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poster
89
8.4
/27472/
82
/465/
81
/593/
4.3
/17582/
94
/62/
98
/603/
89
/28/

The Best of Youth (2003)
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
8.0
/14989/
79
/456/
81
/850/
4.2
/35420/
100
/14/
94
/81/
89
/10/

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.2
/20292/
72
/535/
76
/1167/
3.7
/27630/
92
/51/
80
/455/
81
/17/

Il Divo (2008)
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.3
/41483/
74
/896/
69
/633/
3.6
/20995/
85
/98/
80
/1005/
76
/22/

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
7.3
/5276/
68
/87/
69
/102/
3.7
/5622/
83
/18/
85
/69/

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
poster
79
73
7.5
/7063/
76
/214/
77
/723/
3.9
/13341/
90
/50/

One Hundred Steps (2000)
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
poster
80
70
7.6
/4630/
76
/127/
78
/364/
4.0
/14075/
91
/351/

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
poster
73
67
7.0
/6902/
72
/126/
67
/410/
3.6
/3452/
84
/63/
78
/357/
71
/19/

My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
poster
70
67
7.2
/10109/
71
/255/
71
/676/
3.6
/5933/
53
/15/
85
/341/

Romanzo Criminale (2005)
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
poster
64
7.1
/949/
61
/20/
65
/36/
3.6
/833/
71
/3/

The Violent Four (1968)
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
poster
70
62
7.1
/4253/
72
/74/
70
/206/
3.7
/4432/
67
/21/
71
/46/
69
/11/

Good Morning, Night (2003)
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
56
7.5
/2448/
69
/20/
76
/34/
3.9
/2891/
100
/10/
88
/14/

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
poster
69
53
7.2
/3070/
63
/50/
68
/95/
3.8
/3023/

Illustrious Corpses (1976)
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
53
6.7
/3048/
74
/53/
59
/50/
3.6
/5248/
92
/12/
73
/14/

The Third Generation (1979)
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
poster
68
51
7.2
/1951/
58
/31/
67
/41/
3.8
/2216/
71
/149/

Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.
poster
51
5.6
/2136/
51
/61/
56
/74/
3.2
/1316/
44
/10/

Devil in the Flesh (1986)
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
poster
79
51
7.8
/3400/
77
/84/
79
/245/
4.0
/4199/
84
/4/

An Average Little Man (1977)
A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
48
6.8
/3576/
69
/126/
67
/292/
3.4
/1652/
52
/25/
49
/20/
48
/5/

Angel of Evil (2010)
Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.
poster
Kanopy
70
47
7.3
/2921/
65
/50/
70
/75/
3.8
/4500/
69
/10/

Marianne and Juliane (1981)
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
poster
69
45
7.0
/1921/
55
/26/
62
/41/
3.6
/1278/
100
/5/
57
/11/

Three Brothers (1981)
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
poster
Kanopy
70
45
7.2
/3002/
69
/78/
72
/237/
3.5
/1699/
69
/9/

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
poster
76
42
7.4
/1958/
69
/59/
76
/181/
3.8
/6062/
85
/3/

Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
poster
79
42
7.5
/1825/
76
/42/
76
/168/
3.9
/5006/
91
/3/

One Way or Another (1976)
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
poster
62
39
6.7
/564/
64
/26/
71
/66/
3.5
/4070/
41

The Time It Takes (2024)
A devoted father working in film shares a magical bond with his daughter, but as she enters adolescence and falls into addiction, he takes her to Paris in a final effort to save her and their fading connection.
poster
70
39
6.8
/1492/
65
/26/
62
/28/
3.6
/1493/
86
/7/
69
/5/

Germany in Autumn (1978)
The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two-month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and later murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
poster
71
37
7.1
/1484/
67
/27/
72
/95/
3.7
/3582/
73
/2/

Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
poster
64
33
6.8
/706/
57
/19/
66
/36/
3.5
/734/
60

We Want the Colonels (1973)
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
poster
64
32
6.6
/1240/
56
/18/
65
/46/
3.4
/884/
67
/9/
65
/2/

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
poster
Kanopy
58
31
5.9
/1272/
49
/23/
62
/12/
3.6
/5205/
60
/5/
52
/6/

Identikit (1974)
A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
poster
66
31
7.0
/970/
57
/22/
69
/38/
3.5
/901/

Execution Squad (1972)
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
poster
61
31
6.3
/1088/
65
/29/
65
/82/
3.3
/2116/
50
/2/

I Am Self-Sufficient (1976)
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
poster
64
26
6.9
/655/
50
/7/
58
/16/
3.4
/286/
78

The Second Time (1995)
A convicted terrorist out on parole meets a man she nearly murdered 15 years before, without recognizing him. He does so, but he chooses to keep quiet and spend time with her—desperate to understand the reasons behind her gesture.
poster
69
25
7.1
/547/
70
/11/
65
/46/
3.5
/520/

The Moro Affair (1986)
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
poster
65
24
6.8
/535/
62
/8/
62
/37/
3.5
/702/

San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.
poster
71
23
7.2
/491/
73
/15/
69
/45/
3.5
/302/

The Invisible Wall (1991)
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
poster
67
23
6.7
/658/
70
/14/
63
/41/
3.4
/402/

Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
poster
66
22
6.9
/690/
65
/16/
64
/51/
3.5
/595/
62
/3/

Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
poster
73
20
7.4
/769/
74
/7/
70
/18/
3.7
/601/

I Am Afraid (1977)
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
poster
Hoopla
61
18
6.7
/767/
68
/7/
70
/12/
3.5
/1168/
Popcorn
31
/1/

How to Kill a Judge (1975)
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
poster
Kanopy
64
17
6.5
/563/
61
/12/
65
/13/
3.4
/742/

Killer Cop (1975)
In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young detective discovers the bomb by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing. This is a world where human life is sold or sacrificed for twisted ideals. A world of international terrorism. The time is now.
poster
61
17
6.4
/611/
61
/16/
53
/16/
3.4
/697/

Silent Action (1975)
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.
poster
Kanopy
61
16
6.2
/530/
58
/13/
61
/25/
3.2
/215/

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
poster
56
16
6.3
/673/
60
/17/
59
/33/
3.2
/242/
34
/4/

The Front Line (2009)
United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.
poster
72
14
7.4
/163/
75
/4/
67
/16/
3.7
/491/

Anna (1975)
A documentary ostensibly about Anna, a young drug addict taken off the streets by one of the filmmakers. Through her they attempt to explore the social issues from their hippie perspective, instead they create a revealing, uncomfortable self-portrait and inadvertently raise questions about documentary film-making.
poster
63
12
7.0
/342/
50
/7/
64
/14/
3.5
/351/

Blow to the Heart (1982)
The son of a university professor discovers his father's secret life and has to decide what to do about it.
poster
63
12
6.2
/267/
61
/6/
64
/16/
3.4
/336/

Dear Father (1979)
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
poster
65
11
7.0
/516/
56
/13/
65
/11/
3.5
/268/

The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.
poster
?
7.8
/19/

Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera (2003)
A documentary about the making of "Buongiorno, notte" and the films and politics of director Marco Bellocchio.


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