Movie List for "italy"

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

Calabuch (1956) Comedy Movie

Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest’s Year 1956.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Luis García Berlanga
Writer: Leonardo Martín, Florentino Soria, Ennio Flaiano
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo

Giù la testa (1971) Drama War Western Movie

A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution. Year 1971.

Generes: Drama, War, Western
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Luciano Vincenzoni
Actors: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli

À bout de souffle (1960) Crime Drama Movie

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. Year 1960.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

Umberto D. (1952) Drama Movie

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. Year 1952.

Generes: Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Cesare Zavattini
Actors: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari

8½ (1963) Drama Movie

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Year 1963.

Generes: Drama
Director: Federico Fellini
Writer: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale

Va, vis et deviens (2005) Drama Movie

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish. Year 2005.

Generes: Drama
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Writer: Alain-Michel Blanc, Radu Mihaileanu
Actors: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai

Allegro non troppo (1976) Animation Comedy Fantasy Movie

An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he’s come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named “Prisney” (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version Year 1976.

Generes: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Bruno Bozzetto
Writer: Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti
Actors: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini

¡Ay, Carmela! (1990) Comedy Drama War Movie

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner. Year 1990.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, War
Director: Carlos Saura
Writer: Rafael Azcona, José Sanchis Sinisterra, Carlos Saura
Actors: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego

Mr. Klein (1976) Crime Drama Mystery Movie

In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr Klein clear his n Year 1976.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Joseph Losey
Writer: Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi, Costa-Gavras
Actors: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé