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* Nerone Blasetti 1930
* [[Nerone (1930 Blasetti), film]]
* Miss Europa Genina 1930
* [[Miss Europa (1930 Genina), film]]
* '''The Song of Love / La canzone dell'amore''' (1930 Righelli), film (it)
* [[La canzone dell'amore (1930 Righelli), film]]


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==== 1931 ====  


* Resurrectio Blasetti 1931
* [[Resurrectio (1931 Blasetti), film]]
* La segretaria privata Alessandrini 1931
* [[La segretaria privata (1931 Alessandrini), film]]


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* Treno popolare Matarazzo 1933
* [[Treno popolare (1933 Matarazzo), film]]
* O la borsa o la vita – C. L. Bragaglia 1933
* [[O la borsa o la vita (1933 Bragaglia), film]]


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* '''Il Signor Max''' – Camerini 1937
* [[Il Signor Max (1937 Camerini), film]]
* Sono stato io! Matarazzo 1937
* [[Sono stato io! (1937 Matarazzo), film]]
* Fermo con le mani Zambuto 1937
* [[Fermo con le mani (1937 Zambuto), film]]
* '''Scipio Africanus / Scipione l'africano''' (1937 Gallone), film (it)
* [[Scipione l'africano (1937 Gallone), film]]


==== 1938 ====  
==== 1938 ====  


* Nonna Felicita Mattoli 1938
* [[Nonna Felicita (1938 Mattoli), film]]
* Ettore Fieramosca Blasetti 1938 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
* [[Ettore Fieramosca (1938 Blasetti), film]] (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)


* [++] The Life of Giuseppe Verdi / Giuseppe Verdi (1938 Gallone), film (it)
* [++] [[Giuseppe Verdi (1938 Gallone), film]]


==== 1939 ====  
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* Mille lire al mese Neufeld 1939
* [[Mille lire al mese (1939 Neufeld), film]]
* Imputato, alzatevi! Mattoli 1939
* [[Imputato, alzatevi! (1939 Mattoli), film]]
* Animali pazzi – C. L. Bragaglia 1939 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
* [[Animali pazzi (1939 Bragaglia), film]] (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
* '''Grandi magazzini / Department Store''' (1939 Camerini)
* [[Grandi magazzini (1939 Camerini), film]]
* Un’avventura di Salvator Rosa Blasetti 1939
* [[Un’avventura di Salvator Rosa (1939 Blasetti), film]]
* + '''The Little Adventurers / Piccoli naufraghi''' (1939 Calzavara), film (it)
* + [[Piccoli naufraghi (1939 Calzavara), film]]


== 1940s ==
== 1940s ==

Revision as of 21:06, 17 November 2024

Film Studies--Italian

1900s

1910s

1910

  • Il sogno dell'usuraio (1910 Cines), lost short (it)

1911

1913

  • Quo Vadis (1913 Guazzoni)
  • Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei / The Last Days of Pompeii (1913 Caserini), film
  • The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1913 Rodolfi), film (it)

1914

1915

1916

1917

1919

  • Il padrone delle ferriere – Perego 1919
  • [++] Redenzione / Redemption (1919 Gallone / Mateldi), film -- The movie focuses on the character of Mary Magdalene.

1920s

1921

  • Il ponte dei sospiri – Gaido 1921

1922

  • O’ piccirella – Notari 1922
  • [++] The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1922 Bonnard), film (it)

1924

  • Quo Vadis? – D’Annunzio/Jacoby 1924
  • Messalina – Guazzoni 1924

1926

  • Maciste all’inferno – Brignone 1926
  • Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei – Gallone 1926
  • [++] 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.

