31. Flowers of St. Francis, The ( Francesco, giullare di Dio )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Gianfranco Bellini, Aldo Fabrizi, Pino Locchi, Peparuolo, Fra' Severino Pisacane, Roberto Sorrentino
Plot: Follows the exploits of a group of monks following St. Francis - presented in a series of unconnected vignettes shot in the neo-realist style (using actual monks rather than professional actors).
32. 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, Giulio Battiferri, Romolo Valli
Plot: An IRA member meets up with a Mexican bandit during the Mexican Revolution as they blow things up and cause havoc.
33. White Nights ( notti bianche, Le )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, Elena Fancera
Plot: A shy clerk befriends a crying woman - awaiting the return of her lover - and he hopes the friendship will turn into romance - but how can he compete with the one love who may or may not return.
34. Gomorrah ( Gomorra )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Matteo Garrone
Actors: Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Vincenzo Fabricino, Vincenzo Altamura, Italo Renda
Plot: Five individual stories present a contemporary look at the mafia in Italy.
35. Deep Red ( Profondo rosso )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra
Plot: A jazz musician witnesses a horrible murder and tracks down the killer himself.
36. Red Desert, The ( deserto rosso, Il )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Aldo Grotti
37. Divorce - Italian Style ( Divorzio all'italiana )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Pietro Germi
Actors: Daniela Rocca, Marcello Mastroianni, Angela Cardile, Ugo Torrente, Leopoldo Trieste, Stefania Sandrelli
Plot: A middle-aged nobleman, in love with his beautiful young cousin, plots various ways to kill his nagging, unattractive wife as a means out of the marriage in 1960s Sicily, where divorce is illegal.
38. Cry, The ( grido, Il )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray, Lynn Shaw
Plot: Aldo has spent seven years with Irma - even raising a daughter - but Irma's husband has been absent - and when she learns of his death in Sydney - instead of the marriage Aldo expects, instead she informs him of her plans to leave. Aldo cannot express his love, and, feeling lost, takes his daughter on a road trip, hoping to find a love to replace the void in his life.
39. Leopard, The ( gattopardo, Il )
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli
Plot: Follows the ebb and flow of aristocracy in 1860s Sicily.
40. Rome, Open City ( Roma, città aperta )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno, Harry Feist
Plot: In 1944, resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Gestapo. Realizing his only chance for survival is to flee the city, he enlists the help of a friend - who in turn goes to a priest - in order to facilitate his escape. But a betrayal from someone close to him threatens everything.
