Top Italian Movies


The Top Italian Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Italian List". Lists are calculated daily.

11. Road, The ( strada, La )

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Plot: A free spirited girl is sold by her poor mother to a cruel traveling entertainer.

12. dolce vita, La

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Alain Cuny
Plot: A serious journalist finds himself seduced by the decadent lifestyle of the hedonistic jet-setters of Rome, and attempts to make sense of it all.

13. Best of Youth, The ( Meglio gioventù, La )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Actors: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco
Plot: An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.

14. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The ( Albero degli zoccoli, L' )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Actors: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari
Plot: Ermanno Olmi's epic film charts the destinies of four families in an Italian peasant community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title refers to the landlord's tree a peasant cuts down so his son can have shoes to go to school.

15. Conformist, The ( conformista, Il )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Fosco Giachetti, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gastone Moschin
Plot: An Italian fascist with a complicated past is tasked with hunting down his old professor, who has fled Italy and is not considered an anti-fascist threat.

16. Umberto D

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Maria-Pia Casilio, Carlo Battisti, Elena Rea, Memmo Carotenuto
Plot: An old service man is trying to pay rent on his small and dwindling pension. He must deal with his landlady, and society to try and make it work in his final days of his life.

17. Don't Look Now

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania
Plot: The parents of a drowned child go to Venice and experience strange occurrences, including the arrival of what appears to be their dead little girl.

18. Fist in His Pockets aka Fists in the Pocket ( pugni in tasca, I )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Actors: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace
Plot: A young man suffering from epileptic seizures and paranoia decides to help out Augusto, the only "normal" brother in his family, by systematically killing all the other members of his family.

19. avventura, L' ( Adventure, The )

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Plot: A group of upper middle class Italians takes a boating trip, stopping on an isolated island. One of their party goes missing, and her best friend and lover stay behind to look for her. Eventually, however, all parties concerned move on in this study of bourgeois decadence and ennui.

20. Night, The ( notte, La )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Plot: Taking place in Milan, we follow one couple over the course of the night - a relationship that is rapidly deteriorating.

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