Category:Film Studies--Italian

Film Studies--Italian

• Bibliography; see Category:Italian Cinema (film subject)

1900s

• The Capture of Rome / La presa di Roma (1905 Alberini), film (it)

1910s

• Cabiria – Pastrone 1914
• Cajus Julius Caesar – Guazzoni 1914
• Sperduti nel buio – Martoglio 1914
• Rapsodia satanica – Oxilia 1915
• Maciste – Borgnetto/Denizot 1915
• Assunta Spina – Bertini/Serena 1915
• La signora delle camelie – Negroni 1915
• Maciste alpino – Pastrone 1916
• Thais – A. G. Bragaglia 1917
• Malombra – Gallone 1917
• Il padrone delle ferriere – Perego 1919

• Il sogno dell'usuraio (1910 Cines), lost short (it)
• Air Bubbles / Le bolle di sapone (1911 Ambrosio), short (it)
• Pinocchio (1911 Antamoro), film (it)
• Dante's Inferno / L'inferno (1911 Bertolini), film (it)
• The Odyssey / L'Odissea (1911 Bertolini et al.), film (it)
• Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei / The Last Days of Pompeii (1913 Caserini), film
• The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1913 Rodolfi), film (it)
• Cabiria (1914 Pastrone), film (it)
• Christus (1916 Antamoro), film (it)
• La guerra ed il sogno di Momi (1917 Pastrone), film
• Redenzione / Redemption (1919 Gallone / Mateldi), film -- The movie focuses on the character of Mary Magdalene.

1920s

• The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1922 Bonnard), film (it)

• The Last Lord / L'ultimo lord (1926 Genina), film (it) -- An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust. In reality, she is a young lady in disguise.

1930s

• The Song of Love / La canzone dell'amore (1930 Righelli), film (it)
• What Scoundrels Men Are! / Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1932 Camerini), film (it)
• Don Bosco (1935 Alessandrini), film (it)
• 1860 (1934 Blasetti), film (it)
• The Old Guard / Vecchia guardia (1934 Blasetti), film (it)
• The Canal of the Angels / Il canale degli angeli (1934 Pasinetti), film (it)
• Scipio Africanus / Scipione l'africano (1937 Gallone), film (it)
• The Little Adventurers / Piccoli naufraghi (1939 Calzavara), film (it)
• Department Store / I grandi magazzini (1939 Camerini), film (it)
• The Life of Giuseppe Verdi / Giuseppe Verdi (1939 Gallone), film (it)

1940s

• Piccolo Alpino (1940 Biancoli), film (it)

• The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1941 Camerini), film (it)
• Old-Fashioned World / Piccolo mondo antico (1941 Soldati), film (it)

• Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943 Calzavara), film (it)
• The Children Are Watching Us / I bambini ci guardano (1943 De Sica), film (it)

• Obsession (1943 Visconti)]] -- Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.

• The Twentieth Duke / Il ventesimo duca (1945 De Caro), film (it)
• Down with Misery / Abbasso la miseria! (1945 Righelli), film (it)

• Rome, Open City / Roma città aperta (1945 Rossellini), film (it) --During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

• Shoeshine / Sciuscià (1946 De Sica), film (it) -- Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
• Paisan (1946 Rossellini) -- American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

• Pinocchio (1947 Guardone), film (it)

• The Wandering Jew / L'ebreo errante (1948 Alessandrini), film (it)

• Bicycle Thieves / Ladri di biciclette (1948 De Sica), film (it) -- In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

• Germany Year Zero (1948 Rossellini) -- A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin

• La terra trema (1948 Visconti) -- In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

1950s

1950

• Stromboli, terra di Dio Rossellini 1950
• Luci del varietà Lattuada / Fellini 1950
• Cronaca di un amore Antonioni 1950
• Il cammino della speranza Germi 1950
• Francesco giullare di Dio Rossellini / The Flowers of St. Francis (1950 Rossellini) -- A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.
• Domenica d’agosto Emmer 1950
• Napoli milionaria De Filippo 1950
• Non c’è pace tra gli ulivi De Santis 1950

• Prima comunione / Father's Dilemma (1950 Blasetti), film (it)

• Totò sceicco Mattoli 1950

1951

• Bellissima (1951 Visconti) -- A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

• Miracle in Milan / Miracolo a Milano (1951 De Sica), film (it) -- An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

• La famiglia Passaguai Fabrizi 1951

• Cops and Robbers (1951 Monicelli) -- Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

• Anna Lattuada 1951

• I figli di nessuno Matarazzo 1951

• Filumena Marturano De Filippo 1951

• Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna 1951

• + The Angels of the Neighbourhood / Gli angeli del quartiere (1952 Borghesio), film (it)

1952

• Umberto D. (1952 De Sica), film (it) -- An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

