Top Italian Movies


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

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, Iris Berben, José Bódalo
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. 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, Marne Maitland, Elisa Mainardi
Plot: See the Italian capital through the eyes of director Federico Fellini in a film that is part autobiography, part chaos and always captivating.

43. 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, Andréa Ferréol, Solange Blondeau

44. 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, Gino Pernice, Simón Arriaga
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.

45. 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, Lola Braccini, Leopoldo Trieste

46. 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, Axelle Gall, Pina Cei

47. 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, Linda Moretti, Mariano Rigillo
Plot: A postman learns poetry by delivering mail to a poet, which he uses to flirt with a woman.

48. 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, Laura De Marchi, Delia Boccardo
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.

49. I Am Love ( Io sono l'amore )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Actors: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono, Marisa Berenson
Plot: In turn-of-the-millenium Milan, the wife of a rich Russian textile company CEO begins a torrid affair with a younger man.

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, Pietro Notarianni, Gaetano Aronica

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