21. Stolen Children, The ( ladro di bambini, Il )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gianni Amelio
Actors: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel
Plot: An Italian policeman (carabiniere), Antonia, is charged with taking two children - Rosetta and her brother Luciano - from Milan to an orphanage in Sicily. They are being taken away from their mother who forced Rosetta into prostitution. As the drive goes along, the rocky opening relationship between Antonio and the children begin to thaw as they become temporary friends.
22. Amarcord
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia
Plot: A year in the life of a small Italian town is during the 1930s is recast through Fellini's fantastical mind's eye, giving a carnivalesque slant to this charming coming of age story.
23. Suspiria
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Stefania Casini, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Udo Kier
Plot: An American ballet student joins a new academy. Her arrival is overshadowed by the recent killing of a former ballet student. As she tries to fit in she realizes that the faculty are very strange and when she begins to investigate things are really out of hand.
24. Eclipse ( eclisse, L' )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Louis Seigner
Plot: Vittoria breaks away from her engagement following a troubled night. Meeting with her mother, who is obsessed with the stock market, she finds the broker Piero and they connect, but his materialistic nature means the relationship will never succeed.
25. Seven Beauties ( Pasqualino Settebellezze )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Plot: Pasqualino is just an Italian man trying to get by - but after deserting the army during WWII, he finds himself in a German prison camp, where he will do anything to get by. Looking back on his life, we see him living with his seven sisters, the accidental murder of one of their suitors - his trial, getting sent to an asylum, raping a patient, volunteering for the army to escape the asylum - all leading to his German camp.
26. 1900 ( Novecento )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Plot: The lives of two Italian men - one a bastard born to a peasant, the other to a land-owner from 1900 - 1945 - the rise of Fascism and Communism and how the two men are shaped by the social and political times.
27. I'm Not Scared ( Io non ho paura )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Actors: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva, Fabio Tetta
28. Bay of Blood ( Reazione a catena )
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso, Anna Maria Rosati
Plot: After en elderly heiress is killed off by her husband, who wants the fortune for himself, is sets off a chain reaction as other member's of the family work to whittle down the inheritance pool - by killing off one another. A hapless group of teens camping out in one of the abandoned buildings on the property are caught in the middle.
29. Two Women ( ciociara, La )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi
Plot: An Italian woman and her teenage daughter are alone in the waning days of WWII. They are trying to survive; trying to find a safe place. They are both raped by allied Moroccan soldiers and left to die.
30. Duck, You Sucker ( Giù la testa )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Antoine Saint-John, Franco Graziosi
Plot: An IRA member meets up with a Mexican bandit during the Mexican Revolution as they blow things up and cause havoc.
