Italian, a list by Mulanzo1

8.5

/380818/

82

/5931/

82

/4723/

4.4

/252296/

96

/67/

94

/4737/

82

/9/

2.5

age 14+

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

NEW

72

7.0

/3182/

72

/66/

72

/249/

3.6

/4285/

81

/32/

70

/23/

71

/16/

3.0

Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the trade. Peppino offers him a large salary to be his assistant—the job burgeoning into a budding friendship he mistakes for something more. When Valerio gets a girlfriend, their fledgling romance will be threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.

78

76

7.4

/13272/

73

/316/

69

/223/

3.8

/31033/

88

/72/

86

/357/

81

/8/

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

NEW

80

7.7

/6968/

76

/101/

74

/146/

4.0

/9955/

67

/21/

88

/116/

4.0

Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.

NEW

74

57

7.0

/2110/

69

/33/

71

/73/

3.8

/1839/

83

/24/

80

/23/

74

/14/

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

NEW

72

6.8

/16265/

68

/626/

67

/559/

3.3

/22682/

92

/91/

77

/74/

66

/24/

3.0

age 13+

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

NEW

76

7.2

/6175/

70

/127/

72

/357/

3.8

/14083/

85

/13/

85

/42/

3.0

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

80

79

7.7

/24015/

75

/408/

77

/519/

4.0

/51306/

87

/30/

89

/325/

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

NEW

78

68

7.4

/3425/

76

/99/

70

/109/

3.8

/5251/

90

/20/

87

/123/

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

NEW

66

6.9

/9060/

64

/155/

63

/525/

3.2

/4262/

73

/80/

79

/282/

65

/27/

2.0

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.

80

79

7.4

/28395/

72

/432/

72

/526/

4.0

/38983/

88

/77/

84

/510/

90

/20/

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.

NEW

76

62

7.1

/6583/

74

/412/

74

/479/

3.6

/15761/

93

/8/

age 14+

The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.

NEW

60

6.0

/4215/

67

/121/

56

/71/

3.0

/1241/

67

/6/

40

/43/

3.0

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.

60

58

5.9

/13121/

62

/346/

61

/308/

3.1

/21883/

73

/11/

44

/268/

A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.

NEW

76

7.0

/3234/

71

/50/

68

/98/

3.6

/5172/

100

/19/

76

/29/

3.0

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.

NEW

72

6.5

/10894/

70

/486/

63

/246/

3.4

/7858/

100

/6/

69

/723/

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with Switzerland in their sights. Before making it any farther, they volunteer to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground - taking them deep into the heart of German territory.

77

7.3

/22476/

70

/293/

71

/533/

3.9

/21514/

85

/85/

81

/214/

73

/34/

3.5

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

NEW

74

69

6.8

/7474/

66

/212/

70

/245/

3.5

/15372/

100

/5/

70

/63/

A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.

NEW

61

50

6.6

/5691/

66

/97/

64

/255/

3.3

/2568/

67

/12/

41

/14/

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

NEW

82

7.5

/22948/

74

/681/

74

/751/

4.1

/79447/

91

/92/

81

/46/

87

/27/

4.0

age 13+

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

NEW

77

53

7.1

/2467/

69

/25/

70

/77/

3.7

/2435/

100

/6/

84

/9/

Sandra returns to her hometown to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

NEW

75

65

7.1

/4262/

68

/83/

69

/99/

3.5

/6330/

100

/12/

71

/28/

81

/8/

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

87

8.5

/313811/

84

/4805/

84

/4690/

4.5

/417211/

90

/84/

96

/5148/

80

/21/

3.5

age 14+

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

73

51

7.1

/2479/

71

/52/

64

/66/

3.7

/3309/

90

/10/

69

/9/

A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.

NEW

69

62

7.0

/9373/

68

/136/

69

/239/

3.6

/9923/

58

/12/

79

/106/

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of eccentric and strange characters.

60

6.5

/19074/

63

/670/

66

/683/

3.1

/110670/

47

/101/

57

/70/

52

/27/

3.0

age 16+

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

NEW

80

77

7.3

/13607/

70

/279/

73

/315/

3.8

/30926/

96

/25/

75

/73/

100

/4/

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

67

58

6.8

/14518/

68

/751/

67

/1055/

3.2

/9104/

75

/8/

60

/6/

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

NEW

71

51

7.6

/2899/

70

/42/

69

/80/

3.7

/2378/

57

/7/

84

/17/

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

NEW

86

7.9

/38415/

76

/665/

76

/736/

4.2

/65400/

98

/58/

90

/658/

100

/11/

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

84

8.1

/389534/

79

/6290/

77

/3051/

3.9

/133034/

91

/188/

94

/12273/

79

/40/

4.0

age 15+

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

NEW

81

7.6

/3249/

70

/58/

74

/57/

3.9

/3235/

96

/49/

80

/79/

88

/21/

3.5

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

83

82

7.9

/26121/

79

/466/

79

/718/

4.3

/70544/

84

/31/

91

/241/

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

NEW

67

6.9

/2394/

69

/97/

72

/396/

3.5

/2719/

57

/7/

76

/40/

2.5

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples

NEW

75

65

7.5

/5653/

70

/102/

74

/258/

3.7

/4312/

84

/510/

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

NEW

60

53

6.5

/5330/

63

/118/

59

/88/

3.3

/1553/

53

/19/

55

/149/

62

/6/

Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him. Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.

NEW

70

62

6.9

/6044/

68

/95/

65

/186/

3.7

/14048/

73

/11/

75

/48/

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

NEW

55

50

5.6

/7111/

57

/189/

54

/157/

3.0

/10948/

50

/260/

A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.

70

7.0

/25868/

68

/690/

68

/557/

3.7

/39912/

63

/32/

78

/748/

Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.

NEW

78

70

7.5

/7641/

71

/117/

73

/213/

3.7

/9516/

100

/10/

79

/45/

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.

NEW

64

6.5

/10963/

66

/291/

64

/418/

3.4

/24525/

67

/9/

60

/128/

2.5

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.

NEW

74

70

7.3

/10732/

71

/226/

72

/582/

3.6

/11895/

74

/35/

89

/132/

69

/16/

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.

NEW

74

52

7.4

/2686/

72

/48/

74

/117/

3.9

/2060/

71

/7/

76

/12/

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

NEW

78

7.4

/17854/

73

/313/

71

/948/

3.7

/8615/

90

/100/

87

/415/

73

/34/

3.5

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it …

NEW

62

60

6.5

/8990/

63

/274/

65

/213/

3.4

/21806/

60

/10/

55

/157/

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

NEW

61

54

6.7

/5503/

66

/123/

66

/272/

3.5

/6410/

38

/16/

61

/67/

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it

NEW

61

6.5

/5693/

67

/310/

68

/531/

3.4

/7675/

58

/36/

59

/7/

57

/13/

2.0

A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves.

NEW

63

6.5

/5148/

70

/113/

65

/67/

3.4

/2770/

53

/17/

71

/210/