Movie List for "italy"

La città delle donne (1980) Comedy Drama Fantasy Movie

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse. Year 1980.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Federico Fellini
Writer: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, Brunello Rondi
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers

Il postino (1994) Biography Comedy Drama Movie

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. Year 1994.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi
Writer: Antonio Skármeta, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli
Actors: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Adua e le compagne (1960) Comedy Drama Movie

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past. Year 1960.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Writer: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli
Actors: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo

Europa ’51 (1952) Drama Movie

A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide. Year 1952.

Generes: Drama
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Writer: Roberto Rossellini, Sandro De Feo, Mario Pannunzio
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini

Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) Comedy Drama Fantasy Movie

Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband. Year 1965.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Federico Fellini
Writer: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu

Suspiria (1977) Horror Movie

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. Year 1977.

Generes: Horror
Director: Dario Argento
Writer: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Thomas De Quincey
Actors: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci

La stanza del figlio (2001) Drama Movie

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. Year 2001.

Generes: Drama
Director: Nanni Moretti
Writer: Nanni Moretti, Linda Ferri, Heidrun Schleef
Actors: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca

L’eclisse (1962) Drama Romance Movie

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man’s materialistic nature. Year 1962.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Elio Bartolini
Actors: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal

Cielo sulla palude (1949) Biography Drama Movie

In 1902 in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region, 12-year-old Maria Goretti lives with her parents, poor farmhands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy-drinking farmer who offered them board and lodging. Serenell Year 1949.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Augusto Genina
Writer: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Augusto Genina, Elvira Psorulla
Actors: Rubi Dalma, Michele Malaspina, Domenico Viglione Borghese

La notte di San Lorenzo (1982) Drama Fantasy Romance Movie

In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces. Year 1982.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Writer: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Giuliani G. De Negri
Actors: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli

Le samouraï (1967) Crime Drama Mystery Movie

After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner. Year 1967.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer: Joan McLeod, Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin
Actors: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon

Il mostro (1994) Comedy Crime Mystery Movie

After a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder. Year 1994.

Generes: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: Roberto Benigni
Writer: Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami, Michel Blanc
Actors: Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi

L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Drama Mystery Movie

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. Year 1961.

Generes: Drama, Mystery
Director: Alain Resnais
Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff

I cento passi (2000) Biography Crime Drama Movie

“I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young Year 2000.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Writer: Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana, Vanda Vaz
Actors: Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo

L’onorevole Angelina (1947) Comedy Drama Movie

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people’s movement, and leads Year 1947.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writer: Piero Tellini, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Luigi Zampa
Actors: Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi

Francesco, giullare di Dio (1950) Biography Comedy Drama Movie

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro. Year 1950.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Writer: Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Félix Morlión
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Gianfranco Bellini, Peparuolo