In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.

City of Women

1980

Italian

6.9

♡ 18

68%

man woman relationship

train ride

Federico Fellini Director

Donatella Damiani as Donatella

Karina Verlier as Mock Bride

Marcello Mastroianni as Snàporaz

Bernice Stegers as Woman on train

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

Dogman

2018

Italian

7.2

♡ 36

84%

father daughter relationship

Matteo Garrone Director

Alida Baldari Calabria as Alida

Gennaro Iannone as Commerciante

Emanuele Barbalonga as Padrone Cane

Francesco Acquaroli as Proprietario Videolottery

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

Afflicted

2013

English

6.2

♡ 14

83%

Derek Lee Director

Stéphane Julien as Cop on Roof

Ian Hanlin as Jeff

Tasya Teles as Maria

Sharlene Royer as Receptionist

Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.

Girlfriend in a Coma

2012

English

7.2

♡ 1

Annalisa Piras Director

Benedict Cumberbatch as Dante

Hugh Grant as Self

Livia Giuggioli as Self

Nanni Moretti as Self

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1996

English

5.2

♡ 14

36%

parent child relationship

school

talk show

Steve Barron Director

Wallace Shawn as Pepe the Cricket

John Sessions as Professor

Peter Locke as Unseen aristocracy

Rob Schneider as Volpe

One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.

Paprika

1991

Italian

5.5

♡ 90

Action

based on novel or book

Tinto Brass Director

Clarita Gatto as

Tinto Brass as Dott. Babarelli

Martine Brochard as Madame Collette

Riccardo Garrone as Zio

Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her first client, naval officer Franco. Despite this attraction, she begins her climb through the sex trade, residing in Italy’s most illustrious brothels.

A Classic Horror Story

2021

Italian

5.7

♡ 21

55%

Roberto De Feo Director

Cristina Donadio as

Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz as Elisa

Giuseppe Russo as Fabrizio

Yuliia Sobol as Sofia

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

Mafia!

1998

English

5.6

♡ 15

Jim Abrahams Director

Jay Mohr as Anthony 'Tony' Cortino

Don Bovingloh as Funeral Priest

Billy Burke as Joey Cortino

Frank Welker as Special Vocal Effects

After growing up poor in Salmonella, Vincenzo Cortino installs himself as the preeminent, if bumbling, Mafia don of the New World. But now he must pass on power to one of his two sons: either level-headed veteran Anthony or vituperative loose cannon Joey.

Journey to Italy

1954

Italian

7.3

♡ 22

96%

75%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

Roberto Rossellini Director

George Sanders as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce

Jackie Frost as Betty

Ingrid Bergman as Katherine Joyce

Lyla Rocco as La signora Sinibaldi

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.

In the Name of the Law

1949

Italian

7.6

♡ 4

Pietro Germi Director

Carmelo Olivieri as Don Peppino

Camillo Mastrocinque as Il barone Lo Vasto

Massimo Girotti as Il pretore Guido Schiavi

Natale Cirino as (uncredited)

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

The First King

2019

Latin

6.5

♡ 66

75%

Matteo Rovere Director

Michael Schermi as Arant la Bestia

Vincenzo Crea as Elaxantre il Ragazzo

Loris Curci as Falco

Alessandro Borghi as Remo

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.

Capri-Revolution

2018

Italian

6.1

♡ 12

36%

Mario Martone Director

Maximilian Dirr as Herbert

Donatella Finocchiaro as Madre

Rinat Khismatouline as Maksim Gor'kij

Eduardo Scarpetta as Vincenzo

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.

People of the Po Valley

1947

Italian

6.7

♡ 10

Michelangelo Antonioni Director

A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.

The Silent Mountain

2014

German

5.5

♡ 7

36%

Ernst Gossner Director

William Moseley as Andreas Gruber

Emily Cox as Elisabeth Gruber

Claudia Cardinale as Nuria Calzolari

Werner Daehn as Sven Kornatz

A young Austrian soldier in World War I fights his way through the Alps to rescue his Italian girlfriend and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain.

The Profession of Arms

2001

Italian

6.9

♡ 2

Ermanno Olmi Director

Ralph Palka as Alto ufficiale dell'ambasceria alemanna

Christo Jivkov as Giovanni de Medici dalle Bande Nere

Sasa Vulicevic as Pietro Aretino

Alessandro Genovesi as Ufficiale posto di guardia

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal armies, commanded by Giovanni de'Medici, try to chase them in the midst of a harsh winter. Nevertheless, the Imperial armies manage to cross the rivers along their march and get cannons thanks to the maneuvers of its Lords. In a skirmish, Giovanni de'Medici is wounded in the leg by a falconet shot. The attempts to cure him fail and he dies. The Imperial armies assault Rome. The film is beautifully but unassumingly set, and shows the hard conditions in which war is waged and its lack of glory. It ends straightforwardly with the declaration made after the death of Giovanni de'Medici by the commanders of the armies in Europe of not using again fire weapons because of their cruelty.

A Good Woman

2004

English

♡ 12

37%

50%

1930s

based on play or musical

Mike Barker Director

Roger Hammond as Cecil

John Standing as Dumby

Stephen Campbell Moore as Lord Darlington

Scarlett Johansson as Meg Windermere

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."

L'amatore

2016

Italian

6.5

♡ 1

Maria Mauti Director

Piero Portaluppi as (archive footage)

Giulia Lazzarini as (voice)

The memory of Piero Portaluppi, a Milanese architect who reached the peak of his fame during the 20 years of the Fascist regime, comes back to life, both through the rediscovery of his work today and in a previously unpublished film diary in 16 mm, shot and edited throughout his lifetime. A man of great charm and power, Portaluppi lived through a grandiose but tragic era with ironic detachment, as if dancing across things as he created beauty. History marches on implacably, radically transforming the arena in which the eclectic artist and his large family lived and worked.

Allonsanfan

1974

Italian

7.0

♡ 1

Paolo Taviani Director

Pier Giovanni Anchisi as

Raul Cabrera as

Lea Massari as Charlotte

Marcello Mastroianni as Fulvio Imbriani

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

La grande strada azzurra

1957

Italian

6.8

♡ 4

Gillo Pontecorvo Director

Yves Montand as Giovanni Squarciò

Terence Hill as Renato

Alida Valli as Rosetta, la moglie

Francisco Rabal as Salvatore

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…

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The Conspiracy of Torture

City of Women

Dogman

Afflicted

Girlfriend in a Coma

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Paprika

A Classic Horror Story

Mafia!

Journey to Italy

In the Name of the Law

The First King

Capri-Revolution

People of the Po Valley

The Silent Mountain

The Profession of Arms

A Good Woman

L'amatore

Allonsanfan

La grande strada azzurra