Arias, Pastora Vega, Humberto Dorado
Votes: 304
39. Voices Through Time (1996)
86 min | Drama
Semi-documentary without comment portraying Castellaro Lagusello, a small town in Northern Italy.
Director: Franco Piavoli | Stars: Patrizio Girardi, Emanuela Cobelli, Laura Carnevali, Alberto Crosato
Votes: 388
40. Penniless Hearts (1996)
103 min | Comedy, Romance
Three young people, three stories. Stefano is a jobless graduate and has recently lost his girlfriend. Giulio is a divorced plumber, has a fifteen year-old daughter and he's seeing Martina,... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Piccioni | Stars: Giulio Scarpati, Gene Gnocchi, Margherita Buy, Stefano Abbati
Votes: 157
41. Shinderera monogatari (1996)
24 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The Story of Cinderella opens as Cinderella's life changes for the worse when her father leaves on a business trip. No sooner is he out of sight than Cinderella's stepmother has ... See full summary »
Stars: Pietro Ubaldi, Manuela Tamietti, Marcella Silvestri, Anna Maria Mantovani
Votes: 205
42. The Quiet Room (1996)
PG | 92 min | Drama
A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Celine O'Leary, Chloe Ferguson, Paul Blackwell, Phoebe Ferguson
Votes: 596
43. Nitrato d'argento (1996)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The film celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema. It presents the technical and artistic evolution of the motion pictures. We move from mute to sound, from black-and-white ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: László Balogh, Éric Berger, Marc Berman, Doriana Bianchi
Votes: 145
44. Nerolio (1996)
Unrated | 77 min | Drama
This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly gay Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi | Stars: Marco Cavicchioli, Lucia Sardo, Vincenzo Crivello, Piera Degli Esposti
Votes: 91
45. We Free Kings (1996)
130 min | Comedy
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Citti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Patrick Bauchau, Rolf Zacher, Nanni Tamma
Votes: 80
46. Call Girl (1996)
100 min | Thriller
Maria comes to Italy from Poland to reunite with her sister Eva, who left seven years earlier and claims to have made a lot of money working as an interpreter. Maria will later discover ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Raz Degan, Jennifer Driver, Paul Freeman, Bianca Koedam
Votes: 132
47. 3 (1996)
84 min | Comedy, History
At the end of the eighteenth century, in Tuscany, the Baron Jacopo del Serchio and his wife Chiara in their beautiful villa lead an eccentric and extravagant life.
Director: Christian De Sica | Stars: Christian De Sica, Anna Galiena, Paolo Conticini, Leo Gullotta
Votes: 70
48. Luna e l'altra (1996)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Schoolteacher Luna has a darker side. When a traveling carnival comes to town, Luna visits a conjurer who frees her shadow with a magic lantern. Luna's shadow proves to be as mischievous and sexy as Luna is repressed.
Director: Maurizio Nichetti | Stars: Iaia Forte, Maurizio Nichetti, Ivano Marescotti, Luigi Maria Burruano
Votes: 124
49. Uomini senza donne (1996)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Roommates Alex and Max are very different: Advertising copywriter Alex is a womanize who has no trouble making sexual conquests, while jazz saxophonist Max lacks self-confidence with women.... See full summary »
Director: Angelo Longoni | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Alessandra Acciai, Veronica Logan
Votes: 73
50. Alì Babà (1996)
78 min | Animation
Ali Baba, a young woodcutter, with the help of his friend Miseria - a talking donkey - provides for his poor family. Smart and ambitious he works hard to get rich and to be able to marry his only love: Alia, the Sultan's daughter.
Director: Zlata Potancokova Belli
Votes: 34
51. Marching in Darkness (1995)
105 min | Drama
A young recruit to the Italian army (Albanese) discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is ... See full summary »
Director: Massimo Spano | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Massimo Dapporto, Thomas Kretschmann, Roberto Citran
Votes: 118
52. Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band (1996)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his feelings but doesn't want to get too involved because she will soon leave for studying in ... See full summary »
Director: Enza Negroni | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Violante Placido, Alessandro Zamattio, Barbara Livi
Votes: 705
53. Stella's Favor (1996)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Stella works in a restaurant in Rome. She feels frustrated about her life. In spite she has turned 40, she dreams of a film career.
