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

Il ponte dei sospiri – Gaido 1921
O’ piccirella – Notari 1922
[++] The Betrothed / I promessi sposi (1922 Bonnard), film (it)

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

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.

Kif Tebby – Camerini 1928

Sole – Blasetti 1929
Rotaie – Camerini 1929
La grazia – De Benedetti 1929

1930s

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

Resurrectio – Blasetti 1931
La segretaria privata – Alessandrini 1931

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

Treno popolare – Matarazzo 1933
O la borsa o la vita – C. L. Bragaglia 1933

1860 (1934 Blasetti), film (it)
Tempo massimo – Mattoli 1934
+ The Old Guard / Vecchia guardia (1934 Blasetti), film (it)
+ The Canal of the Angels / Il canale degli angeli (1934 Pasinetti), film (it)

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

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

Nonna Felicita – Mattoli 1938
Ettore Fieramosca – Blasetti 1938 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)

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

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)

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

1943

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

[++] 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

1947

L’onorevole Angelina – Zampa 1947 (FILM COMPLETO AL LINK)
Caccia tragica – De Santis 1947
I miserabili – Freda 1947
[++] Pinocchio (1947 Guardone), film (it)

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

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

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)

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 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

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

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?