With Tele+ (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
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: 100,597 | Gross: $3.45M
2. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 119,671 | Gross: $2.53M
3. Sleepless (2001)
R | 117 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer who's resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year period.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli, Gabriele Lavia
Votes: 6,935
4. The Soul Keeper (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson, Caroline Ducey
Votes: 1,739
5. Besieged (1998)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, John C. Ojwang
Votes: 4,968 | Gross: $2.03M
6. I'm Not Scared (2003)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Riccardo Zinna
Votes: 14,996 | Gross: $1.62M
7. 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: 19,886 | Gross: $1.01M
8. 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: 5,821
9. One Man Up (2001)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
The debut feature by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (La Grande Bellezza) is a stylish and blackly comic look at the dark side of fame. Evocatively set during the eighties, the ... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Andrea Renzi, Antonino Bruschetta, Angela Goodwin
Votes: 2,882
10. Remember Me, My Love (2003)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
In the dysfunctional Italian middle-class family Ristuccia, the middle-aged executive Carlo has a stalled life without passion, bored in his work and having a monotonous life with his wife ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Nicoletta Romanoff, Monica Bellucci
Votes: 4,315 | Gross: $0.22M
11. Respiro (2002)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino
Votes: 4,680 | Gross: $1.07M
12. Princesa (I) (2001)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Fernando, a.k.a. Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance sex-change surgery. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman, ... See full summary »
Director: Henrique Goldman | Stars: Ingrid de Souza, Cesare Bocci, Lulu Pecorari, Mauro Pirovano
Votes: 439 | Gross: $0.02M
13. South Kensington (2001)
112 min | Comedy, Romance
The movie's about some Italian men living in London and having their lives sweetened by having wealthy parents and meeting many attractive women and one whale of a woman.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Rupert Everett, Elle Macpherson, Judith Godrèche, Giampaolo Morelli
Votes: 658
14. My Mother's Smile (2002)
105 min | Drama
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig, Chiara Conti, Gigio Alberti
Votes: 1,853 | Gross: $0.04M
15. 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: 1,892
16. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,701
17. Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001)
100 min | Comedy
As April 25, 1974 dawns, 25-year-old Marco, an Italian, and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. They are bound for Lisbon, which on that night was freed from ... See full summary »
Director: Maurizio Sciarra | Stars: Andoni Gracia, Georges Moustaki, Adriano Giannini, Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Votes: 235
18. The Circle (2000)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin
Votes: 6,204 | Gross: $0.67M
19. The Protagonists (1999)
92 min | Crime, Thriller
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Fabrizia Sacchi, Andrew Tiernan, Claudio Gioè
Votes: 445
20. Bear's Kiss (2002)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Rebecka Liljeberg, Joachim Król, Sergey Bodrov, Keith Allen
Votes: 908
21. The Legend of Al, John and Jack (2002)
105 min | Comedy, Crime
Al Caruso, John Gresco and Jack Amoruso are three gangsters working for the Genovese family. However, their efforts are more than headache-inducing, and when they are given one last chance ... See full summary »
Directors: Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Massimo Venier | Stars: Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Aldo Maccione
Votes: 4,674
22. Dolce far niente (1998)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his ... See full summary »
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: François Cluzet, Isabella Ferrari, Margherita Buy, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 197
23. Rehearsals for War (1998)
113 min | Drama
A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Andrea Renzi, Iaia Forte, Maurizio Bizzi, Salvatore Cantalupo
Votes: 158
24. Amnèsia (2002)
114 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
Several stories unfold simultaneously over three days on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, Martina Stella, Bebo Storti
Votes: 1,109
25. Santa Maradona (2001)
96 min | Comedy
An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Director: Marco Ponti | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Anita Caprioli, Libero De Rienzo, Mandala Tayde
Votes: 2,151
26. The Good War (2002)
R | 96 min | Drama, History, War
During the final days of World War II, an Italian prisoner of war in Texas is left in the hands of the camp's commander, the only soldier remaining to guard the only prisoner until the arrival of a patrol force that may never come.
