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The Last Emperor
1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 film by Sergio Leone
Last Tango in Paris
1972 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Two Women
1960 film by Vittorio De Sica
Il Postino: The Postman
1994 film by Michael Radford
1900
1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
The Battle of Algiers
1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo
Belle de Jour
1967 film directed by Luis Buñuel
Rome, Open City
1945 film by Roberto Rossellini
Contempt
1963 film by Jean-Luc Godard
Nostalghia
Nostalghia (released as Nostalgia in the United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.
Caligula
1979 film by Tinto Brass
Mediterraneo
Mediterraneo is a 1991 Italian war comedy-drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and written by Enzo Monteleone. The film is set during World War II and concerns a group of Italian soldiers who become stranded on an island of the Italian Dodecanese in the Aegean Sea, and are left behind by the war. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992.
Suspiria
Suspiria is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious European dance academy but realizes, after a series of murders, that the academy is a front for a coven of witches. It also features Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, and Joan Bennett, in her final film role.
Fellini's Casanova
1976 film by Federico Fellini
Quo Vadis, Aida?
2020 film directed by Jasmila Žbanić
Suspiria
2018 film directed by Luca Guadagnino
Avanti!
Avanti! (Italian interjection – 'come in!'; ) is a 1972 comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. The film follows an American businessman attempting to recover the body of his father from Italy, only to learn his seemingly-straightlaced father died alongside his mistress.
Playtime
Playtime (stylized as PlayTime and also written as Play Time) is a 1967 satirical comedy film directed and co-written by Jacques Tati. Tati also stars in the film, reprising the role of Monsieur Hulot from his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). However, Tati grew ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role during production, and he appears intermittently in Playtime, alternating between central and supporting roles.
La Piscine
1969 film by Jacques Deray
Sunflower
1970 film by Vittorio De Sica
La Reine Margot
1994 film by Patrice Chéreau
The Barber of Siberia
1998 film by Nikita Mikhalkov
Deep Red
1975 film directed by Dario Argento
Teorema
Teorema (English: "Theorem") is a 1968 Italian allegorical art film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film centers on an upper-class Milanese family who are introduced to, and then abandoned by, an otherworldly man with a mysterious divine force. Themes include the timelessness of divinity and the spiritual corruption of the bourgeoisie.
Liberation
1969–1972 war film series about the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany
Roma
1972 film by Federico Fellini
Goodbye Bafana
2007 film by Bille August
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970 film by Dario Argento
A Bigger Splash
2015 film directed by Luca Guadagnino
The Red Violin
1998 film directed by François Girard
Paisà
Paisan () is a 1946 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. In six independent episodes, it tells of the Liberation of Italy by the Allied forces during the late stage of World War II. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and received numerous national and international prizes.
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
1974 Soviet-Italian film by Eldar Ryazanov and Francesco Prosperi
Farinelli
1994 film by Gérard Corbiau
Son of the Pink Panther
1993 film by Blake Edwards
Tea with Mussolini
1999 film by Franco Zeffirelli
Dark Eyes
1987 film by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Red Tent
1969 film by Mikhail Kalatozov
General della Rovere
1959 film by Roberto Rossellini
Il bidone
1955 film by Federico Fellini
Zorro
1975 film by Duccio Tessari
Lola
1961 film by Jacques Demy
The Salt of the Earth
2014 documentary film by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
After the Fox
1966 British-Italian English language film directed by Vittorio De Sica
Twitch of the Death Nerve
1971 film by Mario Bava
Rider on the Rain
1970 film by René Clément
The Source
2011 film by Radu Mihăileanu
Swept Away
2002 film by Guy Ritchie
The 25th Hour
1967 film directed by Henri Verneuil
The Mother of Tears
2007 film by Dario Argento
Heaven
2002 film directed by Tom Tykwer
Bread and Chocolate
1974 film by Franco Brusati
Hannibal
1959 film by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar George Ulmer
My Mother
2015 film directed by Nanni Moretti
Love Is All You Need
2012 film by Susanne Bier
Burn!
Burn! (original title: Queimada, Portuguese for "Burnt" or "Burned") is a 1969 historical war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Set in the mid-19th century, the film stars Marlon Brando as a British agent provocateur sent to overthrow a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean by manipulating a slave revolt to serve the interests of the sugar trade, and the complications that arise from the formation of a subsequent puppet state. The film is said to be a celebration of the "proletarian strength of Third World faces, the Algerians and the slaves."
The Key
1983 film directed by Tinto Brass
Traffic
Trafic (Traffic) is a 1971 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. Trafic was the last film to feature Tati's famous character of Monsieur Hulot, and followed the vein of earlier Tati films that lampooned modern society.
Hamam
1997 film by Ferzan Özpetek
What?
1972 film directed by Roman Polanski