1928

1929

1930s

1930

1931

1932

  • Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! / What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932 Camerini), film (it)

1933

1934

1935

  • Darò un milione – Camerini 1935 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
  • [++] Don Bosco (1935 Alessandrini), film (it)

1937

1938

1939

1940s

1940

  • Addio giovinezza! – Poggioli 1940
  • San Giovanni decollato – Palermi 1940
  • La peccatrice – Palermi 1940
  • Una romantica avventura – Camerini 1940
  • [++] Piccolo Alpino (1940 Biancoli), film (it)
  • [++] Melodie eterne (1940 Gallone), film (it)

1941

  • L’assedio dell’Alcàzar – Genina 1941
  • La corona di ferro – Blasetti 1941
  • Piccolo mondo antico / Old-Fashioned World (1941 Soldati), film (it)
  • Sissignora – Poggioli 1941
  • Teresa Venerdì – V. De Sica 1941
  • [++] The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1941 Camerini), film (it)

1942

  • Alfa Tau! – De Robertis 1942
  • 4 passi fra le nuvole – Blasetti 1942
  • La cena delle beffe – Blasetti 1942
  • Fari nella nebbia – Franciolini 1942
  • Malombra – Soldati 1942
  • La morte civile – Poggioli 1942
  • Stasera niente di nuovo – Mattoli 1942
  • Via delle cinque lune – L. Chiarini 1942
  • [++] Rossini (1942 Bonnard)

1943

  • Ossessione / Obsession (1943 Visconti)]] -- Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
  • The Children Are Watching Us / I bambini ci guardano (1943 De Sica), film (it)
  • Gelosia – Poggioli 1943
  • Giacomo l’idealista – Lattuada 1943
  • Sorelle Materassi – Poggioli 1943
  • L'ultima carrozzella (1943 Ferroni)
  • [++] Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943 Calzavara), film (it)

1944

  • Zazà – Castellani 1944

1945

  • Il cappello da prete – Poggioli 1945
  • 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.
  • Down with Misery / Abbasso la miseria! (1945 Righelli), film (it)
  • [++] The Twentieth Duke / Il ventesimo duca (1945 De Caro), film (it)

1946

  • Abbasso la ricchezza! – Righelli 1946
  • Roma città libera – Pagliero 1946
  • Il bandito – Lattuada 1946
  • Paisà / 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.
  • Il sole sorge ancora – Vergano 1946
  • Il testimone – Germi 1946
  • Un giorno nella vita – Blasetti 1946
  • 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.
  • Vivere in pace – Zampa 1946
  • [++] Mio figlio professore (1946 Castellani)

1947

  • L’onorevole Angelina (1947 Zampa) (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
  • Caccia tragica – De Santis 1947
  • I miserabili – Freda 1947
  • [++] Pinocchio (1947 Guardone), film (it)
  • [++] Il cavaliere del sogno / Life of Donizetti (1947 Mastrocinque)

1948

  • 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.
  • L’amore – Rossellini 1948
  • Fifa e arena – Mattoli 1948
  • Sotto il sole di Roma – Castellani 1948 (FILM COMPLETO SU PRIME VIDEO)
  • 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.
  • Anni difficili – Zampa 1948 (FILM COMPLETO SU PRIME VIDEO)
  • Assunta Spina – Mattoli 1948 (FILM COMPLETO SU PRIME VIDEO)
  • [++] The Wandering Jew / L'ebreo errante (1948 Alessandrini), film (it)
  • [++] Cuore (1948 Coletti)
  • [++] Proibito rubare (1948 Comencini)
  • [++] I miserabili (1948 Freda)
  • [++] "Fuga in Francia' (1948 Soldati)

1949

  • Il conte Ugolino – Freda 1949
  • Totò cerca casa – Steno / Monicelli 1949 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
  • Riso amaro – De Santis 1949 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
  • La città dolente – Bonnard 1949
  • Cielo sulla palude – Genina 1949
  • In nome della legge – Germi 1949
  • I pompieri di Viggiù – Mattoli 1949
  • Catene – Matarazzo 1949
  • Stromboli, terra di Dio – Rossellini 1949
  • Fabiola – Blasetti 1949
  • Totò le Mokò – C. L. Bragaglia 1949 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)