Director: Giancarlo Scarchilli | Stars: Ornella Muti, Claudio Bigagli, Maria Amelia Monti, Urbano Barberini
Votes: 42
54. Italiani (1996)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
Director: Maurizio Ponzi | Stars: Giulio Scarpati, Giuliana de Sio, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Vanessa Gravina
Votes: 123
55. Verissimo (1996– )
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Stars: Silvia Toffanin, Cristina Parodi, Stefano De Martino, Adua Del Vesco
Votes: 1,512
56. The Barber of Rio (1996)
105 min | Comedy
Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality accepting his sister Angelina invitation... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Rocco Papaleo, Giuseppe Oristanio, Margaret Mazzantini
Votes: 441
57. Intolerance (1997)
94 min | Drama
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Directors: Cosimo Alemà, Paolo Ameli, Claudio Camarca, Leonardo Celi, Daniele Cini, Mariano Cirino, Marco Colli, Luca D'Ascanio, Andrea De Liberato, Paolo De Vita, Roberto Giannarelli, Lorenzo Hendel, Mimmo Mancini, Antonio Manzini, Francesco Maselli, Rocco Mortelliti, Gabriele Muccino, Iole Natoli, Andrea Prandstraller, Marco Simon Puccioni, Flavio Rizzo, Paola Sangiovanni, Amerigo Tiberi, Cinzia TH Torrini, Giorgio Treves, Paolo Virzì, Vito Zagarrio | Stars: Claudio Ammendola, Fiammetta Baralla, Luca Barbareschi, Livio Beshir
Votes: 62
58. Festival (I) (1996)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Massimo Boldi, Isabelle Pasco, Gianni Cavina, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 137
59. Brigands-Chapter VII (1996)
129 min | Comedy, Drama
King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Amiran Amiranashvili, Davit Gogibedashvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Nino Orjonikidze
Votes: 362
60. Slaughter of the Cock (1996)
155 min | Drama
Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.
Director: Andreas Pantzis | Stars: Georges Corraface, Dimitris Vellios, Valeria Golino, Popi Avraam
Votes: 85
61. Akropol (1996)
125 min | Musical, Drama
This musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the ... See full summary »
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Lefteris Voyatzis, Stavros Paravas, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Themis Bazaka
Votes: 177
62. La frontiera (1996)
110 min | Drama, War
Emidio Orlich is an officer in the Austrian army. Despite his Croatian origins and his role in the Austrian army, he was raised as an Italian. The young man, who has fallen for a widow, is ... See full summary »
Director: Franco Giraldi | Stars: Raoul Bova, Marco Leonardi, Omero Antonutti, Vesna Tominac
Votes: 40
63. Va' dove ti porta il cuore (1996)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A grandmother writes a diary for her nephew, her grandson finds the diary after her death and finds out the true family story.
Director: Cristina Comencini | Stars: Virna Lisi, Margherita Buy, Galatea Ranzi, Massimo Ghini
Votes: 230
64. Gratta e vinci (1996)
92 min | Comedy
Director: Ferruccio Castronuovo | Stars: Stefano Masciarelli, Sergio Vastano, Mario De Candia, Manuela Arcuri
Votes: 19
65. Ritratti d'autore (1996– )
90 min | Documentary
The best among the new generation of Italian directors of the '90s meet their mentors. A confrontation between fathers and sons and a profound reflection on cinema and society.
Stars: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Joe D'Amato, Marco Bellocchio
Votes: 16
66. La mia generazione (1996)
95 min | Drama
A terrorist is taken from South to North of Italy to meet his woman. What is happening in his mind? Could he betray and speak? It's what the Army official who's taking him to the woman is ... See full summary »
Director: Wilma Labate | Stars: Claudio Amendola, Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Vincenzo Peluso
Votes: 157
67. Io e la mamma (1996–1998)
25 min | Comedy
The sitcom tells the story of Gigi (Gerry Scotti family), a typical Italian forties who still lives with his mother Delia (Delia Scala). The family is also composed of Elena (Gea Lionello),... See full summary »
Stars: Mariangela Fremura, Maria Cristina Heller, Gea Lionello, Guido Roncalli
Votes: 11
68. Pizzicata (1996)
93 min | Drama, Music, Romance
1943, Italy's Salentino peninsula. Tony, an American fighter pilot, raised speaking Italian in New York, parachutes to safety and is hidden at the olive farm of Carmine, a man with three ... See full summary »
Director: Edoardo Winspeare | Stars: Cosimo Cinieri, Chiara Torelli, Fabio Frascaro, Anna Dimitri
Votes: 91 | Gross: $0.01M
69. Messaggi quasi segreti (1996)
96 min
Coming-of-age drama about a wealthy young Italian man who is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with.