Director: Giorgio Serafini | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Farrior, Luca Zingaretti, Vincent Riotta
Votes: 230
27. You Laugh (1998)
99 min | Drama
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Cederna, Luca Zingaretti, Dario Cantarelli
Votes: 525
28. Unfair Competition (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: 1,507
29. Aida of the Trees (2001)
75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Arborea, kingdom of great forests and great clearings flooded with light. A peaceful people has built wooden homes on the trees. Aida, the fearless daughter of the king of Arborea, roams ... See full summary »
Director: Guido Manuli | Stars: Vittorio Bestoso, Massimo Bitossi, Simone D'Andrea, Ivo De Palma
Votes: 243
30. La fame e la sete (1999)
94 min | Comedy
Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. Alex is the only one who has never left home, a no gooder photographer, fat and happy to be ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Albanese | Stars: Antonio Albanese, Lorenza Indovina, Aisha Cerami, Lucia Guzzardi
Votes: 464
31. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997)
Not Rated | 198 min | Documentary, Biography
In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back.... See full summary »
Director: Anna Maria Tatò | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Berta, Manoel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória
Votes: 325 | Gross: $0.01M
32. Red Moon (2001)
116 min | Crime, Drama
Red Moon is the story of a repentant member of the Mafia, who confesses to a judge, in a lengthy flashback to all the misfortunes wrought by the horrendous crimes of some families that ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Capuano | Stars: Licia Maglietta, Carlo Cecchi, Toni Servillo, Antonino Iuorio
Votes: 153
33. 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: 166
34. Tosca (2001)
Not Rated | 126 min | Musical, Drama
Benoit Jacquot reinvents the way we view opera in this magnificent production of Puccini's story of Tosca's love for the painter Cavaradossi and the intervention of Scarpia.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi
Votes: 436 | Gross: $0.06M
35. The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its President Roberto Calvi (Omero Antonutti... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Giancarlo Giannini, Rutger Hauer
Votes: 456
36. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2002)
R | 105 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a ... See full summary »
Director: Damian Pettigrew | Stars: Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Luigi 'Titta' Benzi, Italo Calvino
Votes: 930 | Gross: $0.11M
37. Lo scippo (2001)
Director: Massimo De Pascale | Stars: Iris Bado, Sechi Andrea, Beppe De Caro, Giuseppe Gaboardi
Votes: 19
38. Roman Summer (2000)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Rossella Or, Monica Nappo, Salvatore Sansone, Victor Cavallo
Votes: 271
39. Wind with the Gone (1998)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro Agresti | Stars: Vera Fogwill, Fabián Vena, Ángela Molina, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 598
40. Burning in the Wind (2002)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Day in, day out, the same routine is repeated. Immigrant worker Tobias Horvath gets up at 5:00 A.M., washes, shaves, has some breakfast, and runs to the main square. Here, in his Swiss town... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Soldini | Stars: Ivan Franek, Barbora Lukesová, Ctirad Götz, Caroline Baehr
Votes: 480
41. Coconut Heads (2000)
95 min | Comedy
Director: Ugo Fabrizio Giordani | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Manuela Arcuri, Marisa Merlini
Votes: 156
42. Tomorrow (2001)
88 min | Drama
This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The original story, a fiction about the historic earthquake was written by middle ... See full summary »
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Marco Baliani, Ornella Muti, Valerio Mastandrea, Ilaria Occhini
Votes: 160
43. Chemical Hunger (2003)
97 min | Drama
In the suburbs of Milan, a residents' association tries to keep away a group of immigrants. Meanwhile, the friendship of two longtime friends is put to the test when a beautiful former schoolmate shows up after spending some time abroad.
Directors: Antonio Bocola, Paolo Vari | Stars: Marco Foschi, Matteo Gianoli, Valeria Solarino, Teco Celio
Votes: 451
44. The Vesuvians (1997)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
A fisherman who lives in the Rione Terra of Pozzuoli, catches a polyp that at night is transformed into a sensuous woman. An odd black prince who claims to be the brother of the unfortunate... See full summary »
Directors: Antonio Capuano, Pappi Corsicato, Antonietta De Lillo, Stefano Incerti, Mario Martone | Stars: Anna Bonaiuto, Iaia Forte, Enzo Moscato, Nunzia Di Somma
Votes: 93
45. Mundo civilizado (2003)
100 min | Documentary, Musical
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Cervi, Vladislav Delay, Planet Funk
Votes: 43
46. The Pinochet Case (2001)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Star: Salvador Allende
Votes: 330
47. La guerra degli Antò (1999)
98 min | Comedy
The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.
Director: Riccardo Milani | Stars: Flavio Pistilli, Federico Di Flauro, Paolo Setta, Danilo Mastracci
Votes: 336
48. Johnny the Partisan (2000)
135 min | Drama, War
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did ... See full summary »
Director: Guido Chiesa | Stars: Stefano Dionisi, Gabriele Montanari, Toni Bertorelli, Lina Bernardi
Votes: 316
49. The Words of My Father (2001)
90 min | Drama
At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a succesful gallery owner with four daughters, he's impressed by Malfenti's energy, and ... See full summary »
Director: Francesca Comencini | Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Chiara Mastroianni, Mimmo Calopresti, Claudia Coli
Votes: 110
50. Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the... See full summary »
Directors: Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco | Stars: Luigi Maria Burruano, Franco Scaldati, Pietro Giordano, Davide Marotta
Votes: 353