41. Companeros ( Vamos a matar, compañeros )
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Actors: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey
Plot: An arms dealer plans to make a big score - but the money he needs is locked in a safe with only Professor Xantos - currently a prisoner - knowing the combination. He agrees to help the professor escape but one of her former partner's has his own plans to get his hands on the money.
42. Nostalghia ( Nostalgiya )
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Patrizia Terreno, Domiziana Giordano
Plot: A Russian poet, along with his translator, Eugenia, it in Italy researcher the life of a Russian composer. But the longer he stays, the more he longs for his home - his wife and child. Stumbling across Domenico - man who imprisoned his own family for seven years to protect them from the "evils" of the world - he finds himself drawn to him, even as the longing to get home grows ever deeper.
43. Fellini's Roma
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Renato Giovannoli, Fiona Florence
Plot: See the Italian capital through the eyes of director Federico Fellini in a film that is part autobiography, part chaos and always captivating.
44. Blow-Out aka Grand Bouffe, The ( grande bouffe, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Marco Ferreri
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi
45. Django
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Actors: Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez
Plot: A man dragging a coffin finds himself caught in a two where two feuding factions: a KKK group and a band of Mexican bandits - vie for control.
46. Seduced and Abandoned ( Sedotta e abbandonata )
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pietro Germi
Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi, Lando Buzzanca
47. traviata, La
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk
48. Postman, The ( postino, Il )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Radford
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa
Plot: A postman learns poetry by delivering mail to a poet, which he uses to flirt with a woman.
49. Shoeshine ( Sciuscià )
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi
Plot: In postwar Rome, two boys get by shining shoes. The two want nothing more than to own their own horse - but in order to fund things, they take part in a black market delivery. Yet what seems like an easy task leads to trouble - as both boys find themselves in in an overcrowded boys prison and drift apart.
50. Malèna
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Actors: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