Director: Valerio Jalongo | Stars: Giulio Di Mauro, Niamh O'Byrne, Brendan Gleeson, Ivano Marescotti
Votes: 36
70. Acting Out (1996)
98 min | Drama
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and... See full summary »
Director: Maurizio Zaccaro | Stars: Alessandro Haber, Anna Galiena, Roberto Citran, Denis Lawson
Votes: 22
71. Oranges amères (1996)
90 min | Drama
Director: Michel Such | Stars: Bruno Todeschini, Sabrina Ferilli, Clara Bellar, Lilah Dadi
Votes: 19
72. Classe mista 3A (1996)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Federico Moccia | Stars: Vanessa Frassica, Leonardo Ruta, Alessio Maria Federici, Marco Bonini
Votes: 126
73. Diamonds Are for Pleasure (1996)
95 min | Drama
Isabella is a sensual, upcoming Italian-American rock star, who lives in London. Isabella's sturdy Canadian boyfriend Brian is extremely jealous and he thinks he possesses her. When they ... See full summary »
Director: Lasse Braun | Stars: Tiziana D'Arcangelo, Isabelle Fortea, Nandy Hendriks, Dodd Rougeau
Votes: 21
74. La Venere di Willendorf (1997)
86 min | Drama
A husband and wife vacationing at a seaside villa are visited by the wife's overweight female cousin, an airline stewardess. The cousin suffers from bulimia as the result of her poor self-image, and spends her time eating and purging
Director: Elisabetta Lodoli | Stars: Daniel Auber, Emilio Bonucci, Iaia Forte, Ilaria Occhini
75. Quel maledetto tramonto (1996)
86 min | Drama
Director: Carmine Attilio Aurilia | Stars: Bruno Rubini, Rita Silva, Tony Malizzi, Isabella Malizzi
76. Esercizi di stile (1996)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
Directors: Sergio Citti, Volfango De Biasi, Maurizio Dell'Orso, Claudio Fragasso, Alex Infascelli, Francesco Laudadio, Luigi Magni, Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Monicelli, Alessandro Piva, Pino Quartullo, Dino Risi, Faliero Rosati, Cinzia TH Torrini | Stars: Elena Sofia Ricci, Massimo Wertmüller, Sal Borgese, Joanna Chatton
Votes: 55
77. Escoriandoli (1996)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy
Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated incidents, this absurdist Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film... See full summary »
Directors: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza | Stars: Antonio Rezza, Valentina Cervi, Isabella Ferrari, Claudia Gerini
Votes: 107
78. Jesus: A Kingdom Without Frontiers (1996– )
Animation, History
An animated series based on the Gospel accounts that capture the living testimony of our Redeemer's kingdom among men: his birth, teachings, miracles, trials, death, resurrection and ascension to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Votes: 13
79. The Italians Are Coming (1996)
100 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
An Italian water-polo team arrives at Givat Hashlosha Kibbutz for training camp. Amos, the Kibbutz team coach, is an impressive, talented and charming man, undergoing his mid -life crisis. ... See full summary »
Director: Eyal Halfon | Stars: Franco Nero, Yona Elian, Asher Tzarfati, Avraham Mor
Votes: 18
80. Un inverno freddo freddo (1996)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.
Director: Roberto Cimpanelli | Stars: Cecilia Dazzi, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Frédérique Feder
Votes: 32
81. Silenzio si nasce (1996)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Paolo Rossi, Filippa Lagerback, Ermanno Veglietti
Votes: 70
82. Cous-cous (1996)
90 min | Drama
Director: Umberto Spinazzola | Stars: Evie Garratt, Charmaine Sinclair, Edo Di Mauro, Philippe Leroy
Votes: 9
83. Ultimo bersaglio (1996)
100 min | Drama
After many years of separation, Micol (Silvia Cohen) learns about the mysterious suicide of her father Simone (Giacomo Piperno). Arriving in Venice for the funerals the woman feels she must... See full synopsis »
Director: Andrea Frezza | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Silvia Cohen, Andrea Jonasson, Pietro Biondi
Votes: 9
84. Dio vede e provvede (1996–1998)
Comedy
Amelia è una prostituta che ricercata dalla polizia si rifugia in convento. Nonostante scopra che la polizia non la cerca più, Amelia rimane in convento come Suor Amelia, decidendo di ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Angela Finocchiaro, Athina Cenci, Nadia Rinaldi, Billie Zöckler
Votes: 36
85. Mille lire al mese (1996)
Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Pippo Baudo, Giancarlo Magalli, Gianni Ferrio, Sabina Stilo
86. Vesna Goes Fast (1996)
92 min | Drama
A young Eastern European girl ditches the rest of her tour group to embark upon a new life in Italy. Though she writes friends and family glowing accounts of her fabulous adventures in her adopted home, the truth is much more tragic.
Director: Carlo Mazzacurati | Stars: Tereza Groszmannová, Antonio Albanese, Silvio Orlando, Antonio Catania
Votes: 315
87. Broken Hearts (1996)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Eckhart Schmidt | Stars: Laura Di Mariano, Daniele Liotti, Massimo Ciprari, Roberto Proietti
Votes: 11
88. Occhio di falco (1996– )
120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The story follow a bizarre investigator of the State Police.
Stars: Gene Gnocchi, Enzo Cannavale, Marco Messeri, Luana Colussi
Votes: 13
89. Stellaris (1996–1997)
36 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Stars: Mauro Gravina, Cinzia Villari, Riccardo Peroni, Roberto Certomà
90. Il caricatore (1996)
95 min | Comedy
The production company Boccia Film is in serious crisis: it has only one film magazine and Fabio, the owner, wants at all costs to make a short film.
Directors: Eugenio Cappuccio, Massimo Gaudioso, Fabio Nunziata | Stars: Eugenio Cappuccio, Massimo Gaudioso, Fabio Nunziata, Gianluca Arcopinto
Votes: 79
91. Hotel paura (1996)
100 min
Director: Renato De Maria | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Victor Cavallo, Roberto De Francesco, Isabella Ferrari
Votes: 48
92. Ritorno a casa Gori (1996)
102 min | Comedy
Danilo does a robbery in a villa in Tuscany with some friends but when he returns home a sad news awaits him: the death of his mother Adele; upset, Danilo hides the stolen goods in the mother's coffin exposed at home in the waking room.
Director: Alessandro Benvenuti | Stars: Alessandro Benvenuti, Sabrina Ferilli, Athina Cenci, Alessandro Haber
Votes: 137
93. Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo (1996)
80 min | Comedy
Sergio has a degree in botanics but he cannot find a job. While he tries to get one, following the techniques written in a 'mistake-free' book, his life gets shaken by his noisy room-mate ... See full summary »
Director: Fulvio Ottaviano | Stars: Daniele Liotti, Francesca Schiavo, Valerio Mastandrea, Patrizia Pezza
Votes: 221
94. Vertical City (1996)
Directors: Marco Caruso, Sebastiano Mauri, Belinda Schmid, Anja Schmidt | Stars: Luis Arriaga, Elizabeth Atwater, Tony Carrion, George Dickerson
Votes: 8
95. Porta a Porta (1996– )
120 min | News, Talk-Show
Stars: Bruno Vespa, Simona Ventura, Barbara Lezzi, Michele Brambilla
Votes: 45
96. Acquario (1996)
Director: Michele Sordillo | Stars: Ivano Marescotti, Lucia Vasini, Maria Consagra, Maurizio Schmidt
Votes: 11
97. Papà dice messa (1996)
100 min | Comedy
At the door of Don Arturo, parish priest of the Milanese suburbs, knocks Francesco. He deposits a pregnant girlfriend and disappears.
Director: Renato Pozzetto | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Teo Teocoli, Felice Andreasi, Marta Forghieri
Votes: 200
98. Ladri di cinema (1994)
95 min | Comedy
The story of an Italian director who cannot break through and blames Hollywood.
Director: Piero Natoli | Stars: Piero Natoli, Joanna Chatton, Pier Francesco Aiello, Carlotta Natoli
Votes: 17
99. Cronache del terzo millennio (1996)
85 min | Drama
When their bleak tenement gets scheduled for replacement, its underclass residents organize to prevent this. As they struggle, they also begin to develop legitimate businesses, and a new ... See full summary »
Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Sara Altieri, Mary Asiride, Luciano Bartoli, Raul Bolanos
Votes: 8
100. Amor sagrado (1996– )
60 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Graciela Muñoz, Grecia Colmenares, Simón Pestana, Jorge Martínez
Votes: 11
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