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51. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
120 min | Drama, War
The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans during World War II. During the four days in Naples, the revolt turns over in just a few hours. ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi, Silvana Buzzanca
Votes: 1,024
52. Why We Fight (1942)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré
Votes: 2,417
53. The Last 4 Days (1974)
PG | 91 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 875
54. 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: 674
55. The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
120 min | Drama
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Franco Nero, Mario Adorf, Riccardo Cucciolla, Damiano Damiani
Votes: 359
56. Il soldato di ventura (1976)
111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the... See full summary »
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Bud Spencer, Franco Agostini, Enzo Cannavale, Frédéric de Pasquale
Votes: 2,116
57. Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata (1971)
113 min | Comedy
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Corrado Olmi
Votes: 1,245
58. Mussolini and I (1985)
120 min | Biography, Drama, War
A compelling drama and documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce (Bob Hoskins), from his days as a terrorist, to his alliance with Hitler, to the betrayal of his son-in-law, and untimely demise.
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Annie Girardot
Votes: 455
59. 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
60. Nell'anno del Signore (1969)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein
Votes: 835
61. The Boom (1963)
88 min | Comedy
During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai, Ettore Geri
Votes: 1,348 | Gross: $0.06M
62. 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: 1,455
63. Inconscio italiano (2011)
100 min | Documentary
A documentary in which seven Italian intellectuals survey the political history of their country from its imperial adventure in Ethiopia in 1937 to the ascent of Silvio Berlusconi, focusing on the evolving role of the Fascist Party.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Angelo Del Boca, Lucia Ceci, Iain Chambers, Ida Dominijanni
Votes: 61
64. The Invisible Wall (1991)
120 min | Drama
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is ''structure failure'' of the airplane, but ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Corso Salani, Angela Finocchiaro, Antonello Fassari, Ivano Marescotti
Votes: 456
65. Totò diabolicus (1962)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them except Monsignor Antonino ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Totò, Raimondo Vianello, Nadia Sanders, Luigi Pavese
Votes: 787
66. Mameli - Il ragazzo che sognò l'Italia (2024– )
History
Stars: Gualtiero Burzi, Marcus Marcelli, Giorgia Gambuzza, Riccardo de Rinaldis Santorelli
Votes: 75
67. The Man Who Will Come (2009)
115 min | Drama, War
In the winter of 1943 a young girl named Martina stays silent following the death of her brother several years before. Her mother's pregnancy gives her hope, but as her brother is born the Nazis begin rounding up civilians.
Director: Giorgio Diritti | Stars: Greta Zuccheri Montanari, Claudio Casadio, Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa
Votes: 1,814
68. 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: 840
69. St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
90 min | Drama, History
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè, Vito Cipolla
Votes: 877
70. 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: 549
71. 'O re (1989)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Ornella Muti, Carlo Croccolo, Luc Merenda
Votes: 114
72. I banchieri di Dio (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: 499
73. Garibaldi (1961)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, History
How Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Renzo Ricci, Paolo Stoppa, Franco Interlenghi, Giovanna Ralli
Votes: 456
74. L'assedio di Siracusa (1960)
97 min | Drama, History, Romance
During the Second Punic War between 214 and 212 B.C. occurred this history of the Roman siege in Greek city of Syracuse. The Romans were preparing for their invasion while Archimedes ... See full summary »
Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 164
75. La contessa di Castiglione (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, History
Director: Josée Dayan | Stars: Francesca Dellera, Jeanne Moreau, Sergio Rubini, Christopher Thompson
Votes: 29
76. 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
77. In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
110 min | Drama, History
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Luca Barbareschi, Nino Manfredi, Jacques Perrin, Elena Sofia Ricci
Votes: 316
78. La feldmarescialla (1967)
110 min | Comedy, Musical, War
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
Director: Steno | Stars: Rita Pavone, Francis Blanche, Terence Hill, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 263
79. We Believed (2010)
205 min | History
The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Raffaele Di Florio, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Bosca, Edoardo Natoli
Votes: 631
80. The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
The story of the hijacking of the Italian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in ... See full summary »
Director: Robert L. Collins | Stars: Karl Malden, Lee Grant, E.G. Marshall, Vera Miles
Votes: 139
81. In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
105 min | Drama, History
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Giovannella Grifeo
Votes: 656
82. Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Roger Karl
Votes: 279
83. Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary
Renowned British journalist examines Italy's moral, political and economic crisis, looking for clues to its possible salvation--and that of the West as a whole.
Director: Annalisa Piras | Stars: Bill Emmott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Giuliano Amato, Massimo Banzi
Votes: 450
84. Uno bianca (2001 TV Movie)
190 min | Drama
Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Dino Abbrescia, Dario D'Ambrosi, Claudio Botosso
Votes: 348
85. Il caso Moro (1986)
110 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin, Consuelo Ferrara
Votes: 495
86. La rabbia di Pasolini (2008)
83 min | Documentary
An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of Anger (1963).
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Vittorio Magrelli
Votes: 213
87. Bengasi (1942)
90 min | Drama, War
The fate of several men in a Libyan city briefly captured from Italy by the invading British in 1941, includes a focus on the role of women during these hard times.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Amedeo Nazzari, Vivi Gioi
Votes: 104
88. 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: 738
89. Giovanna's Father (2008)
104 min | Drama, War
In pre-war Bologna, Michele Casali's teenage daughter Giovanna kills her best friend out of jealousy. Deemed mentally unfit, she is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Ezio Greggio, Alba Rohrwacher
Votes: 1,056
90. Cento giorni a Palermo (1984)
107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Lino Ventura, Giuliana de Sio, Arnoldo Foà, Lino Troisi
Votes: 734
91. Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato (1972)
109 min | Drama, History
The revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily.
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Ivo Garrani, Mariano Rigillo, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Rudolf Kukic
Votes: 80
92. I Viceré (2007)
120 min | Drama, History
Story in set in Sicily, 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in control of its power against the new regime, both on political and personal side, leading to intricate love affairs, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Lando Buzzanca, Cristiana Capotondi, Guido Caprino
Votes: 395
93. Two Colonels (1963)
90 min | Comedy
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
Director: Steno | Stars: Totò, Walter Pidgeon, Nino Taranto, Scilla Gabel
Votes: 665
94. Luisa Sanfelice (2004 TV Movie)
200 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Adriano Giannini, Cecilia Roth, Marie Bäumer
Votes: 105
95. Il pentito (1985)
120 min | Crime, Drama, History
A judge (based on real life judge Giovanni Falcone) on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Director: Pasquale Squitieri | Stars: Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Erik Estrada, Max von Sydow
Votes: 127
96. La freccia nera (2006)
540 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The inspiring principle of the adaptation of the novel by R. L. Stevenson "The Black Arrow" for Tv is to shift the conflict of the War of the Two Roses from England to Tirolo, at the border... See full summary »
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Giulio Pampiglione, Martina Stella, Jane Alexander
Votes: 140
97. 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: 988 | Gross: $0.11M
98. 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
99. 9x10 novanta (2014)
94 min | Documentary, History
Nine up-and-coming directors were given access to archival footage from WW1 to late 20th century. Each presents a ten-minute short film aiming to build up a composite image of Italy during that time.
Directors: Marco Bonfanti, Sara Fgaier, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Giovanni Piperno, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko | Stars: Anita Caprioli, Anna Godano, Mariangela Gualtieri, Caterina Piperno
Votes: 52
100. Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Carlo De Filippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli, Andrea Occhipinti
Votes: 643