My Best Italian Movies

Caterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.

An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.

Haunted by a horrible past, a young Ukrainian woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

In Genoa, Agata runs her bookstore and, without meaning to, causes light bulbs and appliances to burn out. At the same time that a younger man declares his attraction to her, her brother Gustav, a morose architect, a distant husband, and an indifferent father, discovers that he was adopted and has a half-brother in the Po Valley. To Agata's great pain, she sees her young man with another woman - plus, Gustav cuts himself off from her and from his wife and son. Agata goes to the Po Valley, meets Gustav's brother and the brother's wife, and tries to reconnect by letting life wash over her. Wisdom comes from traditional Chinese medicine and from good literature.

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.

Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.

Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

One day at a colleague's going away party, Anna meets Domenico, a virile, slightly older chap who's married with two small kids. Passion's flames are rapidly kindled and result in steamy encounters.

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

During the Christmas celebrations, a surprising announcement takes a family by surprise and threatens to break the delicate balance that regulates the familial relationships.

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.