• Europa ’51 Rossellini 1952
• Altri tempi Blasetti 1952
• Lo sceicco bianco Fellini 1952
• Totò e i re di Roma Steno / Monicelli 1952
• Totò a colori Steno 1952
• Il cappotto Lattuada 1952
• Processo alla città Zampa 1952
• Roma ore 11 De Santis 1952

1953

• Amore in città AAVV 1953
• I vitelloni Fellini 1953
• La signora senza camelie Antonioni 1953
• Pane, amore e fantasia L. Comencini 1953
• La provinciale Soldati 1953
• Sole negli occhi Pietrangeli 1953 (al link il film completo)
• Un turco napoletano Mattoli 1953
• Stazione Termini V. De Sica 1953
• Siamo Donne AA VV 1953
• Napoletani a Milano E. De Filippo 1953

• I Vitelloni (1953 Visconti) -- A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

1954

• @ Journey to Italy (1954 Rossellini) -- An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.

La paura Rossellini 1954

• @ Senso Visconti 1954
• @ An American in Rome / Un americano a Roma (1954 Steno), film (it)
• @ La strada (1954 Fellini) -- A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
• @ Miseria e nobiltà Mattoli 1954
• @ La spiaggia Lattuada 1954
• @ Pane, amore e gelosia L. Comencini 1954
• @ L’oro di Napoli V. De Sica 1954
• @ Cronache di poveri amanti Lizzani 1954
• @ La donna del fiume Soldati 1954
• @ Carosello napoletano Giannini 1954
• @ Peccato che sia una canaglia Blasetti 1954

1955

• @ Le amiche (1955 Antonioni)
• @ Amici per la pelle Rossi 1955
• @ Il segno di Venere D. Risi 1955
• @ Pane, amore e… D. Risi 1955
• @ L’arte di arrangiarsi Zampa 1955
• @ Totò e Carolina Monicelli 1955
• @ Le ragazze di San Frediano Zurlini 1955
• @ Gli sbandati F. Maselli 1955
• @ Lo scapolo Pietrangeli 1955
• @ Un eroe dei nostri tempi Monicelli 1955
• @ Siamo uomini o caporali? Mastrocinque 1955

• Bravissimo (1955 D'Amico), film (it)
• Il bidone / The Swindle (1955 Fellini)]]
• Little Women / Piccole donne (1955 Majano), miniseries (it)

1956

• @@ Il ferroviere / The Railroad Man (1956 Germi) -- The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work.

• @ Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina Mastrocinque 1956

• @ La banda degli onesti Mastrocinque 1956

1957

• @ Il grido Antonioni 1957

• @@ Le notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria (1957 Fellini) -- A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

• @ White Nights (1957 Visconti) -- A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.

• @ Il conte Max Bianchi 1957

• @ Poveri ma belli D. Risi 1957

• @ I vampiri Freda 1957

• < The Man Who Wagged His Tail / Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn (1957 Vajda), film (it) >

1958

• @@ Big Deal on Madonna Street / I soliti ignoti (1958 Monicelli), film (it) -- A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.

• @ La tempesta Lattuada 1958
• @ La fatiche di Ercole Francisci 1958
• @ La sfida F. Rosi 1958
• @ L’uomo di paglia Germi 1958

1959

• @@ La grande guerra Monicelli 1959

• @ I magliari Rosi 1959

• @ Estate violenta Zurlini 1959

• @ Un maledetto imbroglio Germi 1959

• @ Il tempo si è fermato Olmi 1959

• @ Il vedovo D. Risi 1959

• @@ General Della Rovere (1959 Rossellini) -- Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

• @ Arrangiatevi! Bolognini 1959

1960s

1961

• L'Avventura (1960 Antonioni) -- A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

• La dolce vita (1960 Fellini) -- A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

• Rocco and His Brothers (19690 Visconti)]] -- Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

• Little Lord Fauntleroy / Il piccolo lord (1960 Brignole), miniseries (it)
• Two Women / La ciociara (1960 De Sica), film (it) -- In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

1961 =

• La notte (1961 Antonioni) -- A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

• Divorzio all'italiana (Germi, 1961) -- A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

• Il posto (1961 Olmi) -- Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.

• Accattone (1961 Pasolini) -- A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

1962

• L'Eclisse (1962 Antonioni) -- A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

• Agostino (1962 Bolognini), film (it)

• Mafioso (1962 Lattuada) -- 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.

• Mamma Rosa (1962 Pasolini) -- An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.

• Il sorpasso / He easy Life (1962 (Risi) -- An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.

• Salvatore Giuliano (1962 Rosi) -- The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

1963

• 8% (1963 Fellini) -- A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

• Il gattopardo / The Leopard (1963 Visconti) -- The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.

1964

• Deserto Rosso / Red Desert (1964 Antonioni) -- In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

• Marriage Italian Style (1964 De Sica) -- Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

• Seduced and Abandoned (1964 Germi) -- A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter's fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family's honor.