1950s

1950

  • Stromboli, terra di Dio Rossellini 1950
  • Luci del varietà Lattuada / Fellini 1950
  • Cronaca di un amore (1950 Antonioni)
  • 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
  • [++] Mulatto]

1951

  • 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
  • [++] Don Camillo
  • [++] 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.
  • [++] Una di quelle (1953 Fabrizi)
  • [++] Puccini (1953 Gallone)

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
  • [++] Casa Ricordi (1954 Gallone)
  • [++] Scuola elementare (1954 Lattuada)
  • [++] Ho ritrovato mio figlio (1954 Piccon)

1955

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
  • + Mio figlio Nerone (1956 Steno)

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.
  • @ 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) >
  • + La finestra sul Luna Park (1957 Comencini)
  • + Orgoglio e pregiudizio (1957 D'Anza)
  • + Il maestro (1957 Fabrizi)

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
  • + La spada e la croce (1958 Bragaglia)
  • + Toto e Marcellino (1958 Musu)

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
  • + I tartassati (1959 Steno)
  • + Erode il grande (1959 Tourjansky)

1960s

1960

  • La dolce vita (1960 Fellini) -- A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Tutti a casa L. Comencini 1960
  • 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.
  • La ragazza con la valigia Zurlini 1960
  • La maschera del demonio M. Bava 1960
  • [++] Little Lord Fauntleroy / Il piccolo lord (1960 Brignole), miniseries (it)
  • Il bell’Antonio Bolognini 1960
  • La lunga notte del ’43 Vancini 1960
  • Risate di gioia Monicelli 1960
  • Il vigile Zampa 1960
  • Adua e le compagne Pietrangeli 1960
  • Kapò Pontecorvo 1960

1961

  • La notte (1961 Antonioni) -- A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
  • Una vita difficile D. Risi 1961
  • 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.
  • [++] Il federale Salce 1961
  • [++] Il giudizio universale (1961 De Sica)

1962

  • 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.
  • Mamma Rosa (1962 Pasolini) -- An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • [++] Agostino (1962 Bolognini), film (it)
  • [++] La marcia su Roma D. Risi 1962
  • [++] I giorni contati Petri 1962

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.
  • Ieri oggi domani V. De Sica 1963
  • Le mani sulla città F. Rosi 1963
  • [++] I compagni Monicelli 1963
  • [++] Una storia moderna (L’ape regina) Ferreri 1963
  • [++] I mostri D. Risi 1963

1964

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prima della rivoluzione B. Bertolucci 1964
  • [++] The Citadel / La cittadella (1964 Majano), miniseries (it)
  • [++] 6 donne per l’assassino M. Bava 1964
  • [++] La donna scimmia Ferreri 1964

1965

I pugni in tasca Bellocchio 1965 Per qualche dollaro in più Leone 1965 Io la conoscevo bene Pietrangeli 1965 Signore & signori Germi 1965 Giulietta degli spiriti Fellini 1965

  • [++] David Copperfield (1965 Majano), miniseries (it)
  • [++] La decima vittima Petri 1965

1966

  • L’armata Brancaleone Monicelli 1966
  • 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.
  • Blow-up (Antonioni, 1966) -- A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
  • Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo Leone 1966
  • Uccellacci e uccellini Pasolini 1966
  • [++] Misunderstood / Incompreso (1966 Comencini), film (it)
  • [++] Django Corbucci 1966

1967

  • [++] The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1967 Bolchi), miniseries (it)
  • [++] Il grande silenzio S. Corbucci 1967

1968

  • C’era una volta il West Leone 1968
  • Romeo e Giulietta Zeffirelli 1968
  • [++] Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) [??]
  • [++] Nostra signora dei turchi Bene 1968
  • [++] La ragazza con la pistola Monicelli 1968

1969

  • Dillinger è morto Ferreri 1969
  • [++] Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Elio Petri, 1969)
  • [++] Fellini Satyricon Fellini 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.

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