• A Fistful of Dollars (1964 Leone) -- A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

• The Citadel / La cittadella (1964 Majano), miniseries (it)

• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964 Pasolini) -- The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

1965

• David Copperfield (1965 Majano), miniseries (it)

1966

• Blow-up (Antonioni, 1966) -- A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.

• Misunderstood / Incompreso (1966 Comencini), film (it)

• The Battle of Algiers / La battaglia di Algeri (1966 Pontecorvo), film (it) -- In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

1967

• The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1967 Bolchi), miniseries (it)

1968

• Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) [??]

1969

• Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Elio Petri, 1969)

1970s

1970

• Il conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) -- A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis / Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970 De Sica), film (it) -- The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

1971

• The Adventures of Pinocchio / Un burattino di nome Pinocchio (1971 Cenci), film animation (it)

1972

• Salome (1972 Bene), film (it)

• The Adventures of Pinocchio / Le avventure di Pinocchio (1972 Comencini), miniseries (it)

1973

• Una breve vacanza (1973 De Sica)

• I remember / Amarcord (1973 Fellini), film (it) -- A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

1974

• Abbasso tutti, viva noi (1974 Mangini), film (it)

• La bellissima estate (1974 Martino), film (it)

1975

• Deep Red / Profondo Rosso (1975 Argento), film (it) -- A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.

• White Horses of Summer / Bianchi cavalli d'agosto (1975 Del Balzo), film (it)

• Fantozzi (Luciano Salce, 1975) -- A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.

1976

• Novecento (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)

1977

• 'Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) -- 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.

• Una giornata particolare (1977 Scola) -- Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

• Padre Padrone (1977 Taviani) -- The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.

1978

• The Tree of Wooden Clogs / L'albero degli zoccoli (1978 Olmi), film (it) -- Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.

1980s

• Il marchese del Grillo (1981 Monicelli) --A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope.

• Once Upon a Time in America (1984 Leone) -- A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

• Kaos (1984 Taviani) -- Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.

• The Last Emperor (1987 Bertolucci) -- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.

• Cinema Paradiso (1988 Tornatore) -- Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

1990s

• The Stolen Children (1992 Amelio) -- Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage.

• Caro diario (1993 Moretti), film (it)

• Il piccolo Lord / Der kleine Lord (1994 Albano), film (it)

• Lamerica (1994 Amelio) -- Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company.

• The Postman (1994 Troisi) -- A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

• Ardena (1997 Barbareschi), film (it)

• Life Is Beautiful (1997 Benigni) -- When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

2000s

• The Son's Room (2001 Moretti) -- A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.

• Pinocchio (2002 Benigni), film (it)

• La meglio gioventù / The Best of Youth (2003 Giordana) -- An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

• Facing Windows / La finestra di fronte (2003 Ozpetek), film (it)

• I'm Not Scared / Io non ho paura (2003 Salvatores), film (it) -- A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.

• A Children's Story / Certi bambini (2004 Frazzi), film (it)

• Mario's War / La guerra di Mario (2006 Capuano), film (it)
• Along the Ridge / Anche libero va bene (2006 Rossi Stuart), film (it)

• Hotel Meina (2007 Lizzani), film (it)

• Gomorrah / Gomorra (2008 Garrone), film (it) -- Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

• Pranzo di Ferragosto (Gianni Di Gregorio, 2008) [??]

• Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008) -- The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.

• Pinocchio (2009 Sironi), miniseries (it)

2010s

• Loose Cannons / Mine vaganti (2010 Ozpetek), film (it)

• We Have a Pope / Habemus Papam (2011 Moretti), film (it)

• Pinocchio (2012 D'Alo), film animation (it)

• The Great Beauty / La grande bellezza (2013 Sorrentino), film (it) -- Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

• Leopardi / Il giovane favoloso (2014 Martone), film (it)

• Suburra (Stefano Sollima, 2015)
• Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot (Gabriele Mainetti, 2015)
• Perfetti sconosciuti (Paolo Genovese, 2016)

• Call Me by Your Name / Chiamami col tuo nome (2017 Guadagnino), film (it) -- It's the summer of 1983, and 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, who's working as an intern for Elio's father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening desire.

• Dogman (Matteo Garrone, 2018) -- A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.

• Sulla mia pelle (Alessio Cremonini, 2018)

• Pinocchio (2019 Garrone), film (it) -- Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.

• When Mom Is Away / 10 giorni senza mamma (2019 Genovesi), film (it) -- What happens if an always-present mother decides to leave for 10 days, leaving the three children with a father who was practically absent until then?

2020s

• The Hidden Child / Il bambino nascosto (2021 Ando), film (it)

• Three Floors / Tre piani (2021 Moretti), film (it)

• The Immensity / L'immensità (2022 Crialese), film (it)

• Kidnapped / Rapito (2023 Bellocchio), film (it) -- A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.